HP Professional Learning Program

A new approach to professional development that focuses on transforming

teaching and student learning through technology integration in the classroom

The HP Professional Learning Program is an ongoing, online, collaborative, mentored framework, designed to help
Teachers plan effective, efficient, and engaging learning experiences for their students through technology integration – no
matter what technology is available to them.

The HP Program has pushed me to try new things in my classroom. This is not a traditional PD
program. It is project based learning... It is just what I needed.
T. Cave - Simcoe County District School Board

This program has given me my first taste of online collaboration and has opened my eyes to the
possibilities that exist… (Now) every day I teach, I see the excitement on the faces of my students and
the change in attitude and belief in themselves when I - and they - use technology.
J. Perrault - Simcoe County District School Board

HP believes that technology, when used effectively in teaching, can make a positive difference in student achievement and engagement. HP
also believes that teachers can make this positive difference happen when they receive mentoring and coaching on the integration of technology
in their teaching practice. The HP Professional Learning Program is designed to do that.

Participants in the HP Professional Learning Program work in individual and group activities in an ongoing, online, collaborative, mentored
environment, as they improve their skills and knowledge about effective technology integration in teaching and learning.

The HP Professional Learning Program has evolved from the professional development component of the HP Technology for Teaching Grant
Program that was developed in 2004 with the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE).
HP Professional Learning Program

What is the HP Professional Learning Program? What does the HP Professional Learning Program deliver?

• Customizable – able to be tied to Board objectives • An experienced educator mentor assigned to actively lead
• Project-based participants through mentored project work over the course
• Individualized of the professional development period (up to a maximum
• Online of 1 school year, with a 6 month minimum)
• Mentor-based • A project plan developed with the mentor that defines the
• Ongoing throughout the school year action plan, goals, roles and responsibilities, and the
• Flexible measurements that will be used to gauge progress and
• Collaborative outcomes
• An individual learning program for each participant
developed with the mentor to identify the teachers'
The goal of the HP Professional Learning Program is to improve
technology integration professional development focus,
teaching, and student achievement and engagement, through the
goals, criteria for success in their professional development
effective integration of technology in the classroom. To accomplish
and use of technology in the classroom
this, the program has participants interact with an experienced
• A purchasing account of $175 USD per participant to
educator mentor, and each other, in ongoing, online, collaborative
purchase online courses, publications, etc. available
activities.
through the ISTE Online Professional Development
Catalogue (“top-ups” to the account may be purchased)
The program’s innovative design includes the following: • Mentored individual and large group activities centered on
the project implementation and evaluation; the
• Participants complete collaborative, project-based learning individualized development plans; the building of electronic
over an extended period of time, trying new skills in the portfolios documenting progress; action research, reflections
classroom while receiving coaching and guidance as they and reporting; and online community discussions and
do so. activities
• A mentor is assigned. These experienced educators bring • An account in an ISTE Online Learning Community for each
important expertise and coaching, necessary to support participant to collaborate, as well as a workspace for
the participants. information such as their project plan, their identified
• An account in an ISTE Online Learning Community and learning needs, etc.
a work space that provides a collaborative site for a • A 1-year ISTE Membership for each participant.
discussion board/forum, the posting of lesson • A pre and post assessment of the participants against the
plans/stories/etc., synchronous chat. ISTE Technology Standards for Teachers.

For more information on the HP Professional Learning Program

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or contact Joan Rocha at 905-206-3666 - joan.rocha@hp.com or call 1-800-563-5089

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