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STEM/Tech Ready Grant Overview

STEM/Tech Ready Grant Overview. WUSD Tech Ready Team. Parking Lot. If you have questions, concerns, or additional ideas, please write them on the sticky notes. Introductions . Rodney. Susan. Grant Overview. Grant Overview. Three major components: High Quality Professional Development

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STEM/Tech Ready Grant Overview

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  1. STEM/Tech Ready Grant Overview WUSD Tech Ready Team

  2. Parking Lot • If you have questions, concerns, or additional ideas, please write them on the sticky notes.

  3. Introductions Rodney Susan

  4. Grant Overview

  5. Grant Overview Three major components: • High Quality Professional Development • Integration of 21st century tools • Assist teachers • Developing STEM units • Prepare students to take the PARCC online assessment • Instructional & Technical Support • Provide teachers with the necessary skills and training to effectively integrate technology in the classroom • Enhance instructional activities • Prepare students for universal anywhere – anytime digital citizenship • Infrastructure and Hardware • Everything from Bandwidth to Policies

  6. Required Assessments Summative Assessment Components: Performance-Based Assessment (PBA) • Administered after approximately 75% of the school year (2014-2015 school year) • PBA will focus on writing effectively when analyzing text • The mathematics PBA will focus on applying skills, concepts, and understandings to solve multistep problems requiring abstract reasoning, precision, perseverance, and strategic use of tools

  7. Common Core-Writing • English Language Arts Standards » College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Writing » 10 • Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences. • Referred to as “Shared Responsibility”

  8. What is STEM? STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. STEM is an nationwide initiative intended to increase student interest in the sciences. STEM knowledge extends beyond a career; it’s knowledge for life.

  9. STEM Funding • Tech Ready Grant • Science Foundation of Arizona • President Obama’s STEM initiative • $600,000 STEM scholarships

  10. STEM and Content Standards

  11. What does STEM look like at my school? Canyon Day:

  12. What does STEM look like at my school? Elementaries:

  13. What does STEM look like at my school? Alchesay:

  14. My Learning Plan • Don’t forget to evaluate today’s PD in My Learning Plan • Like us on Facebook!

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