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So moving on to our area, move past the set

and go down to our final place.

Sure, Sturgis infrastructure is the establishment of resources that is

access political staff and students to use.

How is our building set up, students and teachers?

Okay, right analogy Yeah, criteria, robust and flexible.

Are we allowing for plentiful amount of technology?

Is it flexible for us to use or is there

a certain systematic structure of it?

Is it engaging?

Are we using technology become engaging connectivity?

Was there access to the internet look like?

Is it just within the school?

Do we have certain restrictions with our connectivity?

Tillerson's ability to access internet outside of school and teachers

for that matter.

Four provides high quality content is what we're using it

for actually, high quality and hitting our objectives and going

to be on our objectives and doing some more higher

order thinking.

And are we going over the expectations on proper technology

use stated and practice So with whatever technology use expectations

we have are being stated and our constant practicing them

and having students no them forwards and backwards and go

into our evaluation portion.

What is Sturgis doing well, staff has flexibility to adjust

lessons to fit styling needs.

Technology allows us to do that with a lot of

flexibility especially with our infrastructure because we have we have

so much access to every teacher has a laptop and

across our graphical book, a laptop, a desktop and a

ipad. So from our standpoint, amazing connectivity.

And we also have the ability to adjust our lessons

because that connectivity which allows for us to help students

that either may have forgotten their technology at home.

So if they did not bring the Chromebook to school

well we can easily give this to paper or maybe

even give them a spare.

We're pretty, pretty great with the flexibility to digital censorship

is required for all students.

So we are going over and we are practicing what

we expect students to, how we expect them to behave

over the Internet and with technology so we can avoid

any troubled situations.

Three technology used for engagement or striving to become engaging.

We do have some more wealth seasoned teachers who are

very used to doing things a certain way, but because

of our new administration are fantastic tech coach, there's we

are seeing more experienced teachers starting to open up to

using different methods using technology and that's the push from

our school is that we want to use this resource

to its fullest except by the best education for our

students and are waiting for Infrastructure is actually the top

ranking, one out of five.

All the components are important, but without an infrastructure to

build these ideas upon establishing the other components cannot happen

without the infrastructure.

Without a technology base.

It doesn't matter if you have great leadership teaching, it

does not matter if learning is happening it will not

happen without the proper and construct your put into place

and we're gonna move on to the next portion.

So we've evaluated the five criteria and now that we

know this it's time for us to look at what

georges can do, better work moving on to the best

practices. So for the next five categories we're going to

talk about what the best practice Sturgis could do to

improve itself four of those five components and stay in

the E.

T. P.

So our best practice for learning is simple.

We want to use we want to push technology to

help with non academic skills.

We have a good amount of teachers that use technology

to help with academic skills.

I see this as a blessing, but also I can

see a missed opportunity.

I think there should definitely be more of a push

to develop manicure bank skills and I also believe that

we should provide training on more ways for staffed, integrate

technology into lessons.

I can speak as a first year teacher in this

district, one of the frustrating portions was not only what

resources were available, I had difficulty finding, trying to figure

out what I could use was available to me through

the district.

It would have been amazing to have more training or

a list of some sort to know what I could

use, some ideas on how to integrate technology.

Now our next category is teaching.

Okay. We I believe that for teaching aspect to improve

the district needs to drive more opportunities for teachers, developed

tax skills through professional development, through what I want to,

coaching with your tech team, whatever the case may be,

I would love more opportunities for us to sit down

and just work on developing these skills as a staff

and maybe even bounce ideas off each other about how

we can integrate these into our lessons leadership.

I mean I don't think it's more of a building

issue. I think it's more of a practice that the

district can use.

The district should develop a wide vision and sectarian articles

per grade level and create funny models for teachers to

purchase technology that will assist with instruction.

These two goals kind of go hand in hand.

The first one is stating that we are teaching kids

a certain skill as they turn to each grade level.

For example, when should students know how to properly evaluate

a source?

Should be in seventh grade or before they get to

seventh grade?

Should students know how to evaluate a source in first

grade? What about performing a proper search?

How about digital citizenship?

These are skills that are very valuable and they are

taught. But one way it could be more effective if

we just have set goals for the year and half

our staff to the students the skills and develop them

through their educational career and create a fundamental for teachers.

Just more goes along lines of allowing teachers those opportunities

to buy certain things that might help their classroom.

I know it's a more tech focused teacher.

This would have been amazing.

Our world would be amazing if we have this in

my school.

I can only have a long wish list of things

I would buy with a technological fund.

Then we have assessments.

Best practice for assessments, provide more tech based assessments via

google forms or PBL, which is project based learning just

using technology as a way to allow students more of

an opportunity to express our ideas, show their knowledge, allow

for more feedback.

For me personally, it's convenient that this assignment and what

I did with the final portion of my classroom kind

of go hand in hand because I had my students

used tech as a way of exploring different ways to

present. So they did make presses and near pods and

many other ways of presenting information.

And it was a huge success.

And I think as a school we need to do

more of that to last month, more freedom of expression

and more time Two explore different avenues and develop a

way to communicate with students and families more effectively.

We do communicate with our students, but it's more effective

when the family gets involved and it does take a

lot of time to try to call and contact families

to let them know about the student's progress and if

you're knows that and we do have a system where

are great book can notify teachers, but our parents, but

it's very inconsistent only because the parent needs to be

signed in and much a whole bunch of other factors.

So it'd be nice if we had some way of

communicating with them, like and I dont some ideas off

time ahead is maybe a weekly email giving them a

progress report.

Now, moving on to our final one is infrastructure.

How can we improve the infrastructure?

The best practice for this is create an open map

or database of educational resources and push judicial system of

course is more throughout the year and make them more

engaging. I talked about number one, my frustrations with the

learning aspect, it would be amazing if as a school,

we collaborated and create a list.

So we knew what resources we had as a school

and how to use them.

And I also believe that it doesn't this digital citizenship

courses need to be improved only because they are done

and it may have been because of Covid, but it

was very, I think they only have two lessons this

year and it was done through zoom.

Now, I'm hoping that this upcoming year provided our pandemic

succeed, subsides a little bit more that we will be

able to progress and have more engaging Muslims where we

have someone come into our classroom and engage our students

and to wrap this up.

We go to our conclusion.

So suggestions for the district go like this, please develop

a our District wide Technology, the technology development plan.

Going on.

Our last point, we want to see that our district

is developing, our students are developing skills as the years

go on.

We aren't just touching on the same point year after

year, but they're building upon those skills, have more professional

development based around staff learning text skills, making sure our

staff is exploring avenues developing as educators and learning learners

as well and push more digital citizenship lessons throughout the

school year.

Once again, kind of touching on .1, allowing students to

time and effort to develop proper tech skills Overall, we're

gonna get started just 3.8 out of five.

The good about this building is it's building are a

foundation for advancements with technology to take place.

Teachers have flexibility to adjust assessments for their needs and

support for teacher tech development exists.

We see a lot of great things going to the

bones, the structure of Sturgis but they need to be

developed. I think the best area out of those five

cones at Sturgis performed in is the assessments area.

There is a great push.

I want to even say push.

There's just a great culture in the school of teachers

building assessments that are meaningful, working together and collaborating to

make something meaningful and using tech to assist with delivering

the data, looking at the data allowances to reflect on

their scores and really making the most of the tact

that exists.

Some improvements with a more clear district vision just to

develop well rounded tech students at the end of their

careers and hard push for tech training and district.

This is really aiming for the teacher portion.

That way we don't stunt ourselves as educators.

And all this information from this presentation came from the

U. S.

Department of Education with the re imagining the role of

technology and that is all I have for you guys.

Thank you for sticking with me.

It was a pleasure to present and I hope you

have a wonderful day and that you take care, goodbye.

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