Craig

Craig Rogers is a teacher at McGee Middle School in Berlin, CT. He grew up in Wallingford, CT and attended Sheehan High School. After graduating, he began working as a CNC Programmer while attending Naugatuck Valley Community College. There, he majored in Automated Manufacturing Engineering. By the age of nineteen, he realized that he had to make a move to better his life. He began taking classes at CCSU with the intent of becoming a Technology Education teacher. He wanted to help educate students and show them that they were capable of amounting to more than he did when he was nineteen years old. In order to afford college education, he began a landscaping company, which is still owned and operated today by Craig. Currently, he resides with his newlywed wife in Rocky Hill. When not taking classes at CCSU, teaching, or spending time with his wife and dog Livy, he usually spends time snowmobiling in Northern New Hampshire, or cruising up and down the CT River with friends on their jet skis.



1. ** The Problem **. What is the problem you are trying to solve with your program? Don’t tell me what you need, don’t tell me what you will do—just describe the problem. What is wrong? Three sentences minimum and supply proof. The problem is students knowledge and understanding of the class safety rules. Verbally describing rules does not do my lesson justice. There are not any visual aides I have with the safety rules and this will help in assisting the students with safety. 2. ** The Need **. What is needed? Brainstorm 3-5 things that are needed help to solve your problem. Prioritize those needs. Make sure the problem your program is addressing is in the top three most needed things. I need to have visual aides that show consequences of not following safety rules properly. I also need the proper technology and equipment needed for students to use the program and print out their final quiz on safety. A character that pertains to either myself or a fictional character that relates to our project in class (sailboat).

3. ** The Audience **. Who is your audience? Be as specific as possible with ** anything ** that is relevant to the audience for this program. Gender, achievement levels, language etc. Whatever you put here should have some relationship to what you are designing, so that you create a project for the right audience. My audience is the entire sixth grade at McGee middle school. Both gender of students, special education students and a mixture of races. 4. ** Objectives **. What are the objectives of the program? What will students learn after using it (more than once, hopefully). Why are these appropriate objectives? Students will know all of the safety rules for Technology education. Students will know consequences of not following safety rules. Students will be able to apply safety rules in class on a day to day basis.

5. ** Content **. What type of content are you teaching? Describe the content and identify the content type (facts, concepts, principles, procedures or any combinations of them. Is this linked to any state standards? If so, what are they?  The content that I will be teaching is shop safety rules.  The type of content type are facts, procedures, principles.  there are state standards that are linked to safety just not specific individual rules.  6. ** Instructional Strategies **. What instructional strategies will you use? Drill and practice? Storytelling? Flash Cards, simulation, virtual manipulative_s, Quizzes, animations   ﻿The Strategies that I will use on my program are storytelling, simulation, and quzzies.  7. ** Additional Materials **. If you had time what additional materials would you gather or create to use in concert with this program?   8. ** Program Use **. How will you use this program for training or in the classroom?   I will use the program to train and evaluate each student on understanding application of safety rules. each students will have a certain amount of time to successfully complete the program and evaluation at an 85% understanding. 9. ** Evaluation **. How will you evaluate the success of the program? I will use a google docs survey to evaluate the students knowledge of the safety rules. 10. ** Appendix **- Attach anything else that is relevant (story boards, inspiration, charts etc.).

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 * Remembering:** Students will be asked to remember and know all of the safety rules for technology education

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 * Understanding:** Students will be able to explain and understand the reasons for the rules. Each rule has a very specific reason and some rules relate to many machines. The students

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 * Applying:** Students will be able to apply what they know about safety rules through this program to every day while working in the lab

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 * Analyzing:**

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 * Evaluating**: Students will need to evaluate some situations when working with machines to determine how safe they are being and what should be done, Students will also be formally evaluated with a quiz regarding the safety rules.

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 * Creating:** Students will be asked to create a short slide show or movie demonstrating one of the safety rules, risks, consequences and what should be done to correct the action.

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