Homework
for the Teacher
Keep
Your Curriculum Alive & Aligned with Project Goals
• When project goals are carefully matched to
the instructional needs and interests of your students, and
at the same time aligned with curriculum standards, you have
the tools to build a powerhouse of authentic, engaged student
learning opportunities.
• Why do
children desperately need these cooperative, collaborative, real-world
experiences?
Take
Time to Pause and Reflect
• How do collaborative online project activities compare
to traditional whole group classroom activities?
Things
to consider: What percent of our school day is spent
in attempts to help students master the basics with exercises,
worksheets, lectures, and drills? How often are the basics
applied to issues in the world around them? How often are
students engaged in drawing conclusions, developing persuasive
arguments or comparing the pros and cons?
• Will
this project allow my class to do something they could not do
before today?
• Will this enable my students to do something they could do before,
but do it better?
• Do students clearly understand the goals of the project and why they are
doing it? Do you believe they are intrinsically motivated to take ownership of
their learning throughout the project?
• Will the project include activities that are cross-curricular and address
multiple intelligences and higher order thinking?
More
Ways to Connect the Curriculum
• Match activities to learning standards with Tammy
Payton’s Buddy
Project.
• Select your grade level, subject, topic, and preferred resource (book,
video, software, Web site, or curriculum standard) and let ExplorAsource find
resources to enhance your classroom project.
• Now, find out if those resources pass muster by visiting EvaluTech and
searching their database of reviews!
Reading
Strategy Spotlight
Connect the known to the new. Activate relevant, prior
knowledge before, during, and after reading. Connecting a student's
existing schema to new schema is a vital linking process that helps
to permanently store new information in their long-term memories.
Student
Activity Sheet
Printable pages designed to complement the current week's Reading
Strategy Spotlight and to help students organize their thoughts,
reflect upon reading material, and look for organizational patterns
in online text.
BBs:
Weekly Nuggets of "Best Practices" and "Brain Research"
What are the real reasons you need to avoid lecturing
most of the day?
TechKnow
Disaster Preparedness Page
Printable Computer Skills Mini-Posters & activity sheets
for those times when the network crashes or equipment is unavailable.
You can print a different page each week.
Fifth
Grade Computer Skills Test Item Bank
Visit the NC
5th Grade Test Item Bank and print all the questions related
to telecommunications objectives 1.3, 3.6, and 3.7. (Videoconferencing
will be addressed in TechKnow Park Weeks 31-36.) Contact your
local Media and/or Technology Director for the user name and password
to access the item bank. Please retain the security of this test
to maintain its validity.
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