Abstract

PROFESSIONAL PORTFOLIO FOR RICHARD KLUG

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Richard Klug

The electronic portfolio represents a milestone in my educational evolution. It demonstrates some of the technology skills I learned and integrated in my teaching approach. As the technology coordinator for Geyserville Unified School District, this program has enriched my skills in the area of staff development.

Process

The process portion of my electronic portfolio includes a brief description of my professional background, links to some of my students' work and a link to online courses I teach through Santa Rosa Junior College.

Product

Concept Attainment- Polygon activity for High School geometry

Concept attainment was our first assignment and reflects some of our earlier attempts at integrating technology into the curriculum. We feel that this is a good example of a simplistic approach to delivering curriculum that allowed students to use basic software tools in working on the assignment.

Digital Divide- Clinton New World Market Tour

This investigation was conducted during the summer of 2000 and revolved around the concept of bridging the gap in technology between the haves and the have-nots. Using President Clinton’s New World Market Tour as a guide, our group gathered information concerning the governments approach to providing technology opportunities to the major portion of the United States citizens.

Advanced Organizer- Adolescent vs. Adult Learners in Using PowerPoint

In this project we decided to explore the differences in the way adolescents and adults learn. Utilizing the concept of advanced organizer as defined by David Ausebel, we developed a PowerPoint presentation explaining how both adults and adolescents learn and some techniques to consider using in teaching to both groups.

Webquest- Watching the Colors Come Alive (a 6^th grade social studies unit)

This website was created as part of our action research project to be used in a 6^th grade social studies class. It is approximately a three week unit that meets the California State Standards for Social Studies (Ancient Civilizations) and Language Arts. The unit included Internet resources, online worksheets, assessment rubrics, teacher guide, PowerPoint tutorial and kite building material.

Landscapes- 10^th grade integrated unit

This project was developed as a way to integrate social science, science, language arts and math in a web-based environment. The primary goal is for students to discover what is involved in sending a space shuttle to Mars, utilizing Kepler’s laws. The first unit, space, will take approximately two weeks for students to complete. We’ve identified three other units: water, environment and air, which are currently under development. Eventually, we would like to develop this project into 10 units spanning a full semester.

Showcase (Action Research Project)

This section of my electronic portfolio discusses the action research plan, the relevant review of the literature and the findings of our action research.

The problem addressed in the action research revolved around grouping students into cooperative learning pods based on personality type. In general, teachers utilize various techniques for grouping students that may or may not be effective in the final analysis. In our research we hope to identify another grouping strategy that could be helpful to teachers in forming cooperative groups.

We began our research by creating a WebQuest site that would represent the curriculum used by the target group (6^th grade Social Science class). We then created a timeline, acquired a valid personality test, conducted a review of the relevant literature and initiated the WebQuest project. The data collected included completed questionnaires and surveys by the target group, interviews with the target groups and teachers and feedback from students and parents.

Partnership Statement

Deborah Bertolucci, Rob Freeman, Joe Volek and Richard Klug collaborated fully in the preparation and presentation of the Concept Attainment and Advanced Organizer projects.
Deborah Bertolucci, Fernando Nugent and Richard Klug collaborated fully in the research and development of the Landscapes project .
Deborah Bertolucci, Richard Klug and Jeff Palmrose collaborated fully in the research and development of the WebQuest project.
Richard Klug, Christie Speed and Marco Baeza collaborated fully in the research and development of the Digital Divide project.
Deborah Bertolucci and Richard Klug collaborated fully in the research and development of the Action Research Project. Jeff Palmrose contributed research pertaining to the personality test.