Student Teams

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Student Teams

• Tap into student teams to foster Information
  Technology
• B. Weber CEMIS-Eastern Quebec

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Why focus on IT?

• Lots of technology - new government funding
• Little support
• Burnout factor
• A catalyst for change
• Dont limit the model expand it!

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What type of teams?

• Publishing
• Newspaper
• Yearbook
• Special projects
• CD ROM
• Tech teams
• Tech support
• short term publishing jobs

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Our pedagogical rationale

• Learning issues
• provide authentic tasks
• develop ownership
• develop people skills
• develop organisational skills
• create school spirit, a sense of belonging
• recognize the importance of special projects

• School realities
• limited resources both financial and human
• too much change
• need to foster school spirit
• not enough time

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Structures

• Students choose their tasks
• Students are freed from class time
• Students must volunteer beyond this time in lieu
  of homework
• Students are supervised by staff
• Students are evaluated

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Practicalities

• Secondary V students all volunteer one period a
  cycle
• Students may be freed from other classes where
  they are strong (i.e. Reading periods in English)
• Practical projects are assigned in Computer
  Science Sec. IV and V
• Secondary III, IV students work in lieu of PSD
  and Career Choice
• Secondary II students use their IT and Science
  time

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Outreach Project Survey
Your volunteer student
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Publishing groups

• Students grow into the positions
• Training is carried out during the summer and by
  peer to peer during the year
• Organisational and co-operative skills are
  essential

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Pitfalls

• Lack of people skills
• Lack of organisation
• Lack of monitoring
• Fuzzy mandates

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Tech team tasks

• Configure and setup up computers and software
• Explore new tools and teach other students or
  teachers
• Develop materials requested by the school
• Do the daily maintenance required in the lab
• Maintain and develop the school web site
• Assist the CEMIS

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More issues

• enough work?
• supervision?
• clear evaluation
• students who arent succeeding
• class time missed
• scheduling
• interviews

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Interview/evaluation template

• Technical skills
• DOS
• Windows
• Visual Basic
• Hardware configuration
• Routine maintenance
• HTML

• Social skills
• Teaching others
• Helping others
• Working with others
• Personal skills
• Planning
• Reliability

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Sample questions

• Describe the tasks you completed.
• What needs to be done to clarify the contract
  process?
• What difficulties did you encounter?
• What skills did you acquire?
• What skills should you learn?
• What tasks should be set for next years group?
• What changes would you make?
• What comments do you have about the assigned
  routine work?
• What grade do you think you deserve?
• 70-80 80-90 90-100? Justify.

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Keys to success

• A shared purpose
• Desire to learn or create
• Training and support
• Monitoring

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On target!

• Details?
• Bev Weber
• 1-800-561-1811
• weberb_at_eqrsb.qc.ca
• Jean Fillatre, Principal
• QHS [phone]
• fillaj_at_eqrsb.qc.ca