The Technology Model Schools Program

1. The Technology Model Schools Program Results from West Virginia’s EETT Grant Program 2008-2009

2. Summary • The Technology Models School program is successfully: • Communicating 21st Century skills to teachers and students • Transitioning to the support of middle and high schools

3. Contents • Teachers – beliefs, computer use • Students – beliefs, computer use • 21st Century skills for teachers • 21st Century skills for students

4. Two changes to EETT for 2008-09. • Emphasis on 21st Century skills for teachers and students • Grants to middle and high school Capacity-building through specialty-trained “Technology Integration Specialists” in 16 schools.

5. TISs Teachers  Students • As the TISs grow the enthusiasm, mastery and use of computer-related technology in school faculties, the teachers grow those same attributes in their students. • The relation between faculty technology-related component measures and student enrollment-related component measures is .768 (p = .0001).

6. The Technology-Related Components for Teachers

7. A sense of mastery among teachers that grew over the year: • I learn new technology easily • I have enough professional development to use technology • I can explain technology and software to other teachers • I can use technology independently • Technology does not take a lot of extra work

8. A vote of teacher confidence in the TMS/TIS process: • 22 of 26 teacher computer-related beliefs grew positively (directionally) between the Fall and Spring.

9. TechSteps Teachers said it was easy to use for: • Assessing students • Analyzing group student performance • Analyzing individual student performance • Reporting to administrators • Reporting to parents

10. IWBs • Used about once a week (median 1 day, mean 2.2 days). • Teachers strongly agreed that students liked it when IWBswere used • IWBs were reliable • IWB’s helped improve student basic skills performance

11. The Technology-Related Components for Students

12. Student enthusiasm • “It is important for me to learn how to use a computer” • “I can learn many things when I use a computer” • “Computers are helpful for doing assignments on my own” • “I like to learn new things” • “Computers make school more fun”.

13. Students at the end of the TMS school year • “My concentration is better when I’m working on a computer” • “I would work harder if I could use computers more often” • “…(T)he more teachers use computers, the more I enjoy school” • “Computers are helpful for working with other students” and • “I enjoy lessons on the computer”

14. Increases in student computer use “Have you worked with particular computer applications ‘in the last five days’?” • For 10 of the 13 applications, students reported increases • 4 X week - web resources and internet research • 3 X week - practice tests, tests, multimedia, artwork, graphs and charts and videos

15. Student computer use by class • 4 X week - electives and “computer lab” • 3 X week – English, Math, Science and Social studies/history • 2 X week - foreign language class

16. Teachers and 21st Century Skills • 21 paired statements – 21st Century or Conventional Schooling • The average TMS teacher selected the 21st Century item 70% of the time • Inquiry-based teaching and learning • digital or web-based resources and • “evidence-based teaching” • And, 21st Century use grew from Fall to Spring in both middle and high schools.

17. Students and 21st Century Skills • 59% of TMS school student responses were positive about 21st Century skills EOY 2009. • “I will be able to get a good job if I learn how to use a computer” • “Instead of just copying things, I use computer technology to make original work” • “I use computer technology to think about the future” • Students say teachers expect them to do inquiry-based work.

18. Students and Churches’ Digital Taxonomy