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=Riverside Public Schools=

=== Apply 21st century skills to support creativity and collaboration  ===

=== Exhibit critical thinking skills in choosing and utilizing tools and resources  ===

=== Work respectfully and responsibly as global citizens  ===

Technology Integration Expectations
1st Grade Curriculum Guide, i.e., does not contain technology May work with strands/grade levels, i.e., K-2, 3-5, 6-8 or 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 Tool set is constantly changing (Liz) Specific or general, we need to be able to make statements about what a student is able to do Teachers need to have certain technology skills Student should be able to tell you what skills they know/what applications they can use Don't need to be so many skills - could start with a dozen Focus on what the student is able to do Initial document could represent 2/3 of what we do - can we get a basic idea of what we're generally expecting? One idea Jon would love: Have students review, interpret, graph their own progress on standardized achievement tests These skills would be higher priority than those expected of teachers in general; teachers would need to have a proficiency in these 12 skills first before other PD would take place Don't want to be spreading ourselves too thin with PD - offering options that are not meaningful at that grade level/department (Parapros example) Once these expectations are written into a curriculum guide, administrators can work with teacher accountability -point to a document and say this is the expectation for your technology use in your classroom; Principals need to know what to look to evaluate teachers' use of technology Significant milestones that need to be hit every year Middle school - make sure that we set up general expectations for ALL classes - what are student expected to do with technology v. traditional ways (e.g., taking notes on computer rather than on paper; for 3-4, might be that iPods are used to look up a word in dictionary, listen to pronunciation, etc.) 2013 Curriculum Guides - this is a project for this year Would like something in a draft form by Thanksgiving This would be a concrete list of things that teachers are not able to opt-out of; we need specific things that teachers will be required to do
 * "with teacher direction, with teacher assistance... will be able to ..."