Purchase Order Request FORM for Technology

The purpose of this survey is to allow each Arp ISD faculty member input into the professional development planning for the purpose of creating a learning environment viable for the 21st Century.  The Texas Education Agency, E-rate, and several federal agencies including The Department of Education require school districts to present plans for meeting all student needs in the area of academics and technology.  The goals of Arp ISD and "No child left behind laws" (NCLB) are to help prepare all children for:

high-paying and highly-skilled jobs in a global economy

success in the Texas essential knowledge and skills (TEKS)

and becoming productive and ethical citizens.

Please help us by taking a few minutes to contribute to a Strategic Planning Process for Professional Development.

  Answer questions in reference to a single campus.  
 

Campus:   DATE:

NAME :

Please identify your relationship with the school district:  

Please list the PD areas you would attend if training was offered. You may select from the following or suggest your own:

--Gizmos: online math and science simulation software which allows students to interact with concepts using scales, graphs, charts, simple machines, etc.

--Study Island: online curriculum, games, and assessments for most subject areas. Teachers are able to assign and monitor student progress through concepts aligned to TEKS.

--Atomic Learning: online video tutorials for any type of software you need to learn at the moment you need to learn it.

--School Web Lockers/Dropbox/Google Docs: How to get the most our of your students' cloud storage through sharing folders and creating libraries for assignments and handouts.

--DMAC & AWARE: integrated online assessments to allow teachers to monitor student progress.

--Edmodo: online digital communication and content platform. Allows students and teachers to interact with each other while providing digital assignments, quizes, and polls. Great for Differentiated Instruction.

--Epsilen: online course platform. Allows teachers to build complete or hybrid courses online with lessons, libraries, assessments, calendars, etc.

--Video Production: Using netbooks, document cameras, smartboards, Mimios, and cellphones to create videos for fun and for instruction.

--Free Engaging Tools for Each Content Area: Learning how to engage students with free tools like WallWisher, Ebogger, Gimp, Jing, Diigo, Glogster, and 500 other fun free tools.

--Curbing Plagerism\Copyright Laws: Tools available to teachers for demonstrating students' attempts at plagerism.

--Basic Computer Maintenance: What you should know about how to keep your machine up and running safely and effeciently

--EasyTeach: Allows teachers to create interactive lessons for the early grades on basic content area concepts

--Audacity & MP3 Podcasting: Allows teachers to record books, lectures, lessons for publishing on Blog or on an MP3 player or iPod.

--Blogging 101-103: Keeping an instructional blog with audio, video, text, and graphics

--Other (managing a 1 to 1 classroom, calculator skills, science probes, environmental science, GPS, Project-based Learning, etc.)

Please put all your suggestions in the text box below.

 

According to your experience with the Arp schools, please list what you consider to be the three most important improvement needs:

Please explain concerns you might have over any of the following or similar issues this 

challenging curriculum (Explanation: the way content areas (Math, Science, Social Studies, Language Arts) are organized and instruction is delivered to assist all students in being successful)
technology integration tools and other types of equipment (Examples: computers, laptops, calculators, PDAs (handhelds), robots, microscopes, etc.)
teacher professionalism (Examples: classroom management, teaching styles, technology integration skills)
instructional strategies (Examples: hands-on projects, cooperative learning, writing/reading integration, Accelerated Reading Program)
instructional materials (Examples: text books, workbooks, manipulatives)
tutorials (Example: after school tutoring, Saturday school, TAKS classes)
credit recovery issues (Explanation: the opportunity for a failing student to regain credit during any six-weeks grading period)
technology access issues (Examples: the ability of most students to access the Internet, online resources, and computers on demand)
equity of student services (Examples: Gifted & Talented Programs, Special Education, Career & Technology Programs)

What recommendations can you make for improving Arp ISD in the areas of curriculum/instruction and technology integration? PLEASE BE SPECIFIC>>> Use specific objectives or student expectations, list specific items, specific numbers, specific amounts. Give research-based justification for your recommendations.

  

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