Group 2

September 26*  Elaine McBride TES, Karla Mills JES, Lisa Urlich DES, Deanna Stroud NMS, Amanda Ashley NMS  

  • Evaluation of student’s TerraNova objective mastery for language arts. 
  • Assess students’ specific areas of partial or non-mastered objectives
  • Develop a database these objectives will be developed using Excel. 
  • Instruction in usage of Orchard student management system

October 19* Elaine McBride TES, Karla Mills JES

October 26  Lisa Urlich DES, Deanna Stroud NMS, Amanda Ashley NMS

·        Utilization of lesson plan resources available on the Internet to address identified language arts objective weaknesses. 

·        Training in the use of the Classroom Performance System (CPS) and CyberClass to create pre- and post-tests to evaluate student mastery of lesson plan objectives.

 

January 11 Elaine McBride TES, Karla Mills JES, Lisa Urlich DES, Deanna Stroud NMS, Amanda Ashley NMS  

  • Development of a lesson plan that utilizes word processing (Word) to teach a language arts objective identified by the teacher as partial or non-mastered on the TerraNova tests.  Lesson plans will be stored at the County site

 

February 25* Elaine McBride TES, Karla Mills JES, Lisa Urlich DES, Deanna Stroud NMS, Amanda Ashley NMS  

  • Development of multimedia presentations directed to address a language arts objective previously identified as an area of weakness. The presentation will include links to related Internet sites. 

 

April 15*  Elaine McBride TES, Karla Mills JES, Lisa Urlich DES, Deanna Stroud NMS, Amanda Ashley NMS  

·        Utilization of Word for student-created classroom newsletters that will focus on cross-curriculum composition and Internet resources to improve student communication skills

 

May 3 (1 hour online activity from individual schools, This is a designated county-wide professional development day)  Elaine McBride TES, Karla Mills JES, Lisa Urlich DES, Deanna Stroud NMS, Amanda Ashley NMS  

·         Complete an online form evaluating the project.

August-September 2002 An assessment of teacher objective mastery performance will be conducted by the Technology Instructor using the TerraNova Teacher Objective Performance Summary Reports.