Amanda+Schreiner

TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION FOR MEANINGFUL CLASSROOM USE
A Standards-Based Approach = Daily Lesson GAME Plan Template-Week 6 = Reaching Out ||= ** Related Lessons: ** Making Borden Better Spread the Message || Building A Bully-Free Community || Standard 1: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for information and understanding. Standard 3: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for critical analysis and evaluation. Standard 4: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for social interaction.
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-Creativity and innovation -Communication and collaboration -Research and information fluency || -Critical thinking, problem-solving, & decision making -Digital citizenship -Technology operations and concepts || -Students will gain an understanding about the increase in bullying in the local middle school, John G. Borden Middle School -Students will continue to brainstorm potential solutions for the issue of bullying -Students will modify solutions based on collaboration -Students will demonstrate community and global awareness -Instructor will continue reporting to middle school guidance counselors on findings/discussions -Instructor will continue to review technologies needed for unit to instruct students effectively -Instructor will create wiki -Instructor will contact other teachers in the county to locate “partner classrooms” -Instructor will communicate with other partner classroom teachers to execute Skype conference ||
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Days 1 and 2

Day 3

Day 4 || -Students will be introduced to the bullying wiki; the wiki will be a collaborative project added to by students from our district, as well as students from neighboring high schools

-Students will be required to add something to the class page on the wiki; additionally, they will be required to respond to at least five points in discussion posts that will be generated from a list of questions posted by the instructor; the students can either respond directly to the instructor questions or the other students’ responses. Questions will include: //-What makes bullying such an epidemic?// // -Is bullying worse today than it was ten years ago? Why or why not, do you think? // // -What does bullying include? // // -What can students do to further prevent bullying? // // -What can teachers do to further prevent bullying? // // -What can administrators do to further prevent bullying? // // -Do middle schoolers bully more than high schoolers? //

-Class will participate in an online conference with other schools involved with the project. Students will hear a brief talk by a motivational speaker who works with students to prevent bullying; students from all schools will be invited to ask questions and interact with both the speaker and one another

-Class will revisit the Power Point created in the first lesson; modifications will be made based on discussions, interactions, and conference with neighboring schools and fellow classmates || -computers w/ internet access -word processing software -Smart Board w/ projector -Skype installed in computer -speakers/headsets || -Students with hearing and vision impairments will be provided with headsets for conference and/or preferential seating -Conference will be recorded for later review for students with needs for extended time and those with processing disorders
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MONITOR

-All students will be graded on participation in wiki and conference activities using a common rubric that will be developed in class and shared with students prior to activity completion -see environmental modifications ** Backup plan: ** -in the event of internet failure, students will answer instructor’s discussion questions in a Word processing document and will share their responses in a Socratic seminar format; conference would have to be rescheduled -in the event of limited technology access, students would complete activities by hand where possible
 * Ongoing assessment(s): **
 * Accommodations and extensions: **

EVALUATE AND EXTEND

-After observing success of lesson, re-examine assessments and consider further methods of concrete evaluation
 * Lesson reflections and notes: **

TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION FOR MEANINGFUL CLASSROOM USE
A Standards-Based Approach

= Daily Lesson GAME Plan Template-Week 5 = Making Borden Better || ** Related Lessons: ** Reaching Out Spread the Message || Building A Bully-Free Community ||
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 * GOALS**

**Content Standards:** Standard 1: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for information and understanding. Standard 3: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for critical analysis and evaluation. Standard 4: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for social interaction.

- Creativity and innovation - Communication and collaboration - Research and information fluency || - Critical thinking, problem-solving, & decision-making - Digital citizenship - Technology operations and concepts || -Students will gain an understanding about the increase in bullying in the local middle school, John G. Borden Middle School -Students will brainstorm potential solutions for the issue of bullying -Students will collaborate with classmates to revise plans and further develop ideas -Students will research effective solutions being used in other districts -Students will demonstrate community awareness -Instructor will conduct personal research regarding other districts’ anti-bullying programs -Instructor will split class into small groups -Instructor will discuss intentions with administrators from both the high school and middle school -Instructor will recruit middle school guidance counselor as building liaison for the project -Instructor will review technologies needed for unit in order to instruct students effectively -Instructor will consult with librarian regarding the availability of articles in print re: bullying ||
 * ** ISTE NETS-S **
 * Instructional objective(s): **
 * ** ACTION ** ||
 * ** Before-class preparation: **
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 * ** Time ** || ** Instructional Activities ** || ** Materials & Resources ** ||
 * -5 minutes

-10 minutes

-Remainder of class day 1 -Class day 2

-Class day 3

-Class day 3 || -Students will complete a Do Now: “Recall a time when you were bullied or bullied someone else; what happened? How did it make you feel? Do you think bullying is more or less of a problem today than it was in years past? Why?” -Students will view a short PowerPoint presentation that outlines the problem at Borden Middle School; students will learn about a 20% increase in bullying referrals since 2008 and be exposed to more specific numeric breakdowns -Students will be broken into small groups; groups will research bullying in America, school districts’ solutions, statistics, etc. -Groups will use research and personal knowledge to brainstorm potential ideas for addressing the problem in the middle school -Groups will reconvene as a class; class-wide discussion on solutions and development of a plan -Class will create a PowerPoint to present to the guidance counselor/principals with their potential solutions and their plan for helping address the issue || -loose leaf -PowerPoint presentation -Smart Board/projector -computers w/ internet || -Student groupings will be determined by instructor to ensure merging of ability levels and public speaking comfort; all group members will be required to speak at some point in discussion
 * Notes: Student groupings, environmental modifications needed, etc. **

** MONITOR **

-All students must provide notes taken during group and class discussions -Students will complete a reflection on their thoughts regarding the activity’s success -students may type notes instead of handwriting ** Backup plan: ** -in the event of internet failure, students will move to library to explore print articles involving bullying and then continue to brainstorming and discussion
 * Ongoing assessment(s): **
 * Accommodations and extensions: **

**EVALUATE AND EXTEND**

-After observing success of lesson, re-examine assessments and consider further methods of concrete evaluation
 * Lesson reflections and notes: **