5.+and+6.+Goals+and+Strategies

Applicants must create goals and strategies for Phase One only. These goals will address professional development to enable teachers to transform their classrooms into 21st century technology-enabled learning environments and how you will share lessons learned within your school, your district, your community and throughout Ohio. Make sure these goals are aligned and linked to the appropriate CIP Goals.

Write below **Phase One goals for our building include teachers attending professional development that will improve their abilities to implement, integrate and teach strategies of 21st Century Technology. Teachers will learn to use as well as train students in areas of media literacy, distance learning, research and the use of the internet as a means of collaboration on projects, multiple literacy, STEM, or other resources necessary to transform classrooms into 21st century technology-enabled learning environments. The Phase One teachers, with the assistance of their coach, will share lessons by live feed broadcasting, school and district team teaching, departmental meetings – modeling lessons for department members or collaborative team members, attend the state ETECH Conference, and acting as presenters for school and district professional development. The teachers will work with stakeholders of the community and their non-public partner through new student orientation, parent teacher conferences, and school open house where they will demonstrate technology in the classroom, cooperative work with both the community and their non-public partner. The goal is to open up communications between the district, the school, and community stakeholders through Pow-Paks (teacher webpages), wikis, and blogs. Teacher networking will be utilized in correlation with best practices to further develop knowledge of technology. The strategies that the Phase One teachers will employ to achieve these goals are participation in on-line training, professional development, state-wide service learning, conferences, observations of best practices in the use of technology, and incorporating guest speakers into regularly scheduled staff development. Each of these goals and strategies is closely aligned with our OIP goals. The use of technology increases student engagement which in turn raises student achievement. Also using computer based instruction has been known to raise proficiency scores while simultaneously closing the achievement gap.**