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Google Classroom
Google Classroom
General Audience:
The primary Audience consists of certified teachers of all ages and
experience levels teaching in an Elementary School. These teachers
teach grades 5-11, and teach students across all content areas,
including Special Education. These students ages vary between 5-11
years old. Teachers working directly with the special education
students will receive the training first, followed by the general
education (content area co-teachers). In the Liberty County School
system (LCSS) the average percentage of Special Education Students
with-in the General Education classroom, being served under the Cotaught classroom is around 85%.
Problem Identification:
The overwhelming goal in Liberty County is to raise the expectations of
students themselves in their abilities. It is becoming more and more
abundant that low functioning Special Education students are being
placed in General Education classrooms with the hope that by being
surrounded by peers of their same age, that the low functioning
students will rise to meet the standards based on the general
education curriculum. It has become very obvious that technology is
great asset to teaching in this day an age. Technology can allow those
Slower Special Education students to utilize their strengths as
students, and to rise closer to the levels of their peers. In our school
district, technology has become so important that iPads were given to
every student and every teacher in hopes to helping those students
rise to the high expectations that we have in our school system.
The major problem that we face in our district is the fear of technology
in our teachers. Many of the teachers in the district have been
teachers for many years have a very big distrust in changing
instruction to incorporate technology. They have distrust in
technology, not because they do not like it, but because they do not
feel comfortable enough to utilize technology effectively in the
classroom. It is not a novel idea to believe that if teachers understood
how and why technology could be useful to them, then will be more
apt to use technology in the classroom.
Learning Goals:
-
discussion forum
Teachers will input all students on their roster in Google
Classroom, and grouped by classes/ content area
Prior Knowledge
Group Characteristics.
The school district is located in a small town about 20 miles south
of Savannah in the city of Hinesville. The majority of the community
2.0
Identify reasons why teachers can utilize web
2.0 tools to engage, motivate, and connect themes from different
units for learners
2.1
Self-motivation and engagement is heightened
2.1.1 Increases motivation for students because
technology is new and intriguing
2.1.2 Many students like to work on their own
2.1.3 Students do not have to wait for the teacher to move
to next section
2.2
Students can move at own pace
2.2.1 Students learn at different rates
2.2.2 Students learn best by using different modalities
2.2.3 Each students needs are different
2.3
Inexpensive ways to utilize technology into
instruction
2.3.1 Most web 2.0 tools are free, but some require small
fees
2.3.2 Do not need Web 2.0 tools to be approved by your
Board of Education because of the makeup and many
uses of the tools.
2.3.3 Minimum training needed
2.3.3.1 Many tools have short tutorials for nontechnology savvy people
2.3.3.2 Workshops and crash courses will be
provided (if applicable)
3.0
Identify safety and behavioral issues that could
affect High School students while uploading, downloading, and
utilizing web 2.0 tools
3.1
Acceptable Use Policy for Internet Use
3.1.1 Determines what acceptable student use of iPad
services
3.1.2 Governs students use of iPads
3.1.3 Part of Board Policy and Employee Ethical
Regulations
3.1.4 Includes a release form to use the iPad requiring
parent signature
3.2
Students should not include personal
information when signing up for web 2.0 tools
3.2.1 Some apps require students to register information
3.2.1.1 Teachers and students will be required input
necessary information
3.2.1.2 Students may input information under the
supervision of teachers
3.2.1.3 Students may input information at the
discretion of their parents (see 3.1.4)
3.2.2 Teachers, Guidance Counselors, Media/ tech
specialists and Parents/ Guardians will be the only
people with clearance to see students information.
3.2.3 Teachers and Students parents will monitor all App
downloading
4.0
4.1
4.1.6.1.1.1.1
Add students to
classroom teachers
roster
4.1.6.1.1.1.1.1 Choose
student names
4.1.6.1.1.1.1.2 First name
4.1.6.1.1.1.1.3 Last name
4.1.6.1.1.1.1.4 Input school
email for each
students
4.1.6.1.1.1.2
Send invites to
students
4.1.6.1.1.1.2.1 Teachers
may also
add
students by
giving students the
class pin
4.2
5.0
6.0
6.1
6.2
6.3
Instructional
Objectives
1A
1B
2A
2B
2C
3A
3B
Application
Fact
1A,1B
1,3C
Concept
2B,3A
1C,3A1
Principles
Procedure
2,2A,3,3B
Interpersonal
2C
Attitude
Defined ISTE Standards for educators:
Link: http://www.iste.org/standards/iste-standards/standards-forteachers
1.) Facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity:
Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning,
and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning,
creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual
environments.
C. Promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and
clarify students conceptual understanding and thinking, planning,
and creative processes
1.) Teachers will prepare a reflection assignment in the Class
portal
2.)Teachers will arrange a video (or other type of media) on their
class page
D. Model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in
learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and
virtual environments
1.) Teacher will select a question to be asked on the EDMODO
class forum
2.) Teacher will respond to question posted on chat board
2.) Design and develop digital age learning experiences and
assessments: Teachers design, develop, and evaluate authentic
learning experiences and assessments incorporating contemporary
tools and resources to maximize content learning in context andto
develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes identified in the
Standards.
A. Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate
digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity
1.) Teacher will assemble a lesson plan to be posted on EDMODO
2.) Teacher will arrange activities to be complete solely online by
students
B. Develop technology-enriched learning environments that enable
all students to pursue their individual curiosities and become active
participants in setting their own educational goals, managing their
own learning, and assessing their own progress
1.) Teacher will develop a learning styles survey under the poll
tab to be posted online
2.) Teacher will differentiate students work by applying different
levels and modalities of notes to at risk students
Lesson 1 part 2:
Teachers will post
and respond to
questions on their
department
Google Classroom
Goals
Explains the
characteristics and
usefulness of Google
Classroom,
Objectives
UDL
Lesson 1 part 3:
Teachers will
schedule a post
to be displayed
in the near
future
monitor/spot-check to
make sure the resources
are indeed posted to be
shown at a later date
Lesson 2 part 1:
Teachers will
locate and post
videos to their
Content area
portals
Lesson 2 part 2:
Teachers will locate
and add Collab
Teachers to their
personal class
rosters
Lesson 2 part 3
Teachers will
add resources,
tools, and
relevant apps
to their class
portal
Teachers will
locate and
upload a selfmade lesson
plan
incorporating a
educationalbased video
game
classes.
Lesson 3 Part1
Teachers will
upload an
assessment to
their (personal)
Content area
class rosters
Lesson 3 part 2
Teachers will
create an
enrichment and
remediation
folder
participate in class discussions, and this may help with sick work.
Instructor will use spot-check/ rubric to check for understanding
of the activity.
UDL: Teachers who feel that they still do not feel comfortable
with posting questions to the class forum, and responding to
students posts 100% accurately, will come to ask questions
surrounding the root of their problems. The instructor will use
the remediation folder in their personal portal. The teachers
will use checklist and list of procedures to post a task to be
displayed at a later date. They will also use this folder to review
any other task they found to be difficult or strenuous. This course
is geared to teachers feeling more comfortable using technology
in the classroom. If they do not feel comfortable utilizing
technology such as Google Classroom, then they will not use it.
This remediation activity will hopefully ease some of the anxiety
tied to technology.
Lesson 2: Videos, interactive textbooks, and apps at your
fingertips
Objective 3: Teacher will locate and use media/ tools in
cooperation with their content areas
3A: Teacher will locate and upload a YouTube video to the
class roster page
Assessment: Teachers will be expected to be able to use
steps learned in the course to find a video relevant to the
content area being taught, and will post the video using
the mnemonic device from lesson 2. Teachers will be
assessed by a rubric to make sure they followed the
procedure, posted content-relevant videos, etc.
UDL: Teachers will also be given the option to write a
reflection on how the use of videos during lesson can hurt
or help instruction. The teachers will be expected to
incorporate an article supporting their views. The teachers
can expand their writing to include educational games,
tools, and other websites.
new Apps
for their department
Assessment(s): Collaborative teaching has become a big
part of the classroom the last several years. Some teachers
struggle to relinquish teaching responsibilities to their coteacher within in the classroom. Google Classroom helps
this practice by allowing teachers to release information
the class being co-taught to the other co-teacher(s) within
their classes. Once the co-teacher is added, the co-teacher
can help with grading, posting of information, and
responding to posts. The only thing the co-teacher cannot
do is delete information, or delete students from a roster.
This helps with those teachers that have a hard time
relinquishing that control. The Teachers will add the coteachers of their classes using the procedures learned in
the course., and will also reflect on the importance of a coteacher. This practice will be graded by a rubric.
UDL: For teachers who do not have co-teachers in their
classrooms, this will be your advanced placement or
honors classes, you will add teachers from their
departments into a separate portal to ease the use of
communication between colleagues. Teachers can post
questions, motivational posters, videos, tools, etc. on the
portal, and this should help with communication and
morale.
3B: Teacher will prepare a lesson to be uploaded to the
class roster page
Assessment: Video games have become a huge part of
American lifestyle in the last ten years, and the classroom
has yet to raise their expectations when it comes to
games. When students go home, they play video games.
When students wake up in the morning, they play video
games. Students would rather play video games then do
homework any day of the week. Teachers will incorporate
an educational-video game into a lesson plan and will post
this lesson plan to the class portal. The good part about
posting a lesson to the portal, is that it allows the students
to review the material by simply playing the game when
they get home. This practice will be graded by rubric for
content relevance, fun factors, and following of
procedures.
Games can be: IPad Apps
Android Apps
Games on computer etc.
UDL: Special education teachers rarely have the time to sit
and collaborate about what works for their students, and
how it can help their colleagues students. The special
education teachers will group and discuss apps, tools,
remediation/ enrichment games, etc. to be posted onto
their class portals.
Reflection Question:
Reflection on how Google
Classroom can be used in your classroom effectively:
Answers may vary but must include:
- makes it easier to communicate with students, parents,
and colleagues
- can post videos, research tools, and other resources
- can create folders for both remediation and enrichment
- the basis of the program is setup like facebook, so it
makes posting questions, responding to questions, and
posting videos much easier
- ***makes the use of technology much easier to
incorporate into everyday instruction***
Lesson 1, assessment 1- spot-check for use:
Teacher:________
Using technology? Y/N
Date:___________
EDMODO? Y/N
Date:______________
Subject:________
Department:__________
___/20
***anything under 18 is considered to not be acceptable***
Differentiation:
Teachers whom did not feel comfortable from either the posting
of assignments at a later date, or the posting and responding to
questions on Google Classroom will come to another small group
and will work together to using the folder remediation on the
instructors page. The teachers will walk step by step on how to
post/ respond to questions, and how to date a task to be shown
at a later date. These teachers will also be assessed using the
above rubric.
Lesson 2
Assessment 1
Teachers were given directions to post a video to their portals.
They were graded using a rubric:
Teacher:________
Date:______________
Subject:________
Department:__________
No
Assessment 2
Teachers will add their Co-teachers to their classes, write
reflection
Teacher:________
Date:______________
Subject:________
Department:__________
Teachers used the procedures from the course to add Coteachers to the class rosters: __/5
Co-teachers were added as Teachers: ___/5
Co-Teachers and teachers swap ideas, information, teaching
strategies, and resources through the portal:___/5
Co-teachers divvied up grading to be done on EDMODO: ___/5
Reflection piece:
Teachers discussed the importance of allowing co-teachers
control in the classroom: ___/5
Teachers discussed the importance of dividing some of the work
across both teachers: ___/5
Teachers discussed some of the strategies that could be used
with Co-teachers:___/5
___/35
Differentiation
Teachers who do not teach classes that require co-teachers, such
as advanced placement, or honors will search for useful apps,
tools, resources, etc. to be posted onto their portals. These will
be posted to portal containing just teachers, and will provide
motivation for other teachers within in the department. This will
allow teachers another form of communication. Spot-checking
for understanding will assess posting on portals.
Assessment 3
Teachers will produce a lesson plan containing an
based video game, and will post it to the portal.
0
Content relevant
Game is not
relevant to the
learning goal
educational
2
Game is somewhat
relative to learning
goal, Mind has to
5
Game
with le
Fun Factor
(assessed through
student
observations and
interviews)
Procedures
Game is boring
____/15
Differentiation:
The Special Education teachers will group and discuss tools that
help their students reach the learning goals. The teachers will
take these tools and put them into a folder deemed,
remediation to be discussed at a later date. The rubric used
in lesson 3 will also be used to assess this folder.
Lesson 3
Assessment 1
Teachers will create an assessment to be taken online, for data
collection. The teacher will use the data collected to drive
instruction.
Spot-check list
Teacher:________
Date:______________
Subject:________
Department:__________
Game
useful
learnin
inform
Follow
posted
indepe
Assessment 2:
After students take the assessments made on Google Classroom,
the teachers will collect data to be used to create folders.
Depending on the data, there will be at most 2 folders. One
deemed, remediation, and one deemed, enrichment. The
teacher will create folders for remediation and enrichment, and
will divide the class into one folder or the other. The folders will
be graded by a rubric.
0
2
Data was
Data was not
Data was collected,
collected to make
collected
but with no target
the folders
folders in mind
Type of folders
No folders
Folders were
created
Students added
Materials inside
relevant?
5
Data
colle
used
both
Both
crea
Fold
com
mat
nam
All s
folde
Mate
usef
topic