With technology infused into the learning process, teachers can engage today’s digital learners and teach them valuable 21st century skills. To help, Dell has designed Professional Learning Services, an outcome-based model built on a combination of research and classroom experience that can help define technology goals and achieve them. By starting with a comprehensive needs assessment and defined outcomes, we can create

a unique professional learning program for your school or district based on current skill levels, usage, subject area, and grade level. Your professional learning plan will be a unique combination of professional development, training, and experiences that help your teachers, support staff, and administrators confidently integrate technology into teaching and learning.

Introducing Dell Professional Learning.

Enhance instruction for the connected generation.

Integrating technology into the classroom is an ongoing process that grows and develops with changing needs and innovation. With Professional Learning, schools receive instructional strategies that help teachers continue to learn new technologies, with ongoing support and mentoring to enable success. Together, we can effectively impact instruction.

Dell offers a robust portfolio of technology integration solutions for K-12. The following is a summary of the course catalog. To review the full course catalog, please visit DELL.COM/ProfessionalLearning.

Curriculum Development• Developing high-quality lesson plans• Creating technology-rich lessons• Performance tasks: engaged student learning• Using assessments to make data-informed decisions• Managing a project-based classroom

Internet Technologies• Wonderful World of Webquests• Web 2.0 in the classroom• Using the Internet with students• Using the Internet for collaboration• Integrating the Internet into lesson plans Language Arts Mathematics Science• Google™ tools workshop• Multimedia and the language arts classroom• Assistive technology• Wikis and blogs in the classroom • Social networking for teachers

Media Development• Digital cameras in the classroom• Visual literacy with Adobe® PhotoShop®

• Digital storytelling with Windows® Movie Maker 2.1 or Adobe Premier Elements• Podcasting across the curriculum

Software Integration• Microsoft® Word: an all-purpose educational tool• Literacy and Microsoft Word• Spreadsheets throughout the curriculum• Putting the power back in PowerPoint• Transitioning faculty from MAC to PC

Hardware Integration• Managing a technology-rich classroom• Introducing the laptop to teachers, students and parents• Integrating laptops into the curriculum• Integrating whiteboards into the curriculum

Administrative Training• Coaching and modeling for school leaders• Building a technology development plan• Planning a student work exhibit• Differentiated instruction

For more information, please contact your Dell Sales Representative or access the full course catalog at Dell.com/ProfessionalLearning.

“Dell’s Professional Learning has

played an integral role in our district’s

implementation of 21st-century learning

over the last five years. Our relationship

is a true partnership that facilitates

open, informed dialogue to create high-

quality professional development for our

teachers and leaders.”

— Eric Jones, Director of High Schools,

Henrico County Public Schools