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Purpose of Study Table

Antwerp Local School (2007-2008) PEERS Study Table “ Expanding the Use of High Quality Assessments with Standards-Aligned Content to the Middle School Social Studies Curriculum ” Project Funded by Black Swamp Scholars Grant Through W.B.E.S.C. Purpose of Study Table.

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Purpose of Study Table

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  1. Antwerp Local School (2007-2008) PEERS Study Table“Expanding the Use of High Quality Assessments with Standards-Aligned Content to the Middle School Social Studies Curriculum” Project Funded by Black Swamp Scholars GrantThrough W.B.E.S.C.

  2. Purpose of Study Table • Peer collaboration for the development of high quality assessments • Attend targeted ongoing professional development for SMARTBoard and CPS • Use the Classroom Performance System integrated with interactive SMARTBoards to engage students in social studies lessons • Perform pre-and post-observation of peers using the CPS in the classroom • Develop plan for future peer mentoring and professional development using interactive technologies

  3. Study Table Team Members • Travis Lichty: JH Social Studies/Systems Lit • Mike McCullough: HS Spanish • Kurt Tempel: JH Social Studies/Science • Jeff Tomlinson: Whole School Intervention

  4. Professional Development Members participated in the following professional development activities: • Classroom Performance System: 8/14/2007 (8-3) • SMARTBoard: 8/16/2007 (8-3) • Peer Mentoring: 8/20/07 • Classroom Performance System: 9/19/2007 (8-3) • CPS, SMARTBoard: 11/19/2007 (8-3) • CPS: 3/3/08 • PEERS Observations

  5. Description of Tools Used For Developing and Presenting High Quality Assessments

  6. Classroom Performance System (CPS) • The CPS is a hand-held interactive data collection tool that energizes students and teachers • By combining interaction, assessment, and even a little entertainment to encourage creativity for any class that utilizes it. • CPS embodies the future of classroom technology by way of a wireless response system that communicates between a handheld response pad and receiver unit. • CPS facilitates feedback from every student and allows each student to participate simultaneously and anonymously. • CPS allows you to elicit a response from every student without embarrassing anyone for a wrong answer. • Bridges the generation gap with technology that is dynamic and relevant to today’s young people.     • CPS promotes an environment of steady provocation and interactive learning. • CPS generate percentages and graph totals of each question's answers. • CPS' performance data tracking tools identify students’ understanding of material. • CPS allows students to take paper-based tests at their own pace. Tests can be administered without the pressure on students to keep up with the class' pace. • CPS enables teachers to produce volumes of classroom performance data to have at their fingertips. • CPS will customize class performance results to fit your needs. View results by class, student, question, and/or learning objective in a variety of file types-Word, Excel, HTML, and PDF.

  7. SMARTBoard The SMART Board interactive whiteboard is a product of SMART Technologies. It is a large, touch-controlled screen that works with a projector and a computer. The projector throws the computer’s desktop image onto the interactive whiteboard, which acts as both a monitor and an input device. Users can write on the interactive whiteboard in digital ink or use a finger to control computer applications by pointing, clicking and dragging, just as with a desktop mouse. Buttons launch a popup keyboard and a right-mouse-click menu for more input options. The SMART Board interactive whiteboard is usually mounted on a wall or floor stand. It can be used in face-to-face or virtual settings. SMART introduced the first interactive whiteboard in 1991. SMART Board interactive whiteboards are used in education, business and government as an interactive presentation, communication and distance-collaboration tool.

  8. Professional Development Multiple times throughout the school year, Debbie Delaney, an instructor from e-Instruction, provided hands-on training in the use of the Classroom Performance System for various PEER groups and their members.

  9. Laptops equipped with eInstruction (CPS) software were set up in the Media Center to provide participants an opportunity to collaborate and share as they learned to use both the CPS and the wireless Chalkboard. Staff members were able to work at their own pace individually or in groups as they entered class rosters and began developing lessons with assessments. They were able to pull questions from the Ohio Academic Content Standards and Examview databases.

  10. PEER Mentoring Participants held pre-observation meetings to determine the focus of the observation, followed by a classroom observation while the CPS was being used. A post-observation meeting gave them an opportunity to discuss the results and make adjustments to teaching strategies. This PEERS group was mentored by the high school PEERS group.

  11. Beyond • Develop lessons incorporating standards-based content • Need: release time to create lessons • Become more comfortable using CPS & SMARTBoard simultaneously • Need: In-class practice • Use our Black Swamp Scholars group to mentor other staff members (as we were mentored by CORE group) • Need: release time for PEER mentoring and additional staff development

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