Implementation Outline Draft
Blended Learning
Eddricka King
Transition from traditional learning to Blended Learning
Overview:
Blended Learning was designed and put in place for students to be able to have the choice, freedom, and flexibility when it comes to how they learn. The pandemic crisis of 2020 showed us just how important having the use of blended learning in the school system was/is. So many students across the state of Texas missed basically a year worth of educational learning because the students were used to face-to-face learning. Not having face-to-face learning for that short amount of time caused a huge decrease in grades for the majority of the students across the nation especially here in Texas and within our low-income school district. Some of the reasons students grades dropped was because most students did not own a computer, have internet access,not used to online learning and were just thrown in the position without proper training.
Goal:
To work with school officials, principals, teachers, and parents in order to help and make sure each student in low-income school districts are equipped with computers with built in hotspots, materials, and proper training needed to help our students transition from traditional face-to-face learning to adding blended learning into the students curriculum. Blended learning will give the students freedom to learn via electronic and online media as well as traditional face-to-face teaching (Oxford, 2021). With adding blended learning students will not skip a beat when it comes to their educational learning. Not only will it keep students on track but it will also be a huge help to teachers while keeping parents involved in their child/children education via computer, phone devices.
Timeline: Phase 1
August 2021-
Create an Innovation proposal, video, and literature review and have them revised.
Submit an Innovation proposal to school board administration to be granted permission to begin implementing blended learning into low-income school districts.
October 2021-
Permission granted,
Develop blended learning team
Team will include: myself, 2-3 teachers, and technology specialists to help plan and share ideas
December 2021-
Set up meetings with school principals to see if they are interested in allowing their schools to participate in adding blended learning to the teachers curriculum.
Timeline: Phase 2
January 2022 - May 2022
Blended Learning team meetings
Identifying which blended learning model needs to be implemented based on the school and the students overall learning experiences.
Work with teachers to set reasonable goals for their classroom and students.
Informing parents of the new transition through email and letters sent home by students
Need for a computer/internet access survey will go out to all students and their parents.
June 2022 - October 2022
Data collected.
Student devices will be purchased by the school.
Computers will have built in wifi, as well as virus protection (HISD Tech Department)
Computer programming will not allow access to outside website
No extra funding needed.
November 2022 - December 2022
Test run on all computers going to students
Program installation per school, per grade
Timeline: Phase 3
January 2023 - May 2023
Introducing Blended learning in the classroom
Class Time preparing students, getting them familiar with the use of the new devices. Handling equipment and so on.
Computer Lab time
Sending out How to videos for guardians of students.
Permission for use of computer use forms sent to parents, responsibilities, and cost if device is not returned and damage fees per device.
Timeline: Phase 4
May 2023 - July 2023
Summer intervention program
Assigning computers to students
Parents are allowed to pick-up devices from school
August 2023 - December 2023
Students must bring their assigned computer to class everyday for in class work as well as homework
Students are learning at their own pace, not feeling pressured
Able to engage in face-to-face learning as well as learning via device
Accepting ownership, and responsibility
References
Oxford. (n.d.). The definition of Blended learning. TeachThought. Retrieved October 7, 2021, from https://www.teachthought.com/learning/the-definition-of-blended-learning/