TIP Project

4J Technology Integration Phases (TIP) Project 2008-10

Beginning in the 2008-09 school year, Eugene School District 4J began a K-12 systemic Project to help integrate technology into the classroom to ensure that ALL students would have access to learning with 21st Century tools. Each year a new team of teachers is selected from each school to receive equipment  (according to assessed Phase) and professional development incorporating strategies, methods, and ideas teaching with technology (elementary: 3 teachers, middle: 4 teachers, high: 6 teachers).

The Project provides each cohort with:

• High quality, intensive, sustained professional development for a team of certified classroom teachers from each K-12 school including one “early intervening services" teacher (e.g. SPED, reading specialist, student achievement coordinator, etc…).

• Release time to attend workshops throughout the school year.

• Technology equipment specific to each Phase (laptop, projector, doc camera, airliner, SMARTBoard, clickers, etc....)

In return, each participant is be expected to:

• Attend and participate in ALL TIP Project professional development workshops
• Continue development work on a K-12 scope and sequence for technology skills and concepts.

• Share examples of instructional technology products (teacher or student) with entire school staff during the 2009-2010 school year (minimum three).

• Align personal instructional technology goals and lesson plans with Oregon Technology Plan, and the National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS*S)

• Keep a brief log of activities, lessons, research, experiences, frustrations, lessons learned, contacts etc... (via the TIP wiki) to share with other participants (2 entries per month)