Aug 28 2009
[slideshare id=521645&doc=integrating-technology-across-the-curriculum-v2003-1216616320675099-9]
The above slide share is a must for any teacher but especially high school teacher intent on meeting the needs of students to communicate, collaborate, share, involve and network with a larger pool of intersted like minded students.
Aug 28 2009
See what students are saying about schools, learning and what they want. Can we meet their needs even half way?
slideshare id=1132478&doc=su2008cosnintlsymp031009-090311125219-phpapp02
Aug 16 2009
| By Patrick Fanelli, ERIE 2 CC BOCES, Public Information Officer
Faculty Promote 21st Century Approach To Education At the fourth annual High School’s New Face conference, which was held on Thursday, July 16 at Holiday Valley in Ellicottville, N.Y., four E2CCB teachers presented on four different topics that addressed the same fundamental theme: developing 21st century skills in the classroom. Jaime Monaco, special education teacher at the E2CCB Hewes Educational Center in Ashville, discussed the use of iPods in the classroom as a way of motivating students and augmenting their education. The popular devices can be used to administer quizzes, as a creative method of instruction, as a study tool, as a book, as a reward, and more, she explained. James Hedlund, another special education teacher at the Hewes Center, discussed the Young Adult Advancement Initiative, which provides students with real-life, work-related experience. Through a collaboration with Chautauqua Works, a non-profit organization that offers various workplace resources for employers and job seekers alike, students are provided real employment opportunities that help them develop the workplace skills and behaviors they will need to be successful later in life through the program, Hedlund told participants. Julie Sek, alternative education teacher at the E2CCB LoGuidice Educational Center in Fredonia, discussed the incorporation of blogs into the curriculum and she used a real-life lesson as an example. Her students, she explained, would visit her blog and answer a preliminary question about sustainability. They would then read a brief summary of the people of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), who squandered their resources to the detriment of their civilization. The students would then develop their own definition of sustainability without simply memorizing a definition from a textbook. Finally, Jason Delcamp, career and technical education instructor at the LoGuidice Center, discussed the incorporation of various technologies and resources into the automotive repair curriculum. One of his students, he said, used his Blackberry to build a relay and develop an understanding of complicated electronics concepts. Delcamp also uses hand-held computer devices to stay up-to-date with the latest in automobile technologies and repair methods. The E2CCB delegation to High School’s New Face was led by Una Raimando, special education supervisor at the Hewes Center, and assisting the delegation was Kim Texter, staff development specialist. The purpose of High School’s New Face is to bring educators together every year to discuss ways to develop 21st century skills in the classroom. The following are all seen as skills that are essential for students to be successful in the 21st century economy: critical thinking and problem-solving skills; the ability to collaborate across networks and lead by influence; agility and adaptability; initiative and entrepreneurialism; effective oral and written communication skills; the ability to access and analyze information; and curiosity and creativity.
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Aug 16 2009
Thanks to Michelle Boutwell, SETRC trainer at Erie 2 CC BOCES who compiled the piece below.
State Performance Plan Indicator #2 addresses the drop out rate for students with disabilities. At the end of the first phase of our SPP, the expectation is that no more than 19.9% of SWDs will drop out (the bar will only get higher). When a district is targeted as being at risk or in need of intervention for SPP #1(graduation) and SPP#2, we focus our attention at all three levels of students’ school careers. We look for early warning signs at the elementary and middle school levels and target groups of students at the high school level who fall into the “at risk” category and see if we can keep them from jumping ship.
Here are some signs that you can look for in building risk profiles for your students: (2 or more research studies have supported these findings)
Elementary
• Low achievement (use universal screening data)
• Retention (student is older than his peers)
• Poor attendance
• Low socioeconomic status
Middle School
• High-risk peer group
• High-risk behavior
• Low achievement
• Retention (older than his peers)
• Poor attendance
• Low educational expectations from school personnel
• Low socioeconomic status
• High family mobility
• Low family expectations
• Low family contact with the school
• Low number of family centered conversations about school
High School
• High number of work hours
• Parenthood
• Low achievement
• Retention (older than his peers) 1 grade of retention increases the risk by 40%; 2 grades of retention increases the risk by 90%
• Attendance (Does your attendance policy contribute to low attendance?)
• Low educational expectations from the school
• Low commitment to school
• No extracurricular activity participation
• Misbehavior
• Low socioeconomic status
• Low education of parents
• Not living with both parents
• The top 5 reasons that students from ages 16-25 give for dropping out: (Rotermund, California Dropout Research Project, Statistical Brief #2, May 2007)
1. Classes not interesting 47%
2. Missed too many days of school 43%
3. Friends are not interested in school 42%
4. Excess freedom/too few life rules 38%
5. Failing school 35%
Once we identify the students who are at high risk of dropping out of school, our collective challenge is trying to prevent it. Between October 2005 and October 2006 enough students dropped out of US schools to fill 9, 690 school buses! Think about what that does to our country’s economic and health care challenges.
Check out the National Dropout Prevention Center Network at Clemson University for more information.
Jul 12 2009
Vueduciel-GuV1.pps The photos are from Yann Arthus-Bertrand. Simply stunning.
Highlight the name of the photograper. Copy and paste in your web browser. Select the ling to Arial Photos or Photos from above the earth.
The above link can really set the imagination of students aflame. Ideas that come to mind are for earth science, geography, history, English composition, Art, Archeology etc.
Topics are land erosion, volcanic erosion, the melting of the snows of Kilimanjaro, East Africa, Art in Morocco etc.
http://www.ted.com/talks/yann_arthus_bertrand_captures_fragile_earth_in_wide_angle.html
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