In order to simultaneously promote positive student engagement & increase parental support, most of Deburgos Middle School is now using Class Dojo to track, record, & report student behaviors presented in the classroom.
In order to promote STEM and seed a college prep pipeline, LiveS.T.R.E.A.M. the Deburgos STEM After school club is participating in the First Lego League World Class Tournament & implementing its online curriculum to teach core values, build/program robots, and perhaps most importantly create solutions for a real world problem. |
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II.B. Planning, preparation and delivery of technology related in-service programs and instruction in collaboration with other professionals at a variety of instructional levels that utilizes technology in problem solving.
- Strengths and needs of learners at all levels of technological proficiency
- Established technology implementation plans
- Employed Basecamp with MESA Saturday Robotics Academy instructors to lesson plan
- Used Dropbox to store LASSO curriculum units & student assignments for MESA 2013 Summer Camp
- Used Dropbox to store Literature Unit for The Invention of Hugo Cabret
- Designed Ancient Cities Unit Plan via Backwards Design & Differentiated Instruction including virtual field trips, virtual labs
- Reviewed pre survey for MESA Saturday Robotics Academy
- Helped make post survey for MESA Saturday Robotics Academy
- Coaching FLL Robotics & Future City teams including oral/visual presentations, programming, game based learning, strategy/problem solving, & essays
- Taught boys ages 7-14 to build Mobile Apps with MIT App Inventor curriculum
- Use Google images to teach vocabulary
Established
technology implementation plans
- In ED Psych 8639 - Instructional Design & Development, we were asked to perform an Instructional Needs Assessment. After our needs assessment was analyzed, we were asked to create a Learning Plan (lesson plan) and Communication Plan to advertise the program.
- Help facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity through technology to offer differentiated, inquiry based scenarios involving STEM.
- Students demonstrate critical thinking and problem solving through demonstrating creative and innovative thought through the use of the engineering design process.
- Students will use the digital & or multimedia technology to communicate, collaborate, offer solutions, & create products
- All MESA students in grades 9 – 12 engage in & explore content, as a way to communicate, access, and upload assignments.
- All MESA students in grades 9 – 12 engage in & explore multimedia, as way to produce digital content in a safe cyber environment