The P-16 Outreach Group

What is P-16?

"P" stands for preschool and the "16"ers are college seniors. We have a group of "16"ers who have graduated and using their knowledge as teachers in schools! The P-16 Outreach Group is charged with making sure that our technology integration efforts reach the pre-service teachers at UIUC as well as the students in the area P-12 schools. 

The Mission of P-16 Outreach Group

The P-16 Outreach Group seeks to create new efforts and improve existing efforts to implement instructional technology in educational settings at the preschool through undergraduate levels. The staff of the P-16 Outreach Group can assist in the planning, training, application, support, and assessment activities required for successful instructional technology implementation. The P-16 Outreach staff believes that instructional technology can meet the needs of diverse learners and teachers by providing powerful tools and processes in the areas of communication, collaboration, productivity, information access, problem solving, and assessment.

Staff

The members of the P-16 Outreach Group are:

P-16 Outreach Staff:    Lynn Burdick (lburdick@uiuic.edu )
P-16 Outreach Graduate Assistant:  A. Rae Clementz (clementz@uiuc.edu )   

Facility

The P-16 Outreach staff are based in Room 10 of the College of Education.

Hours

Lynn Burdick: Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 7:30–3:30 and by appointment

A. Rae Clementz: Monday, 7:30–2, Friday, 10:30–2

 

CURRENT P-16 PROJECTS

I-LLINI Partnerships

The Lifelong Learning IN Illinois (I-LLINI) Project: Professional Development Schools for 21st Century Teachers and Learners is a new grant funded by the Illinois Board of Higher Education's No Child Left Behind Improving Teacher Quality program. This project has partners in the Office of the CIO, Departments of Curriculum & Instruction and Special Education, MSTE, the Math and Science Departments in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the Danville and Urbana School Districts.
I-LLINI Partnerships will:

• Provide innovative, needs-based professional development programs for P-12 teachers and administrators, University content faculty, and University pedagogy faculty that is designed to transform the teaching and learning process through
  the use of technology-rich learning environments in subject matter classrooms;
• Create enhanced learning environments in high-needs schools through the effective and creative use of new media and digital technologies and characterized by increasing student learning outcomes and developing 21st Century skills such as higher-order thinking, communication, inquiry, and innovation;
• Strengthen partnerships among all stakeholders in teacher preparation to transform teacher education through the use of information and learning technologies.
  

Instructional Support
Members of the P-16 staff are always available to assist College of Education faculty and preservice students who want to use technology as an instructional tool. We can help with lesson design and implementation, equipment, or any other support you need as you integrate technology into your intruction. Just contact Lynn Burdick (lburdick@uiuc.edu) to set up a time to talk

Chancellor’s Summer Academy
Lynn Burdick was a facilitator at this summer’s Chancellor’s Summer Academy. The topic for the Academy was teaching literacy across the content areas. The Technology Strand introduced teachers to ways to integrate technology into assessment, as a tool for differentiated instruction, and as an instructional tool to support literacy skills in content-area instruction.

Since the completion of the Academy, Lynn has collaborated with several participating teachers on their efforts to use technology to support literacy instruction and assessment in their content-area classrooms. Academy teachers who would like help with technology integration can reach Lynn at lburdick@uiuc.edu. The list of equipment available for check-out by Academy teachers can be found at http://times.ed.uiuc.edu/equipment.htm

Water CAMPWS
The WaterCAMPWS Collaboration for Learning Education and Research (WaterCLEAR) program is a year long collaborative project designed for high school science teachers. It is a partnership of teachers who will integrate and implement water purification curriculum modules aligned to Illinois Science Standards and customized to their own learning objectives. WaterCLEAR provides teachers with an opportunity to stay at the absolute cutting edge of scientific innovation while at the same time refining their classroom teaching strategies. Lynn Burdick and other staff in the Office of the CIO are partners in this collaborative, providing participating teachers with workshops, equipment and activities that focus on inquiry-based learning, WebQuests, and authentic assessment in science instruction.

Conference Presentations
Lynn Burdick and Rae Clementz presented a workshop and a concurrent session at the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in Atlanta in June. The sessions focused on effective integration of digital video into instruction and assessment. Lynn is scheduled to present at the Illinois Education and Technology Conference (IETC) in Springfield on November 15, 2007.

The TIMeS Grant
The TIMeS Project is winding down. Although the funding ends September 30th, P-16 Outreach staff and equipment are still available to teachers who have been TIMeS participants over the past three years. Online modules for instructional software such as PhotoStory, Inspiration, MovieMaker, KidPix and Scholastic Keys can be found on the TIMeS website (http://times.ed.uiuc.edu/online.htm). A list of equipment that can be borrowed for classroom use is also available on the website (http://times.ed.uiuc.edu/equipment.htm). Please contact Lynn Burdick at lburdick@uiuc.edu for support.

The TIMeS Project (A Technology Intensive Math and Science Model for Improving Instruction in High-Needs Schools) was funded through a grant from the Illinois Board of Higher Education's No Child Left Behind Improving Teacher Quality program. The TIMeS Project provided standards-based professional development opportunities for K-12 teachers, who are from schools that have teachers teaching out of their trained content area or have provisional certification. These professional development opportunities were designed to support efforts to engage their students with technology-rich lesson plans that provided an authentic context for concepts taught within mathematics science and literacy across the curriculum.