The TEA progress report from 2006 to 2010 shows great strides we have made in our technology progression of teaching our children of today and tomorrow. The state, as a whole, is moving toward turning our classrooms into technology accessible environments. The main success to date is the 24/7 access to information for parents and students about the classrooms. Parents are now able to view grades and schoolwide information at any time of day, via their home computers. In many cases, teachers have active webpages that students and parents can find daily assignments or tutorials on skills missed in class. The state has moved in an educational progression where our textbooks k-12 can be accessed online from school or home, our teachers are completing professional development hours online, from the comfort of their own homes, and our students are spending time on computers in their classrooms meeting the technology TEKS by the 8th grade level.
The state has even made changes to the original documented plan for technology, however, according to the TEA the one thing that has stayed the same is, “the state’s blueprint for technology in education continues to manifest the belief that technology, applied to the practice of education, can be an effective tool to facilitate positive changes, and that technology can be used as a means of achieving the vision of an education system hallmarked by excellence and equity.” The progress report does not only state where we are now, but what the next step is to moving toward our state goal.
Texas Education Agency, (2010). 2010 progress report on the long-range plan for
technology, 2006-2020 Austin, Texas: Texas Education Agency. Retrieved from
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index2.aspx?id=5082&menu_id=2147483665es/default
/files/NETP-2010-final-report.pdf
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Blog Posting #1 EDLD 5352
Texas Long Range Plan for Technology, 2006-2020: Teaching and Learning
In the first category of the STaR chart, Teaching and Learning, the main focus is the thy of instruction being provided to the students in the classrooms. The results sort the classrooms by teacher-centered, teacher –directed, teacher-facilitated, and teacher as facilitator and co-learner in the classroom. In order to achieve the Target Tech title the classroom must be technology based and students must have readily available systems to access technology at any given time in their learning and in some cases, at all times.
My campus has seen a progression in the teaching and learning category over the last 3 years, remaining in the developing tech stage though. We began in 2007 with a total score of 11 points, and our lowest area being the specific online learning. We have progressed to a total of a 14 in the category now and moved from a 2 to a 4 total in “design of the instructional setting” and we moved from a 1 to a 2 in the online learning area.
The state summary shows that the majority of the campus stated that they were at the developing tech stage. This is a great place to be as we have moved past the “early tech” and now are almost all focused on trying to regularly use technology within our daily teachings.
I believe that the principals today are working toward moving their teachers to the Target Tech stage, however, this is a timely process as change does not happen over-night. I believe that the key to making our way to the Target Tech is that we keep moving in a forward direction, providing teachers with the training and the classrooms with the technology to grow.
In the first category of the STaR chart, Teaching and Learning, the main focus is the thy of instruction being provided to the students in the classrooms. The results sort the classrooms by teacher-centered, teacher –directed, teacher-facilitated, and teacher as facilitator and co-learner in the classroom. In order to achieve the Target Tech title the classroom must be technology based and students must have readily available systems to access technology at any given time in their learning and in some cases, at all times.
My campus has seen a progression in the teaching and learning category over the last 3 years, remaining in the developing tech stage though. We began in 2007 with a total score of 11 points, and our lowest area being the specific online learning. We have progressed to a total of a 14 in the category now and moved from a 2 to a 4 total in “design of the instructional setting” and we moved from a 1 to a 2 in the online learning area.
The state summary shows that the majority of the campus stated that they were at the developing tech stage. This is a great place to be as we have moved past the “early tech” and now are almost all focused on trying to regularly use technology within our daily teachings.
I believe that the principals today are working toward moving their teachers to the Target Tech stage, however, this is a timely process as change does not happen over-night. I believe that the key to making our way to the Target Tech is that we keep moving in a forward direction, providing teachers with the training and the classrooms with the technology to grow.
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Friday, August 6, 2010
Revised Action Plan (anything in red is new)
Action Planning: Ault 2010-2011
Goal:
To identify the impact that a positive behavior intervention plan will have on our students. Specifically, how the implementation affects the teachers that currently write the most referrals in our building and how it impacts the "repeat offenders" with returning to the office. Ideally, we will see a decrease in both the number of referrals (344 in 2009-2010) as well as the types of referrals (severe or minor). We also hope to see a fewer number of repeat students in our offices. Thus, teachers will have more time for teaching and students will remain in their classrooms and with fewer distractions resulting in more learning. According to an article in the PBIS newsletter by Robert Putnam, "Recent research indicates that school-wide positive behavior is associated with decreased exclusionary, reactive and punitive discipline practices (Horner, Sugai, Todd, & Lewis-Palmer, 2005; Luiselli, Putnam, & Sunderland, 2002), increased student satisfaction (Lewis-Palmer, Horner, Sugai, Eber, & Phillips, 2002), and improved perceptions of school safety (Schneider, Walker, & Sprague, 2000)."
Reference:
Putnam, R.F., Horner, R.H., & Algozzine, R. (2010). PBIS Newsletter, 3(1), Retrieved from http://www.pbis.org/pbis_newsletter/volume_3/issue1.aspx
Action Steps | Person Responsible | Timeline: Start/Finish | Needed Resources | Evaluation |
| Kyla Mote Janet Bakondy | Aug. 2009, Modified June – August of 2010 and Presented to staff August 16, 2010 | Power point, daily lesson plans for 10 minute mini lessons of behavior, reward coupons and teacher incentives | Observation of teacher usage of lesson plans and student awareness of the expected procedures and behaviors |
| Kyla Mote | July 2010 | Computer access to 2009-2010 referrals | Actual number of referrals and corresponding data |
2A. To collect data on the number of referrals written, by whom, and for whom. | Kyla Mote | August 2010-June 2011 for current year data | Access to referral data on the computer system through the district. | Number of referrals and the corresponding data |
| Kyla Mote, Janet Bakondy, Jana Needham, Shelley Edmonds, Lorie Fenstad | August 2010-June 2011 | Awareness of the plan and incentives for teachers and students | Observation and survey to teachers and students |
| Kyla Mote and Janet Bakondy | January 2010 | Referral data | How did it work? Survey teachers, students and parents and look at the raw data. |
| Kyla Mote | August 2009-June 2011 | Referral Forms | Referral Forms and the number of referrals. |
| Kyla Mote, Janet Bakondy and Ault Staff | August 2009 – forever if working | Possibly other behavior plans to reevaluate if needed. | If results have been positive then keep going, if no change or negative, keep researching and trying to "tweek" as needed. |
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