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21st Century Assessment
Nagel Middle School Team Members: Dan Armstrong, Rose Arnell, Mimi Clark, Joy Kidwell, Donna Lauver, Brad Suder Community: Dublin-Dallas Year 1, 2010-2011 The focus is on restructuring the learning opportunities students have and the choices for demonstrating their knowledge. It is also about teachers rethinking how they assess students by differentiating the options so that they represent all levels of Bloom’s taxonomy. What’s Right about Alternate Assessment 1 from Rose Arnell on...
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The Parish Episcopal School Team Members: Susana Acosta-Cavert, Stuart Chepey, Lucy Henard, Jim Kondysar, Becky Maher, Gretchen Peterson Community: Dublin-Dallas Year 1, 2010-2011 Administrative expectation for Parish Episcopal School teachers to further implement its 21st century teaching and learning initiative is increasing exponentially. One aspect of this initiative is for teachers to regularly incorporate collaborative project-based learning in their classrooms. Many teachers find this to be challenging for the simple reason that they...
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Lancaster Mennonite School – Kraybill Campus Team Members: Val Garton, Keri Hurst, Gena Fisher, Heidi Steffen Community: IU-13 Year 1, 2010-2011 Our project is focused on Professional Development. Through observation, interviews, and a survey, we found that most teachers were not having students use emerging technologies. We realized several barriers to learning and using these technologies and how teachers felt they would best be able to integrate technology in their lessons. To overcome these barriers and get teachers excited about...
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Lancaster Lebanon IU13 ECSES Team Members: Lori Blantz, Jen Bennett, Audra Crawford, Marcella Schreiber, Jill Leid Community: IU-13 Year 1, 2010-2011 We have created for our staff a Wiki that focuses on bringing our classrooms into the 21st century with technology. This is a site where staff can add information and share their experiences as they go through their journey. The Wiki includes the following pages: introduction page, classroom lessons using technology, educational online resources, effective communication with staff and parents,...
read moreSupporting the teaching of reading
Elco Intermediate School Team Members: Dennie, Gretchen, Laurabeth, Laurie, Lindsey Community: IU-13 Year 1, 2010-2011 In an effort to bring consistency and comfort to the teaching of reading in our Intermediate School, our PLP group created a reading wiki designed to house information for all teachers. Our wiki provides links that display various teachers using successful methods for teaching reading. The site also offers leveling information as well as links that will help all teachers determine DRA levels for all students. Our wiki will...
read moreImplementing the ISTE NETS standards
Dover Area School District Team Members: Davonna Rickard, Courtney Riley, Jon Marc Murphy, Molly VanBalen, Deborah Wirth, Rebecca Haldeman Community: IU-13 Year 1, 2010-2011 Our project is to use professional development to provide the staff with the skills needed to collaborate and communicate (NETS standards)using Web 2.0 tools in the classroom. Problem, Issue, or Possibility Objectives and Assessment Implementation Plan Evaluation and Results ...
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Sydney Elementary School Team Members: Dave Dowling, Michael Eldridge, Jamie Ewalt, Allison Gregg, Teresa Hughes, Janice Shanno Community: Dublin-Dallas Year 1, 2010-2011 Our Action Research project entails a professional development plan that incorporates the use of Web 2.0 technologies which embrace collaboration and connection. Our plan includes introducing educators to Web 2.0 tools, giving them the time to explore these tools, and providing support needed to successfully navigate the tools. Professional development will occur on a...
read more21 minutes of professional development
West Clermont Elementary Schools Team Members: Joe Stahl, Lori Van Eman, Jody Davis, and Sarah Sloan Community: Dublin-Dallas Year 1, 2010-2011 This research project increases awareness of technology for our teachers regardless of what technology they have access to. Staff members will have access to a common, interactive resource to increase collaboration and support of new learning for teachers and students alike. Problem, Issue, or Possibility Objectives and Assessment ...
read moreCreating professional learning communities
Innisfail Junior Senior High School Team Members: Dave Dale, Kaitlin Eyestone, Allan Whitehead, Narsh Ramrattan and Rhonda Jessen Community: Canadian Year 1, 2010-2011 The goal of our project was to introduce the idea of professional learning community to the staff at our school as well encourage them to learn web 2.0 tools that they can use in their classrooms. Before we started we had them complete an on-line survey that asked about their knowledge of Digital Literacy and how much they use web 2.0 tools. This gave us an idea of the type of...
read moreEnhancing teacher webpages
Northern Lights School District Team Members: Jared Nichol, Terry Kaminski, David Ripkens and Barb LeNormand Community: Canadian Year 1, 2010-2011 Every school in our division has teacher webpages on the school websites. Many teachers do not use these webpages because they do not understand how to edit the page and add in content. So, we decided to survey the teachers in 3 schools to determine what features of the webpage tools they understand and what features they no little about. We have then created tutorial videos to help educate the...
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