Goals+&+Objectives

**Mission Statement:**
The mission of the Uniform City School District is to create a collaborative community of learning where parents, teachers, and students have access to monitor student progress, provide instruction, and assess learning through a district-wide course management system, and to assist them in achieving their highest potential by becoming self-monitoring, independent individuals.

**Goal:** To implement a course management system that would provide support for a more active and powerful teaching and learning environment where boundaries of time and space are limitless.

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 * Criteria** ||= **Objective #1** ||
 * **S**pecific || Within the first year all teaching staff will receive on-going professional development training for the implementation of Moddle into their classrooms. ||
 * **M**easurable || Teachers will demonstrate their effectiveness using Moodle by submitting their work for their individual courses following 5 training sessions on:
 * Administrative Tools
 * Creating online syllabus (Tips/Strategies for Online Courses)
 * Collaboration Tools I
 * Collaboration Tools II
 * Video/Audio ||
 * **A**cceptable || Teachers have seen the importance of using online collaboration tools in the courses, but lack continuity from class to class. ||
 * **R**ealistic || All of the selected staff members will receive training prior to implementing each feature of Moodle into their current classes. ||
 * **T**imely || By the end of the first school year of implementation all teachers will have the appropriate knowledge needed in order to effectively implement the CMS. ||
 * **E**xtending || Teachers will now be able to extend the classroom to virtual environments that will in turn create more continuity between courses and extend collaboration between students, teachers and parents. ||
 * **R**ewarding || Staff will be aiding each student in increasing their individual academic performance as the virtual environment provides for more differentiated instruction. In addition, teachers may use the training for professional development hours. ||

**Criteria** ||= **Objective #2** ||
 * **SMARTER**
 * **S**pecific || Within the first year all students (in following years- freshmen only) will receive training on how to effectively utilize Moodle as a CMS. ||
 * **M**easurable || Students will demonstrate their effectiveness using Moodle by submitting their work for their individual courses following the 4 training sessions on:
 * Navigating/Using Moodle
 * Submission of Assignments/File Conversion
 * Collaboration Tools I
 * Collaboration Tools II ||
 * **A**cceptable || Students enjoy using technology for instant access to course material and verification of academic progress. ||
 * **R**ealistic || Each grade has an extended homeroom class every Friday for 45 minutes. This time is used as a way better understand every student and for taking care of administrative issues that otherwise are taking students out of class time. These four sessions would easily fit in this time span. ||
 * **T**imely || By the end of the first school year of implementation all students will have the appropriate knowledge needed in order to effectively use the CMS. ||
 * **E**xtending || Students will now have more access to content in the selected courses, and in most cases their time spent discussing and researching content is greater. Students will now also have a single medium to communicate with teachers and peers. ||
 * **R**ewarding || Students will be able to work at their own pace while enrolled in online or blended courses. ||

**Criteria** ||= **Objective #3** ||
 * **SMARTER**
 * **S**pecific || Teachers and students will be provided with the appropriate support from administration and tech staff. ||
 * **M**easurable || Administrators and tech staff will be required to evaluate the effectiveness of the CMS as an enhanced learning environment by using a Moodle evaluation. All administrative and tech staff will have received similar training prior to the training of teachers and students in order to help assist in their development. ||
 * **A**cceptable || The administration and tech staff are great supporters of increasing the lines of communication between teachers, students, and parents in order to enhance academic performance. ||
 * **R**ealistic || Tech staff currently is working with multiple teachers who use various sites, this implementation should provide relief following their training. ||
 * **T**imely || Inspection of Moodle sites will begin following the first launch of all classroom Moodle sites. ||
 * **E**xtending || Through providing teachers and students with the appropriate support learning becomes more frequent. ||
 * **R**ewarding || By providing the additional support needed for both teacher and students they become vital players in the creation of positive virtual learning environments. ||