Refinement of My Professional Development Platform

My research interests mainly focus on professional development and literacy education. After two meetings with my advisor, I decided to merge my interests!

That is, I will design a professional development platform or a MOOC for in-service teachers. This platform would help teachers to use some technologies effectively to scaffold struggling readers in their classes.

Struggling readers have tough time especially at middle and high schools because there is no literacy class in middle and high schools. Students don't learn to read, but read to learn there. That is why struggling readers have difficulties in their education because reading comprehension affects their academic achievement directly.

Taking these factors into account, I am planning to design a training module for in-service teachers to present some technologies that they can use while scaffolding struggling reaaders. 

First, the module may start with a diagnostic test. By answering questions, teachers may find what kind of specific problems such as lack of phonological awareness, decoding, etc. their students have. Afterwards, useful and practical technologies will be offered to them accordingly in the training module.

Through tutorials, teachers can learn how to use those tools on the training module. Then, they use them in real classroom settings and come back to the training module and reflect upon their use of technological tools.

These are (a little bit blurry) ideas in my mind for now!