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Kyrene improves walk-through procedure with iPads
Using Apple's iPad to monitor reading in classrooms at Kyrene Akimel A-al
Principal Ernie Brodersen says it has taken just a few months using Apple's iPad to monitor reading in classrooms at Kyrene Akimel A-al to realize how much it is an improvement over putting notes in a notebook.
Apple's iPad to monitor reading in classrooms at Kyrene Akimel A-al
Principal Ernie Brodersen says it has taken just a few months using Apple's iPad to monitor reading in classrooms at Kyrene Akimel A-al to realize how much it will improve both the depth of his analysis and efficiency.
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LearnngEveryDay posted at 11:19 am on Tue, Mar 8, 2011.
These iPADs are IMPROVING TEACHING and Learning. That's the point. The cost is 10 CENTS and the result is much better learning. Read on:
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Kyrene is working on making better teachers. The point of a Walk-Thru is for the principal to observe and then coach the teacher to do a better job.
There are lot of things involved in coaching a teacher to do a better job.
.... So Kyrene uses a "Check List" to make sure that all the right aspects of teaching are being done by the teacher.
... That "Check List" is very long, and fairly complex. To make it easier to use, it's on a database.
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... The end result of using that database via an iPad is :
#1- The teachers get feedback and corrective information about their work over a longer period of time. It's not just about how the teacher is doing today, it's about this whole semester, year, and several years. With this better tool, principals will have information about a teacher's growth (or lack of it).
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#2- The teacher gets feedback that is very specific to "ARE YOU TEACHING WHAT YOU SHOULD BE TEACHING?"
Teaching is not just about standing at the front of the room talking about your subject. You must deliver content that will produce the outcome of helping this specific set of students to learn what they need to learn next. What they need to learn is spelled out as "Performance Objectives" in the Kyrene curriculum and described in the AZ Standards.
BTW -- The AZ Standards get an "A" rating year after year from conservative and liberal and less-biased organizations.
Akimel has over 1000 students. The cost of $500 to make sure that all those students are getting better instruction is not much. Let me do the math for you: 10 CENTS per STUDENT per year.
kingdomservant posted at 6:23 am on Tue, Mar 8, 2011.
So, the Kyrene School District took some of the $6.8 million approved by the voters to buy iPads? When everyone else is forced to cut back in this recession, the school district believes this is a proper use of taxpayer funds?
The article says they used to do the walkthroughs on pieces of paper. Well, cry me a river! The article continues to say "The teacher is the most important person in a school district". Who knew? I thought it was the student, but I must be mistaken.
This is an incredible puff piece that seems to have no purpose other than to gush about how wonderful iPads are for teachers and for principals. Somehow it seems that students could be far better served without the district wasting taxpayer money for unnecessary fluff.