Title:
Provide Our Lady Queen of Heaven school with the possibility of implementing distance-course learning for students transitioning from middle school to high school.
Provide Our Lady Queen of Heaven school with the possibility of implementing distance-course learning for students transitioning from middle school to high school.
Needs Assessment:
Compared to last year’s our school enrollment grew and it is been growing for the last few years; our schedules are getting loaded with new classes and enrichments and the administrative team keeps struggling to find quality time management, good scheduling, and more academic time for students that are getting ready to go to high school. Currently we have a total of 326 students in middle school grades, 143 Male students, and 183 Female students.
(NOTE: OLQH School considers the 5th grade as part of its middle school program).
Compared to last year’s our school enrollment grew and it is been growing for the last few years; our schedules are getting loaded with new classes and enrichments and the administrative team keeps struggling to find quality time management, good scheduling, and more academic time for students that are getting ready to go to high school. Currently we have a total of 326 students in middle school grades, 143 Male students, and 183 Female students.
(NOTE: OLQH School considers the 5th grade as part of its middle school program).
Objectives
and Vision of the action research project:
The leaders of the school found that if we implement online courses and distance-learning alternatives, it would increase the potential of our middle school students considerably enough for them to perform better at the time of ACT test and other required test that measure high school qualifications.
It is important that parents and the community of the school gets involved and show full support of the program in order for it to become a success. The timeframe needs to be as short as possible, not forgetting about quality, preparation, and the student’s learning capabilities.
The leaders of the school found that if we implement online courses and distance-learning alternatives, it would increase the potential of our middle school students considerably enough for them to perform better at the time of ACT test and other required test that measure high school qualifications.
It is important that parents and the community of the school gets involved and show full support of the program in order for it to become a success. The timeframe needs to be as short as possible, not forgetting about quality, preparation, and the student’s learning capabilities.
Literature and action research strategy:
When the problem is lack of instructional time due to the amount of signatures and enrichments we have to offer as a private school in the state of Louisiana, the solution for the issue lays in the hands of the technology capabilities of the school’s faculty and the students.
“Distance education has two primary potential killer applications, time and spatial independence, over the traditional system of student-instructor time and place congruence. As time independent technologies, distance tools enable students to study and learn at their convenience. As spatially independent technologies, the tools do not require students to be in the same locale as the instructor to receive instruction. Web pages and pre-recorded videotapes are perhaps two of the most common examples of distance education technologies possessing time and spatial independence” (Martinez, 2006).
When the problem is lack of instructional time due to the amount of signatures and enrichments we have to offer as a private school in the state of Louisiana, the solution for the issue lays in the hands of the technology capabilities of the school’s faculty and the students.
“Distance education has two primary potential killer applications, time and spatial independence, over the traditional system of student-instructor time and place congruence. As time independent technologies, distance tools enable students to study and learn at their convenience. As spatially independent technologies, the tools do not require students to be in the same locale as the instructor to receive instruction. Web pages and pre-recorded videotapes are perhaps two of the most common examples of distance education technologies possessing time and spatial independence” (Martinez, 2006).
Martinez, J. G. (2006). Distance education as a competitive
tool. Focus V, 2, 49-58. Retrieved from http://focus.bayamon.inter.edu/a5_n2/martinez_a5_n2.pdf
Articulate the Vision:
First we need to make sure we have full support of all the
faculty and staff in our school campus.
The parental involvement is a key factor when it comes to changes like
these. The results are something that we
are expecting to be positive, and all the literature out there looks very confident
that this is a solution we could pursuit.
School members along with parents will help to get the rest of the community involved in the process that will provide tangible benefits for our middle school students as they prepare to face the high school years.
School members along with parents will help to get the rest of the community involved in the process that will provide tangible benefits for our middle school students as they prepare to face the high school years.
Manage the Organization:
Student safety is the main concern when it comes to implementing
new technology that has access to the World Wide Web. There are many strategies that we (the
technology team at OLQHS) are considering to make this a safe-environment plan
that only meets the goal of education and that do not put any students under
any risks.
The utilization of our school filter can provide a safe environment within the campus, but we need to be aware of the situations we might encounter when the students operate computers from site out of the school perimeter.
The utilization of our school filter can provide a safe environment within the campus, but we need to be aware of the situations we might encounter when the students operate computers from site out of the school perimeter.
Manage Operations:
There will be teams in charge of keeping record of the
experiences we encounter as we go. Once
again, the school culture plays a very important role on how we are going to
approach this sets of changes within our curriculum. It is important to note that we are getting
an experimental period for the students before we get the program fully established,
that way all the member involved in the plan can get a feeling of it without
having to risk any priorities for the students to face the high school stage.
Respond to Community Interest and Needs:
We will perform a check on all students
participating on the sample group to make sure they possess the requirements to
enroll the online courses. A variation
of options will be available for all the students with special needs for they
can very much benefit from the technological advantages that our campus provides.
Overall, the community would count on a new, technology-based, alternative for the aliviation of the heavy curriculum that our middle school students are currently under. The results are hypothetical, but with good planning and a lot of effort from all the members of our school community we are walking towards something that can might change the way we prepare our middle school students to get the best high school skills.
Overall, the community would count on a new, technology-based, alternative for the aliviation of the heavy curriculum that our middle school students are currently under. The results are hypothetical, but with good planning and a lot of effort from all the members of our school community we are walking towards something that can might change the way we prepare our middle school students to get the best high school skills.
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