The school I teach in has a strong dedication to technology. Smart boards are being introduced into some of the classrooms. They are a wonderful tool that will replace the outdated overhead projector. I am really looking forward to the day I don’t have to use an overhead projector again. The internet makes it very easy to find programs and lessons that address all the intelligences. A sight I like to use with my students is http://www.starfall.com. Some sights I have been looking at while taking this course on Multiple Intelligences are http://www.mitest.com/omitest.htm http://www.thomasarmstrong.com/multiple_intelligences.htm http://www.spannj.org/BasicRights/appendix_b.htm www.casacanada.com/games.html There are test and charts to help in the classroom. Our school is not very divers. The Wisconsin Dells is 30 miles away. We have about 4 Mexican American families in our school whose parents are employed there. We are making some effort to meet their cultural learning needs. We do have a school social worker who is very fluent in Spanish. She does a wonderful job making the home and school connection. She is at every parent teacher conference to translate. She comes into the classroom to check on the children and to assist the teacher. It would be wonderful if we could get the parents to come into school and teach us about their culture but they are hard working people. Taking a day off is a hardship for them. One idea I got from this chapter is when I do my career unit at the end of the school year I will have the children tell me what kind of smart each job uses. That will be an assessment for the children and myself to check for understanding the MI theory.
Another area to investigate on the net are webquests...the one from San diego State is awesom...it has the lessons/units from objectives to assessments...check it out
Our school is also dedicated to technology since we are a growing district(700 high school students 8 years ago and 1400 now), in a relatively new high school(5 years old), with a large addition in the last 2 years and a booming area of the state, Fox River Valley. The technology staff continually is a source of help and provides staff and students with the latest. Also, our students are very internet competent and the district requires a complete credit in technology to graduate from high school.
While our school is not that diverse. We do have a multicultural club for our students and I also have a son I adopted from South Korea, so I am very sensitive to the needs of our minority population. I have regularly sent our middle and high school students to the Wisconsin minority precollege programs throughout the state in a variety of subjects: art music, leadership, and writing. Since my son is in high school; I also scour the internet for scholarships for minority students: Gates Milenium Scholarship and the Asian Pacific Islander Scholarship to name two. I got him a book in grade school that is quite good and he has used, Famous Asian Americans by Morey and Dunn.
The area of career counseling has our student service staff running a career day every other year with over 60 presenters. The students are ablew to meet with the various individuals from the career or occupation they are interested in. As I noted in earlier writings we use Wiscareers heavily throughout the four years students are enrolled in Kimberly High School and our Junior Seminars have public and private college reps along with Tech school and military reps present. We also have a class requirement on career portfolio and finance to graduate.
Obviously, the websites or Mr. Slowey's suggestion will be explored to assist our students.
I believe our school has an adequate amount of technology for the year 2007. As I read through the list on page 122 I realized that our school hits some of those subheadings. For math class, I take students to the CMP website, along with another math games site. The students love being able to play interactive games and programs. I could do an entire extra curriculum just on online math work. We do not use Math Blaster as much anymore because it has become a little dated. There is a new Math 24 interactive site that some students were able to visit this year. There was a cost associated with the site but the school picked it up through a technology grant. The PE dept uses Fitnessgram software and also some running/jumping SimonSays program. Whatever it is called the kids have a blast running on the pad. The GT teacher takes her class to play simulation games like Sim City in Madison.
In my school I do not think there is a lot of diversity. However our school does do some major cross curriculum days that help address it. In the 6th grade we have a rain forest day, an Ellis Island simulation day, and we spend a day at the Milwaukee Public Museum. In 7th grade the staff has a medieval day, and a Greek day, along with a deer necropsy.
Our school has been updating the technology used in our school. We constantly are updating the system used by the teachers. Sometimes teachers are overwhelmed. For the students we do not have enough computer labs for classes that want to use them. We have to sign up for the labs. There are two labs which are mainly used for computer and business classes. One lab is for sign up for classes for the senior high and one in the junior high. Teachers are somewhat limited to have all students on computers at one time. In my classroom I am fortunate to have an updated technology system with a video system, power point, etc. to use with my computer. I have a "large screen" and a new digital camera. (Now I have to learn how to use it all) The vocational teachers received all of this through funding. Some of the other teachers have some setups such as this but not all of them. Looking over the list of software I am sure many of the teachers are using this in our school.
We have one counselor for the junior and senior high. I am not aware of multiple intelligences being evaluated at the present time. Since I am/was the work experience coordinator for the high school and taught the work study class, I became involved with funding for the "Wisconsin Careers" site on the Internet. I am not aware of any MI used with this but I do know the site is being used for 10th and 12th grades. It has been used for the junior high. The elemetary counselor was trying to get it for the the 5th grade students.
Culture: Durand has been known as a farming community. We have a strong work ethic. Diversity of cultures was very little. Some of the farms have increased in size and brought in Mexican families. It has been wonderful having these students share their culture with us. One Mexican boy brought his cooking skills and culture into my foods class. I have to share this story with you. One day I asked if anyone has seen Aric. His response was "Come on, Mrs. Russo,I'm the only Mexican in the room!" Of course, everyone chuckled but I used it as a teachable moment of diversity and acceptance. This past year we had a foreign exchange student from China. His MI was a asset to our school. He was on the Academic Decathlon team and Music program using his talents. He was able to share his culture with many students. We do have 3 to 5 foreign exhange students each year. I do believe we as teachers need to constantly teach students to understand and accept the differences of people in our society. We need to stress that all cultures in the world possess and make use of the MI theory but in different ways as stated in Chapter 13.
We have some very good things in our school technologically speaking and some very poor things. For the upcoming year in our classroom, we are all going to have 44" LCD screens which we are going to be able to use with our computers. It is a great way to implement more visuals into the classroom. However our use of individual software programs is a big issue. Our curriculum coordinator claims he doesn't have time to install software for a class and then remove it later. He is very uncooperative and he is also not an educator so he doesn't really get it.
We are also a very white school and don't even offer an ESL program to our five-ten hispanic students. In fact my wife is a Spanish teacher and has been asked to come in and translate on occassion because we don't have those services provided. We would not even begin to find the MI strengths of these kids.
Our career counseling is one of our strengths. We have several opportunities for kids to start careers in nursing, motel management, marketing, and the technical careers. WE have a great working relationship with Gateway Tech in the area and are sending several kids there to begin studying in fields that are not offered in our high school. It is one of the best programs in the area.
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The school I teach in has a strong dedication to technology. Smart boards are being introduced into some of the classrooms. They are a wonderful tool that will replace the outdated overhead projector. I am really looking forward to the day I don’t have to use an overhead projector again.
The internet makes it very easy to find programs and lessons that address all the intelligences. A sight I like to use with my students is http://www.starfall.com. Some sights I have been looking at while taking this course on Multiple Intelligences are http://www.mitest.com/omitest.htm
http://www.thomasarmstrong.com/multiple_intelligences.htm
http://www.spannj.org/BasicRights/appendix_b.htm www.casacanada.com/games.html There are test and charts to help in the classroom.
Our school is not very divers. The Wisconsin Dells is 30 miles away. We have about 4 Mexican American families in our school whose parents are employed there. We are making some effort to meet their cultural learning needs. We do have a school social worker who is very fluent in Spanish. She does a wonderful job making the home and school connection. She is at every parent teacher conference to translate. She comes into the classroom to check on the children and to assist the teacher. It would be wonderful if we could get the parents to come into school and teach us about their culture but they are hard working people. Taking a day off is a hardship for them.
One idea I got from this chapter is when I do my career unit at the end of the school year I will have the children tell me what kind of smart each job uses. That will be an assessment for the children and myself to check for understanding the MI theory.
Another area to investigate on the net are webquests...the one from San diego State is awesom...it has the lessons/units from objectives to assessments...check it out
Our school is also dedicated to technology since we are a growing district(700 high school students 8 years ago and 1400 now),
in a relatively new high school(5 years old), with a large addition in the last 2 years and a booming area of the state, Fox River Valley. The technology staff continually is a source of help and provides staff and students with the latest. Also, our students are very internet competent and the district requires a complete credit in technology to graduate from high school.
While our school is not that diverse. We do have a multicultural club for our students and I also have a son I adopted from South Korea, so I am very sensitive to the needs of our minority population. I have regularly sent our middle and high school students to the Wisconsin minority precollege programs throughout the state in a variety of subjects: art music, leadership, and writing. Since my son is in high school; I also scour the internet for scholarships for minority students: Gates Milenium Scholarship and the Asian Pacific Islander Scholarship to name two. I got him a book in grade school that is quite good and he has used, Famous Asian Americans by Morey and Dunn.
The area of career counseling has our student service staff running a career day every other year with over 60 presenters. The students are ablew to meet with the various individuals from the career or occupation they are interested in. As I noted in earlier writings we use Wiscareers heavily throughout the four years students are enrolled in Kimberly High School and our Junior Seminars have public and private college reps along with Tech school and military reps present. We also have a class requirement on career portfolio and finance to graduate.
Obviously, the websites or Mr. Slowey's suggestion will be explored to assist our students.
I believe our school has an adequate amount of technology for the year 2007. As I read through the list on page 122 I realized that our school hits some of those subheadings. For math class, I take students to the CMP website, along with another math games site. The students love being able to play interactive games and programs. I could do an entire extra curriculum just on online math work. We do not use Math Blaster as much anymore because it has become a little dated. There is a new Math 24 interactive site that some students were able to visit this year. There was a cost associated with the site but the school picked it up through a technology grant. The PE dept uses Fitnessgram software and also some running/jumping SimonSays program. Whatever it is called the kids have a blast running on the pad. The GT teacher takes her class to play simulation games like Sim City in Madison.
In my school I do not think there is a lot of diversity. However our school does do some major cross curriculum days that help address it. In the 6th grade we have a rain forest day, an Ellis Island simulation day, and we spend a day at the Milwaukee Public Museum. In 7th grade the staff has a medieval day, and a Greek day, along with a deer necropsy.
Our school has been updating the technology used in our school. We constantly are updating the system used by the teachers. Sometimes teachers are overwhelmed. For the students we do not have enough computer labs for classes that want to use them. We have to sign up for the labs. There are two labs which are mainly used for computer and business classes. One lab is for sign up for classes for the senior high and one in the junior high. Teachers are somewhat limited to have all students on computers at one time. In my classroom I am fortunate to have an updated technology system with a video system, power point, etc. to use with my computer. I have a "large screen" and a new digital camera. (Now I have to learn how to use it all) The vocational teachers received all of this through funding. Some of the other teachers have some setups such as this but not all of them. Looking over the list of software I am sure many of the teachers are using this in our school.
We have one counselor for the junior and senior high. I am not aware of multiple intelligences being evaluated at the present time. Since I am/was the work experience coordinator for the high school and taught the work study class, I became involved with funding for the "Wisconsin Careers" site on the Internet. I am not aware of any MI used with this but I do know the site is being used for 10th and 12th grades. It has been used for the junior high. The elemetary counselor was trying to get it for the the 5th grade students.
Culture: Durand has been known as a farming community. We have a strong work ethic. Diversity of cultures was very little. Some of the farms have increased in size and brought in Mexican families. It has been wonderful having these students share their culture with us. One Mexican boy brought his cooking skills and culture into my foods class. I have to share this story with you. One day I asked if anyone has seen Aric. His response was "Come on, Mrs. Russo,I'm the only Mexican in the room!" Of course, everyone chuckled but I used it as a teachable moment of diversity and acceptance.
This past year we had a foreign exchange student from China. His MI was a asset to our school. He was on the Academic Decathlon team and Music program using his talents. He was able to share his culture with many students. We do have 3 to 5 foreign exhange students each year. I do believe we as teachers need to constantly teach students to understand and accept the differences of people in our society. We need to stress that all cultures in the world possess and make use of the MI theory but in different ways as stated in Chapter 13.
We have some very good things in our school technologically speaking and some very poor things. For the upcoming year in our classroom, we are all going to have 44" LCD screens which we are going to be able to use with our computers. It is a great way to implement more visuals into the classroom. However our use of individual software programs is a big issue. Our curriculum coordinator claims he doesn't have time to install software for a class and then remove it later. He is very uncooperative and he is also not an educator so he doesn't really get it.
We are also a very white school and don't even offer an ESL program to our five-ten hispanic students. In fact my wife is a Spanish teacher and has been asked to come in and translate on occassion because we don't have those services provided. We would not even begin to find the MI strengths of these kids.
Our career counseling is one of our strengths. We have several opportunities for kids to start careers in nursing, motel management, marketing, and the technical careers. WE have a great working relationship with Gateway Tech in the area and are sending several kids there to begin studying in fields that are not offered in our high school. It is one of the best programs in the area.
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