Arkansas Department of Career Education Professional Development for 419 5/6 Business Technology Endorsement

Day One Introduction, Lab Management, Ways Students Cheat Using Technology (1 hour) Introduce Frameworks (1 hour) Reviewing Touch Typing (1 hour) Online Living (1 hour) Computer Basics (1 hour) Ownership/Ethics in Business (1 hour)

Introduction (1 hour) This is the Three Days (18 hours) of professional development needed to gain 419 5/6 Business Technology Endorsement All 18 hours of Professional Development must be attended to receive a certificate of completion This professional development will include the content of Input Technologies (Grade 5) and Technology Communications (Grade 6) The minimum required amount of time to teach each of these courses is forty minutes per week or its equivalent during the school year

Lab Management Teachers must develop different rules for a lab setting Classroom management must be looked at differently in a lab setting Presenter modeling of mini-lesson in a lab Being a mobile instructor Setup Edmodo ( Survey to determine the technology skills of the workshop participants (

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Introduction to Frameworks (1 hour) Input Technologies Technology Communications

Reviewing Touch Typing (1 hour) Web Based Programs for touch typing Timed writing test and introduce Gross Words A Minute (GWAM) Technique Checklist such as can be found at (e.g., ding_technique_sheet.pdf) ding_technique_sheet.pdf What is a Digital Classroom? Keyboard Layouts keyboard-practice/ keyboard-practice/

Online Living (1 hour) Sign up for Online Safety Education Kit through and-communities/keys-to-safety/ and-communities/keys-to-safety/ Introduce Ann Ware’s TechTips WareHouse at

Computer Basics (1 hour) Computer Systems / Storage side.pdf side.pdf Operating Systems operating-systems.html operating-systems.html File Management

Ownership and Ethics in the Business World (1 hour) Copyright ( Plagiarism Ethics Activities in frameworks

Day One Homework Complete the Digital Literacy component from the Microsoft IT Academy located at izenship/giving/programs/up/digitalliteracy/default.mspx izenship/giving/programs/up/digitalliteracy/default.mspx

Day Two Word Processing (4 hours) Presentations (2 hours)

Word Processing (2 hours) Microsoft Office Training ( FX aspx) FX aspx Review Letter, Memorandum, Report, and Table formats ( pbl.org/data/files/docs/FormatGuide.pdf) pbl.org/data/files/docs/FormatGuide.pdf

Word Processing (2 hours) Demonstrate the use of font, point size, copy and paste, drag and drop, find and replace, spell check, and thesaurus Demonstrate margins, alignments, indent, tab stops, line spacing, paragraph settings, and page breaks Demonstrate onscreen document layouts Make tables of information using column headings (e.g., authors with titles of books or movies with ratings and actors) Create a report, letter, memo, and flyer using word processing skills on any topic Use marked up copy to correct a document

Presentations (2 hours) Create a presentation for the first day of school, classroom rules, etc. with a minimum of 10 slides 2 transitions 2 animations 2 graphics Theme must be changed from the default Using one of the following: Apple Keynote Microsoft PowerPoint

Day Three Spreadsheets (3 hours) Course your students will take next year Career Technical Student Organizations (1 hour) Questions/Resources (2 hour)

Spreadsheets (3 hours) Demonstrate opening a spreadsheet Discuss parts of a spreadsheet: active cell, cell, cell reference, column, label, range, row, value, workbook, and worksheet ( Parts-Of-The-Excel-2010-Screen.htm) Parts-Of-The-Excel-2010-Screen.htm Demonstrate entering data: labels, values, and text Demonstrate alignment, fill, freeze, and sort Demonstrate creating graphs (i.e., line, pie, bar, and column

Next Year (1 hour) After Technology Communications your students will take a one-semester class ( Information and Communications Technology) This course requires an instructor licensed as a secondary business teacher This class enhances what is learned in the 5th and 6th grade classes

Career Technical Student Organizations (CTSOs) (1 hour) Middle Level Mid-Level Future Business Leaders of America (Grades 6-9) pbl.org/web/page/586/sectionid/586/pagelevel/2/fbla_middlelevel.asp pbl.org/web/page/586/sectionid/586/pagelevel/2/fbla_middlelevel.asp Contact Sandon Williams at Arkansas Department of Career Education at about starting a local chapter High School Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) Most business students Distributive Clubs of America (DECA) Marketing students

Questions & Answers (2 hour) Any questions about the frameworks or the professional development over these three days?

Questions about 419 Endorsement Contact Arkansas Department of Career Education Division of Business and Marketing

Questions about adding 419 Endorsement to your license Contact Arkansas Department of Education Educator Licensure Unit