Halifax Middle School, Halifax, Virginia
SEIR*TEC Leadership Academy
Plan for the Week:
- Go out as you please, but still be able to review groups discussion
- Start with rubric
Facilitators role:
- Monitor task completion and furnish resources
Task: Create a design for a curriculum driven after school technology program for at risk middle school students.
Rubric
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Category
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Poor
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Good
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Excellent
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| Define Task |
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- Concise
- Communicate basic message
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- Measurable
- Concise
- Clearly defines purpose of program
- Who will be involved in what
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Identify Problem/Needs
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- Realistic picture of needs
- Used data
- Comprehensively, teachers, students, funds
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| Define program components |
- No guidelines
- Open ended
- Undefined purpose
- Lack of adequate software for subjects
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- Defined program
- Provides learning in technology
- Lacks flexibility to meet teacher and student needs
- Adequate
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- Who will serve
- Who implements (personnel)
- Components address identified needs for students/for teachers
- Relates to curriculum
- Relates to student needs
- Adequate resource
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| Identify funding |
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- Grants at local, state, national
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| Product |
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- Plan/framework
- A proposal that includes (list of components)
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BRAINSTORMING
- Improve SOL scores
- Children are technology deprived
- Dont have computers
- Dont have internet access
- 50% of parents dont have high school diplomas
- Parents dont recognize importance
- Hinders teachers making assignments and integrating that use technology
- Student who get to technology
- Leads to gaps in student achievement
- Businesses
IDEAS
- Survey of technology use and access by students and parents (i.e. internet access).
- See if there is an existing survey done already.
POTENTIAL DATA
- Students on free and reduced lunch
- Existing survey on teacher use of technology
TEACHER NEEDS
- Knowledge to use equipment
- Teachers use electronic grading
- Unclear about teacher us of technology (spectrum of use)
- Training
PARENTS
- 50% are not high school graduates
- Unclear what access they have to internet or computer
- Unclear about interest/availability
- CEC; Adult Education; GCR online computer training (courses for parents at night being available)
- Comfort level of parent to participate in training---how to convince of importance.
- Parent availability
- Transportation
RESOURCES TO LOOK AT
- 21st century learning (i.e. How to deal with transportation, availability)
- Annas survey of teachers
WEBSITES
GRANT DESIGNS
Educational
Problem or Need
- Problem is not the technology but gap (digital divide)
- Wont solve poverty
Goals
- Ex. Integrate teachers previous knowledge
Objectives Evaluation
- Measurable
- Usually a couple of objective under each goal
Resources
When writing proposals, always put yourself in the reviewers place. Must sell people in the first two paragraphs. Grants must be convincing and clearly stated. The reviewers must be clear on what you want and how you want to go about getting it.
PROBLEM OR NEED
Students
- Low achievement
- Inequity among students in access to technology at home & school
Teachers
- Need to be able to make assignments but arent because of lack of equipment
- Modeling technology use
- Integrating technology use
Parents
- Awareness of technology
- Access to technology
- Work/family/transportation constraints
- Comfort level with technology environment
Need data
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Need Data
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Source
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| SES (Parent) |
Free Lunch/Parent high school graduates |
| Test Score results |
SOL results |
| Student Access and Use of technology |
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| Teacher access and integration in classroom |
Anna Lees survey, lesson plan |
| Parent access and integration |
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GOALS
- Improve student achievement
- To increase technology integration into the curriculum (by students and teachers)
- To increase parent understanding and use of technology
OBJECTIVES FOR GOALS ABOVE
What?
- Give children access to technology
- Students have projects/need internet access and dont have it
- Targeted to specific assignments