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| Clay & Stritch High Schools Receive Grant for Mobile Technology in Classroom |
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ETech Ohio and the Ohio Department of Education recently announced the Title II-D Transforming Teaching and Learning Competitive Grant recipients for school year 2011-2012. Clay High School, in collaboration with Cardinal Stritch High School, was awarded just over $114,000 to build technology rich learning environments! This grant focuses on student learning and professional development for a core group of teachers. This grant was provided to assist schools that are ready and willing to embrace the change that is required in today's 21st Century classrooms.
Through sustained, collaborative, job-embedded professional development and the use of research-based methods, teacher teams will experience new models and strategies for teaching and learning. Teachers will become facilitators and co-learners and create technology-enabled learning environments in which students will meet or exceed the state academic content standards and develop 21st Century skills. One of the requirements of the grant is mandatory collaboration with another LEA (local education agency). Steve Bialorucki, Career & Technology Education Director for the Oregon City Schools and Mike Csehi, Tech Director at Kateri Catholic Schools submitted a winning proposal including teachers from both Clay and Cardinal Stritch High Schools. Sherry Karamol, Caine Kolinski, Nate Ellis from Clay and Thomas Ziems from Stritch agreed to attend a series of professional development activities over the summer in order to implement exciting new technology in the classroom! This nine week course provided for use of new tech tools like Moodle, VoiceThread, Animoto, Wiki Spaces, various on-line collaboration sites, insight into the TPACK (Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge) Framework and the development of 21st Century Skills. “It was exciting to use the new tools and to learn more about how today’s students want to learn!” The funds from the grant will be used for professional development for the 4 teachers involved as well as the acquisition of several handheld devices for students to use in Math and Science! The teachers are excited about the new opportunities for students to learn. Bringing the vast array of educational resources into the classroom via wireless web access will allow teachers to bring excitement and renewed interest in the fields of math and science! Learning in the 21st Century has arrived in Oregon!
Front Row: Thomas Ziems, Cardinal Stritch; Nate Ellis, Sherry Karamol, and Caine Kolinski, from Clay HS; Back Row: Mike Csehi, Kateri Catholic Schools; Sue Becker, Etech Ohio; Steve Bialorucki, Career & Tech Director; Jeff Thompson, Clay Principal
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