TCEA+2010

= = =Navigating Integration with a Destination in Mind=

Professional developmen = = =21st Century Writing= = = = = = = = = =TCEA update=
 * [] - handouts
 * Plant many sees - we are farmers
 * Team teach with teachers
 * work with teams and PLC's
 * one on One individualized training
 * Lot's of advice and hand holding
 * Non-threatening envrionment
 * Take every min. as a chance to promote use
 * Inspire, Prepare, Coach -
 * Blooms taxonomy digitally - show the visaul reference []
 * have to define what technology literacy is in the building
 * Media literacty
 * Technology facilitators to build a team for support
 * Need administrative support
 * Develop student support - let them train the teachers
 * Technology leader to faciliatate the process
 * Developing facilitators
 * 1 per core and 1 per elective
 * give them extra period off
 * help to support teachers during that period
 * work with genyes students
 * learn how to teach teachers []
 * cross-curr integration
 * "The box is not the solution"
 * tech in twenty - session in 20 minutes
 * WIKI
 * Use a wiki as a center for students to create a roulet type story, Each kid log into the wiki as themselves and add or edit the same wiki
 * Another teacher is doing a compare and contrast
 * Could set up a station which has the bookmark of the wiki already created - students log in as themselves and edit or add to the story on the wiki
 * Could have a page for each group or each stories
 * can use for math - put math sentences there and write a story problem for the sentence
 * IDEA...put a list of student names above each computer in the classroom
 * wikispaces, google or pbworks for wikis
 * They use First Class because they have a blogg and wiki and email
 * BLOGGING
 * Teacher creates the strin
 * kids comment with writting their sentences or answering the teachers question
 * Who do you love (1st or kinder)?
 * Kids respond with at least 5 sentences
 * Could pull up their answers and discuss grammar etc with the whole class
 * unscramble the following words
 * Pump up our adjectives give examples of synonyms or adjectives
 * recording directions for a sigt word list - posted on line and can be accesed anywhere
 * Elm Creek Elementary - wiki
 * kids use audacity to record book reviews etc...
 * kids read their work and therefore catch more errors
 * my podcast
 * podbean
 * podooch
 * switchpod
 * all free podcast storage place
 * EMAIL
 * writers club
 * send stuff back in forth with errors in it for the other student to correct
 * Send morning messages
 * roulette writing continue to forward the message and continue the story
 * Spell this
 * make corrections to the spelling word list
 * House bill 3
 * sboe may not designate a specific course or specificnumber of credits in the....
 * approved changes to chapter 74
 * health no longer required
 * no longer required to complete one credit in tech apps
 * must complete the 1/2 credit is speech - which is in the foundation curr
 * professional communications course that can also satisfy this credit
 * required to complete only one credit in PE and are no longer required to comlee the foundation of personal fitness course as part of that credit
 * students athlete can earn up to 4 credit in to be the required PE if they are in athletics
 * Mininum plan
 * must be at least 16yrs
 * 2 credits in the foundation curric
 * failed to be promoted to the 10th grade
 * CTE courses
 * 3 new courses to satisfy the math credit
 * 6 for the science credit
 * IPC phase out is removed
 * There are 12 courses students must take the end of course exames to graduate
 * fine arts minimum plan requires at least 1 fine arts
 * floral CTE can qualify
 * Fine arts is now required in the jr high area
 * [|www.tea.state.tx.us/graduation.aspx]


 * High school teachers - have the content knowledge needed and support to make sucessful on the exams
 * TEKS PD
 * math academies 5-8
 * diagnostic assessment
 * algebra 1 readiness grant
 * competitive
 * 23.5 mil
 * texas center for student sucess to provide assistance
 * content academies for eoc's
 * Science TEKS k-12, elps, ccrs (college and carrer readiness standards)
 * science academies grades 5-8
 * contnent support for bio, chem, phy EOC exam classes
 * Scocial studies TEKS reading in 2011 (may) same path followed for professional development
 * US hisotry, world history and world geo EOC exams
 * online professional dev learning communities
 * ELPS
 * imbeded in content
 * also available for bilingual and ESL teahers
 * RTI also
 * spec ed, gt - all teachers provided at least one oppertunity
 * all will have online PLC's in addition to face to face sessions
 * CTE 2010 - newly adopted
 * Technology Application Tech 2011
 * LOTE, Fine Arts Health PE will follow that


 * Textbooks
 * Windows on Science - first time there was not a paper textbook
 * Electronic Textbook - any electronic means
 * open source textbook- free to student that can be downloaded from the internet
 * publisher - includes an online service or a developer or districutor of an electronic textbook
 * fund may be used to purchase equipment to support electronic textbooks or instructional material included on the list adopted
 * hb4294


 * allow for eportfolios
 * extensive interactions amond teachers and studednts
 * Phase 1
 * PLC's set up
 * Professional dev
 * access digital content
 * planning for eportfolio pilots
 * planning for eportfolio assessment
 * Engageing shareholders in the platform
 * authors of pd content
 * ESC's
 * Insitutes of higher ed
 * Educators
 * teachers and admins
 * online pd participants
 * professional elarning community participants
 * Shartholder participation
 * shareholders will reciever
 * invitation to participate in couses and discussion groups
 * access to resources inlcuding
 * new york times knowledge and network reposititoyr back to 1851
 * multimedia as well
 * frequent communication with moderators and or other group member
 * feedback and ideas from other group memebers
 * Professional Learning Communities
 * all educators will have the oppertunity to build their own area
 * a multimedia approch
 * collaboration and shairng
 * slelecton of couses
 * digital env.
 * Pre professionl development
 * exploration of material prior to attending the academies
 * Phase 2
 * Epsilen
 * project share is believed to remove the walls
 * next generation of eworking and eprofiling
 * next generation of eworking and eprofiling