Level II Narrative

Standards Based Curriculum Supported by Technology

3.0 Standards Based Curriculum Supported by Technology
Urban Dreams will integrate with and support the curriculum that has been developed by the district Language Arts and Social Studies curriculum teams. A major task to be undertaken by the UD grant is to help high school teachers become knowledgeable about content standards. Teachers will learn to construct standard based lessons with embedded technology. These lessons will focus on assisting students to reach mastery of the content.

The current state of standards awareness, installed technologies, and technology practices in the curriculum will be assessed. Strengths and weaknesses will be identified and used to guide the course of professional development.

The development of electronic resources to support the curriculum will be explored with the project partners. This will include the development of web pages, original source materials and collaborative tools to create learning communities.

The end results of these efforts will be to create meaningful, content rich, technology rich environments for both teachers and students. Curriculum embedded technologies native and transparent to teaching styles and content delivery will result in significant gains in LA and SS achievement for OUSD high school students.

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