1. SDE Updates & Tech Tools
Back to School
SDE Updates & Tech Tools
July 18, 2017
Inglenook Elementary School
Dr. Melissa Shields, NBCT

2. When you know your "why," your "what" has more impact….

3. @mjshields

4. I CAN teach!
I CAN learn!

5. ALSDE Updates
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6. A New Vision For Alabama Education
In the knowledge-based economy of the future, a dynamic, healthy and prosperous Alabama will increasingly rely on the education of its population. The first step to realizing that vision is a high-performing system of public schools that challenges all children with world-class expectations for understanding English and its rich literature, mathematics, history and the requirements of a democracy, the sciences and the arts. Such a system demands educators with a deep understanding of the subject being taught, a personal allegiance to continuous self-improvement and a commitment to helping all children find their success in school, careers and their lives thereafter.
It is through promoting and supporting such a vision for each child’s education that Alabama can create a system of public education that is equitable, accountable, and just.

7. ThIS New Vision for Alabama Education IS Based IN Part on Our understanding of what the future holds
The public school population in Alabama is shrinking.
The kindergarten class of 2017 is 4.9% smaller than was the kindergarten class of this year’s high school graduates.
The makeup of our classes has changed and will continue to change.
The Hispanic population of 2017 kindergarten class is 231% larger than was the Hispanic population of the 2005 kindergarten class.
The U.S. Department of Commerce expects the Hispanic population in Alabama to double once again by 2025.

8. The Goals For The Strategic Plan That will Make Such an Education System possible
A Prepared Graduate
Multiple Pathways to Higher Education and Careers
Superior Educator Preparation
Continuous Improvement of World-Class Educators
Equitable and Accountable Systems
Healthy and Safe Systems and Schools
Engaged Families and Communities

9. 2018 STATE ASSESSMENTS Scantron (Global Scholar) – Grades 3-8
Mr. Sentence has proposed using ACT (11th Grade) for the required high school federal accountability, as well as the PSAT.
Request for Bid for new assessment is expected to be posted in August.

11. National Board Certification
Alabama is 12th in the country for % of NBCTs!!
Grant will be made available soon for NEW candidates.
Contact me for more info.
Resources and info on my website:
@mjshields

12. NBCT Research (2017)
Students taught by Board-certified teachers learn more than students taught by other teachers.
Estimates of the increase in learning are on the order of an additional one to two months of instruction.
The positive impact of having a Board-certified teacher (NBCT) is even greater for minority and low-income students.

13. KUDOS!!

15. We must be our students’ Cheerleader
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16. Tech Savvy Classrooms
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18. Signs of a 21st Century
Tech-Savvy Teacher

19. “For Teachers” & “Tech Savvy Teacher”
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“For Teachers” & “Tech Savvy Teacher”

20. “Maybe I’m wrong, but in 10 years, textbooks will be as outdated as the horse and buggy.”
Thomas Edison, 1925.
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21. Bloom's Taxonomy

22. This is the design spec. for 21st Century Education

23. Our Students Want to Learn…
Technology
With one another
Online
In their own time
In their own place
Doing things that matter
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25. No dear, you weren’t downloaded.
You were born.

26. The New 3 R’s
Relevance
Rigor
Readiness 

27. 21st Century Skills Framework
20th Century Education Model
Our current assessment model focuses on core subjects

28. 21st Century Skills Framework
Performance based, authentic assessments, collaborative groups, etc.

29. “Brain work will cause women to go bald.”
Berlin professor, 1914.

30. Do you know one of these teachers?
When I become a teacher….
@mjshields

31. My Fave Tech Tools Diigo Jing Publishing Places Formative Assessments
Google Lit Trips
Wolfram Alfa
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35. Expectation

36. “Computers in the future may perhaps only weigh 1.5 tons.”
Popular Mechanics, forecasting the development of computer technology, 1949

37. Why 21st Century Skills? 20th Century 21st Century 1 – 2 Jobs
Number of
Jobs:
Mastery of
One Field
Critical Thinking Across Disciplines
Job
Requirement:
Subject
Matter
Mastery
Integration of 21st
Century Skills into
Subject Matter
Mastery
Teaching
Model:
21st Century Jobs Require 21st Century Skills
Subject
Matter
Mastery
Integration of 21st
Century Skills into
Subject Matter
Mastery
Assessment
Model:

38. “Everything that can be invented, has been invented.”
Charles Duell,
US commissioner of patents, 1899

39. “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”
Thomas Watson,
Chairman of IBM, 1943