The NCES Professional Development Center
The NCES Professional Development Center (NCES PDC) is one of six centers of the Local Education Support Center Network (LESCN) in New Hampshire.
Center Projects:
ICT Literacy Standards - Implementation Process and Student Portfolios
Technology Integration Mini-Grants
North Country Induction with Mentoring Project
Hands-On Middle School Science with Technology
ePortfolio Project with Plymouth State University
Professional Development Offerings
Listing of professional development opportunities
To support the integration of technology to improve student learning, high quality professional development is available in these areas:
- ICT Literacy Standards
- ICT student portfolio development
- Essential Questions
- Curriculum mapping
- Differentiating Instruction
- PDAs/Handhelds in the classroom
- Global Positioning Systems & GIS
- Grade and student data management
- Productivity tools: using software for processing, organizing, storing, analyzing, and/or communicating data
- Expression/Visualization tools: graphics editing packages to express ideas or present evidence through images and/or videos
- E-Communication/Literacy: effectively using video, audio, data, online environments to communicate
- Problem solving with real data sets: using technology to access, process, analyze, and communicate solutions to problems using relevant, real-world situations/data
- Current trends and best practices in technology integration
- Robotics and other remote tools
- Probes, sensors and data collection instruments
- Customized software training
