Goals
Give students control of their learning
Increase learning engagement
Enhance collaboration among students and teacher
Provide students with modern learning technologies
Allow access to learning tools from almost anywhere
Improve accountability
Reduce paper use
Reduce paper use
Give critical feedback everyday
Approach
Implement Google Apps for Education
Use SOLE everyday
Use SOLE everyday
Teach skills for developing appropriate questions
Teach research techniques (advanced features of Google, evaluating websites for content)
Teach research techniques (advanced features of Google, evaluating websites for content)
Results
Boosted student enthusiasm about learning
Sparked student and teacher ingenuity and creativity
Enabled students to work from almost anywhere and not always in the same room
Improved access to industry-leading collaboration tools allowed them to perform stronger SOLE research
Students collaboration on projects improved
Helped teacher more easily track homework and assignments
Reading levels of all students in Grade 4 are at Grade 5 – 7 levels
Reading levels of all students in Grade 4 are at Grade 5 – 7 levels
Parents are happier with the wider range of knowledge their children are demonstrating
Parental interaction with student learning has increased
Student engagement in topics and learning is higher for all students
Student social skills improved while major behavioural challenges decreased
Student presentation skills, speaking, body language, answering questions on the spot, taking criticism, improved dramatically
Student presentation skills, speaking, body language, answering questions on the spot, taking criticism, improved dramatically
Overall confidence in their abilities increased
I will add to this plan in September so that a whole year of SOLE will be able to demonstrate stronger results.
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