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Designing Teachers: UCLA's IMMEX with a Kentucky Twist

2005 Annual Conference Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Designing Teachers: UCLA's IMMEX with a Kentucky Twist. Lucinda Sanders Kim Overstreet Roger Mullins Fayette County Public Schools Lexington, Kentucky.

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Designing Teachers: UCLA's IMMEX with a Kentucky Twist

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  1. 2005 Annual Conference Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Designing Teachers: UCLA's IMMEX with a Kentucky Twist Lucinda Sanders Kim Overstreet Roger Mullins Fayette County Public Schools Lexington, Kentucky This material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation Grant Number ESI-0323036.

  2. 2005 Annual Conference Philadelphia, Pennsylvania IMMEX Interactive MultiMedia Exercises www.immex.ucla.edu

  3. IMMEX: • Is a free web-delivered, interactive assessment tool. • Integrates subject specific content and problem solving into real-world scenarios. • Provides long-term performance data for both students and teachers so that assessment is formative and ongoing.

  4. The Fayette County NSF Project A community-integrated model in which teams of teachers, students, and business partners, construct interactive, problem-solving simulations in summer technology institutes for teachers and students. http://teach.fcps.net/immex

  5. How are we doing this in Fayette County Public Schools? • Training

  6. How are we doing this in Fayette County Public Schools? • Teamwork • Students • Liaison teachers • Technology Resource Teachers • Business partners

  7. Results So Far 10 more problem sets needed 32 problem sets completed

  8. Schools operating at a highlevel of computer effectiveness focus on: • problem solving • applying and integrating knowledge • active learning • performance assessments

  9. Maximizing the use of the Internet for collaboration, research, communication, and production requires teachers to first teach their students to think critically -- this involves a significant paradigm change for most teachers. • Using IMMEX to teach critical thinking skills Foundation for Critical Thinking www.criticalthinking.org

  10. Whenever we think In attempting to answer a QUESTION, solve a PROBLEM, or resolve an ISSUE. We think for a PURPOSE. Based on CONCEPTS and theories. Within a POINT OF VIEW. Elements Of Reasoning To make INFERENCESand judgments. Based on ASSUMPTIONS. We use DATA, facts, and experiences. Leading to IMPLICATIONS and CONSEQUENCES.

  11. Clones

  12. Clone 1 Clone 2 Clone 3

  13. Teacher Tools • Good instruction demands good assessment… • is frequent, • provides immediate feedback, • is integrated with instruction, • and directly measures student performance.

  14. TRUE ROOTS: A FIRST ATTEMPT

  15. Staging a Request • UCLA requests that you stage your requests to use IMMEX one week in advance. • All requests for the school year 2005-2006 must be made prior to November 15, 2005 and will run through March 31, 2006. • You may stage as many problem sets for as many classes as you like.

  16. Staging a Request • Go to http://teach.fcps.net/immex/ and click on stagable problem sets at the top. • This spreadsheet gives the name, the content, and the grade level of all the problem sets currently being offered by UCLA. • Make a note of the problem sets you want to use.

  17. Staging a Request • Go to http://www.immex.ucla.edu/. • Click on scheduling my class to use an IMMEX problem set. • Highlight the problem sets you want to use during the 2005-2006 school year. • Fill in the General Information section. Be sure to use a phone number where you can be reached during the day if they have questions about your staging request.

  18. Staging a Request • Name your classes, (ex) “Mrs. Smith’s Science 2005-2006.” • Give a description: (ex.) “Earth Science”. • Put the number of students in all your classes plus 10 • Put the grade and level • Check the number of periods that you have that fit this description. • UCLA asks that you fill out a separate form for each grade level.

  19. Staging a Request • Click on the calendars to set the beginning and the ending dates for your requests. • For the 2005-2006 school year, the ending date is March 31, 2006. • Do not check the participant information box. • Check actual classroom performance. • Click on submit. • You will receive an e-mail from UCLA confirming your request and giving you both student usernames and passwords.

  20. 2005 Annual Conference Philadelphia, Pennsylvania YOU MAY ACCESS IMMEX ON A TRIAL BASIS: WWW.IMMEX.UCLA.EDU • Affiliation: Fayette County Public Schools • Login: 05mx1over01 – 05mx1over35 • Password: immex • Class name: NMSA Conference 2005-2006 • Passwords good through: 3/31/06

  21. Read more about it! • KY Teacher article: • Fayette students create word problems for other students around the world to solve, October 2005 issue, http://www.education.ky.gov/KDE/Default.htm • New York Times article: • August 3, 2005 edition – “Software That Lets Teachers Take a Peek” by Lisa Guernsey. http://www.immex.ucla.edu/docs/publications/pdf/New_York_Times_Aug_03_2005.pdf UCLA’s IMMEX web site http://www.immex.ucla.edu Fayette County IMMEX web site http://teach.fcps.net/immex

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