Logic Model / ALAR

As a CTE person, I often forget that other content areas do not have specific objectives written out for their curriculum. In class, we briefly discussed that short term goals on logic models could be referred to as objectives, and written in a way that resembles: The student will be able to ____________. To me, this is second nature and taken for granted. However, I can see where some teachers might struggle with trying to come up with their own, so I think it’s very important as a SLMS that we try to help them when collaborative lesson/unit plans are created.

One problem that my group had was trying to narrow down our ideas. We had several good ideas but they were much too large to tackle all together. I’m especially happy with the objective that we’re focusing on—cross-curricular projects so that we can connect student learning throughout different content areas. I believe the students have more fun with hands-on projects (or project-based learning) that they can explore in more than one class.

After the class, I tried to look up information on our chosen school, but I did not find much. Our chosen school’s website does not have a library page that I could find, nor does their staff page label which teachers/staff are in what department. However, my group will be visiting our chosen school next week for another class, so I am hopeful that we will learn more about the media program at that time.

Last Wednesday, my group met to go over our logic model and to confirm our chosen objective. We discussed what the social studies focus was for each grade level (4 – 8) and decided we will target either 6th or 7th grade. We chose to focus first on social studies because those teachers do not have a specific EOC/EOG so we are hoping they might be more open to collaborative projects.