Classroom+Management

=Welcome - The Road to 1:1 Implementation=

How to Get Started:
Go to Southeast Halifax High School's Web Page and click on Tech Tuesday Wiki in the left hand margin. Once in the wiki, sign in, if you do not have a wikispace account, make sure you create one. If you need help in creating account, please let me know. Click on the word "Join" in the upper right hand corner of the wiki page. We will be working in the Classroom Management Page located in the left hand panel of the wiki.

Let's Hear Your Thoughts on the 1:1 Laptop Initiative
Today's students learn differently than students did only a few years ago. Some school districts are addressing students' need to get answers instantly, to communicate as they learn, and to create information to share it with others (1:1 Computing: A Guidebook to Help You Make The Right Decisions). Professional Development is a crucial role in the successful implementation of any 1:1 device initiative. Strategies to ensure high level professional development has been put in place by SIG Technology Facilitators, and SIG Instructional Coach.

What are your concerns, fears, and worries about students having laptops in your classroom?

We want to know how you feel about the 1:1 laptop initiative. Are you excited, fearful, apprehensive, etc? This is a forum for you to be honest and open. Your first assignment is for you to click here to discuss your feelings. This link will take you to the DISCUSSION page so that you can express your concerns.

Collaboration Activity
In this next activity, you will work in pairs to discuss, compare, and categorize your concerns, fears, and worries. For this assignment, you will go to Padlet. Once you are in Padlet click on Login/Register in the upper right hand corner of the page. If you do not have an account, go ahead and create an account (left side). Click here or type [] into the address bar, double click to add a sticky. Once the spokesperson for the group has posted a sticky, we will briefly discuss the "common" concerns.

Classroom: Different Look, Different Style
Classrooms have changed in appearance. The learning environment is no longer reflected by the teacher in the front of the classroom fully engaged in teaching and the students passively seated in rows and listening. Student performance has replaced teacher lectures. "It is different to find a "front" to the classroom because the focus is on learning instead of teaching" (McKenxie, 1998). Teachers are now facilitators and managers who organize the class and delegate work to the students. They are busy finding students meaningful "things to do (which) promote learning" (Camboume et al, 2001).

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Classroom Management ** Key Points ** **1. You must FIRST teach your students the proper use, appropriate use as well as the proper care for their laptop.**
 * 2. If you have poor management now, laptops will NOT change that! **
 * 3. Have a Plan For Starting Every Class Promptly **
 * Students should be prepared to start work as soon as they sit down at the computer" (Western, 2002)
 * Use a Variety of Strategies


 * 4. Monitoring your students**
 * The best tool for monitoring is a comfortable pair of shoes (MBWA Management by Walking Around)
 * Assess student work frequently as you walk around to monitor
 * Use Timers
 * Watch your kids reactions (if they are having way too much fun, they are probably off task)


 * 5. Set clear expectations for student performance**
 * Use check points
 * Use sign-off sheets
 * **1-2-3 Eyes on Me:** Use this same technique to have them close their laptops or turn them around, and focus on you
 * Let the kids know when and when not to have their laptops out for use
 * Create posters explaining your expectations, rules, policies and procedures as well as "How To's" and frequently used sites
 * Create a class web page where expectations, policies, procedures and frequently used links are available to students
 * Be consistent with your expectations, policies, procedures and rules


 * 6. Classroom Layout**
 * Be sure not to glue your desk/table down. Allow for flexibility needed for all leaning needs (individual work, group work, collaboration, one on one help, etc)
 * Remember to arrange seating so that all students have clear view of any visual elements needed for the lesson
 * No matter if students are working independently or within groups, position them so that you can see all of their screens as you walk around the room (Use pods for group activities)
 * As safely as possible, have power bars around the room, but make sure they're set up in a way that you don't create tripping hazards.


 * 7. Pick your battles**
 * Use as a reward, incentive or goal


 * 8. Technology is the TOOL**
 * Teaching is not about the tool
 * Curriculum drives the technology
 * Don't add technology to your same old lessons


 * 9. Test your technology integrated lessons on a student computer before you deliver the instruction**
 * ALWAYS have a back-up plan


 * 10. Let your Students help you**
 * Let your students explore new technology and teach you as well as others
 * Find students who seem to be naturals with computers and use them to help with general troubleshooting and application help.
 * 11. Design appropriate lessons for technology integation**
 * Adding technology to boring lessons do not make them more interesting
 * Use backward design
 * Project-based learning
 * Authentic assessment
 * Students as producers of knowledge
 * Collaboration


 * 12. Creating a Classroom Culture**
 * [|http://fno.org/nov08/attention.html#Landscape] (we will visit this later)

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