Agenda+and+Assignments

**Development and Planning of Curriculum and Assessment II/Module IV Technology Integration**
//**A Work in Progress Check Back Often**// //**--What You Need To Have Done Before Coming to Class--**// || Wed. 9/2/09
 * Fall 2009 - EDU584/EDU580(Module IV) Cohort 1 - University of Maine Farmington**
 * --Session--** ||
 * --What We Will Do in Class--** ||
 * --What We Will Do in Class--** ||
 * Class 1**
 * Class 1**
 * Excel Work**
 * Session** || # Contacted student through email (see below) and provided them with assignments (buy textbook, read syllabus, wiki links and create graphic philosophy) for 9/09/09 class.
 * 1) Off-site work session
 * 2) Excel Work Session for Cohort 1 and 2 who need an Introduction to Spreadsheets (4:00-6:30) Computer Center Room 104.


 * //[|Microsoft Office 2007 for Windows]//
 * //[|Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac]//

|| * **Buy the text appropriate to your school level or interest:** Wed. 9/9/09 Wed. 9/16/09
 * Bernhardt, L., Victoria (2003). //Using Data to Improve Student Learning in Elementary Schools//. Larchmont, NY: Eye On Education. ISBN 193055660-8.
 * Bernhardt, L., Victoria (2004). //Using Data to Improve Student Learning in Middle Schools.// Larchmont, NY: Eye On Education. ISBN 193055687-X.
 * Bernhardt, L., Victoria (2005). //Using Data to Improve Student Learning in High Schools.// Larchmont, NY: Eye On Education. ISBN 159667004-5.
 * **__Read__:** Syllabus ||
 * Class 2**
 * Class 2**
 * Multiple Measures of Data** || # Sharing of graphic philosophy
 * 1) Course overview/Syllabus/snow day process/Veterans day/Software requirement
 * 2) Book talk selection - First and second choice of themes.
 * 3) Book talk team - Book Selection/Presentation Date (10/7 or 10/14).
 * 4) Mapout the timeframe for teaching your integrated unit (student products must be finished before 11/18/09)
 * 5) Data collection of a unit - assessment timeline
 * 6) Powerpoint Chapter 2
 * 7) Multiple Measures of Data/Activity
 * 8) Sharing interest and concerns of Chapters 1, 2.
 * 9) Take Mid Survey || * **__Read__:** //Using Data to Improve Student Learning// chapters 1, 2, 3 and be prepared to share a list of the things that interested vs. concerned you from your readings.
 * **__Due:__** Graphic philosophy and post URL to artifacts page. ||
 * Class 3**
 * Class 3**

Wed. 9/23/09 Wed. 9/30/09 Wed. 10/7/09 Wed. 10/14/09
 * Demograhics** || # Syllabus/Finalize Veterans Day
 * 1) Student Information
 * 2) Horizontal teams selection
 * 3) Date selection (10/28, 11/04, 11/10, 11/18) of student product presentations
 * 4) Learning styles inventory
 * 5) Downloading files from Victoria Bernhardt's CD
 * 6) Chapter 2 Activity (ACTCreat.pdf page 2)
 * 7) Powerpoint Chapter 3 Slide 22
 * 8) Sharing interest and concerns of Chapter 3 (CSIPlang.pdf)
 * 9) Chapter 4 - Who Are We? Complete the three study questions at the end of the chapter in your individual teams.
 * 10) Resources for practicing and learning Excel skills
 * 11) Start searching for your district and school demographic data
 * 12) Introducing the LPLC Project - Curriculum Strand || * **__Read:__** //Using Data to Improve Student Learning// chapter 4
 * **__WIP:__** Software requirement installed on your laptop
 * Upload your Victoria Bernhardt Files
 * **__Read:__** Syllabus
 * Take your Mid Survey ||
 * Class 4**
 * Class 4**
 * Demograhics** || # All Skype Buddy Program
 * 1) Sharing of Learning Style inventories
 * 2) In-Class work session to start demographics - find data of your school (elementary, middle or high school). Find the following files in Chapter 4 - Who are we? Complete the School Data Profile (ElemProfil.doc [[file:NewElemProfil.docx]], MiddProfil.doc, HighProfil.doc [[file:NewHighProfil.docx]]) using the following Excel Documents - ElemDemog.xls, MiddDemog.xls, HighDemog.xls
 * 3) Resources for finding data
 * 4) Meet with your booktalk team Booktalk Checklist || * **__Due:__** Software requirement installed on your laptop
 * **__Bring:__** Learning Style instrument to class to share with your horizontal teams.
 * **__Bring:__** Demographic Data of your school
 * **__WIP:__** Reading your book. ||
 * Class 5**
 * Class 5**
 * Book Talk** || # [|Evaluating web resources]
 * 1) Intellectual property
 * 2) [|Fair Use Guideline]
 * 3) In-Class Work book talk work session || * **__Due__:** Finish reading your book and bring ideas for your book talk presentation.
 * **__WIP:__** School Data Profile ||
 * Class 6**
 * Class 6**
 * Perception** || # Book talk presentation (2)
 * 1) Chapter 5 - How Do We Do Business?
 * 2) Surveying (Student, Staff and Parents) Institutional Review Board (IRB)
 * 3) In-Class work session to start your perception survey - Design student perception survey for your integrated unit - feedback will be completed in class; add to your assessment timeline
 * 4) Quick chat about Chapter 6 - Research terms and Reporting category. || * **__Read:__** //Using Data to Improve Student Learning// chapter 5
 * **__Due:__** Book talk presentation - Change Process (Reeves - Kurt, Keith), and Professional Learning Communities (Dufour - Jenny, Rhonda, Lisa, Christine). ||
 * Class 7**
 * Class 7**

Wed. 10/21/09 Wed. 10/28/09 Wed. 11/04/09 || # Presentation of student products - Lisa, Meg, Christine, Hattie (4 people @ 15 min. each) Tues. 11/10/09 Room Ed Ctr 012 - 4:00-7:30 || # Presentation of student products - James, Ruth, Jake, Kurt, Rhonda (5 people @ 15 min. each) Wed. 11/18/09
 * Student Learning** || # Book talk presentations (2)
 * 1) Resource Wiki Project
 * 2) Share Drafts of Student Perception Survey
 * 3) Chapter 6 -Where Are We Now?
 * 4) Work-session to start Learning Data Profile - School Student Learning Data Profile (El/MS grade level, HS school); use your MEA State Data Summary Report (3 years); select one reporting category to include in the profile. || * __**Due:**__ School Data Profile/Excel Document - upload your document on the class wiki
 * **__Read:__** //Using Data to Improve Student Learning// chapter 6
 * **__Due:__** Book talk presentation - 21st Century Thinking (Pink - Kim, James, Amity, Ruth), and Technology Literacy (Warlick - Stacey, Hattie, Cindy)
 * **__Due:__** Book talk response - Change Process, and Professional Learning Communities
 * **__Bring:__** pdf file of School Summary Reports
 * Elementary (MEA) 2008, 2007, 2006
 * Middle (MEA) 2008, 2007, 2006
 * High (SAT) 2008, 2007
 * **__WIP:__** Administer your questionnaire to your students after the integrated unit is completed. ||
 * Class 8**
 * Class 8**
 * No Class** || # Off-site work session - Time to work with Colleagues in your LPLC and Resource Wiki Project. || * **__Select__:** Three or more colleagues in your local educational community who will partner with you to create a Local Professional Learning Community. If you are already part of a LPLC, determine a way that you can enhance what already exists.
 * As a leader, work with the LPLC to identify a curriculum strand that needs improvement or enhancement OR present your findings to your LPLC of a curriculum strand that should be targeted after reviewing sate and national standards. ||
 * Class 9**
 * Class 9**
 * School Process** || # Book talk presentations (1)
 * 1) Work-session to continue Learning Data Profile  School Student Learning Data Profile
 * 2) Chapter 7 - What are the Gaps and What Are the Root Causes of the Gaps? These are the details for PLC to explore and to determine the resource needs to assist in student learning.
 * 3) Chapter 8 - How Can We Get to Where We Want to Be? Notice the observable and mesurable aspects of the plan in Figure 8.1
 * 4) In-class resource wiki work session Resource Wiki Project
 * 5) [|Wikispaces Tour] || * **__Due:__** Book talk presentation 21st Century Thinking (Sparks - Meg, Maggie, Jacob, Charmaine)
 * **__Due:__** Book talk response - 21st Century Thinking (Pink), and Technology Literacy
 * **__Read:__** //Using Data to Improve Student Learning// chapters 7, 8
 * **__Due:__** School Student Learning Data Profile - Graphs
 * **__Due:__** Gather at least ten web resources that specifically address the target curriculum strand.
 * **__WIP:__** Administer your questionnaire to your students after the integrated unit is completed. ||
 * Class 10**
 * Class 10**
 * 1) Chapter 9 (MS/HS)/10(Elem) - Conclusions and Recommendations
 * 2) Discussion Demographics, Student Perception, and Student Learning data of your class.
 * 3) Build spreadsheet for gathering demographic data on your students in your class from your integrated unit (gender, ethnicity, free & reduced lunch, identified disability, ELL, G/T, Title IA, learning styles and grade level if appropriate).
 * 4) In-class work session - Analyze demographic data of your class (including charts, graphs, conclusions and recommendations) to create Class Data Profile. || * **__Due:__** First round of student products
 * **__Due:__** Book talk response - 21st Century Thinking (Sparks)
 * **__Read:__** //Using Data to Improve Student Learning// chapter 9 for MS and HS, chapter 10 for elementary
 * **__Due:__** School Student Learning Data Profile - upload your document on the class wiki
 * **__Due:__** Gather class demographics - total number of students in class, grade level, gender, ethnicity, free & reduced lunch, identified disability, ELL, G/T, Title IA, learning styles
 * **__WIP:__** Resource Wiki
 * **__WIP:__** Administer your questionnaire to your students after the integrated unit is completed. ||
 * Class 11**
 * Class 11**
 * 1) Review Classroom Profile (Demographic) document and Excel File
 * 2) Build spreadsheet for gathering student learning data related to your integrated unit and discuss correlation.
 * 3) In-class work session - Analyze student learning data of your class (including charts, graphs, conclusions and recommendations)
 * 4) Clean up your School Data Profile and School Learning Profile || * **__Due:__** Second round of student products
 * **__Due:__** Finish gathering demographics— total number of students in class, grade level, gender, ethnicity, free & reduced lunch, identified disability, ELL, G/T, Title IA, learning styles and insert data into your Excel Spreadsheet and create your Class Data Profile.
 * **__Due:__** Gather your unit data -- formative and summative data from your integrated unit.
 * **__WIP:__** Administer your questionnaire to your students after the integrated unit is completed.
 * **__WIP:__** Resource Wiki ||
 * Class 12**
 * Class 12**

Wed. 11/25/09 Wed. 12/2/09 || # Presentation of student products - Maggie, Charmaine, Kim, Cindy (4 people @ 15 minutes). Wed.12/09/09 Snow Storm Wed. 12/16/09 (Finals Week) || # Follow-Up Survey and finish TK20
 * Thanksgiving Break** || # Presentation of student products - Stacey, Jenny, Amity, Keith (4 people @ 15 min. each)
 * 1) Review Classroom Profile (Demographic, Student Learning) document and Excel File
 * 2) In-class work session
 * Analyze your student perception questionnaire results (including charts, graphs) [[file:Perception Survey Gender.xls]]
 * Process - UbD and Type II Technology
 * Draw conclusion (what are the gaps and root causes) make recommendations using the chart. [[file:Classroom Profile Analysis Chart.docx]]
 * Use Resource Wiki Project Rubric to self-evaluate your Resource Wiki. || * **__Due:__** Third round of student products
 * **__Due:__** Finish gathering your unit data -- formative and summative data from your integrated unit
 * **__Due:__** Bring your student perception questionnaire results.
 * **__WIP:__** Resource Wiki ||
 * Class 13**
 * Class 13**
 * 1) Finalize the Classroom Profile - Perception Graph.
 * 2) Create Integrated Unit Folder (make new pdf files from class wiki)
 * 3) Reflection on teaching of integrated unit - post on Blog and use the collaboration label.
 * 4) Final Reflection Statement
 * 5) In-class work session - Wiki Resource Project || * **__Due:__** Finalize all unit components on the EDU 583 class wiki and insert the schools mission statement at the bottom of the integration page.
 * **__Due:__** Classroom Profile (Demographic Student Learning and Perception Data) - We will upload the document on the class wiki in class.
 * **__WIP:__** Clean up your School Data Profile and School Learning Profile ||
 * Class 14**
 * Class 14**
 * Class Postponed**
 * to Thurs. 12/10**
 * Roberts 305** || # Back up wiki to a zip file.
 * 1) Upload wiki zip file and link to TK20 - Zip file of resource wiki.
 * 2) Evaluation Document - Create a zip file of the following four documents.
 * 3) School Data Profile
 * 4) School Student Learning Data Profile
 * 5) Classroom (demographics, student learning and perception data) Profile
 * 6) Integrated Unit Folder (pdf files from class wiki)
 * 7) Share resource wikis
 * 8) Update your technology log for EDU 580. || * **__Due:__** Resource wiki - Post link on artifacts page of class wiki and self-assess your Resource Wiki Project using the rubric and bring the hard copy to class.
 * **__Due:__** Reflection on teaching of integrated unit - Post on Blog and use the collaboration label.
 * **__Due:__** Finish cleaning up your School Data Profile, School Learning Profile and Classroom Profile and finalize your Integrated Unit Folder ||
 * Class 15**
 * Class 15**
 * 1) Questions - More master's program questions.
 * 2) Share final reflection
 * 3) UMF evaluation || * **__Due:__** Upload Evaluation Document zip file to the artifacts page of class wiki.
 * **__Due:__** Reflection Statement ||