In order to set the stage for our professional development, I begin with an analogy to help illustrate how we would like teachers to re-frame their thinking.
Imagine if you were asked to hang a picture on the wall. In order to do so, you are presented with three tools: a hammer and nails, a wrench, or a circular saw. Which of these tools would you choose?
Throughout the next school year, our district has chosen to use TPACK, a framework developed by Matthew Koehler & Punya Mishra 2006 out of Michigan State University. The framework sets out to address and analyze the intersections between three areas of knowledge (Technology Knowledge, Pedagogical Knowledge, and Content Knowledge). While they admit on their website that none of these are new concepts, the idea of studying the relationships between each of the areas is relatively new.
