Professional Development for 419 5/6 Business Technology Endorsement Arkansas Department of Career Education
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., boarding_technique_sheet.pdf) boarding_technique_sheet.pdf What is a Digital Classroom? Keyboard Layouts – start-keyboard-practice/ start-keyboard-practice/
Online Living (1 hour) Sign up for Online Safety Education Kit through – – – educators-and-communities/keys-to-safety/ educators-and-communities/keys-to-safety/ Introduce Ann Ware’s TechTips WareHouse at
Computer Basics (1 hour) Computer Systems / Storage – os109/02inside.pdf os109/02inside.pdf – m m Operating Systems – technology/types-of-operating-systems.html technology/types-of-operating-systems.html File Management – ment.pdf ment.pdf
Ownership and Ethics in the Business World (1 hour) Copyright ( Plagiarism – – 01/ 01/ Ethics – – Activities in frameworks
Day One Homework Complete the Digital Literacy component from the Microsoft IT Academy located at tizenship/citizenship/giving/programs/up/digit alliteracy/default.mspx tizenship/citizenship/giving/programs/up/digit alliteracy/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.a sp pbl.org/web/page/586/sectionid/586/pagelevel/2/fbla_middlelevel.a sp Contact Sandon Williams at Arkansas Department of Career Education at about starting a local 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?
Arkansas Teacher Websites Coleman/newsflash.aspx Coleman/newsflash.aspx eb20 eb20
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