Sunday, March 27, 2011
Webinar
I attended a webinar conducted by Dr. Abernathy Sunday March 27, 2011. This was the first webinar I have attended, it was interesting. We talked about Web 2,0 and other technologies available. The webinar also answered some important questions that students needed to be answered. I was amazed that over 1400 students attend Lamar University educational school
Sunday, March 20, 2011
District Technology Action Plan
The technology plans for state and local district provide a road map needed for assessment of campus improvement. Using the STaR chart for evaulation and of assessment of campus improvementand Cscope for alignment and execution of curriculum we can assess and track all improvements.The purchase of Mimeios and Clickers and another computer lab will be helpful in our progress.All teacher must attend In-services and or technology training to bolster their knowledge. The district will need to hire another assisstant technology director to trouble shoot any problem they may arise from our new lab.
the district will introduce a teacher/student survey to measure, manage, and improve teacher/student technology training. this survey will be an all encompassing evauation of teacher/student knowledge and needs. Based on the training received in teacher in service and teacher technology conferences, the teacher will be asked to submit lesson plans that reflect and incorporate the knowledge gained by the training. This information will be used to formualate a data bank for teacher student technology knowledge of the district.
The district based on these survey will gain the knowledge needed to offer and enhance a more comprehensive technology effort by the district.
the district will introduce a teacher/student survey to measure, manage, and improve teacher/student technology training. this survey will be an all encompassing evauation of teacher/student knowledge and needs. Based on the training received in teacher in service and teacher technology conferences, the teacher will be asked to submit lesson plans that reflect and incorporate the knowledge gained by the training. This information will be used to formualate a data bank for teacher student technology knowledge of the district.
The district based on these survey will gain the knowledge needed to offer and enhance a more comprehensive technology effort by the district.
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Progress Report
Progress Report
To reach the goals of this Long-Range Plan for Technology, 2006-2020, strategies must be put
in place that can be accomplished and measured over time. The recommendations for Teaching
and Learning; Educator Preparation and Development; Leadership, Administration and
Instructional Support; and infrastructure for Technology implemented together will help realize
the overarching vision of the plan by 2020.
This plan is to be phased in under three sections over time. Phase I is in place with Phase II and phase III.
Phase I 2006-2010
To reach the goals of this Long-Range Plan for Technology, 2006-2020, strategies must be put
in place that can be accomplished and measured over time. The recommendations for Teaching
and Learning; Educator Preparation and Development; Leadership, Administration and
Instructional Support; and infrastructure for Technology implemented together will help realize
the overarching vision of the plan by 2020.
This plan is to be phased in under three sections over time. Phase I is in place with Phase II and phase III.
Phase I 2006-2010
- Continue to refine and align curriculum content standards to reflect current research and
meet the needs of the 21st Century workplace and higher education. - Provide equitable access to technology tools for students and teachers, such as student
and teacher workstations, productivity tools, online resources, interactive whiteboards,
projection systems, and printers - Provide adequate connectivity in schools and classrooms to ensure effective use of
technology resources - Increase the Technology Allotment to at least $50 per student per year and fund from
the Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund
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Executive Summary
Executive Summary
Technology is one of the keys to America’s economic growth and prosperity and to our ability to compete in the global economy. It is the path to good jobs and higher education and earning power for Americans. It fosters the cross-cultural collaboration required to solve the most challenging problems of our time.
Under the present administration, education has become an urgent priority driven by two clear goals. By 2020,
• The government needs to raise the proportion of college graduates from 15 to 60% of our population holds a 2-year or 4-year degree.
• We will close the achievement gap so that all students regardless of race, income, or neighborhood – graduate from high school ready to succeed in college and careers.
These are aggressive goals and achieving them is a sizable challenge. Add to the challenge the projections of most states and the federal government of reduced revenues for the foreseeable future, and it is clear the government needs to be cost-effective with strategies that improve learning outcomes and graduation rates for millions of Americans.
Specifically, we must initiate innovation, prompt implementation, regular evaluation, and continuous improvement. The programs and projects that work must be brought to scale so every school has the opportunity to take advantage of that success.
Technology is one of the keys to America’s economic growth and prosperity and to our ability to compete in the global economy. It is the path to good jobs and higher education and earning power for Americans. It fosters the cross-cultural collaboration required to solve the most challenging problems of our time.
Under the present administration, education has become an urgent priority driven by two clear goals. By 2020,
• The government needs to raise the proportion of college graduates from 15 to 60% of our population holds a 2-year or 4-year degree.
• We will close the achievement gap so that all students regardless of race, income, or neighborhood – graduate from high school ready to succeed in college and careers.
These are aggressive goals and achieving them is a sizable challenge. Add to the challenge the projections of most states and the federal government of reduced revenues for the foreseeable future, and it is clear the government needs to be cost-effective with strategies that improve learning outcomes and graduation rates for millions of Americans.
Specifically, we must initiate innovation, prompt implementation, regular evaluation, and continuous improvement. The programs and projects that work must be brought to scale so every school has the opportunity to take advantage of that success.
Texas Long Range Technology Plan
As students have grown up, the technology use of the students has also grown. Students today have technology surrounding them constantly. These students can do a multiple of things with technology. Teachers however, lag far behind their student in the technology department. The older more experienced teacher are baffled and confused by all the technology. We as educators must provide all teachers with the tools to promote education for all students.
Long Range Technological goals and recommendations are:
TEA
· Require and support high quality professional development for teachers in the technology area.
· Promote professional development in the areas of instruction to the teachers.
· Require district to submit annually the teachers that meet the SBEC standards in technology. Require teacher to make significant advances in technology for the STAR chart
State Board of Educator Certification
· Continue to revise and update requirements for teacher preparation and integration into the introduction and implementation of technology into the classroom.
· Align technology implementations with SBEC standards
· Continue to support educator on line learning that leads to certification
Regional Service Centers
· Disseminate information on technology integration
· Provide standardize Professional development on the implementation of technology TEKS for all areas
· Use online computers systems to update and integrate technology in to professional development.
· Provide districts with the means to evaluate their teacher technology certifications
Recommendations for Local Education Agencies
· Provide standardize Professional development on the implementation of technology TEKS for all areas
· Align technology implementations with SBEC standards
· Encourage teacher participation in Master technology certifications.
My recommendations would include a state wide mandate that teachers at all levels must complete a state standard online test on technology in order to be able to use a computer at school. The test would start with the basic level testing and advance through to an elevated level. At each level the teacher could acquire new technologies as the teacher advances through the levels of advancement.
As students have grown up, the technology use of the students has also grown. Students today have technology surrounding them constantly. These students can do a multiple of things with technology. Teachers however, lag far behind their student in the technology department. The older more experienced teacher are baffled and confused by all the technology. We as educators must provide all teachers with the tools to promote education for all students.
Long Range Technological goals and recommendations are:
TEA
· Require and support high quality professional development for teachers in the technology area.
· Promote professional development in the areas of instruction to the teachers.
· Require district to submit annually the teachers that meet the SBEC standards in technology. Require teacher to make significant advances in technology for the STAR chart
State Board of Educator Certification
· Continue to revise and update requirements for teacher preparation and integration into the introduction and implementation of technology into the classroom.
· Align technology implementations with SBEC standards
· Continue to support educator on line learning that leads to certification
Regional Service Centers
· Disseminate information on technology integration
· Provide standardize Professional development on the implementation of technology TEKS for all areas
· Use online computers systems to update and integrate technology in to professional development.
· Provide districts with the means to evaluate their teacher technology certifications
Recommendations for Local Education Agencies
· Provide standardize Professional development on the implementation of technology TEKS for all areas
· Align technology implementations with SBEC standards
· Encourage teacher participation in Master technology certifications.
My recommendations would include a state wide mandate that teachers at all levels must complete a state standard online test on technology in order to be able to use a computer at school. The test would start with the basic level testing and advance through to an elevated level. At each level the teacher could acquire new technologies as the teacher advances through the levels of advancement.
Friday, August 13, 2010
This class was exactly what I needed to create some ideas for my job this coming year. I was wondering how I was going to accomplish my task of dealing with attendance rates and truancies in my school. This class not only provided me with the structure I needed to accomplish the task it gave me insight as to what the question was and where the answers might be.
I was excited when I heard Dr. Chargois’s video where he spoke about a research grant that will show their teachers how to use data driven information, so teacher can make impact tomorrow, not next year. Teachers being taught to use computer programs to access the data and manipulate it to gain a greater understanding of how to help student gain success quicker, and to make changes more systemic in nature, learning how to quantify qualitative data. New research areas of affective teacher’s vs., in effective teacher and how it will affect students. This research should help in the disaggregation of quantitative records, such as TAKS, AP and EOC tests that I will need. In another video Dr. Lewis spoke of a research grant from Melinda and Bill Gates foundation. It is dealing with methods to increase the success rates of graduating seniors. He spoke about using this data from the student’s freshmen year to the Senior year in order to gain an understanding of what needed to be changed over time in order for the student to be more successful in today’s ever changing world. Dr. Lewis also spoke about taking other people research already done and see if all pieces of it would be beneficial to research the district is doing on its own. Dr. Lewis is on the mark with his thinking. In order for us to teach to today’s innovative and complex students we must find new a varying ways to reach and hold them.
In developing a research plan I found the structure of the assignment to be exactly what I had been looking for in order to achieve my goals of raising attendance rates and lowering truancies in our school. I can identify our goals and objectives/outcomes of the research investigation, design activities to achieve those objectives, gather the resources and research tools needed for data gathering, get a reasonable timeline for completion, assign people responsible for implementation of the action research plan and provide a plan for monitoring the achievement of goals and objectives
(Harris, S., Edmonson, S., and Combs, J. (2010). Examining what we do to improve our schools: 8 steps to improve our schools. p. 85,)
Kurt Lewin’s development of Force Field Analysis where he believed that there are forces that drive change and forces that are resistant to change, in order for adjustments to occur the driving forces must exceed the resistant forces was a real awakening for me . Our staff must change the way we do things in order for us to reduce truancies in our school. We acknowledge that we have an attendance and truancy problem. What we as a staff can do to change the truancy problem. Know what will happen if no change occurs. Identify forces driving the proposed change. Who or what is or will be resisting the change. Is change feasible, and if so how can we reduce the strength of forces opposing the alteration? Or we can use other methods such as the Delphi Method which is a decision making tools that works effectively for a larger group of stakeholders. This method will be an effective tool if the participants have a vested interest in the outcome, and are willing to participate in the decision making process. Which I hope will occur if I can get some investment in the project. This process also taught me the value of a survey conducted by a facilitator, with feedback and motivations given to the participants you could be able to Identify a problem, request possible solutions, post responses to participants, provide a summary of possible solutions, and ask participants to rank solutions and tally responses. The last technique called Nominal group is a brainstorming, decision making process that allows group members to assess possible needs by using an impartial system of input, followed by discussion, and then ranking the importance of each need. This method emphasizes equal opportunities for each participant and is designed to eliminate biases and reduce the tendency to be judgmental. Participants are asked to submit possible areas of need without discussion, each need is presented without discussion, each need is discussed and clarified, needs are ranked by participants based on the perceived importance of the need. All three of these techniques could be used to help with my research. The Force field Analysis could be used to build the foundation of the research, the Delphi Method to help build consensus and the Nominal group would help to eliminate bias.
(Harris, S., Edmonson, S., and Combs, J. (2010). Examining what we do to improve our schools: 8 steps to improve our schools., pp. 91 – 103, and specifically focus on Strategies for Sustaining Improvement, pp. 94 – 97)
One comment from the blogs that really stuck out in my mind from comments made dealt with my approach to collecting data. Using data collected locally from law enforcement officials in addition to the data collected through AEIS and PIEMS will help determine local trends, such as drug and alcohol use backgrounds in individuals that are high school age. One question was identifying real truancy compared to legitimate absences. Identifying local trends would help provide understanding for trends in the school. Trends in the local community could also help identify occurrences that could possibly be overlooked. Using the two pieces of data together could help identify what is the truth about our truancy rates.
I was excited when I heard Dr. Chargois’s video where he spoke about a research grant that will show their teachers how to use data driven information, so teacher can make impact tomorrow, not next year. Teachers being taught to use computer programs to access the data and manipulate it to gain a greater understanding of how to help student gain success quicker, and to make changes more systemic in nature, learning how to quantify qualitative data. New research areas of affective teacher’s vs., in effective teacher and how it will affect students. This research should help in the disaggregation of quantitative records, such as TAKS, AP and EOC tests that I will need. In another video Dr. Lewis spoke of a research grant from Melinda and Bill Gates foundation. It is dealing with methods to increase the success rates of graduating seniors. He spoke about using this data from the student’s freshmen year to the Senior year in order to gain an understanding of what needed to be changed over time in order for the student to be more successful in today’s ever changing world. Dr. Lewis also spoke about taking other people research already done and see if all pieces of it would be beneficial to research the district is doing on its own. Dr. Lewis is on the mark with his thinking. In order for us to teach to today’s innovative and complex students we must find new a varying ways to reach and hold them.
In developing a research plan I found the structure of the assignment to be exactly what I had been looking for in order to achieve my goals of raising attendance rates and lowering truancies in our school. I can identify our goals and objectives/outcomes of the research investigation, design activities to achieve those objectives, gather the resources and research tools needed for data gathering, get a reasonable timeline for completion, assign people responsible for implementation of the action research plan and provide a plan for monitoring the achievement of goals and objectives
(Harris, S., Edmonson, S., and Combs, J. (2010). Examining what we do to improve our schools: 8 steps to improve our schools. p. 85,)
Kurt Lewin’s development of Force Field Analysis where he believed that there are forces that drive change and forces that are resistant to change, in order for adjustments to occur the driving forces must exceed the resistant forces was a real awakening for me . Our staff must change the way we do things in order for us to reduce truancies in our school. We acknowledge that we have an attendance and truancy problem. What we as a staff can do to change the truancy problem. Know what will happen if no change occurs. Identify forces driving the proposed change. Who or what is or will be resisting the change. Is change feasible, and if so how can we reduce the strength of forces opposing the alteration? Or we can use other methods such as the Delphi Method which is a decision making tools that works effectively for a larger group of stakeholders. This method will be an effective tool if the participants have a vested interest in the outcome, and are willing to participate in the decision making process. Which I hope will occur if I can get some investment in the project. This process also taught me the value of a survey conducted by a facilitator, with feedback and motivations given to the participants you could be able to Identify a problem, request possible solutions, post responses to participants, provide a summary of possible solutions, and ask participants to rank solutions and tally responses. The last technique called Nominal group is a brainstorming, decision making process that allows group members to assess possible needs by using an impartial system of input, followed by discussion, and then ranking the importance of each need. This method emphasizes equal opportunities for each participant and is designed to eliminate biases and reduce the tendency to be judgmental. Participants are asked to submit possible areas of need without discussion, each need is presented without discussion, each need is discussed and clarified, needs are ranked by participants based on the perceived importance of the need. All three of these techniques could be used to help with my research. The Force field Analysis could be used to build the foundation of the research, the Delphi Method to help build consensus and the Nominal group would help to eliminate bias.
(Harris, S., Edmonson, S., and Combs, J. (2010). Examining what we do to improve our schools: 8 steps to improve our schools., pp. 91 – 103, and specifically focus on Strategies for Sustaining Improvement, pp. 94 – 97)
One comment from the blogs that really stuck out in my mind from comments made dealt with my approach to collecting data. Using data collected locally from law enforcement officials in addition to the data collected through AEIS and PIEMS will help determine local trends, such as drug and alcohol use backgrounds in individuals that are high school age. One question was identifying real truancy compared to legitimate absences. Identifying local trends would help provide understanding for trends in the school. Trends in the local community could also help identify occurrences that could possibly be overlooked. Using the two pieces of data together could help identify what is the truth about our truancy rates.
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