Documente Academic
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Documente Cultură
EDUI 6350
2/4/17
student success. Many of the students that attend Title 1 come from
the students that attend Ida Jew Academy located in East Side San
Jose. 80% of the students that attend this district run charter are Latino
and Math (STEM) program. All students that attend this charter develop
Background
established it has evolved over time to further meet the needs of their
21st century students. The most recent revamp to the program was in
the beginning of 2016. The STEM curriculum team found that many of
STEM team one teacher from each grade level K-8th was expected to be
2016-2017 school year. The STEM team also met for a week during
summer to complete the curriculum and prepare for the roll out for the
Description
as a new Ipad cart for the 2016-2017 school year. This brings the total
during the school day. Since there are not enough Chromebook carts or
Ipad carts to allow allocate one per class many grade levels have to
share a cart making equal opportunity essential. Some of the younger
grade teachers have opted to use the Ipads since many of their
technology skills that are currently lacking, the STEM team agreed that
week, not including computer lab time. The team argued that the only
way to develop the necessary skills was to embed technology into daily
This new curriculum was planned to be a two year phase. The first
year, 2016-2017, the teachers would set up and regularly use Google
Image 1: https://oit.utk.edu/accounts/email/PublishingImages/google-
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One of the biggest challenges that the team faced was finding
to plan their school year. However, many of the veteran teachers were
reluctant to create their Google classroom and felt that the Google
this pushback, the team relied on the principles support to A. get the
Another challenges that the team did not foresee was how the
their cart they were not able to assign one per student. As a result,
There are many advantages that have been noted so far this
The principal has also observed student growth in using the desired
Google Form was sent out to teachers asking them to gauge where
that was collected was not credible since it was the teachers
age/grade level range, for instance K-2, 3-5, 6-8 and have the students
complete the form. In doing so, the STEM team would be able to gather
accurate data over the course of the school year. Another possible
student growth in the three focus areas, there is still half of a year left