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An Over View of Danville High School
What is New Tech? New Tech is the new way of learning the future. It is a house full of professionalism as the students are studying. Students are recommended to be professional or act mature in any way shape or form. We are recommended to do this because when we are to go look for a job or the start of a new career, they will be prepared.

As of being on Danville High School, New tech does not have its own ground or campus. New tech is located on the third floor on the north side, known as the “Yellow Hallway”. New tech has its own section as opposed to Ace, Global, and freshman house. NT consists between two-hundred and forty and two-hundred and fifty students. It also has about sixty staff members. The director of NT is Mr. Darrin Chambliss. He was not the founder; he just is the leader and is the one to come to if there are any questions or suggestions. Lee Fleming is our coach that teaches the teachers and is our only coach. She lives in Sacramento and flies over to Danville every now and then. Her areas are only Indiana and Illinois.

When it comes to staff, along with students, they are learning as the students are and are helping one another learn the system. The teachers know the criteria; therefore they teach what they know to the students as they learn it. For example, at the beginning of the year, because new tech was new this year, students did not know a thing about NT. Since NT was new this year, 2009, staff members still do not know all about it. They still have workshops themselves as along with their students. This year in NT, sophomores and junior are the only students that were in this program this year. Freshmen have their own house. Until they become to a sophomore. The seniors will become involved in new tech next year, which are juniors this year. They did not want to confuse the seniors this year.

Next year for NT students, the staff should see what or how the students feel about new tech because of the two year NT students. So the future students should be an improvement on the real world and more enthusiastic about what they are going to do. Welcome to New Tech.

Understanding of New Tech/Campus
The limited understanding of the program is that students work on projects in teams. The students then determine what it is that they have to learn in order to successfully complete the project. The teacher then provides lessons requested by the students in whatever subject may be necessary. Students are then motivated to learn in an environment that more closely replicates the business world. Another understanding is that New Tech builds curriculum maps that guide the development of rigorous, real world projects in all subject areas. Demand teachers become facilitators/coaches of learning and learn a variety of scaffolding and differentiated techniques. Demand teachers use the NTH Learning System tools. Principals should use the PBL classroom evaluation tools developed to ensure teachers are making the transition to PBL practice. Why should you be interested in New Tech? That’s easy, because the average student in today’s traditional high school is bored and disengaged. Even so, they are probably not too stressed as they are not working all that hard. In a New Tech project based school, these same average students tend to be more engaged and rarely ask, “Why do I need to know this or will this be on the test?” Be responsible to a team, managing one’s time, and publicly presenting what you know about real world project has more creative tension then most traditional high school environments. In Danville New Tech, the students only use the third floor for their workstations. The rest of the floors belong to other student who are interested in learning different from New Tech. The students are all separated in groups so that they can get a real life look at what a job expectation might be. It also helps the students to stay on task if they all have New Tech classes. Sometimes students re quire extra curricular, so in that case they have to take an out of house class. Unlike other New Tech schools Danville lets the students perform in extra activities. There are currently 34 NTH schools in a total of nine states. There are approximately 11,200 students in NTH schools.

Curriculum
In a regular school class room, students are used to sitting down, taking notes, and getting a worksheet or book work for homework. In New Tech you have to find your own notes that you think you may need, and talk to your fellow groups to find out certain answers to something you wouldn’t know. New Tech has a project-based learning system. The New Tech High learning requirements consist of groups, presentations, and teaching methods. Every student is required to work with a set group of people for a certain amount of time. The group of people that have been chosen are to work on a “project”. These projects are methods of how to learn on your own. During a project the teacher sets up things for you to do and put them on your agenda. Your agenda is on the website of PeBL. The teacher puts up your assignments and you are responsible to choose to do them or to just fail. PeBL is how every New Tech students keep in touch with their teachers and students. It’s also how the students can all work together by going on the system called Google Docs. Another action you could take before asking the teacher about what to do, is looking it up on the laptops that are supplied for you. In New Tech you get to work on all of your projects on a computer. The way your group can work together is to get on a site that is named Google docs. This is where you can all work on the same paper at the same time, on your own computer. You can also save any important data to Google Docs that you don’t want to disappear. If you save documents to Google Docs, you can get on it from any computer. The way you get to the New Tech page or the Google Docs page is simply by opening a tab and putting either NewTech.com or GoogleDocs.com. The basic classes are offered in New Tech High. You have Math, American Studies, Science, and English. Since this is the first year that Danville High School has tried the Danville New Tech system, these classes are only provided for sophomores and juniors. However, next year these New Tech courses will be provided for sophomores – seniors. We have 5 pillars that we in New Tech work by. These pillars are accountable, adaptable, respectful, procedures, and roles. Accountable is where you keep yourself responsible as well as keeping your group on track. Adaptable is if anything were to happen unexpectedly, we are suppose to just go with the flow. We aren’t suppose to moan and groan and be disrespectful. Which leads me to respectful, we learning to respect all the teachers and students alike. Procedures are the activities we have to do to get our projects done. Roles are what all our group members are. For example; there can be the liaison, monitor, arbitrator, and the secretary. Liaison is the role of the leader. Monitor is who keeps track of the group and makes sure that everything is done. Arbitrator is in charge of firing or warning the other group members. Secretary is who makes sure everything is done correctly with out errors. New Techs’ protocol is called the visitor protocol. The visitor protocol is for when people visit our classroom and want to know what we are doing. The way we go about telling them is to introduce yourself and state your name, grade, and the name of the class you are in. Tell the guest what project you are currently working on and a little bit about what you are doing that day. Then ask if the guest has any questions.

Extracurricular activities
Danville New Tech High School has something called “Activity Day”. Activity Day is used to break the ice and learn about team work. The first day of school, DNTHS had activities such as team scavenger hunts, Ring toss, Frozen Shirt contest, Hula-Hoop over and under contest. These are activities that help you learn to work with others. They also help you learn good problem solving skills. DNTHS has a student advisory board. These are students that are randomly picked at the beginning of the school year. They are the “go to” students that take complaints of the rest of the student body to the Administrator (Darin Chambliss). They sit in and think of reasonable solutions for these complaints or problems. The DNTHS Student Advisory Board consists of 20 students. The students have business presentations. They have to dress in proper office attire. They present projects in front the class or in a conference room with Mr. Chambliss, and a few other New Tech teachers.