Week 4: It's all about Intergrating !

This week contain some really beneficial reading material that I will be able to use for next school year and I am so excited. I truly thought the article in regards to the MTI program was great and had some fabulous ideas on how to implement these various strategies to assist with the creation of high-performing learning systems within the schools. The (3) phases that is used to formulate and support high-performing learning is:

• Planning
• Determination of site readiness
• Administer teacher technology survey
• Help students achieve challenging content standards
• Develop implementation plan
• Select initial mentees
• Implementation



Howard Pitler
 http://www.classroom20.com/profile/HowardPitler

• One-on-One Mentoring
• Whole-Staff Workshops
• On-line Administrative Meetings
• Re-administered teacher technology survey
• Transfer
• Development of a year-two implementation plan
• Select year two mentees
• One-on-One Mentoring
• Whole staff workshops
• On-line administrative meetings
• Administer a final teacher technology survey

Citation: Pitler, H. (2005). McRel technology initiative: The development of a technology intervention program final report (Contract Number ED-01-CO-0006). Aurora, CO: Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED486685)

The quote that I can really identified with in this particular weekly reading came from

Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning, Chapter 7

" We each have our own baseline of anxiety and comfort and find different kinds of tests easy or difficult" (Goleman, 1995).

 

This quote basically summarized the thoughts and feelings of assessments and how these standardized tests are really inadequate tools used to measure each student learning. “We" as educators have said countless times that each student is different and learn differently from each other. There are even studies and countless articles and books over differentiate learning and learning styles but, yet we still administered the same type of test to every student. What is wrong with that picture? Students should be allowed to use the daily support with their assessments if they are allowed to use in their daily lessons, by taking away the students support system, students are basically being set-up for failure. To really know if a student is learning is through observations and talking with students to see what is really working and building a system of on-going assessments to build the confidence of students.

◦Rose, D., & Meyer, A. (2002). Teaching every student in the digital age: Universal design for learning. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Chapter 7. Available online at the Center for Applied Special Technology Web site. Retrieved from http://www.cast.org/teachingeverystudent/ideas/tes/

Students as well as teachers learn differently so, as technological leaders we should be able to have an array of tools to use to effectively teach, collaborate and assess both students and teachers learning.