G: Goal –
G1) customize and personalize learning activities to address students' diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources.
G2) demonstrate fluency in technology systems and the transfer of current knowledge to new technologies and situations.
A: Actions Plans –
A1) Creating more differentiated instructional levels. Changing how I current grade the “same project” at the student’s level to actually providing a partially different set of work. I am creating 3 levels of work per same unit to allow for gifted and ELL/IEP students to be more challenged as well as produce higher quality work.
A2) The plan is to better learn or master two new software program.
~ Currently, I have focus on better learning the Scratch program from MTI so that my students can create animated video shorts. Students will have the opportunity to use Scratch for our Atomic Learning units. With the goal of creating at least 3 different atomic structures.
~ The other program I am working at is OneNote from Microsoft’s Office Suite. I have immersed myself and student into using this electronic notebook system. We will continue to use it for the balance of the school. Ideally becoming virtually paperless in the classroom. Students will use it to receive their work, take their notes, watch movies and complete worksheets virtual in OneNote before entering their work in to Moodle for grading, evaluation and feedback.
M: Monitoring Plans –
M1) Students will take an initial pre-assessment probe on the content topic and then complete the post-assessment probe at the end of the unit. Additional, time management skills and student maintained planners will be use to gauge progress.
M2) Routine daily use of the OneNote program will be a key monitoring factor. The ability to see students work more routinely through the synced electronic notebooks will also be a helpful monitoring tool.
E: Evaluation Plans -
E1) The best means to evaluate the success of the different class of students will be three-fold. First starting with the quality of work that each student creates. Second, students passing score (goal of 80%) of the districts end of content exam scores. Third, student and teacher evaluations of growth, comprehension and methods.
E2) Direct visual usage of OneNote in conjunction with Moodle. Decrease in problems, lost work and delays in classroom operations will be an evaluation aspect to judge smooth integration of the OneNote system. For Scratch, the students creations will be the final indication of their success with the program.
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Nicole,
ReplyDeleteI've heard many praises of Moodle and plan to investigate it more. A word of warning. If this is all new to the students you will see a dip in the learning curve prior to the increased achievement. It is a natural dip because they are learning new skills and new systems. The curve will go back up but it will take a little time. Good Luck.
Cindy
Nicole,
ReplyDeleteI love the idea in your action plan of using 3 levels of work to meet the individual needs of your students. I think this will create more work for you, but will be highly beneficial for your students. I commend you for taking the time to implement a project that will give your students the best possible learning opportunities!
~ Brooke S.
Cindy -
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comments. I am frequently trying new ideas and programs. I worked with Moodle solely for the first two quarters. The for the past we weeks trained the kids on OneNote. So now as we enter the second semester, we can blend the two programs together.
Nicole
Brooke -
ReplyDeleteThere is a little front end loading on me for each new unit but I find it worth my time one weekend a month. Then I can spend mroe time teaching and guiding during the school days. Moodle does my grading for over 90% of my work and I have more time for my family and labs during the work week.
Thanks for the complement. The kids are worth it. My son also has fun helping me design work and practicing the labs.
Nicole