Throughout my years of teaching and my effort to try and keep up with technology and how fast it changes has left me struggling with meeting some of the teacher technology standards. Although I have taken many steps in the right direction I still feel that I fall short on the following two standards.
-Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility
-Model Digital-Age Work and Learning
Although I feel I do complete some of the standards as a whole I think I need to work on them hence why I am going to make them part of my GAME Plan.
Goals: Everybody in life should set goals for themselves if it be for work or for their personal lives. Setting goals is an important part of life and it is important not only for adults but students as well.
1. My first goal is to set up a moddle page in order to allow for communication to be more open than just an email or phone call.
2. My second goal is post on the moddle page daily allowing for students to check back on daily lessons as well as prepare for future units. This will also allow for parents to become more involved in their child’s life while I model the use of technology.
Actions:
1. In order to achieve this goal I will make moddle my personal development plan for the school year which will allow me to build and learn the program in order to be able to develop and implement my goal completely.
2. I will make sure to discuss and encourage the parents to get involved and look at my moodle page weekly by talking to them about this during back to school night as well as send home some information about the site.
3. Throughout this process I will always promote and model digital etiquette and responsible along with social interactions related to the use of technology and information
Monitor:
In order to monitory my goals I will set dates on my personal development plan making me accountable for my development along with allow for me to keep track of my goals. I will document all findings and use my moddle page to demonstrate my accomplishment of my goal and the progress that has been made towards this goal throughout the year.
Evaluate/Extend:
After trying this out of a year I would like to reflect on the outcome and see if it had any effects on my classroom and the success of my students. I would also like to track the amount of students and parents who used the site and how that effected the classroom environment. Lastly, I would also like to get some feedback from my students along with their parents in order to make and implement modification and model digital technology at its best.
Resource:
National Education Standards for Teachers (2008) located at http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NETS/ForTeachers/2008Standards/NETS_T_Standards_Final.pdf.
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It can be difficult some times to make technology a priority in the classroom because the expectation to implement it has rarely been there by many schools. I think you have set some great goals for yourself and I hope we all can use them in our daily classroom schedules.
ReplyDeleteI really like your GAME plan and I can see other teachers using it too, once they have seen how successful it was in your classroom. My only concern is for the students and parents that do not have access to the internet. That may or may not be an issue in your school, but I teach at a low income school and most of my students do not have computers and or the internet in their house. Overall, I think you picked two really great goals for yourself and best of luck making them happen.
ReplyDeleteAaron-
ReplyDeleteYou are right making this a goal daily does bring on some challenges which I feel like I face no matter what anyways. In my school they are really pushing technology so they gave most teachers tablets and we have wireless projectors, but half the time the technology fails during or at the start of a lesson so now you are stuck going back to the old fashion way. Due to this it has caused a great deal more planning because you always have the fear of the technology not working along with a lot of frustrating days. If technology ever failed us life would be great!!
Mrs. Bimbi~
ReplyDeleteI too feel the same as you about changing technology. It moves so fast it is hard to implement when you are worrying about all of your curricula. I also love you are using Moodle. I saw how it worked for other educators and wish we had it. Good luck on your undertaking!
~Mrs. C