If Chrome & Google Apps were a Learning Progression

As a former Language Arts teacher, I spent last year navigating alongside my department through our curriculum design and added a thoughtful addition to our teaching and learning practices.  Insert the learning progressions.  This was a big step in refocusing what we thought were our daily best practices and approach to the standards being covered within our units of study.  Learning progressions are a set of sequenced steps and sub-skills that one must master along the path to progressing to a larger concept or skill (you can read more about learning progressions here on the ASCD website).

As I've been meeting with teachers for tech-related coaching sessions, I began to wonder what it would look like if various aspects of the technology we utilize could be viewed as its own separate learning progression.  In the section below, you can see an outline of what it would look like if Chrome and GAFE (Google Apps for Education) were a learning progression! Included in it are steps toward mastery of implementing Chromebooks, the Chrome web browser, and Google Apps.  In addition, I placed a link to a survey on the Smore for teachers to access to assess where they currently are within the areas of the learning progression.

Teachers, before we meet for the first time/have our first coaching session, please fill out the survey (will take 30 seconds of your time) so I can best approach your individual needs.  Thanks!

Content created on Smore.  Survey created on Google Forms.