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Web Portal
Setting the
Standard for
Teaching,
Leading, &
Learning
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Classroom Resources
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ALEX Lesson Plans
Curriculum Core
Standard 1: Explain
the impact of
technological
advancement on a
variety of areas.
Technology and Health Care – A Healthy Partnership
Charlotte Heatherly, Cullman County
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Lesson Examples Using
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Curriculum Core
Standard 4:
Demonstrate skills for
managing finances.
Thinkfinity – EconEdLink
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Lesson Examples Using
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Career
Technologies
Standard 1:
Compare a
variety of
careers
available in the
technology area
being studied.
Thinkfinity – EconEdLink – Wages and Me
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ALEX Website Resources
Agriscience
Education/Aquaculture
Thinkfinity – ScienceNet Links
The Fish Trade
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Agriscience
Education/Aquaculture
Thinkfinity – ScienceNet Links
The Fish Trade
Who Eats Fish?
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www.princetonreview.com
Business/Marketing
Standard 13:
Relate the uses of computer
applications to business and
marketing.
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What Will I Do With My Life?
Joan Greene, Shelby County
RED: Expediting
GREEN: Communicating
BLUE: Planning
YELLOW: Administrating
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Family and Consumer Sciences Education
Standard 27:
Recognize factors that influence
buying.
Thinkfinity – EconEdLink
Believe It or Not?
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Health Science
Thinkfinity – Science NetLinks
Systems of the Human Body
Grades 3 – 5
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Technical Education
Introduction to Carpentry
Thinkfinity – EDSITEment
Skyscraper
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Career/Technical Cooperative
Education Program
Thinkfinity – Illumination
Jobs for Kids Who Like Math
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Agriscience Education/ Pre-Agriscience
Standard 5:
Describe the results of an
abundant, inexpensive, and safe
food supply produced by United
States' farmers for the American
population.
Thinkfinity – ScienceNet Links
4H Virtual Farm
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ALEX Features
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Free
Searchable Courses of
Study & New “Search All”
Feature
Lesson Plans Aligned to
Courses of Study
New Listservs
Student and Teacher
Activities
Web Links
Personal Workspace
More…
Lesson Plan/Activity
Sources
•Thinkfinity
•Alabama Teachers
•NASA
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ALEX New Features
• New Design
• Webpage for Every Teacher
• New, Free ALEX and Thinkfinity Training
Program for Each District
• Training meets most of the newly required
Teacher Technology Professional Development
Standards
• Over 38,000 state Course of Study
alignments to award-winning Thinkfinity and
Alabama teacher-developed resources
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ALEX New Features
• Digitized, Printable Alabama Courses of Study
& New “Search All” feature for ALEX
• Coming…Flagged Courses of Study indicating
when standards are introduced, reinforced,
and mastered, etc.
• Coming…More Interactives all aligned to
Alabama Courses of Study for: Hard to
Teach/Learn Standards, & Typical
Achievement Gap Areas
• Coming…Specially Designed Resources for:
ELL, Special Education, Leadership
Development, Schools/Districts in School
Improvement
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A Webpage for Every Teacher
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Through Courses of
Study, teachers access
digitized, printable
Alabama Courses of Study
with over 38,000 aligned
Thinkfinity and Alabama Teacher-developed
resources for all K-12 subject areas.
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Web Links quickly
connect students,
teachers, parents, and
administrators to
exemplary, high-quality
resources that ignite
learning at all levels.
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Visit the Lesson Plan
section to find panelreviewed, “best
practices” new ideas
and inspirations!
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Teachers Search all of ALEX to find
Course of Study Standards that are
Frequently Tested, Hard to Teach/ Learn,
and typical Achievement Gap Areas—
aligned to exciting learning resources
selected by a panel of National Board
Certified Teachers.
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Teachers create teacher web
pages*, create, find and save
lesson plans in their
Personal Workspace.
*For districts selecting this option.
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In Professional Learning, educators
can visit new Alabama Department of
Education section web sites for rich
instructional tools and professional
development opportunities.
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Learn all about
Alabama’s ACCESS
Distance Learning
program.
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Graphics Depict the Tagging
of Critical COS Standards
1. ARMT, AHSGE, Direct
Digitized, Printable Alabama
Assessment of Writing
Courses Study Flagged
for
2. Hard to
Teach/Learn
3. Typical Achievement
Highly Tested Items, Hard
to
Gaps
4. When standards are
Teach/Learn Standards,
&
Introduced, Reinforced,
Typical AchievementandGap
Mastered…coming.
Areas
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Technology Professional
Development Standards
• Teachers – 10
• Administrators – 7
• Based on ISTE standards
• Statewide implementation:
September 2006
• Consolidated Review
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Using ALEX to Meet
Student Technology Standards
• Technology Course of Study (New…coming)
• Links to lesson plans & web resources listed
beside each objective for Technology Course
of Study (and other areas, too)
• All are national standards based - not just
"Joe's School of Thought" located down the
street
• Teachers like the ease of use of these lessons
& resources - easy to locate
• All curriculum areas are available
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Using ALEX to Meet
Administrator Technology
Standards
• New Standards
Implementation began this
fall for Technology
• Excellent resources already
available on Leadership
Development page
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Using ALEX to Meet Teacher
Technology Standards
•Tutorials and Tech Tips are excellent
resources for teachers using technology
•PEDOGAGY COUNTS, Teaching Activities and
Curriculum Resources--good beginning sites
to help teachers incorporate technology into
curriculum
more…
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Using ALEX to Meet Teacher
Technology Standards
more…
•Links to professional organizations, AVL,
Thinkfinity, and APTPlus are great for
teachers to find nationally standards based
resources that will correlate with the
technology standards & COS
•Format for ALEX is similar to Thinkfinity and
teachers are already using Thinkfinity
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ALEX/Thinkfinity Training
Teacher Technology Professional
Development Standards
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New, Free ALEX and Thinkfinity
Training Program for Each
District: Fall 2007
Trainers Now:
http://www.technologyinmotion.state.al.us
Contact: sparks@alsde.edu
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ALEX wants…
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Content Experts
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