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Halton/Bridges Research Project

Halton/Bridges Research Project. Kurzweil Professional Development Anne Hill - ahill@fanshawec.ca Marion Thorpe - thorpem@hdsb.ca. Kurzweil in the Classroom: Focus. Project Title.

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Halton/Bridges Research Project

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  1. Halton/Bridges Research Project Kurzweil Professional Development Anne Hill - ahill@fanshawec.ca Marion Thorpe - thorpem@hdsb.ca

  2. Kurzweil in the Classroom:Focus

  3. Project Title • Do comprehensive models of professional development for teachers, educational assistants, parents and students help improve comfort with and use of assistive technology? • Does using Kurzweil help improve student reading comprehension ?

  4. Kurzweil in the Classroom: Stacey’s Experience

  5. What is Kurzweil 3000? • A reading, study skill, and writing program that educators can use to meet the needs of learners. • It enables educators to provide differentiated instruction without having to differentiate the curriculum.

  6. How can this help students? • Provides both a set of tools and opportunities to practice • Reading skills • Study skills • Writing skills • Organizational skills • Kurzweil 11 - The New Features

  7. Kurzweil in the Classroom: The Babe Ruth Speech

  8. Kurzweil in the Classroom:Maintaining Success

  9. - Our Design Experiment: Overview of the research project • Change Over Time – hopefully improvement • Collaboration & Learning for all Involved - educators, families, trainers and researchers • What type of data collection does this specific research involve?

  10. Kurzweil in the Classroom:Inclusion

  11. Kurzweil in the Classroom:Self Confidence

  12. Specific Research Measurements Level One for Parents/Guardian’s Involves: • A. Completing three completely confidential questionnaires regarding their Comfort with and Use of assistive technology. • B. Allowing their child’s teacher and the Bridges professional development trainers to give their child three (pre, during and post training) Kurzweil based MAZE assessments of their child’s reading comprehension skills.  Level One for Educators Involves: • Completing three Comfort & Use Questionnaires

  13. Comfort & Use Questionnaire • Participant categories

  14. 2. General/overall comfort with and use of AT – rating scales range from aware to adept

  15. Kurzweil in the Classroom:Moving Confidently to High School

  16. 3. Open ended questions regarding challenges/barriers to using Assistive Technology

  17. Kurzweil in the Classroom:Class-Wide Application

  18. MAZE Assessments - AIM’s Web

  19. Kurzweil in the Classroom:Reading Fluency

  20. Level Two Involves: (This involves as much or as little time as participants desire), • Level One plus: Participating in an on-line interactive database where participants collaborate with other parents and teachers, viewing video training clips, sharing research articles and stories etc.

  21. Adult participants may collaborate on line in a Knowledge Forum database to outline their challenges and problem solve regarding how to solve them.

  22. A View

  23. A Note

  24. Build On

  25. http://kforum.motion.com:8080/login?DBGroup=HBK_PD

  26. Our Challenges Time 1) Research set up • Ethics approvals • Decisions re specific data collection procedures • Best approaches to communicate data collection procedures to trainers 2) Data collection • Coverage of Kurzweil information •  Not wasting family & staff time Communication 1) Getting the word out to parents and staff • Content, timing, strategies…..- • Logistics re three locations- Halton, TO and London

  27. Kurzweil in the Classroom: Taking Risks

  28. Where would you go next? • Research issues/questions that you would like to see addressed? Creation Tapestry Judy Chicago Canadian Textile Museum 55 Centre Ave, TO ahill@fanshawec.ca thorpem@hdsb.ca

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