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Highlight reel
- 1. * Andrew Halter, Instructional Coach Hampton Township School District
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- 4. Fluid Curriculum Focus on Technology Assessment Best Practices Coaching
- 5. Day to day Embedded support PD Long range district goals
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- 8. A Building Focuson Assessment
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- 11. * *…get students to take more ownership of their learning?” *…get students to find relevance?” *…help students be more digitally literate?” *…I get my students more engaged AND increase rigor?”
- 12. Students role playair traffic controllers and Red Cross pilots to apply their knowledge of polar coordinates and other pre-calculus skills in real world crisis situations.
- 14. *A tsunami warningis issued for Santa Catalina, California. Ocean swells are approximately 10 feet high from crest to trough, with wavelengths of 250 feet. Find an equation that models these swells before you drown.
- 15. As an endof the year review. students create videos to demonstrate real-world applications and a thorough understanding of algebraic concepts.
- 16. Student resource Example
- 17. As an endof the year activity. students create videos to demonstrate real world applications and a thorough understanding of chemistry concepts. These are used the following year as introductions to the units.
- 18. * AP ChemTeaching Videos *
- 20. Example 2 Resource Wiki At an end of a unit on plan life, students create websites That are targeted at a 3rd grade audience. Emphasis is on transforming information to make it educational and engaging. The best of these get to teach with a 3rd grade teacher.
- 23. To cover PAgeography curriculum and make relevant connections to the five geographical themes, students act as travel agents to create and sell a family trip package to destinations across PA.
- 24. Google Planning Google Presentation
- 26. At the endof a civil war unit, students read letters from soldiers, write one of their own from a fictional perspective, and create a dramatic reading with music and primary source images using Ipads and Imovie.
- 27. Students participated innon-fiction literature circles enhanced by ipads, wikis, Google Docs, and other web 2.0 technologies.
- 29. This ninth gradelesson on effective research was co-designed and co-taught with all ninth grade teachers. It integrates ipads, wikis, and Google Forms to create an engaging model for lesson design.
- 30. Tenth grade Englishstudents work together on a campaign team to support an election for Marc Antony or Brutus in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. This project incorporates argumentative writing, creativity with multiple technologies, and a very relevant setting.
- 32. * * Professional Learning Networks * Professional Development Committees * Extended days/departmental time * Teacher led PD * Interns from local universities * Co-Teaching * Utilizing department chairs
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Editor's Notes
- #4 The key elements that came together in our coaching initiative
- #5 Key elements that have helped to establish our culture at Hampton. We will focus on the elements of Coaching, how this supports our Technology use and the significance of Best Practice in our building along with several examples of these in all curricular areas.
- #6 Turn and talk: How does coaching play a role in your districts?Coaching in our building has evolved over the past five years from the CFF grant, mostly technology support, to an instructional coach that still emphasizes technology, but also has expanded to be more versatile in supporting district goals.
- #8 The TPACK model captures the essence and ultimate goals of my role as a coach…helping teachers to move toward excellence, especially in areas of Technology and Pedagogy. Teachers and coach work together to identify areas of collaboration.
- #9 Rigor and relevance has become a framework for measuring effectiveness of our assessments
- #11 How coaching is promoted in our building: Soliciting support and differentiated, consistent PD. PLN to reinforce literacy based coaching