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= Ide@s Research Scholar Program Information =

The John Muir Academy and the ide@s Portal Website have partnered to offer free registration for the first 35 participants accepted into the program.

As an ide@s Research Scholar, you will submit to units of instruction in your area of expertise as your culminating work at JMA. You're already writing the lesson plans, so why not get paid for the work?? Hurry and submit your application today!

Teachers who would like to become ide@s Research Scholars need to fill our the ide@s application and take one of the designated ide@s courses offered at JMA. The course instructors will guide you through the necessary steps for creating instructional units using the Understanding by Design model. You can choose your unit topics so they are the most relevant to your subject area and grade level. We will provide guidance for you and JMA instructors so that you have the format and tools to create your units.

Ide@s staff will be onsite during the week of JMA to assist you with guidelines for your units of instruction. We will use the Understanding by Design model by McTighe and Wiggens as the structure for instructional units.

Selected PK-16 educators from Wisconsin work in teams to identify, evaluate, catalog, and align standards-based educational resources that are already on the Internet such as lesson plans and reference materials. Wisconsin teachers also create original educational units for ide@s that are shared across the state and beyond. A recent addition to ide@s is imageide@s, which provides high quality photographs and images that are in the public domain. These resources are all available at the ide@s search engine. You don't have to look through dozens of online listings to find the resources you need. The ide@s search engine allows you to tell it specifically what you need then it searches the database for you. You can read teacher reviews of the resources and see exactly which state standards they address. Ide@s saves you time while focusing instruction and technology on Wisconsin's Model Academic Standards. You know you're getting a quality resource that other Wisconsin educators have recommended.
 * What is ide@s?**

For complete information, please visit http://www.ideas.wisconsin.edu

To become an ide@s Research Scholar, check the box on the JMA registration form stating your preference and choose one of the designated ide@s workshops. We will send you an application that asks you area of teacher certification, years of teaching experience, and level of familiarity in curriculum writing. Knowledge of Understanding by Design model or Backwards Design model is helpful, but not necessary.
 * How do I qualify?**

After submitting your ide@s application, you will be notified if you have or have not been accepted to the program. Once accepted, you still need to complete the JMA registration and pay the fees accordingly, if you've not already done so. Upon completing the full week at JMA and submitting your units of instruction, you will be reimbursed $375.00 by ide@s no later than September 1, 2011. Once you have tested you units in your classroom and made any needed modifications, you will be awarded an additional $100.00!
 * Here's how it works:**