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Digital Communication with Parents via Social Media


2. The purpose of the workshop is to teach teachers how to professionally use social media
to contact and communicate with parents.
3. The workshop participants will be able to use 2 out of 3 instructor-introduced social
media platforms without help to send 1 professional message on each platform to 2
students' parents.
4. NETS-T standard for workshop participants: #5- Engage in professional growth and
leadership
D. Contribute to the effectiveness, vitality, and self- renewal of the teaching profession
and of their school and community
5. The workshop participants will view a 5-minute video illustrating the problem of no
teacher-parent communication and instructional video guides on the message creation
process for each introduced social media platform. Participants will participate in a
whole-group discussion about professionalism online, create social media profiles,
practice using key platform features to create messages, and send messages to
students' parents.
6. #1- Create 2 social media profiles for 2 separate social media platforms.
#2- Create 2 professional messages introducing the parents to the weekly homework
assignment structure.
7. Workshop participants will be assessed using a performance assessment and the
following rubric:

Not Demonstrated Emerging Meets


Professionalism 1- Did not greet 2- Either greeted 3- Greeted parent
parent or did not use parent or used and used
professional tone professional tone; not professional tone
both
Message 1- No evidence of 2- Message was 3- Message was sent
sent message sent, but not sent in a in a private manner
private manner (chat (chat or direct
or direct message) message)
Use of Social Media 1- No social media 2- Used 1 of 3 3- Used 2 or more
Platforms platform used platforms platforms
Scoring 3-5: Not 6-8: Emerging 9: Meets
Demonstrated

8. The instructor will facilitate the learning process and answer questions relevant to the
workshop. The workshop participants are expected to contribute to the whole-group
discussion and ask questions to gain clarification.
9. As the facilitator, the instructor will guide the workshop and keep the participants on
task. Each participant will have access to the 5-minute video, the instructional guide
videos, and the group discussion notes on his/her computer.
10. Each student will produce his/her own messages; failure to do so will result in the
student having to retake the PDLM in isolation at a later date.

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