Professional Development Plan 

IELE 5020: Technology Leadership 

By Sarah Castle 
 
Content:​ Seesaw Hyperdocs and Feedback for Reflection 
Audience:​ Lower Elementary Teachers (K-2) 
 
Objectives 

ISTE Standards for Teachers1 

Design authentic, learner-driven activities​. Teachers recognize and 
accommodate learner variability. Educators design authentic learning activities that 
align with content area standards and use digital tools and resources to maximize 
active, deep learning. 
Educators understand and use data to support students in achieving their 
learning goals​. Teachers provide alternative ways for students to demonstrate 
competency in activity lessons. Teachers provide timely feedback to students and 
to inform instruction. Educators provide multiple ways for students to reflect on 
their learning using technology. 
ISTE Standards for Students2 
Empowered learners seek to leverage technology to take an active role in 
choosing, achieving, and demonstrating competency in their learning goals. 
Students use technology to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways. 
Students use technology to seek quality feedback. Students reflect on feedback to 
inform and improve their learning. 
 
Resources:​ Chromebook/Laptop or iPad, Seesaw Class App, Digital Display 
 
Objective: ​In this two hour professional development, attendees will build upon 
their knowledge of the Seesaw activity library. Attendees will embed google tools 
into Seesaw activities to create a hyperdoc activity that students will use in an 
upcoming lesson. Attendees will create templates where students can demonstrate 
competency in multiple ways. Attendees will be introduced to multiple ways 
teachers can provide feedback on Seesaw, and promote students' reflection on 
their learning. Attendees will work together in groups to demonstrate their 
understanding of hyperdocs and embedded google tools, creating student 
templates, what is quality feedback, and ways to promote student reflection. 

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“ISTE Standards for Teachers” ​https://www.iste.org/standards/for-educators​ Accessed July, 8, 2020
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“ISTE Standards for Students” ​https://www.iste.org/standards/for-students​ Accessed July 8, 2020
  

 
Lesson Design 

Connection to Previous Learning: T ​ his professional development will take place 

after attendees have participated in a professional development Seesaw 
introduction, ​Seesaw Training Stations3 a ​ nd have utilized each tool, as demonstrated 
in the stations, at least twice in their classroom lessons with students. Attendees 
will be familiar with the ​Seesaw Learning Levels4 a​ nd feel comfortable in Level Three: 
Creating with Students. 
 
Agenda Overview: 
0:00-0:20 ​Introduction and Group Discussion of Level Three Examples 
0:20-1:00 ​Hyperdocs Walkthrough 
1:00-1:20 ​Level Four: Deepen Reflection 
1:20-1:50 ​Practice​ F
​ eedback and Reflection 
1:50-2:00 ​Conclusion and Next Steps 
 
Before this professional development the facilitator will send out a survey to gather 
some evidence of how teachers are using the Seesaw Tools in daily classroom 
lessons, ie. consistently reaching the Level Three: Creating with Students. In the 
survey educators will identify what seesaw tool is being used, the content standard 
connected to the activity, and a screenshot of the final result. 
Introduction and Group Discussion of Level Three Examples. ​The session will 
begin with a group exploration of how their peers are reaching Level Three and 
discussing the examples gathered from the survey. Teachers will be in mixed grade 
level groups, and asked to match the tools and content standard to the screenshot.  
Hyperdocs Walkthrough. N ​ ext attendees will follow along with the facilitator for a 
walkthrough5 of how to create a choice board activity starting with google slides. 
Learning how to ensure all students can access the slides by showing the sharing 
basics and how to check permissions. The facilitator will guide the attendees 
through how to build the activity in Seesaw and include templates for student 
responses. Attendees will be participating by creating their own hyperdocs with the 
facilitator. 

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​Seesaw Training Stations
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iFm7eKJpghVgsCf3YAPdRWpHPPjqGGAhEkwmmRVjfqU/prev
iew
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​Seesaw Learning Levels​ ​https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tX9sbSWgtpavHC0LwwMCCmqfeBulIKF0/view
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​Seesaw in your PJs - Choice Boards
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18qcw72kWSVp6NjI2d3mjZ3behMir5V2ChdRMPRZ80EY/previe
w?slide=id.g73535e75d8_0_22
  

Level Four: Deepen Reflection. ​Then the facilitator will introduce Level Four: 
Deepen Reflection best practices. Here attendees will explore formative insight 
tools to deepen student reflection and empowerment. Facilitator will demonstrate 
how to give feedback to students' work in comments with text or voice and on 
student submitted templates with text or voice. Attendees will be given prompts to 
empower students to respond to feedback and reflect on their learning in their 
Seesaw journals or in the comments of the assignment. 
Practice​ F
​ eedback and Reflection​. Attendees will gather in grade level groups to 
assign the activities they had just made to their fellow colleagues as their students. 
Those “students” will submit exemplars of work needing quality feedback and 
revision. Attendees will collaborate on how to give feedback on students' responses 
and promote reflection on their learning. 
Conclusion and Next Steps. T ​ his professional development will conclude with the 
facilitator demonstrating how to share the activities attendees had just made with 
their colleagues. Attendees will fill out a survey identifying one thing they learned, 
one thing they still had a question about, one way they plan to implement feedback 
and reflection into their lessons, identify the next standard or content they are 
going to implement with a hyperdoc activity, and their confidence level in 
implementing activities/embedding hyperdocs. 

Expected Outcomes 

At the end of the professional development, attendees will: 

1. Know​ how to create their own hyperdoc Seesaw activities. 

K  2. Know​ how google tools integrate with Seesaw. 
3. Know ​how to give quality feedback on activities. 

1. Understand​ that giving access to various ways for students to 

demonstrate knowledge benefits the student and teachers 
understanding of the learning. 
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2. Understand​ how empowering students to embrace feedback and 
reflect on their learning promotes metacognition and self-analysis of 
learning goals. 
 

Demonstrating Knowledge 

Attendees will use Seesaw and Google Tools to create a hyperdoc activity for an 
upcoming lesson or standard. Attendees will give feedback on student activities to 
promote student reflection. 
 
Success Criteria -​ To demonstrate mastery, attendees should demonstrate the 
  

following as they create their hyperdocs and give feedback.  

Look For : 

Know  ● Locate Seesaw Activity Library. 

● How to share activities with fellow colleagues. 
● Name the variety of Seesaw tools (Photo, Voice, Draw, 
Record, Video). 
● Name Google Tools (Slides, Docs, Sheets, Forms) and safe 
search sites6 (Kidtopia, KidRex, Safe Search Kids) to use in 
Seesaw activities and hyperdocs. 

Understand  ● The best Seesaw tools to use to demonstrate learning 

standards. 
● How to empower students to embrace feedback and 
respond with reflection. 
● How Seesaw integrates google tools. 

Do  ● Give quality feedback on students submitted activities. 

● Create hyperdoc in google slides. 
● Develop template for student response. 
● Embed resource made in google into Seesaw activity.  
 

Differentiation 

Learning Activity  Differentiation for Attendees 

Hyperdoc in Google Slides  ● Time accommodations and encouragement to 

ask questions when struggling or stuck. 
● Access to the presentation slide deck and the 
resources links. 

Creating Seesaw Activity  ● Reference and visual reminders of the seesaw 

stations workshop. 
● Peer Mentoring. 

Student Feedback  ● Scaffolding of feedback strategies from least to 

most complex. 
 

Intervention 

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​11 Great Kids Safe Search Engines
https://www.educatorstechnology.com/2018/01/11-great-kids-safe-search-engines.html​ Accessed July 9,
2020
  

Attendees struggling with creating hyperdocs or seesaw activities. T ​ hese 

participants will be encouraged to collaborate with their grade level colleagues and 
explore the Seesaw Activities Community Library to see what other educators have 
created. Links to join PLN groups like Seesaw Teacher First Grade Group7 to foster 
peer mentorships and get ideas and feedback from other educators working in the 
same space will also be provided. 
Attendees struggling with implementing feedback and deepening reflection 
practices. ​These participants will be prompted to join small group collaboration 
sessions to take place bi-weekly with the facilitator. In these collaboration sessions 
educators will identify what lesson they want to modify or transform, work together 
to decide on what pieces should be included for the activity (Slides, Docs, Sheets, 
Forms, Youtube video, Websites, images) and what the student template/response 
should include (Photo, Voice, Draw, Record, Video). Participants in the extended 
sessions will be expected to implement the created content and reflect on previous 
implementations at the start of each session. 
 

Enrich and Extend Instruction 

Familiar with Seesaw activities, embedding Google tools, and giving feedback. 
Attendees who are familiar with the content of this professional development will 
be challenged to consider content areas they have not yet explored with Seesaw. 
Diving into the Seesaw Community Library to collect and modify some already 
made lessons to enhance or dive deeper into standards being taught in class, even 
with Seesaw activities. These attendees can also explore creating assessments 
using embedded Google tools to a Seesaw activity to gather data via formative 
assessment. 

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​Seesaw Teachers First Grade Group​ h
​ ttps://www.facebook.com/groups/Seesaw1st/