Expected outcomes in the four areas of:
Community Involvement: The Gap will be minimized when the community, within reason, understands the components of the technology plan, supports its goals as evidenced ultimately by a least near-unanimous votes of the school board. The community will show increased participation in tech trainings and workshops.
Engaged Learning: Students will produce complex collaborative multi-media projects that will be available on the districts computer network for further 'incorporation's'. Students will produce and be able to assess information, web pages and design based on classroom curriculum. Teachers will be aware of and practice the Six Essential Learning in a Technological Society, in their day to day teaching.
Professional Development: Success will be indicated when secretarial functions are streamlined and center around the data network as opposed to physical and manual collection of lunch and attendance data. It is hoped that by the end of phase two the total functions of the media center are computer based: that is; card catalogs, check out and check in, late fees etc. as well as having the media center a Internet access point.
Deployment and Sustainability: Success will be indicated when 50 % of the classroom / lab workstations are capable of running Windows 95 and be on the school's intranet. Success will also be indicated when, at the end of Phase III, 7th and 6th grader students are able to work at word processing, spreadsheet and data bases on portable 'palmtop' computers being able to transfer that data to the school's network for inclusion in complex curricular based products. Success will also be indicated when Prairie Hill School has a web server and extensive student produced work as a presence on the World Wide Web.
Assessment tools to determine attainment will include: Parent/Staff/Student survey, IGAP and standardized test scores, parent/community feedback from town-meetings, student products/portfolios and assessments dovetailed with the School Improvement Plan. The results from the above assessment tools will be used by the Technology Committee made up of parents, teachers, business persons and administration, meeting four times per year, as a vehicle to evaluate the feasibility and success of the plan as well as to make adjustments and chart the course of future planning.
In the five areas of Reading, Writing, Science, Mathematics, and Social Studies as described and tested in the IGAP test, it is the hoped that the following programs (correlated to IGAP goals) can make a significant impact on student achievement.
Reading |
Accelerated Reader, Stories And More, Writing To Write |
| Writing | Writing To Write, American Heritage Dictionary (Micro), Correct Grammar, Correct Writing, Express Publisher, LinkWay Live, SEEN, Touch Typing For Beginners, Writer's Helper Stage II, Write Along!, The Children's Writing & Publishing Center, Microsoft Word and Works,
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| Science | Encarta, MicroSoft BookShelf, Expert Astronomer, Bookshelf, Groliers, Comptons |
| Math | Exploring Math Concepts Levels 1 - 3, Measurement Time and Money Levels 1 and 2 (Moneyboard, Measure, Sticker Store, Talking Clock, Making Sense of Money, Measure Up.) - Special Data Explorer and Graphers, Mighty Math Pre-Algebra, Algebra Shop |
| Social Studies | Entrex Civil War Simulation, American Heritage History of the United States, Encarta, Carmen Sandiego Series: Where In (Time, USA, World), Nigel's World, Comptons, Groliers. |