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This WiKi will act as my ePortfolio for the STAT 21 grant. My name is Angela and I teach 5th grade at St. Michael School. This year I have a class of 21 students. I've now been teaching at St. Michael School for 8 years!


 * The main part of this STAT 21 grant allows me to examine my students’ scores using EMetric to see which areas my students historically have struggled with. My goal is to then improve these scores by changing the way that I teach these standards-making sure to incorporate technology and the 21st Century Skills as much as possible. Last year it worked! For the standard that I choose to focus my last year’s Action Research on my previous students earned a score of 71.4% on that specific indicator according to EMetric. My last year’s students achieved a score of 87.8%. That's a 16.4% increase. **

I have earned a Masters of Education in Educational Technology and that knowledge has helped me to feel very comfortable incorporating technology into my teaching of the 5th grade standards. While I may feel comfortable using technology I am very aware there is so much educational technology available that I have never used before or am simply just unaware of. By being a participant of this grant for the second year in a row I am excited to continue to find and use new technology tools to help engage my students.

Another part of the grant is to implement 21st Century Skills to help prepare my students for their future. I spent most of last year examining ways that I already do this and this year I really want to focus on implementing as many of the 21st Century Skills that I can in new ways. One of the new ways that I am going to do this is through project based learning.

Each and every year that I teach I want to improve. I know that I cannot change everything that I do in one year but I believe that the STAT 21 Grant will allow me to take a step back, examine my teaching, and make me a more effective teacher by helping me change a percentage of my teaching. My long-term goal is that I’ll continue to learn and change a portion of my teaching each year so I can truly be the best teacher that I know how to be.