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"Building
Technology into Lesson Plans"
Available for Stritch credit ($125) or for Monona Grove
targeted growth credit (free).
Major Links:
Overview of the course:
1. Use Atomic Learning to master any software skills you
might need
We have a district license to use Atomic
Learning, a web site loaded with little instructional
movies that show you how to use all of the major software
titles that are on the MG network. You can pick the
lessons that suit your needs, and work at your own pace.
(It's called Atomic Learning because the little movies are
atoms of instruction, about a minute each. They're
sequenced into lessons, but you can view whatever ones you
want, in whatever order you want, as often as you want.)
2. Create a lesson plan involving technology, and
teach the lesson:
We have developed an official format
for a lesson plan in which students use technology.
The format has three key parts: a description of the
lesson's goals, a description of student activities in
the lesson, and a reflection on what went well, what
could have gone better, and what might be done differently
next time.
3. Receive University credit or MG Targeted Growth
credit for your work.
Stritch Credit: Get 1 Stritch credit for each 15
hours of work you do in the course, at $125/credit.
Targeted Growth Credit: Get 1 Targeted Growth
credit free of charge for each 15 hours of work you do in
the course. Targeted Growth credit was created by an agreement
between MGEA and the school board in July 2004. It
works in the same way as university credit to move you on
the salary scale. You get one targeted growth credit,
and therefore one credit toward a lane change, for each 15
hours of targeted growth work (such as creating these lesson
plans). This concept was rigorously developed by lawyers on
both sides; if you want the details, you can read the Memorandum
of Understanding that made it official.
You will get 1.5 hours toward either kind of credit for
each lesson plan you submit (you have to use the web-based
form, and you have to fulfill the requirements of the checklist
that goes with it). In addition, if you spent time
using Atomic Learning to hone software skills you needed to
teach the lesson, you are credited with the total run time
of the little instructional movies you watched, times
two. So if you watched a half hour of Atomic Learning
movies, you are credited with an hour of software training
time. (Note that you cannot get targeted growth credit
for Atomic Learning unless you create a lesson incorporating
the software skills you took from it.)
Once you have done 15 hours of work (as defined in the
paragraph above), you will get one Stritch or targeted
growth credit for "lesson design," and move one
credit toward a salary lane change.
How you get started:
Before you start designing lessons, you have to take
an hour of orientation. The orientation will cover
how to use Atomic Learning effectively, and will lay out the
requirements for lesson plans involving technology.
Orientation takes an hour, and will count as the first hour
toward your targeted growth credit for lesson design.
Orientation will be offered throughout the school year.
For more details on course requirements and how it works,
see the orientation handout.
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