My site mentor seems to think my Action Research Plan is fine. I am worried about getting my fellow teachers to participate in the implementation. I will be carrying out the staff development for them on January 7, 2013. I am hoping that they will cooperate by giving their students the survey and then actively using the virtual labs that I will be training to use.
I was wondering if you all have teachers who are as resistant to technology as ours are?
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Week 3 Action Research Plan
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Tool 7.1 Action
Planning Template
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Goal: To increase student understanding of
science standards by increasing technology in the classroom.
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Action Steps(s):
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Person(s)
Responsible:
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Timeline: Start/End
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Needed Resources
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Evaluation
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1. Meet to discuss implementation
of plan such as students to be surveyed and
staff development needed.
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Science Coordinator, lead science teachers in each grade level, and
myself
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November 26, 2012
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Copy of Action Research Plan rough draft, Student Technology Survey,
PowerPoint Presentation, Explorelearning.com Gizmo demonstration
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Notes and suggestions from meeting, consensus of the group to
implement the plan.
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2. 9th and 10th
graders take the Student Technology Survey using Survey Monkey.
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Science Coordinator, science teachers of all 9th and 10th
grade students.
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Week of December 10-14, 2012
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Student Technology Survey using Survey Monkey, Classroom set of
laptops
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Evaluate data from Survey Monkey
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3. Staff Development on how to
use explorelearning.com Gizmos and PhET virtual labs.
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Science coordinator, myself
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January 7, 2013
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Promethean, Laptop, PowerPoint presentation, laptop computers.
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Evaluation form filled out by teachers.
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4. Virtual labs to be used in
each science classroom of all 9th and 10th grade science
teachers.
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All 9th and 10th grade science teachers.
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January 8, 2013 – May 24, 2013
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Laptop computers
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Follow up meeting with teachers and evaluation form.
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5. Evaluate test scores of 9th
and 10th grade students comparing previous standardized science
tests to this years standardized science test scores.
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Science Coordinator, lead science teachers form all grades
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Staff Development August 2013
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Data printout of standardized science test scores
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Evaluation of previous years standardized science test scores compared
to current year’s test scores.
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Format based on Tool 7.1 from Examining What We Do to Improve Our Schools
(Harris, Edmonson, and Combs, 2010)
Monday, December 3, 2012
TECHNOLOGY - Love it or Learn to Live with it.
I have just spent about an hour trying to upload my Student Technology Survey onto the Blog. I never got the whole document to load successfully so I put a link to my website page that has the survey. I would greatly appreciate it if you all can look at it and give me your input. I want to give it to all 9th and 10th graders. We have science test results for them from the 8th grade and 9th grade Biology.
I'm not sure what I should do.
1. Have all their science teachers use virtual labs and compare the scores from this year to their 8th grade and 9th grade scores from classes where I know they didn't use technology and see if it improved their test scores.
2. Have the science teachers use virtual labs in half their classes and not in the other classes and compare test scores.
What do you all think?
I will be presenting a workshop when we come back on January 7th to help science teachers from 5th grade to 12th grade learn how to use two different virtual labs. I know that quite a few of them don't like using technology because they don't know how to use it without difficulty. I hope this will help them realize that technology is here to stay and they will have to "Learn to Love it or at least Learn to Live with it".
I'm not sure what I should do.
1. Have all their science teachers use virtual labs and compare the scores from this year to their 8th grade and 9th grade scores from classes where I know they didn't use technology and see if it improved their test scores.
2. Have the science teachers use virtual labs in half their classes and not in the other classes and compare test scores.
What do you all think?
I will be presenting a workshop when we come back on January 7th to help science teachers from 5th grade to 12th grade learn how to use two different virtual labs. I know that quite a few of them don't like using technology because they don't know how to use it without difficulty. I hope this will help them realize that technology is here to stay and they will have to "Learn to Love it or at least Learn to Live with it".
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Technology Survey
I said in a previous blog that I was going to attach my technology survey. However I couldn't find a way to do it. If you know how please let me know. My mentor and a fellow teacher looked at the survey and agreed it was appropriate for my research plan. I am addicted to technology being used in education. It is such a wonderful tool. Many of my students like using it and feel it helps them understand difficult concepts.
I want to help other teachers who are "afraid" of technology better see the uses of this tool in their classroom. If you have ways to approach the teachers so that they don't feel I'm pushing them or looking down on their teaching techniques I would appreciate your input.
I want to help other teachers who are "afraid" of technology better see the uses of this tool in their classroom. If you have ways to approach the teachers so that they don't feel I'm pushing them or looking down on their teaching techniques I would appreciate your input.
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