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• Identify an instructional need in one or more content areas that may be addressed by innovative 21st century strategies and technologies. Provide an explanation: o How did you identify this need? o How do you expect innovative 21st century strategies and the integration of technology to address this need? • State the academic content standard (s) that will be addressed. • Identify the grade levels and/or the specific courses to be involved. • Define the need for assistance in acquiring, using and integrating technology.

1. A need in mathematics is transitioning and preparing students for four years of math including a couse in Algebra 2 2. A need in science; new curriculum requires inquiry based lab experience; more hands-on activies and projects 3. Social Studies needs maps and interactive... 4. Distance Learning support-- with other classes or grade levels in district or out of seas 5. Transitioning to old standards to new standards 6. A need and concern is the available and accessiblitiy of computers and internet for students 7. An important need that must be address is a professsional development vertical alignment between 8th and 9th grade. 8. Critical 9th graders pass classes with new graduation requirements. 9. Possibly create a separation between 8th graders who meet requirement to move on and 8th graders who don't meet requirements to move on 10. Social Studies need; To spark an interest in different regions of the world and the U.S., from standards of living to perception of different cultures. Identify Need: Survey students at the end of the school year to find how many students have computer and internet access.--- more of an action step 9th grade retention rate
 * find the percentage of 9th graders who passes all classes whom graduate on time
 * find the percentage of 9th graders who advance to 10th grade with 1 or more fail class whom graduate on time

East BETA teacher survey [] This needs to be referenced in needs...

I have printout from Data for failures and retentions...you can use them when you come... I also will have a copy of the Technology Plan for you to use on Tuesday...JW

update on 3/25/10 East High School is an urban district with a 90% poverty rate. Our students come to us with a variety of issues which often fail to inspire their learning. Many of these students become lost at the beginning of their 9th grade year with the demands of high school. To ensure that these students matriculate to the 10th grade, innovative and engaging lessons are necessary to not only prepare them for graduation but to prepare them to live and work in the 21st Century. Our school’s instructional needs are to motivate more ninth graders in core subject areas to advance to the 10 grade. As it stands, in the 2008-09 school year, out of 364 freshmen there was a 44% failure rate. Of that 44%, 25 were repeat ninth graders and of the 25, 10 were 3rd year failures. By providing this group of students with 21st Century strategies and technologies, we will accelerate achievement for low performing students and add key elements to student learning that are missing. 21st century strategies will transform the learning environment so that it is student-centered, problem and project-centered and productive while students experience collaboration and interactive communication. The 21st century learning technologies will expand the resources for teaching and learning in classrooms and provide more challenging, authentic, and higher order experiences for students. There are three content areas that are a focal point: social studies, science and mathematics. According, to the U.S. Department of Labor workforce projections for 2014 show that 15 of the 20 fastest growing occupations require essential math and science training to successfully compete for a job. The 21st century strategies and technology will provide a technology-rich environment that will give a deeper understanding of science content. It will allow students to access and analyze information, develop problem solving and critical thinking skills, as well as collect and analyze data. According to the State Report Card for East High School in the school year of 2008 -2009, there was a 32% passage rate of students who meet the Ohio Graduation Test in Science. State average performance was 76%. As mentioned above with the statistics, these 21st century teaching strategies are vital to students’ high school education to take on to college and the workforce. In science, to effectively engage students, there is a need for offering inquiry based labs enhanced by 21st century technology strategies. Appropriate materials will be needed to achieve this.  I  n mathematics we need to prepare and transition students for the new Ohio math graduation requirements which include four years of math with an Algebra 2 course. The data for math failures in the 2009 -2010 school year are as follows; the first grading period, 158 out of 366 students failed; the second grading period showed 168 out of 366 failures. We must engage these students. The 21st century technology strategies will embrace a change that is vital to reducing the math failure rate.

Social Studies courses are built around themes such as global awareness, economic, financial and civic literacy, which will allow students and teachers to collaborate in spite of physical boundaries. Opportunities to engage students in authentic work are limitless utilizing the 21st Century skills and tools. According to the State Report Card for East High School in the school year of 2008 -2009, there was a 36% passage rate of students who met the Ohio Graduation Test in Social Studies, in comparison with the state average performance which was 81.6%. As mentioned above with the statistics, these 21st century teaching strategies are vital to students’ high school education to take on to college and the workforce.  The implementation of technology standards can be bridged and integrated with the Ohio Content Standards to enhance innovative teaching strategies that integrate interactivity and engaging content and to help teachers create and develop authentic work, which will meet or exceed these state academic content standards:

Aligning the Ohio Math Content Standard, Patterns, Functions, and Algebra, with the 21st Century Learning Technology Standards, students will synthesize information, evaluate and make decisions about technology to identify and ask significant questions that clarify various points of view and lead to better solutions by using innovation technological tools. Also, by using 21st Century Technology skills, students will be able to integrate conceptual knowledge of technology systems in determining practical applications for learning and technical problems, to build and analyze their conceptual imagery in the Ohio Math content standard, Geometry and Spatial Sense.

The Social Studies Ohio Academic content standards will be aligned with the 21st Century Learning Technology Standards by addressing the standards of people in societies, and citizenship rights and responsibilities. Students will exam and analyze examples of how people in different cultures view events from various perspectives. Students will also evaluate how the impact of individuals has influenced the actions on public policies.

By aligning the Ohio Science Content Standards with the 21st Century Learning Technology Standards, students will use 21st century technology to demonstrate an understanding of how living systems function and how they interact with the physical environment. Using digital technology students’ will also demonstrate an understanding of the composition of physical system and concepts and principles that describe and predict physical interactions and events in the natural world.

For acquiring help with using and integrating technology, in our building we have tech-savvy teachers label as sysops to provide assistance for any media information literacy and technology skills and to provide on-site technical assistance. The district has an educational technology department who has teachers on special assignment, supervisors and an educational technology manager that specializes in technology integration that will also provide input.