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 355910 Input Technologies (Grade 5) and 366910
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 (http://www.edmodo.com/)
• Survey to determine the technology skills of the
workshop participants
(http://www.fgcu.edu/support/techskills.html)
Ways students cheat using technology
• http://homeworktips.about.com/od/cheating/
a/echeating.htm
• http://mashable.com/2012/09/28/studentstechnology-cheating/
• http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow/story/262
232/how-students-use-technology-to-cheat
Introduction to Frameworks (1 hour)
• 355910 Input Technologies
• 366910 Technology Communications
Reviewing Touch Typing (1 hour)
• Web Based Programs for touch typing
– http://www.sense-lang.org/typing/
– www.goodtyping.com
– http://www.typingweb.com/
• Timed writing test and introduce Gross Words A Minute
(GWAM)
• Technique Checklist such as can be found at (e.g.,
http://www.edu.pe.ca/gray/class_pages/spcain/itc401/key
boarding_technique_sheet.pdf)
• What is a Digital Classroom?
• Keyboard Layouts
– http://askatechteacher.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/time-tostart-keyboard-practice/
Online Living (1 hour)
• Sign up for Online Safety Education Kit
through http://www.netsmartz.org/kit
– http://www.commonsensemedia.org/
– http://isafe.org/wp/
– http://www.ag.arkansas.gov/programs/schoolseducators-and-communities/keys-to-safety/
• Introduce Ann Ware’s TechTips WareHouse at
http://www.techtipswarehouse.com/cba
Computer Basics (1 hour)
• Computer Systems / Storage
– http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall11/c
os109/02inside.pdf
– http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/s/stordevi.ht
m
• Operating Systems
– http://www.bizymoms.com/computers-andtechnology/types-of-operating-systems.html
• File Management
– http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~ttspeng/Basic_File_Manage
ment.pdf
Ownership and Ethics in the Business
World (1 hour)
• Copyright (http://www.copyright.gov/)
• Plagiarism
– http://plagiarism.org/
– http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/
01/
• Ethics
– http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-business/
– http://cbe.bentley.edu/
• Activities in frameworks
Day One Homework
• Complete the Digital Literacy component from
the Microsoft IT Academy located at
http://www.microsoft.com/about/corporateci
tizenship/citizenship/giving/programs/up/digi
talliteracy/default.mspx
Day Two
• Word Processing (4 hours)
• Presentations (2 hours)
Word Processing (2 hours)
• Microsoft Office Training
(http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/trainingFX101782702.aspx)
• Review Letter, Memorandum, Report, E-Mail
and Table formats (http://www.fblapbl.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
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10 slides
2 transitions
2 animations
2 graphics
Theme must be changed from the default
• Using one of the following:
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http://prezi.com/
http://www.animoto.com/
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
(http://spreadsheets.about.com/od/excel101/ss/
2010-06-26-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 366910 Technology Communications
your students will take a one-semester class
(377910 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)
• http://www.fblapbl.org/web/page/586/sectionid/586/pagelevel/2/fbla_middlelevel.a
sp
• Contact Sandon Williams at Arkansas Department of Career Education
at sandon.williams@arkansas.gov about starting a local chapter
• High School
– Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA)
• Most business students
• http://www.fbla-pbl.org/
– Distributive Clubs of America (DECA)
• Marketing students
• http://www.deca.org/
Questions & Answers (2 hour)
• Any questions about the frameworks or the
professional development over these three
days?
Arkansas Teacher Websites
• http://mrspjonesclass.weebly.com/
• http://www.arbusinesseducators.com/
• http://www.oncoursesystems.com/school/webpage/11189042/949
529
• http://www.msd3.org/rwd/faculty/g_deese/keyboarding
• http://teacherweb.com/AR/RuthDoyleMiddleSchool/CegersColeman/newsflash.aspx
• http://www.arkansasteachersandtechnology.com/
• http://www.sgilley.com/
• https://sites.google.com/a/pottsvilleschools.org/samanthaprince/w
eb20
• http://www.protopage.com/westcott#Untitled/Keyboarding___CTI
Questions about 419 Endorsement
Contact
Arkansas Department of Career Education
Division of Business and Marketing
501-682-1768
Questions about adding
419 Endorsement to your license
Contact
Arkansas Department of Education
Educator Licensure Unit
501-682-4342