Apple offers a variety of onsite professional development workshops that can run anywhere between one to eight days at your school. These hands-on workshops will be tailored to your school or district’s specific needs and are designed to enable you to use your Apple products to transform teaching and learning.

Taught by educators for educators.

All Apple Professional Development Facilitators are educators themselves. That gives them a unique view:  They know what’s important in the classroom, so they can ensure that you learn about your Apple products and how they can best serve you and your students. In addition, our team of 6 Alaska-based Alaska Professional Development Facilitators understands the unique challenges and considerations facing Alaska’s school districts.

We offer workshops in the following categories: Start, Learn, Instruct, Lead, and Support. Attached is a copy of the current APD catalog with a more detailed description of each workshop.

Start

Focused on technology skills, these foundational workshops help teachers become confident and comfortable integrating Apple products into their teaching strategies.

• iOS Devices (iPad, iPod touch, iPhone)
• Mac OS X
• iLife (Creativity Suite: iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, iWeb, iDVD)
• iWork (Productivity Suite: Keynote, Pages, Numbers)

Learn

These workshops help teachers apply their skills with specific Apple products to learning activities and approaches to produce effective personal learning for their students.

• Challenge Based Learning.
• Challenge Based Learning (iOS)
• Special Education (iOS)
• Language Development (iOS)
• English/Language Arts (iOS)
• History/Social Science (iOS)
• Mathematics
• Mathematics (iOS)
• Science
• Science (iOS)

Instruct

These workshops focus on curricula, content design, and instruction with all Apple products.

• Design Curricula
• Author Content
• Collaborate and Share

Lead

These workshops for school and district leaders focus on issues important to success—visioning, planning, and implementing.

• iOS Devices
• Vision and Plan
• Vision and Plan (iOS)
• Implement and Manage
• Implement and Manage (iOS)

Support

Support your teachers beyond workshops with in-class or web coaching and mentoring, technology self-assessments, workshop series, and customized workshop development.

• Educational Technology Profile
• Expert on Call
• Onsite Coaching and Mentoring*
• Workshop Series
• Custom Workshop Development

Onsite Coaching and Mentoring*

In consideration of Alaska’s unique geographical location and travel challenges, there is a great need for innovative professional development opportunities for staff.  In addition to our onsite workshops, districts may want to consider using Apple Professional Development days for in-class coaching and small-group mentoring.  These job-embedded sessions bring an Apple Professional Development Facilitator into the classroom to work with teachers on specific skills, teaching strategies, or lesson demonstrations. Our sessions also offer a flexible structure to work with a group of teachers during preparation times or planning periods to support planning and implementation of new skills.

Contact Info

Alaska has a dedicated in-state team of Apple Professional Development trainers who are able to deliver workshops across the state in your schools and districts. To schedule an engagement, or for more information, contact Sally Eberhart, Alaska Team Lead at sjeberhart@apple.com or call 907-351-5019.

Download a copy of the current Apple Professional Development Catalog containing 25 pages of detailed descriptions for courses available to Alaska schools and districts.

Alaska is in the unique position of having a dedicated Apple-badged technical services engineer responsible for both scheduling and delivery of Apple Professional Services technical engagements. To schedule an engagement, or for more information, contact Ken Johnson, Apple Technical Services Consultant, at kenjohnson@apple.com or call 907-360-8276.