Uses of Technology in the Alternative Triad Model

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Uses of Technology in the Alternative Triad Model

• Marcy Oxford
• Joy Walkey
• Ken Schaefer
• San Andres High School
• Las Cruces Public Schools

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History of San Andres

• District alternative school (turned into
  district dumping ground)
• Five administrators in five years
• R1-R2 status
• Low student/staff morale

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RECONSTITUTION

• All instructional staff reapplied
• All students reapplied to school
• Generation of a new instructional model
• Extended teaching contracts
• 15 days prep
• 183 days district calendar
• 22 days summer school
• Flexible schedule/hours

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What is the Alternative Triad Model?
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Teaching and Learning Seminar

• Direct Teacher Instruction
• Opportunity for differentiation
• Relearn, reteach, revisit student mastery

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Inquiry Based-Demonstration of Competency

• Project-based activities
• Essays and reports
• Labs
• Community-based assignments
• Student interviews

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Technology ComponentCyber Cafe

• EETT funding

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Technology ComponentChoice of CAI

• NovaNet
• E2020
• Plato
• OdysseyWare
• Blackboard/
• Moodle

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Criteria for Selection

• Student engagement
• Potential for ELL and SPED modifications
• cost
• Web-based vs. Server-based
• Technical Support
• Addition of future courses

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Aha moment

• It doesnt matter so much what tool we use-it
  depends on what the teacher does with it.
• Deliver basic course content 24/7
• Opportunity for credit recovery
• Next Steps

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Professional Development Technology Seminar
Series

• participants commit to participating in a series
  of connected workshops
• dedicated to the development of courses in a
  learning management system.
• appropriate for either a blended or fully on-line
  environment (Blackboard/Moodle)
• designed to address pedagogical best practices
• Teachers provided with a stipend

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Rise of the Phoenix

• Truly Alternative
• Reteaching
• Late course entrance
• Incarceration
• Homebound
• Credit Recovery
• Student Government