Final CPCP Meeting

There was a preplanned meeting with our CPCP group tonight, but no one except me showed. I guess everyone was satisfied with the completed vision statement that a meeting was not necessary.


Our work (copied from our buzzword document)


We used Buzzword within our group to assist with composing our vision statement. Attached are our notes from Buzzword so you can see how we worked together in addition to using AET Zone.
Please see the last page with our current version of the Vision Statement and make changes that you feel are necessary! :) Anita

I made some notes at the bottom in green on 6/26/2009 - Betsy

I made some notes at the bottom in purple on 6/26/2009 - Jerri

I made up a different version of the Vision. See it in pink below -
6/26/09 - Jerri

Here are a few websites on the demographics of NC:
http://www.nccareeroutlook.com/career_pathways/trends/trends02.01.pdf-windows

Rough Draft of Vision: _____________ is to enable students to function as responsible citizens by providing them opportunities to construct knowledge, acquire skills, and develop attitudes. By integrating technology within the curriculum we can equip and encourage our teachers, staff, and students to be successful citizens the 21st century.

________________ is devoted to providing a student-centered educational program that strives for excellence. Students will begin their journey as lifelong learners and develop technological skills to prepare them for their next step along their educational pathway. These skills, using technology as a learning tool, will be the beginning of what lies ahead to prepare them to become effective citizens in the 21st century.

I found this website with examples of vision statements that we can model when we write our statement: Anita

http://www.sun-associates.com/resources/visions.html

Rosemary Middle School
Our Vision for Technology Integration

Students, parents, and educators will use communication and information technologies to enhance and expand the traditional role of education in the Andrews community. We believe the basic goal of education has not changed, that is to prepare our students for life-long learning and success in a change society. However , the tools and instructional methods to achieve these goals have advanced dramatically. Technologies such as computers, networks, and wide area communications offer tremendous opportunities to students and educators as a way to improve life within our community and a link to a world outside of Andrews. Rosemary Middle School has the responsibility for developing curriculum and applying instructional methods enriched with technology and in ensuring that our students and teachers are proficient users of these new technologies. This technology integration plan will outline our strategies for turning this vision into reality.


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The following 3 links posted by Betsy Jones:

This is the link Dr. Tashner posted - great example of a vision statement!
http://www.siia.net/visionk20/index.html
Long-term occupational projections 2006-2016 in North Carolina:
http://www.ncesc1.com/lmi/occupational/Statewide_Long-Term_Projections.pdf
The State of North Carolina
An Assessment of the State's Labor Force
Supply and Demand
2007- 2017
http://www.nccommerce.com/NR/rdonlyres/CE53BE9D-DDF7-4AA9-9430-B9ACF559B197/0/StateoftheNorthCarolinaWorkforceFinal.pdf

Following are the eight key trends identified in the report:
• Many of North Carolina’s traditional manufacturing industries continue to shed jobs as part of an on-going economic transition.
• North Carolina’s traditional “middle jobs”—those that paid a family-sustaining wage and required minimal formal education or training—are disappearing as part of this transition.
• New job creation is concentrating In certain fast-growing metropolitan areas.
• Many areas of North Carolina are not prospering from the economic transformation.
• The future prosperity of all North Carolinians depends on achieving higher educational attainment levels for all citizens.
• Impending baby-boom retirements will exacerbate an emerging skills gap among experienced, skilled workers.
• High-skill in-migrants will help fill part, but not all, of this skills gap.
• Low-skill in-migrants present both opportunities and challenges in meeting the state’s workforce needs.
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The following standards for the 21st Century Learners is from a publication of the American Association of School Librarians:
1. Inquire, think critically, and gain knowledge.
2. Draw conclusions, make informed decisions, apply knowledge to new situations, and create new knowledge.
3. Share knowledge and participate ethically and productively as members of our democratic society.
4. Pursue personal and aesthetic growth.
The entire document which has many objectives under each goal is available for download at http://www.ala.org/aasl/standards
Wendy Davis
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The following info is respectfully by submitted by Jerri M. Sigmon
The sites below have information we may be able to use for our project. I will keep looking for more and post again when I find something.
http://www.ncptsc.org/boardrecsandgoals.pdf
http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/What_is_21st_Century_Education.htm
http://www.rss.k12.nc.us/21stCentury/default.html
http://www.rss.k12.nc.us/21stCentury/Articles/nc_2_pager.pdf
http://www.education.com/topic/academic-subjects-21st-century/
http://wvde.state.wv.us/21stcenturydigitalresource/EconDev.pdf
http://connectivity.fi.ncsu.edu/resources/reports/jttechreport.pdf
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/~dedech/Dede_21stC-skills_semi-final.pdf

I think we need to take this draft vision statement and make changes as a group. We discussed last meeting as having this as our framework for our group vision. We have found numerous resources to enrich our background. Now, we have the knowledge to construct our group vision. Please add/change to this vision for our group.
Anita--June 25th

Educational leaders are devoted to providing a student-centered educational program that strives for excellence. Students will begin their journey as lifelong learners and develop technological skills to prepare them for their next step along their educational pathway. These skills, using technology as a learning tool, will be the beginning of what lies ahead to prepare them to become effective citizens in the 21st century.

I am not sure students will "begin" their journey as lifelong learners. Maybe we should say "students will be lifelong learners, developing technology skills to prepare them...."
Betsy

Educational leaders are devoted to providing a student-centered educational program that strives for excellence. Students will be become lifelong learners, developing technology skills to prepare them for their the next step along their educational pathway. These learned technology skills using technology as a learning tool, will be the beginning of what lies ahead catalyst to prepare them students to become effective citizens whom are globally competitive in the 21st century.

I like what you have, Betsy.

See below................... I came across this in one of the sites I have listed above. I didn't know if we wanted to try to incorporate any of this into our statement. Jerri

The guiding mission of the North Carolina State Board of Education is that every public school student will graduate from high school globally competitive for work and postsecondary education and will be prepared for life in the 21st century.

What about this version? Jerri
Educational leaders are devoted to providing a student-centered educational program that strives for excellence. Through the development of technology skills, students will be better prepared to successfully complete his/her education as well as become life-long learners. These learned technology skills will be the catalyst to prepare students to become effective citizens whom are globally competitive in the 21st century.

I think it is perfect! - Betsy

I like what we have created. Anita

Pathfinder completed

After about 16 hours I have completed my pathfinder. I am so excited. It is good to have it completed. It was a good learning experience. I definitely like the format of working on the pathfinder vs. Dr. Truett's method. I feel I will now be able to create a pathfinder in the future....whether for the library or for my classes. I hope my classmates and Dr. Rob like my pathfinder.


That's all for now..............

Working on Pathfinder

Well, I worked on my pathfinder for 6 hours last night and got some of it completed. I am at the library today with a classmate working, hoping to get it completed before I have to leave. It isn't an easy process. I've have come across so many things for Skeletal System, but a lot of the links were dead, so that was disheartening. Anyway.....onward and upward. A lot to do and a short amount of time to do it.

That's all for now......

Pathfinder Assignment

Oh my!!!!!!!!!! We received our last major assignment from Dr. Rob tonight and I'm scared. Completely different from the pathfinder assignment of Dr. Truett in the spring. I am worried that I won't do a good job. There is much more detail. This project is going to take a lot of time to complete. This is a project that will have to be worked on constantly. Anyone who waits until the last minute to complete this one may be in trouble. I do like that the pathfinder is on wiki. It seemed relatively easy as Dr. Rob was showing us the ropes tonight. Of course, when it comes time to do something I will probably not have a clue. Hopefully I took good enough notes to help me. I think my topic is a good one for this: the skeletal system. Only time will tell.

Two more weeks........................

Tonight's Class Presentation Chapter 10

Kim, Rebecca, and I presented our chapter for geographical resources. All-in-all I think it went pretty well. Our group goal was to present the information without reading too much from the powerpoint slides. It was difficult to bring in the printed resources because those aren't allowed to be checked out from libraries. Luckily Heather M. had a world atlas, geographical dictionary, and a parks travel guide in her library that I was able to borrow and use for the presentation. Our activity involved our classmates searching for answers to pre-made questions using the online geographical resources. After about 10 minutes, we went over the questions and answers. Our classmates seemed to like our presentation. Hopefully Dr. Rob did :)

SD #3 and #4

These questions were pretty tough to find the answers for. I was doing a lot of "reading and digging" just find that I couldn't find the exact wording of the question in print. So I had to make an educated guess as to what the answer would be. Hopefully I chose correctly. I hope the next two sets of questions aren't as hard.

Chapter 10 Presentation

Rebecca, Kim, and I met today at Patrick Beaver Library to work on our powerpoint presentation for Chapter 10. We worked very well together and got it knocked out in no time. Hopefully our classmates and Dr. Rob will like our presentation.