Background: You are asked to prepare a proposal for a Classrooms for the Future grant to provide laptop computers for each student in every high school Math, Science, Social Studies and English class. Your district administration wants this grant so that it doesn't have to purchase new computers with its own money and so that the district will appear to be progressive and competent. The administration sees this as a technology project rather than an education project. The state grant, however, requires that you develop clear educational goals, a reasonable implementation plan, and an effective evaluation plan for the project.
Describe:
1.The educational goals of the project, how they were chosen and why they are important.
2.An implementation plan of how the teachers will be trained and how the laptops will be phased into the classrooms over months or years.
3.An evaluation plan that includes both formative and summative evaluation of the project to determine how well it has met its educational goals (with an appropriate rubric, if possible).
Cite at least one reference from our Class 9 Course Documents to support your ideas.
Response
GOALS:
Educational goals for the classroom of the future project: The following educational goals were established based on the research findings of the Metiri Group in their 2006 research publication Technology in schools: What the research says. Each goal although addressing an individual positive outcome from future technology growth additionally supports an overall framework for teaching and learning development for our school system.
-Support the use of technology as a tool for education as well as student motivation and development of 21st century skills.
-Provide students with further outlets for inquiry and application of understanding in real word contexts.
-Provide technologic tools to improve student achievement on state testing.
IMPLEMENTATION
Central to the implementation process for the addition of Classroom for the Future technology is the training of our teachers. Research such as Wenglinkys 1999, Educational Testing Service report, Does it compute? establishes direct correlations between teacher training and students use of technology to foster academic growth. To aid in our students and teachers making the most out of the additional technologic infrastructure we will plan professional development to address both the integration of the technology into the classrooms (pedagogy, skill training, etc…) as well as provide suggested tools/software/sites for teachers and students. Teacher will also have outlets for ongoing Professional development thought the course of the grant. Professional development will be organized and developed specifically for content specific areas (example: mathematics or history). This organization will allow for the professional development to be specifically tailored to the content that will be taught. Teachers may also use team meeting times and content meetings to discuss and share ideas/resources/successful practices will colleagues. Teacher training will begin as soon as the grant is approved and will be developed though a partnership between content resource teachers and district technology integration specialists. Parents will also be invited to participate in open discussion forum and be provided will information on the project. Computers will be distributed in phases to each individual content area starting with English classes. The entire district wide distribution process is planned for 1 month. Planning for individual classroom/school security procedures are currently being conducted.
EVALUATION PLAN
The technology grant and our integration of the computers will be evaluated through and ongoing process to establish the overall effectiveness of the program as it relates to our established educational goals. The evaluation will provide us will ongoing feedback so that we can grow and adapt the program to best meet the needs of our students and teachers. The formal evaluation will consist of a variety of formative and summative evaluations.
Formative assessments
-Teacher and student self-reflection sheets, teachers and students will reflect and provide feedback to the school district on their use of the computers, observations and any of there further desires or needs.
-The administration of each individual school will record student grades and analyze for development of skills and growth.
-Standardized test scores will be analyzed for trends in growth.
Summative Evaluation
-Student data will be analyzed for the entire course of the grant period. All members of the school community will be provided with research findings and trends.
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2 comments:
“Teachers may also use team meeting times and content meetings to discuss and share ideas/resources/successful practices will colleagues.”
I’ve written the similar thought on my post. :) I really liked the teacher team meeting when I was a teacher. Teachers have lots of learning tasks to adopt the continually coming out new things – new curriculum and new computer tools… To better prepare for their class, teachers would definitely benefit from the team collaboration. Some teachers may be adept with computers/Internet. Some teachers may be adept with the curriculum issues. They can exchange ideas and teach each other within a group.
I like your proposal. I think the goals are well written and are definately reachable. I think your implementation plan is well thought out. The evaluation will be very important to the state and I think you did a good job here as well.
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