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Career Technical Conference 2007

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Setting the Setting the Standard for Standard for Teaching, Teaching, Leading, & Leading, & LearningLearning

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Who are you?Who are you?

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Thinkfinity Content Partners

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ALEX Lesson Plans

Curriculum Core

Standard 1: Explain the impact of technological advancement on a variety of areas.

Technology and Health Care – A Healthy Partnership

Charlotte Heatherly, Cullman County

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Lesson Examples Using ALEX Website Resources

Curriculum Core

Standard 4: Demonstrate skills for managing finances.

Thinkfinity – EconEdLink

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Lesson Examples Using ALEX Website Resources

Career Technologies

Standard 1: Compare a variety of careers available in the technology area being studied.

Thinkfinity – EconEdLink – Wages and Me

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ALEX Website Resources

Thinkfinity – ScienceNet Links

The Fish Trade

Agriscience

Education/Aquaculture

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ALEX Website Resources

Thinkfinity – ScienceNet Links

The Fish Trade

Who Eats Fish?

Agriscience

Education/Aquaculture

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ALEX Website Resources

Standard 13:

Relate the uses of computer applications to business and marketing.

Business/Marketing

RED: ExpeditingGREEN: CommunicatingBLUE: PlanningYELLOW: Administrating

www.princetonreview.com

What Will I Do With My Life?

Joan Greene, Shelby County

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ALEX Website Resources

Standard 27:

Recognize factors that influence buying.

Family and Consumer Sciences Education

Thinkfinity – EconEdLink

Believe It or Not?

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ALEX Website Resources

Health Science

Thinkfinity – Science NetLinks

Systems of the Human Body

Grades 3 – 5

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ALEX Website Resources

Technical Education

Introduction to Carpentry

Thinkfinity – EDSITEment

Skyscraper

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ALEX Website Resources

Career/Technical Cooperative Education Program

Thinkfinity – Illumination

Jobs for Kids Who Like Math

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ALEX Website Resources

Thinkfinity – ScienceNet Links

4H Virtual Farm

Agriscience Education/ Pre-Agriscience

Standard 5:

Describe the results of an abundant, inexpensive, and safe food supply produced by United States' farmers for the American population.

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ALL NEW!!!ALL NEW!!!

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ALEX Features• Free • Searchable Courses of Study & New “Search All” Feature

• Lesson Plans Aligned to Courses of Study

• New Listservs• Student and Teacher Activities

• Web Links• Personal Workspace• More…

Lesson Plan/Activity Lesson Plan/Activity SourcesSources

•ThinkfinityThinkfinity

•Alabama TeachersAlabama Teachers

•NASANASA

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ALEX New Features• New Design• Webpage for Every Teacher• New, Free ALEX and Thinkfinity Training

Program for Each District• Training meets most of the newly required

Teacher Technology Professional Development Standards

• Over 38,000 state Course of Study alignments to award-winning Thinkfinity and Alabama teacher-developed resources

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ALEX New Features• Digitized, Printable Alabama Courses of Study &

New “Search All” feature for ALEX• Coming…Flagged Courses of Study indicating

when standards are introduced, reinforced, and mastered, etc.

• Coming…More Interactives all aligned to Alabama Courses of Study for: Hard to Teach/Learn Standards, & Typical Achievement Gap Areas

• Coming…Specially Designed Resources for: ELL, Special Education, Leadership Development, Schools/Districts in School Improvement

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A Webpage for Every Teacher

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Through Courses of Study, teachers access digitized, printable Alabama Courses of Study with over 38,000 aligned

Thinkfinity and Alabama Teacher-developed resources for all K-12 subject areas.

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Web Links quickly connect students, teachers, parents, and administrators to exemplary, high-quality resources that ignite learning at all levels.

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Visit the Lesson Plan section to find panel-reviewed, “best practices” new ideas and inspirations!

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Teachers Search all of ALEX to find Course of Study Standards that are Frequently Tested, Hard to Teach/ Learn, and typical Achievement Gap Areas—aligned to exciting learning resources selected by a panel of National Board Certified Teachers.

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Teachers create teacher web pages*, create, find and save lesson plans in their Personal Workspace.

*For districts selecting this option.

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In Professional Learning, educators can visit new Alabama Department of Education section web sites for rich instructional tools and professional development opportunities.

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Learn all about Alabama’s ACCESS Distance Learning program.

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Digitized, Printable Alabama Courses Study Flagged for

Highly Tested Items, Hard to Teach/Learn Standards, & Typical Achievement Gap

Areas

1. ARMT, AHSGE, Direct Assessment of Writing

2. Hard to Teach/Learn3. Typical Achievement

Gaps4. When standards are

Introduced, Reinforced, and Mastered…

coming.

Graphics Depict the Tagging of Critical COS Standards

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• Teachers – 10

• Administrators – 7

• Based on ISTE standards

• Statewide implementation: September 2006

• Consolidated Review

Technology Professional Development Standards

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Using ALEX to Meet Student Technology Standards

• Technology Course of Study (New…coming)• Links to lesson plans & web resources listed

beside each objective for Technology Course of Study (and other areas, too)

• All are national standards based - not just "Joe's School of Thought" located down the street

• Teachers like the ease of use of these lessons & resources - easy to locate

• All curriculum areas are available

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Using ALEX to Meet Administrator Technology

Standards

• New Standards Implementation began this fall for Technology

• Excellent resources already available on Leadership Development page

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Using ALEX to Meet Teacher Technology Standards

•Tutorials and Tech Tips are excellent resources for teachers using technology

•PEDOGAGY COUNTS, Teaching Activities and Curriculum Resources--good beginning sites to help teachers incorporate technology into curriculum

more…

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Using ALEX to Meet Teacher Technology Standards

•Links to professional organizations, AVL, Thinkfinity, and APTPlus are great for teachers to find nationally standards based resources that will correlate with the technology standards & COS

•Format for ALEX is similar to Thinkfinity and teachers are already using Thinkfinity

more…

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ALEX/Thinkfinity Training

Teacher Technology Professional Development Standards

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New, Free ALEX and Thinkfinity Training Program for Each

District: Fall 2007

Trainers Now:http://www.technologyinmotion.state.al.us

Contact: sparks@alsde.edu

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Thank You!

ALEX wants… Career Technical Content Experts