Site Mentor Meeting

This is our 4th week in the Research course. I have started back to work and we have been busy! So much change is going to happen this year and we are getting positive support. It is exciting. I was able to meet with my site mentor and discuss the action plan. She had questions that I was able to answer easily. First one being who was going to partcipate. I really think she thought I was going to do the entire district! I could never tackle that magnitude on my first action project. Not even an entire campus. She was relieved when I told her that I would select the teachers and students from our technology committee. She shared a survey and self-assessment that we could use for the first task. After we got that cleared up we were in agreement with the entire plan and she spoke about the importance of this type of data. I am now excited and will soon be able to launch it! Of course, I am still open to any ideas and will make any changes if needed.

My Action Plan

I tried posting my plan, two separate ways, but it took too long for it to download. I will provide a link to it on Google Docs after a brief explanation and steps to accomplish my Action Research project.

Goal: Discover how the integration of 21st century skills impact student achievement and how to motivate teachers to create this environment in their teaching and learning.

Sample Group: 8-10 teachers and students from our technology committee (various grade levels and content areas)

• Survey/Self-assessment (on Atomic Learning) "What are 21st century skills? How confident are you with integrating them?"
• Identify the 21st Century concepts and skills (that is another post)
• Assess BOY Technology proficiencies for teachers and students
• Best practices for professional development (face-to-face trainings, PLC's, video-conferencing)
• Training workshops for Atomic Learning and Easy Tech
• Ongoing technology support in classroom
• Walkthroughs, interviews
• Create class blogs to track progress of project
• Digital pictures; video of each teacher modeling a 21st century technology lesson
• TAKs scores, benchmark scores (compare last year to this year)
• BOY and EOY Technology exams for students and teachers

My Action Plan on Google Docs