August 24, 2015

To:

Gina Cash, Principal, Elkridge Landing Middle School

Samuel Davis, Assistant Principal, Elkridge Landing Middle

School
Kelly Keane, Internship Supervisor, Loyola University
Maryland

Proposal for Jennifer Miller

Fall 2015 will be the start of my Educational Technology Internship at Loyola
University. Over the past year, I have been taking courses to enhance my technology
integration skills, gain technology resources, and learn about the role of the technology
leader and leading professional development. The goal of our internship is to work with
the Elkridge Landing Middle School staff to support them with new technology resources
in order to increase effective instruction and student engagement in the classroom.
I want to create a culture of risk taking educators that are also
innovators in their field. I hope to serve as model this for this and have
examples and ways this can happen for the new/non-tenured to the
tenured veteran teachers alike. In creating this culture I hope to build
intrinsic motivation. Through this intrinsic motivation the teacher looks
at positive interactions with students, more time on their hands with
students, greater understanding of concepts taught and deeper
connections to learning as a reward or an incentive for the Flipped
Classroom Model.
I would see implementing this model through a three-year
integration plan. For the internship I will only focus on the first year of
implementation. During the first year a series of three teaching
modules will be presented, monthly follow up meetings, and a Google
document housing lesson ideas for flipping and a blog where teachers
can share their experiences flipping the classroom. I can see needing
three classes to get knowledge out to the teachers about the Flipped
Classroom Model. The first class would be in introduction to the Flipped
Classroom. I would pull in resources in the form of videos and
handouts. The second class would be introducing the staff to different
tech resources they can use to create interactive videos. There will be
the option for teachers to get tutorial on using QuickTime or some
other kind of screen casting software. During this class teachers will
explore and rate the different interactive video websites. There is then
a database created that is shared with the staff so that they have a
reference of what each website does. The last class is spent flipping
one lesson. After this three series module is over there will be monthly

meetings where teachers will be issued challenges as a way to

continue to flip. I dont want my staff under the impression that
Flipping is an all or nothing thing. I believe that flipping in small ways
first is a precursor to flipping all material.
My goal for the internship is for teachers to implement the flipped classroom model in
their classroom. I hope to celebrate the successful technology integrations through
improved evaluations. I am open to your suggestions and leadership advice as I pursue
my internship this year. Thank you!
Jennifer Miller
Teacher Development Liaison
Educational Technology Graduate Student, Loyola University Maryland