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Title IID Funding September 2009– December 2012

Option A: Face-to-Face Sessions Participants will attend six face-to-face Saturday workshops from 8:00 am to 2:00 pm. Participants will choose to receive either 3 “P” credits or train-ing rate. TENTATIVE DATES: 1/23/10, 2/27/10, 3/20/10, 5/1/10, 5/8/10, 6/5/10

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ALL PARTICIPANTS ARE REQUIRED TO

ATTEND A TWO DAY TRAINING IN PROJECT-BASED LEARNING AND ONE

OPTION LISTED BELOW. CHOOSE ONE TRACK ONLY

Contact: Queens Office of

Educational Technology 82-01 Rockaway Boulevard

Ozone Park, NY 11416 Winnie Bracco

Technology Innovation Manager Wbracco@schools.nyc.gov

The Office of Educational Technology (OET) provides

innovative solutions to transform teaching, learning, and leading

through professional development services and on site support.

NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Joel I. Klein, Chancellor The Office of Educational Technology

Division of Assessment and Achievement Resources

Diane Kay

Community Superintendent CSD 25

Dr. Philip Composto Community Superintendent CSD 30

Enhancing Education Through Technology

(EETT) Title IID funded

Voices In History Program

Option B: Pull-Out Sessions Participants can attend six pull-out sessions during the school day from 9:00 to 3:00 pm. NOTE: No “P” credit will be offered for this option. TENTATIVE DATES: 1/22/10, 2/26/10, 3/19/10, 4/20/10, 5/7/10, 6/3/10

Option C: Online Course—30 hours “P” course. This course is designed for grant teachers who are comfortable working online and have experi-ence taking online courses. Participants must be pre-approved prior to registration and seats will be strictly limited. NOTE: This course is offered for “P” credit only. STARTING DATE: Jan 22, 2010

Voices in History (VIH) - is an intensive profes-sional development program that will focus on im-proving student achievement in ELA by integrating technology into the Social Studies curriculum. VIH serves the goals of the Enhancing Education Through Technology theme, “Technology Infusion into Instruc-tion through Professional Development,” by empow-ering educators to engage students in interdisciplinary projects that develop writing, critical thinking, and problem solving skills. The VIH program aims to train teachers to use technology as both an instruc-tional tool for the Social Studies curriculum and as a way to reinforce fundamental ELA skills.

Twenty New York City public and eight non-public schools within Community School Districts 25 and 30 will be participating. These schools have been identified as SINI, SRAP or Corrective Action.

Dist 25

IS185, IS189, IS237, John Bowne HS, and Flushing HS Dist 30

IS10, PS76, PS92, PS111, PS112, PS127, PS151, IS126, IS141, IS145, IS204, IS230, William Cullen Bryant HS, Long Island

City HS and Newcomers HS Non-Public Schools

St. Mel, St. Kevin School, Muslim Center Elementary School, Shevach HS, El –Ber Islamic School, St. Francis of

Assisi School, Queens Lutheran School,

VOICES IN HISTORY

Goal

The ultimate goal of the VIH Program is to improve academic performance in ELA by enhancing teachers’ abilities to effectively infuse technology into their Social Studies instruction. Throughout the three-year cycle, participants and school Inquiry Teams will identify and target English Language Learners for whom traditional instruction has failed. Teachers will develop strategies to address the specific needs of these students in order to fill instructional gaps and carefully monitor the results of each strategy. For each consecutive year of the program, it is proposed that 80% of target students will achieve at least one year of growth on their scale score of the NYS ELA exam.

Technology Infusion

Students will conduct research by reading literature, historical fiction, biographies and use primary sources around selected topics. Through the use of technol-ogy students will incorporate their non-fiction writing into multimedia presentations using graphics, audio files and video. Culminating projects will be collected in e-portfolios with student reflections of the project-based learning process and their understand-ing of the specific content.

Support

Teachers and school leaders will receive on-going professional development — face to face and online and in-school mentoring support. Workshops will take place throughout the year to allow for teacher experimentation and online collaboration using re-cently learned content between sessions.

receive professional development using multi-media tools to create lessons and videos that are aligned to the NYS Social Studies and Eng-lish Language Arts standards. In addition, the lessons will align to the National Educational Technology Standards for teachers and stu-dents and the Professional Teaching Standards

. develop and strengthen their collaboration

with other Social Studies teachers while inte-grating technology into instruction to advance ELA skills

incorporate the project-based learning process

within their content area and use technology to enhance research and writing skills

collaborate within ARIS Connect and using a

variety of virtual community tools, such as email, blogs, wikis, the web portal and synchro-nous communications