How do educators know what to teach? How do they know what students should learn? Every state has standards and every content area conforms to national standards. Georiga has recently adopted new standards: the Georgia Performance Standards (GPS) (URL does not work at times)
We can come up with a brilliant use of technologies to support our teaching and students' learning. However, whatever design you may want to implement, your curriculum should meet the GPS. Thus it is critical for all of us to be well aware of this standard before we engage in any classroom activities.
Sandy Blount, NEGA PRISM Program Coordinator and GPS expert has kindly agreed to give us an overview of the GPS today. Please check this presentation material before coming to class. There will be a short Q&A session and you may ask any questions you might have about the GPS.
Now that you learned about the GPS, you are required to turn in your responses to the questions listed below. Submit a printed copy at the beginning of class, next Tuesday. This is one of your Mini-Project assignments. This should be less than 1 page. Please do not make a cover page for this assignment.
Questions:
- What is your content area/grade level you’d like to focus this semester?
- Why did you chose this content area/grade level?
- What surprised you about your standards?
- If you were actually teaching this content area/grade level what would you want your students to know and be able to do? What would be your priorities? What would you want them to remember from your class?
- Submit your assignment as explained above
- We will start an exciting project called “Digital Storytelling” using iMovie.
- Please watch out for updates on the blog over the weekend to get ready for the new project.
