Mary+Skinner

Email: mary.skinner@k12.sd.us Website: Lesson:Life Science - Cells District inservice: I will be completing an inservice for SPED teachers both in Sioux Falls and Rapid City this fall. This training will be for teachers who have students that are significanlty/cognitively impaired. Originally this inservice was scdeduled to show teacher's Project Mastery and how to use the Project Mastery Task Analysis for ELA, Science, and Math. After taking this training, I am working on making a revision of the task analysis to encorporate the 21st century skills and project-based learning for students on the Alternate Assessment.

The three task analysis will be the main focus of the day long training. In the task analysis, SPED teachers will be instructed on the Project Mastery Method, 21st Century Sklls as well as project-based. Section #1 will be ELA - instructed by another teacher. Then in groups teachers will be given materials to create an ELA lesson based on the Project Mastery Task Analysis. I will be directing section #2 and #3 which will be science and math. I will instruct on the content task analysis and how to embed 21st Century Skills and Project Based Activities into the units or lessons. Teachers will be given materials and will have time as a group to produce a product for each subject area. SPED teachers will also get to watch short video clips of teachers incorporating these skills in their classroom lessons.