Using+Technology+at+C.+E.+Vail

 AGENDA Sulemacardinals Using Technology at C. E. Vail February 6, 2009 11:30 a.m. **PURPOSE:** =OBJECTIVE: All Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge and use of both hardware and software programs. They will acquire technology information and use it to solve problems and communicate. Students will acquire life long skills that will prepare them for the 21st century. =
 * Teachers at C. E. Vail Elementary will plan and collaborate in a wiki learning community to implement technology in their lessons and improve the use and integration of technology.**


 **FACILITATOR'S NAME:**   Sulema Reyes COMMUNITY MEMBERS:    <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">Adan Cortez, Josefina Torres/Moreno, Rosie Calzada <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**<span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 120%; color: #d0161c; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">ACTIVITIES: <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #d0161c; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> ** <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">GRADE LEVEL: ** <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">Third Grade
 * 1) <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**<span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">Communiity members will create a shared vision of a student that will use technology not only to survive but to succeed in the 21st century. Participate in a wiki and create a campus vision within the first two weeks of school.  **
 * 2) <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**<span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">Students are already technology savvy and they will use these skills in class. They know how to beat games such as xbox, wii, etc. Students will bring there knowledge into the classroom and share with other students as well as the teacher. They will create games to reinforce content area objectives that will help them master the skills. Students will create one game every three weeks throughout the school year.  **
 * 3) <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**<span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">TPRI testing will be administered to every student to measure their reading levels in phonetic awareness, fluency, and comprehension. Students will take the test online an be more time efficient. Students and teachers will use internet to take test as well as interpret data. Administrators will have quicker and more accurate results. The test will be administered three times a year. (Sept., Jan., and May)  **
 * 4) <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**<span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">Teachers will utilize technology in the classroom to get students ready for the year 2020. Students will be given the opportunity to use some type of technology daily. Every student has to meet the TEKS for technology at the appropriate grade level.  **
 * 5) <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**<span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Staff Development will be provided per subject area. Teachers will learn different ways to incoperate lessons with the use of technology. They will attend curriculum meeting where they will watch videos of teachers implementing technology in the classroom. This training will take place once every six weeks for a total of eight hours a day. Training and planning is job embedded into the teacher's scope and sequendce and is on going through out the school year. **
 * 6) <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**<span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"> Administrators will make the adjustments to create a wiki for the teachers to use in the Building lead Teacher's (BLT) meeting. Working together with the technology manager of our school, the teacher will collaborate with other teachers and plan or share lessons using the wiki. Both teachers and administrators will become more efficient in time and will have successful meetings with more interation among teachers. Each teacher will input ideas and suggestions with greater confidence and comfort. Teachers will meet once every week during the whole school year.   **
 * 7) <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**<span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Administrators will assure that the link of wikispaces is available for teachers and students to use. He will remove any block barriers that might apprear. Work together with the technology director and assessing the teacher's needs for implementing the use of technology. He will constantly work on issues that might impede student's learning from being top priority.  **
 * 8) <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">  <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**<span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"> Our campus will form a committee to evaluate and analyse our technology weaknesses. Teachers on the committee will have weekly technology meetings to discuss technological issues. They will provide modeling to teachers as needed to become technology ready.      **
 * 9) <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**<span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">Teachers will submit lesson plans electronically. Teachers will work together to collaborate and  ** <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**<span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">integrate lesson plans with many uses of technology. Lessons will be provided through CSCOPE and might include powerpoint presentations and united streaming videos. This is an on going process and will be inplemented throught out the whole school year.  **