Bryon Cortes
EDU-225
August 18, 2013
Professor Brooks
Bryon's Comprehensive Classroom Technology Plan
The reason I want to become a high school math teacher
within a poorer area of America is to help students that
grow up like me to get integrated into the technology field
through college or joining the work force at high school.
The Comprehensive Classroom Technology Plan is a major part
of accomplishing my goal as a teacher. The research I
performed to complete my plan help me to figure out the
base/ideas from the website I will create for my classes.
Also, I learned how important social media and the ethical
use of technology will be to my students (and myself) along
with make sure I incorporate future technology into my
lesson plans. Thinking through the lessons and activities
each week made me develop rational thoughts and action plans
to accomplish my vision and mission statements.
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Vision / Mission Statement
Vision Statement:
Influence minority students to enter into the math, engineering and technology fields.
Mission Statement:
Using invited teaching methods, the latest technology and
showing the beauty and joy within math to increase the
number of risk, low income and minority students interested
and invested into the math, engineering and technology
fields beyond high school.
Communication Plan
My communication plan for my first year of teaching
will engage three groups within the educational community;
students (and their family), other teachers, and
professional and/or groups within the local, national and
international community that are helping young students get
interested in math, engineering and technology.
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My first and maybe the most important form of
communication as a first year teacher will between my
students/their family and me. Queen Creek High School, the
school my daughter attends, uses a web site called
Jupiter.com. On this website I can see all my daughter
classes along with grades, attendance and her teacher can
leave note or email me. It is the main communication page
between the school/teacher and I during the school year (in
fact I received update during the summer). I am going to
assume that the school that I am teaching high school math
at will use a form of a website like Jupiter.com. I also
going to assume that the website that the school is using
will cover all of the Internet security and school safety
requirements built into it. That is why I will use that
system to do most of my communication between my students,
their parents and myself.
The second form of communication I plan to implement
during my first year of teaching is a class website that I
feel will have an impact on my vision and mission statement.
As I stated in those statement I want to influence young
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people, who are growing up like I did, to enter into the
math, engineering and technology fields and one of the
biggest way that I think I will be able to influence my
students (and other students from other schools) is by
developing a user friendly and entertaining website. I have
a friend who left Intel Corporation to start his own
software design, web design company and we have started to
work my ideas for this user friendly and entertaining
website. The main page will have the links to all the
individual classes, different software programs that are
used in our class and math/engineering fields, videos of
interesting projects within the technology and different
education programs and updated STEM ideas being put forth in
the teaching community just like a program develop in
Maryland (Business Wire, 2011). I will even incorporate a
page were people from the community to update and/or results
from STEM and/or any other projects they are working with
students in my class or other students (PR newswire US,
2011).
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Another thing I would like my website to do is to allow
the students to interact with each other and other students
from around the world. Students will be able to help each
other with homework and projects from their class. They
will be able to post their assignments and ideas on the
site, so future students of class and even other students
from around the world can access them for guidance. I will
maintain the website, but without knowing the laws and
school policies at the school and area I will be teaching
in, I am not sure how much interaction I will have with them
though the website (Defranco, 2011).
My first year as a high school math teacher should be
one of the changeling year in my teaching career. To help
me make it though, I plan on using the school website to
communicate with my students and their family. I also plan
on implementing my website to assist my students with my
class and through the content inside it motivate my students
to the wonderful careers within the math, science,
engineering and technology field.
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Integrating Instructional Technology
I never found math fun or exciting as I attended high
school. But, after joining the Navy, getting hired at Intel
and taking math courses in college, I now see how impact
full math is to the world of technology and can help
students in the life. Now that I am going to be a future
high school math teacher, I want to influence minority
students to enter into the technology fields. I believe I
can accomplish my goal by incorporating technology into my
classroom and teaching method.
When I was taking math back in my high school years (in
the late eighties), it was not very fun for me. I felt that
it was all about memorization and could not see how it was
going to help me in the future. I got good grades, I did
not apply myself as hard as I could. By the time I realized
that math was the key to engineering, it was too late for me
to make an impression on a good college. So I went into the
military, the nuclear program within the United State Navy.
My first year in the Navy I attend power school, where they
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taught me nothing but math, science, and engineering
principles (all that before I was able to touch a nuclear
reactor). While completing my naval school, I realized how
important math was and why it needs to be pushed to kids
like me.
After completing my naval commitment, I know there had
to be a better way to teach math to students and I found it
attending Chandler/Gilbert Community College. I had an
instructor named Scott Adams and he had the most racial
teaching style I ever saw. He believed in group work,
integrating projects and presentations in the lesson plans,
he even used technology to enforce the lessons. He would
show his students how to get a line regression answers and
graphs on Texas Instrument calculators (he had a worksheet
writing for all models of the TI). We used Microsoft's
PowerPoint, Excel, and Word to create, turn in and present
our projects. After taking 3 classes with Mr. Adam I know
his teaching style is the way to educate minority students
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in math, show them math is fun and exciting, and that a
career in a technology could field be worthwhile.
Because of my background, I will to incorporate
technology in all its forms to help my students learn math
in my classroom and classes. I will began with incorporate
the use of common software into my math classes. As I said
Mr. Adams would have use programs such as Microsoft's Word,
PowerPoint and Excel, but I want to go a step further. I
will teach and expect my students math software such as
Matlab, JMP and SAS among others. These are some of the
math type programs that university such as Arizona State and
Stanford along with companies such as Intel and Dell use.
By having my student know and understand these types of
programs they will be ahead of other students or employees
(Hossain and Robinson, 2012).
I also believe that by using technology in my classroom
I will show my students that math if fun and get them
wanting a career in technology. When my students learn a new
skill, I am going to play a video and/or PowerPoint slide
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show to celebrate their achievement. I reminder once in Mr.
Adams' Calculus II class when we learned how to integrate an
equation, he paly a PowerPoint slide that said only 3% of
the world's population knows how to integrate equation. The
slide has music and all kinds of effects also. It really
made me feel special and made me want to make sure I master
that skill. I believe my students will feel the same way if
I do the same thing when they learn a new math skill. As
they see how special they are for learning math, they will
want to learn more, especially as the skill they are
learning goes higher and higher, which make the number of
people to know it lower and lower (Schneider and Mazuca,
2012).
Another technology that I feel my students will find
fun and useful in my math classes is the internet (Schneider
and Mazuca, 2012). As I have said many time before I will
create a website for each one of my classes. This website
will be some of the software I mention above and
instructions on how to use them. I will also post videos of
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different math, science and technology subjects. It will
also have open forum where the students can help each other
with homework or classroom activities. The students' group
projects will be posted there, just like they group project
for this class.
One other thing I would like to talk about is how
technology I help me to organize and run my classes. As I
said earlier I believe the way Mr. Adams taught math is a
better way to educate minority students and I would emulate
his style and thoughts in my classes. He had a project type
program, such as Microsoft's Project, to tract where he was
in teaching the subject. I will use a program like that to
plan out everything in my classes. I will know if the class
is ahead or behind schedule, so I can add to subtract as the
class in going. But it will allow me to schedule speakers
at the time that I will teach on a subject that speakers can
influence. It will also help me to manage individual
student needs. Say a student has an emergency in the
family; I can tell them what they can study so they are not
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far behind. I can also tie it in with the other technology
in my classroom. I can post future things on my website, so
my students and their family know what is coming in the
future.
I want to integrate many technologies into my classroom
that to help my students see the fun in math and get them
interested in a career in a technology field. I also want
to prepare my students for the live after high school,
whether it is college, a trade school or a working career.
Software to Support Assessment
To improve my teaching style and my students
understanding of math, I will use formative and summative
assessment software and technology in. A big part of my
comprehensive classroom technology plan is to use the data
and information I receive from both formative and summative
assessment to improve the information I am presenting
thereby making it easier for my students to understand
mathematical concepts along with anything else I am trying
to teach them.
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In my classroom, a formative assessment software
technology I propose to use is a smart respond interactive
system. When I was taking science and math courses at the
community college level they had and use smart respond
interactive system technology in the classroom. As the
chemistry professor was teaching us how to balance an
aqueous equation or my Calculus teacher was showing us how
to complete partial integrals, they would use the smart
respond interactive system to put a question similar to the
ones they were working on to see if the students could
answer it. The professor would have instant feedback on
where their students real know the information. As a future
high school math teacher I would use the same smart respond
interactive software to provide me with instant formative
assessment on my students. Letting me know if my how long
to stay on a subject matter or if I need to change my method
of instruction. If my students can answer a question on the
smart respond interactive system, then I ask a follow up
similar question. If the students can answer both
questions, then I move on to another idea. But if they
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cannot answer both questions, I know I need to reteach the
lesson with either a new teaching method or material
(Garrison, 2007).
Another software technology I will push for my
classroom, but this time it is a summative base assessment,
is the ASSISSTment system. This system was first used with
Massachusetts standard state math test and give
data/information to teachers on the testers (Pellegrino and
Quellmalz, 2011). It also gives instant feedback to the
student on questions they answered along with giving hints
to questions they are trying to answer (Pellegrino and
Quellmalz, 2011). The way it works is as the student answer
a question, the software tracks that answer. It collects
all the answers from all the students taking that test and
can then develop reports, like what questions had the lower
percentage of correct answers (Pellegrino and Quellmalz,
2011). It can also report what students from what teachers
are doing the best on different questions (Pellegrino and
Quellmalz, 2011). This type of information is very useful,
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because as a future math teacher I would know what is
working in teaching different mathematical ideas and
incorporate those styles into my teaching styles.
The other thing I like is that the software will give
the student hints and instant feedback on questions. If a
student is having difficulty answering a question, they can
hit a hint button and a hint (or two) will pop up on the
screen (Pellegrino and Quellmalz, 2011). This could help
the student to answer the question correctly, without giving
them the answer. It will also let the student know if they
answer the questions correct or incorrect the moment after
they complete the answer (Pellegrino and Quellmalz, 2011).
This will let the student know if they just made a fast
mistake, like adding when they should have subtracted, to
slow down.
An Internet base software that can help me assess my
students before a test is another summative technology I
plan on using with my students. I will post a sample tests
on my website for my students that will not be used in their
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grading, but to see where my student are in mastering the
material I was teaching. Using technology like CONNStruct I
will see trends of the whole class or individuals on
problems they can and cannot answer correctly (Bruckerhoff,
1996). Using this software to analysis the answer will be
valuable data to me as a math teacher, because I will know
if my students understood and/or mastered the material I was
teaching them. If not, I can direct them to videos and
seminars on my site or the internet that show the students
the material in different ways.
By using the software and technology within my
comprehensive classroom technology plan to provide me
formative and summative data, I will be able to ensure my
students have understood and/or mastered the mathematical
concepts I taught. By improving my student understand of
math and making it enjoyable is one way I see meeting my
mission statement.
Technology Ethics in the Classroom Conclusion
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As a high school math teacher I will have to include
the ethical use of technology as part of my comprehensive
classroom technology plan. When I started to work on my
comprehensive classroom technology plan I did not think that
I will need to address ethical issues with technology as a
math teacher, but as I did more research I found out I was
wrong. With the psychology of high school students, some of
the things I plan on creating on the Internet for my
classes, and project with presentation students will need to
complete in my class requires that I develop a plan to make
sure the ethical use of technology.
According to Kohlberg's six stages of moral development
(1989) research many of the students I will teach in my high
school math classes will be at stage 4 - Authority, what
solution would best fits with the laws of society, which
means that I will have to install the ethical use of
technology in the classroom and on my website with my
students. Students at this age are trying to develop the
moral code that they will have for the rest of their life
(Kohlberg, 1989) and as one of their high school I will have
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guide them with those decisions (1989). I know as a high
school student I did not always discuss with my mother (I
was raised as an only child) about all the issues at school
and that is why I believe teachers need to that person a
young adult can talk with at the time when moral decision
come up.
Since the website I will create will have an open forum
for my students (and other students) to help each other with
homework, I need to make sure they are following all school
and school district rules along with local, state and
federal laws. The first thing I will do with all my
students at the beginning of the school year and remind them
throughout the rest of the year is about the safe use of the
Internet and my website. I will remind them of the school
policies and any laws that apply. I will even have them
sign a promissory note to the fact they understand the
rules. When an issue comes up, such as using foul language
on the message board or bulling, I will have an open
discussion not only with them, but the whole class (Lamb,
2010).
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Another thing I will add to the website is a filter but
I will not rely on it to monitor the forums. Filters have
been proven to have issues and are not reliable by
themselves (Nunberg, 2001). I will review the forums myself
along with parents and other students. If anything is being
said on the forums that is a concern, I will address it with
the students and potentially with their parents. If the
statement(s) are egregious enough then I will have to take
to the school administration and potently the local law
enforcement.
Many people would not believe that in a math class
students will need to worry about understanding copyright
and trademark laws, but since I will have my students create
presentation and write reports they will need to know how to
protect intellectual property. Some the software I will
link and use on my site will be intellectual property of
different companies like Microsoft and SAS. I student will
have the students sign a reminder note say that they
understand those kind of software cannot be downloaded
improperly and I will have a filter to determine who has
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received the programs. At Intel, we have a filter that can
tell who has download the software within a year and how
often they use it and I will want a filter like that to
protect the students, school and myself. If a student does
download the programs illegally, then I will have to take
that student up to the admission for disciplinary action.
The student (and all their fellow students) must understand
that downloading programs illegally is stealing.
The other part of intellectual property is citing
resources properly and I will treat it as would trademarks
and copywriting. Once again in a math class, this issue may
not come up much. At the beginning of the school year I
will bring up what the Supreme Court has to bring up on the
subject. Then when citing situation comes up, I will work
with the student on what and how to cite information. I
believe that most students do not intend to cheat or lie, it
is that they just do not understand how and when to cite.
In my math class I will have my student rely on
technology and the World Wide Web, so I will make sure my
student use them in an ethical way. Since my student will
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be young adults in high school, I want to treat them as
young men and women. I will have them read and sign that
they understand the rules around the ethical use of
technology, apply filters and have open discuss when an
issue arise, but most of all I plan on talking to my
students when any moral issues comes up.
Conclusion / Reflection Essay
Working on a Comprehensive Classroom Technology Plan
was very insightful and useful to my goals as a teacher,
which became part of my vision and mission statements.
Simply my vision and mission statement as a teacher is to
influence minority students into the fields of technology.
When I first saw and read the description of this class, I
thought it was going to be very easy for me since I have
worked in the technology sectors for over twenty years (18
at Intel Corporation and 6 years with the US Navy). But
working on the Comprehensive Classroom Technology Plan and
the other assignments within this course has made me think
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about many things/issues I had not thought about before
completing this course.
The first thing challenging aspect of this course was
explaining on paper, to another human being, my goals in
becoming a teacher though the vision and mission statement
exercise. I had a vision and mission statement already
developed in my mind before taking this course, but having
to explain it cause me to put effort into to why I believed
in my vision and mission statements. I went through a few
different revisions of my statements, as I thought about it
and performed research, before I got it to a point that it
made sense and I could have data to support whither I
succeed or failed.
The next item I really had to explore was the website I
would plan on creating for my math classes. When I began
the course I had this thought that I was going to create the
end-all to be-all website for math students that was going
to make all minority students fall in love with math and
science and want to become engineers and/or join the
technology field. Well having to put that idea on to paper
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and pass it through the different steps in the Comprehensive
Classroom Technology Plan causing me to rethink the look,
the feel and the intent of the website. I found many sites
that would be useful to math students like the mathform from
Drexel University or a gaming site like the one Rice
University made called CSI: The experience web adventure
game, but none of them seem to make me feel like love math.
If you could combine these ideas along with adding funny
videos (from YouTube or create my own) that explain math
principles and links to new things coming in the technology
field, I believe more students would get interested,
influenced and use the site.
By completing all the assignment within this course I
did discover a few things about my technology plan that I
will have to work on. One of the biggest things I really
did not think I would have to worry about being a high
school math teacher is my students' interaction with each
other in the forum section of my website. I thought the
school would have a filter that would prevent any problems
from arising, until I did some research about the subject.
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It turns out most school filters are not very good (Nunbreg,
2001). From the research I did for this class, I found out
that there are many steps to protect child in a social media
forum (Lamb, 2010). I would need to update myself on the
rules within the school/school district and the laws (local,
state and federal) that govern social media. I would also
need to make use my students understand the rules and
discuss with them (and other if need be) openly about any
issues that comes about.
One last note I like to discuss about this course which
pertains to my development as a teacher (along with writing
papers in the future) is the knowledge I gain in citing
sources and use the library resources. At the beginning of
this course I was receiving comments about citing items in
my writing which caused the instructor to suggest that I
view his webpage on helping students to cite items
correctly. I also called the Library to get assistants with
citing and attended their webinar on RefWorks. I feel these
actions have help me to citing thing properly in APA 6th
edition (American Psychological Association).
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In taking Education-225 at Grand Canyon University, I
believe it not only help the students I will teach in the
future by making create a Comprehensive Classroom Technology
Plan, but has increase my knowledge in writing papers and
the finding website that will help me to teach math to
students.
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