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Week 7 Journal Entry

As stated in “A School Commits to Academic Rigor” ([] ) integration of core subjects is an integral part of their philosophy of teaching. I believe we at RULH can emulate this and I feel that “A Thriving School Sets Replication in Gear”[| (][] [|)] substantiates this belief. It has been an underlying theme of our grant that the social studies and math departments collaborate to meet this goal. The survey shows that some of our students have already been exposed to collaborative learning and that some have used technology. It is my/our goal to increase the number of students using collaborative project based learning that incorporates the use of technology across the curriculum. I believe that this will be reflected in any exit surveys taken by these same students at a later date.

 I found “Study Guides and Strategies” ( [] ) to be very informative about the colaborative process and plan to use some of its suggestions when initiating our Social Studies/Math project. “Collaborative Learning:Group Work and Study Teams “ ([] ) also offered insight to the collaborative learning process.

We just need to come up with that Project. I hope that over the course of Chistmas break we can meet as a team and discuss the details.