Course+Action+Plan

You can see what I have posted every month on my blog reflections. This is the link to the STAT21 blog where my blog reflections are included: [].

I hope that I will be able to have a good understanding of what stat21 is. I want to be able to be able to use wiki’s in my classroom and to do project based learning lessons.

As a high school special education teacher, I am required to focus on getting my students prepared for transition into the “real world.” I must outline through the IEP process of how the student will be prepared to get a job and be successful when he/she graduates. This is a four year plan that each student participates and collaborates on the writing of. Through this class, I am realizing that the goals we create are aligned with the 21st Century Framework. In my classroom, I am making use of the Interwrite Board to inform students of what is required for them to know for the day’s lesson. We create rubrics together on it. Students love to write down their ideas and take notes for the class. The students show their projects through it and we analyze test results also on it. It is also great to use for my Student Council meetings, for the secretary to be taking notes and having the agenda up for the members to see. I have gotten lots of ideas from Cate on what to do to help integrate technology in my lessons. One of my goals was to use Wikis as part of my curriculum. I have found a great use for the Wikis to help my students when it comes to research. Many sites are blocked on the school’s computers through their filtering system. I have learned that you can put good sites that may have been blocked through the school, but are good ones that, I have personally checked out, on my Wikis.

I loved looking at the data from Achievement Series. It gave me so many options to look at in analyzing the information that the students learned. I used it to create the end of the chapter tests. It allowed me to show the students what questions most of the students got correct and which ones most of the students got wrong. We were able to go back to the questions and review them on the Interwrite Board and it was interesting to hear their thoughts on why they thought the class got the question right or wrong. It can also help me to assess if I need to eliminate/ or change questions for next year’s class. A lot of the standards that I identified for this class (Employability) are standards that fit into the 21st Century skills that students need to be successful in a global society.

One of my biggest goals is for students to be able to relate what they learn in school to the work world and how it affects their life long lessons (21st Century Skills). The Christmas holidays are a big part of working those goals in for all areas that I am involved in with students. •The HS Student Council members choose to support an Angel Tree for the Second Chance Rescue Center. Anyone who brought in an item for the center the council gave that student or staff member a thank you gift. •SADD members donated their time to go to a Stampede Hockey game and handed coasters from the Volunteers of America about not driving drunk over the holidays. •Careers Class created thank you notes to all students who purchased items for Austin. This was a fundraiser for a student in Tea who lost his limbs. They had to design and come up with the supplies on their limited budget. •HSSC and FCCL worked together to sell items after school to raise money for the Children’s Miracle Network. •Employability Class worked on a project identifying what career they would choose, from the Career Clusters, and why. They had to identify how the skills that they have now would help them attain that job in the future. Then they had to analyze how it would be possible through that job to do a good deed over they Christmas holidays. •English II class helped to decorate/come up with ideas to decorate the classroom for the Christmas holidays on a teacher’s limited budget. Then they wrote about it in their journals.

These are my technology infused lesson plans.

Lesson Plan #1: Example of a rubric that the students came up with for assessing their presentations and projects.