Tuesday, March 30, 2010

21st Century Committee First Meeting

Please respond to the following questions:

1. Please review the district's 21st Century Skills brochure. Do you have any clarifying questions regarding 21st century skills? Do you have questions regarding 21st century skills at Explorer?

2. Please rank the district's 21st Century Skills from 1 to 6 with one being the highest priority of what we should focus on at Explorer. (This is one of our action steps in our site plan.)
Invention
Technology Literacy
Collaboration
Information Literacy
Self Direction
Critical Thinking and Reasoning

3. Part of our site plan is to also determine appropriate equipment needs for our building. The PTA's plan is to have projectors mounted in each grade level classroom. With that knowledge, what additional equipment do you feel we need at Explorer?

4. The next three questions are for staff members only: In what ways could we improve our curriculum target team meetings where we collaborate with our technology teacher and librarian?

5. What areas of professional development do you feel we need as a staff in regards to 21st century learning?

6. What do you feel should be our next steps with our Understanding by Design units and professional development with UbD?

Thank you for your time in answering our blog questions. Have a good day!

2 comments:

  1. 2. 21st Century Skills focused at Explorer:
    1. Invention
    2. Technology Literacy
    3. Informational Literacy
    4. Self Direction
    5. Critical Thinking and Reasoning
    6. Collaboration

    3. More CPS clickers for classrooms, headphones with microphones attahced, smart boards (Smile)

    4. I think it woud be great to know what the tech and librarian are doing too so we can incorporate BOTH ways. I think we do a pretty good job at talking with Kris and Carol about what's happening

    5. Tech Literacy, Invention

    6. Can we wait until our UbD in April before I answer this question?

    5.

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  2. 2. Rank 21st Century Skills at Explorer:
    1. Invention
    2. Information Literacy
    3. Self Direction
    4. Critical Thinking and Reasoning
    5. Technology Literacy
    6. Collaboration

    3. Equipment Needs
    The library needs a document camera. Presently, I have to borrow from the classrooms and sometimes there are scheduling conflicts.

    5. Professional Development
    I'm still waiting for a professional development on Inquiry. Also, classes on some of the technology in our district currently not used at Explorer, for instance, Skype.

    6. UbD - Next Steps
    I don't know. I think I'll have a better idea after the sessions on Thursday.

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