GOALS 2000 QUARTERLY REPORT
LEA:
Project Contact:
Connie Campbell Date
of Report: April 10, 2002
Please answer the following
questions in as much detail as possible.
You may use attachments.
1. Using specifics compare your timeline and benchmarks
in the grant to what is actually occurring in your project.
January 2002 Participants created lesson
plans and language arts activities that utilize word processing (Word) to teach
a language arts objective identified by the teacher as partial or non-mastered
on the TerraNova tests. These are stored
at the Project LA website (http://208.183.128.8/la/activities/index.html).
February-March
2002 Participants
developed multimedia presentations directed to address a language arts
objective previously identified as an area of weakness. The presentation
included links to related Internet sites.
These are stored at the Project LA website (http://208.183.128.8/la/activities/pptresources.html)
and can be viewed online or downloaded to the user’s computer.
April 2002 At our April meeting teachers
will use Word to develop student-created classroom newsletters that will focus
on cross-curriculum composition and Internet resources to improve student
communication skills.
2. What progress have you made toward reaching the
objectives and goals that you set in your proposal?
The teacher will explore and
identify learning and teaching styles that enhance the environment of learning
for all students. (
On March 25-28 TerraNova testing was conducted to all
students. When these test results are
returned a comparison of lower achieving
student gains to higher and highest achieving student gains from Terra Nova
scores (2000-2001) will be prepared by the technology coordinator and
instructor. This report will also be shared
with the county’s elementary education and special education supervisor to
determine the impact of and planning for future teacher technology integration
approaches.
Increase Student Performance Data/Student
Expectations. (School Improvement Plan)
Both the Classroom Performance System (CPS) and the
Orchard Language Arts program have been used throughout the school year to
track student performance. As results
are returned from TerraNova testing, a comparison of student objective mastery
on the 2000 and 2001 test in language will be made.
3. What progress has been made toward the National Goal
or Goals as you presented in your proposal?
Improved student achievement through the use of
technology as a tool to enhance the curriculum. (National
Goals) TestMate Clarity will provide a
comparison of student objective mastery through a comparison of the 2000 and
2001 scores in language arts on the TerraNova test as test results are
received.
4. At this point, how is the Goals 2000 funding
positively affecting the education of the children in your county?
Through this project
teachers have become more involved and learned to utilize technology as an
instructional tool. They have learned to
gain more control over technology instead of letting it control them. Through this new confidence the students have
benefited as teachers have made technology more of a part of their instruction
and learners have had more exposure to it.
We have also gained a large
database of teacher-created PowerPoint presentations that will be available to
any educator through our website. At the
end of the project we will create a CD compilation of this body of work.
5. Describe some great happenings concerning your
project. Please send any articles or documentation to us for our
files.
I have already received an
email from one teacher who participated in this project asking if she might be
a part of any technology professional development project offered in the
upcoming school year. This is a great
happening since this teacher has never previously shown an interest in
utilizing technology, but now seems not only excited about its usage, but
anxious to learn more!
At the March 22 East
Tennessee Administrator’s Technology Academy we were able to share our online
resources created by these participating teachers with other school
systems. These administrators were
greatly impressed with the quality of resources teachers were developing
through