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= = = Using SMART Technologies to Help Create Effective Learning Environments =

Teachers exploring interactive technologies to improve student learning! Please contact us for additional information and support.

__ Goals __ :

 * Increase student learning and active engagement with content, skills and knowledge by promoting the appropriate use of SMART technologies (SMART Boards and Response Systems (clickers) to create more effective learning environments
 * Strengthen educators’ differentiation skills
 * Engage in meaningful collegial collaboration
 * Collect and share evidence of the ways in which this work has positively impacted students

__ Essential Questions __ :

 * What does it mean to increase success rates for all students while simultaneously reducing disproportionality?
 * How can SMART Technologies help increase success rates for all students while simultaneously reducing disproportionality?
 * What data/evidence can be collected and used to show increased success rates?

__ Major Understandings __ :

 * Attendance will increase when students are actively engaged with content, skills, and knowledge
 * Active engagement is interactive
 * SMART Technologies facilitate DI (diversified instruction)
 * DI (diversified instruction) is for all students
 * Highly successful educators continuously seek out new ways to reach all students
 * Technology does not replace good teaching, it facilitates good teaching
 * When students are actively engaged with content, skills, and knowledge, discipline improves (there are fewer discipline disruptions)
 * Connecting district initiatives makes the work manageable (RtI, DI, Content Maps, Co-Teaching, Equity, Technology, Literacy, Classroom Climate)

__ Skills __ :
// The teacher will be able to: //
 * Link her/his computer with the SMART Board and utilize appropriate functions
 * Explain what disproportionality in the ICSD means
 * Articulate what active engagement means and what it looks like
 * Plan, implement, and assess lessons which use SMART Technologies to facilitate DI
 * Use SMART Technologies to facilitate formative assessment and responsive teaching
 * Use SMART Notebook software to create interactive lessons that provide access to the content, skills, and knowledge for all students
 * Use SMART Technologies to capture student artifacts for formative assessment
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 * Collect and share classroom artifacts (e.g., student work, email exchanges and other digital archives) which show what educators and students are doing differently as a result of this work

__ Vocabulary __ :
engage(ment), disproportionality, discipline(self-control), responsive teaching

__ Assessments __ :

 * Collect and share classroom artifacts (e.g., student work, email exchanges and other digital archives) which show what educators and students are doing differently as a result of our work
 * Analyze classroom artifacts (data) to determine if and how more students are being successful as a result of the changes educators have made
 * Conduct formative reflections
 * What do you notice your students doing as a result of our work?
 * What are you doing differently as a result of our work?
 * What are your thoughts in relation to the essential questions
 * Conduct summative reflections
 * In what ways have you deepened your major understandings and increased your skill proficiencies?
 * What are your thoughts in relation to the essential questions?

> How? //**
 * Conductive formative and summative assessment of staff development delivery (using digital archives, staff work samples, and staff development work samples)**//
 * Have we ensured that all staff belong in this work?
 * Have all staff be successful?
 * Have differences been affirmed as assets, not deficit?
 * Have technology and cultural competency helped us affirm all staff?
 * Have we diversified content, process and product?
 * Have staff developers and staff collaborated in learning in the classroom and beyond?
 * Have we balanced group and individual needs?
 * Have we provided a variety of respectful reading and writing opportunities?
 * Have staff learned more words than we have taught?
 * Have technology and cultural competency helped us broaden the reading and writing opportunities we provided for staff?
 * Have we effectively used explicit and direct vocabulary instruction?
 * Has our vocabulary instruction empowered staff to make meaning of text (i.e. comprehension) and their lives?
 * Have we connected district initiatives?
 * Has connecting district initiatives made the work manageable and increased chances for student success?

__ Technology Integration __ :
(Embedded above…)
 * Increase student learning and active engagement with content, skills and knowledge by promoting the appropriate use of SMART technologies (SMART Boards and Response Systems (clickers) to create more effective learning environments
 * How can SMART Technologies help increase success rates for all students while simultaneously reducing disproportionality?
 * What data/evidence can be collected and used to show increased success rates?
 * SMART Technologies facilitate DI (diversified instruction)
 * Technology does not replace good teaching, it facilitates good teachin g
 * Use SMART Technologies to facilitate formative assessment and responsive teaching
 * Use SMART Notebook software to create interactive lessons that provide access to the content, skills, and knowledge for all students
 * Use SMART Technologies to capture student artifacts for formative assessment

__ Culturally Affirming Components __ :
(Embedded above…)
 * Increase student learning and active engagement with content, skills and knowledge by promoting the appropriate use of SMART technologies (SMART Boards and Response Systems (clickers) to create more effective learning environments
 * What does it mean to increase success rates for all students while simultaneously reducing disproportionality?
 * Attendance will increase when students are actively engaged with content, skills, and knowledge
 * DI (diversified instruction) is for all students
 * Highly successful educators continuously seek out new ways to reach all students
 * When students are actively engaged with content, skills, and knowledge, discipline improves (there are fewer discipline disruptions)
 * Explain what disproportionality in the ICSD means
 * Articulate what active engagement means and what it looks like
 * Use formative assessment data to monitor and adjust teaching
 * Collect and share classroom artifacts (e.g. student work, email exchanges and other digital archives) that show what educators and students are doing differently as a result of this work