Christine.Paynton


 * Christine Paynton **, Loma Vista Adult Center

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Administrator's focus:

Please describe the applicant’s current assignment, technology experience and leadership qualities, as well as the program’s overall commitment to technology integration and to the nominee’s participation in TIMAC, and what area you would like them to focus on in their mentoring of other instructors in your program. Christine Paynton is a longtime Mt. Diablo Adult Ed ABE full-time instructor who has always been one of our best teacher leaders. On an ongoing basis, she teaches Adult Basic Education and GED and Test Prep classes. Christine is one of the lead instructors for the California Council for Adult Education’s (CCAE) GED Academy. During the past 2010-2011 past school year, she achieved one of her professional goals of seeing her one thousandth GED student achieve their GED certificate. Christine participates regularly in school wide projects and is organized, efficient, positive and professional in all she does. Christine developed and maintains a website for her students and classes and eagerly embraces new technology that she can integrate in the classroom in order to enhance the delivery of instruction.

Mt. Diablo Adult Education is highly committed to the integration of technology in the classroom. Much of our one-time funds and grant funds have been, and will continue to be used for classroom technology, as we believe that technology is essential for active student engagement, 21st century job skill-building, addressing student learning styles and for reinforcement of learning. The administrative team at MDAE agreed that Christine Paynton would be an excellent candidate for TIMAC 2011-2012. We are in full support of her participation of this project and would like her to focus on the use of the newly purchased SMART Boards, MIMIOs (which convert regular white boards to interactive white boards), ReadOn software program, QWIZDOM student response system (clickers) and finally, ALPHA SMART NEOs. Our goal is to have Christine be able to help coach and support other teachers in the ASE/AB/GED, ESL/Citizenship/Family Literacy Centers and AWD programs to learn how to appropriately integrate the use of this technology in the classroom and embed the use of this technology in everyday lesson plans and planning.

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Three interesting things about me

I have 3 children, 5 grandchildren, and 8 God-children I love music and I play the trumpet, organ, guitar, piano, and drums, but the best thing I play is the ipod! I feel I am not very " techie', but I am enthuasiatic!

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