The National Educational Technology Standards and Performance Indicators for Teachers provide direction for how to become a more effective educator. Teaching just like everything else of importance in the world is hard, and takes practice. There are always going to be areas that you can improve upon and it’s important to set teaching goals and create plans to achieve the goal. Technology is a large and growing component in education today. It is important that "Students should see their computer time as essential to their classroom work rather than an add on." (Cennamo, K., Ross, J., & Ertmer, p 102) To help show students technology is an educational tool I have made two National Education Technology Standard goals.
The first standard that I developed a GAME plan for is "collaborating with students, peers, parents, and community members using digital tools and resources to support student success and innovation." (National Education Standards for Teachers (NETS-T). Collaborating with students, peers, parents, and community members helps establish a stronger rapport with the student and the student’s education support team. This team comprised of parents and community members can be combined with the teacher to create an educational alliance. To get students, peers, parents, and community members onboard with the student’s education plan good communication is vital. I plan to give parents access to our classroom moodle site to see what we are doing in class, view a homework assignment list, and be able to send comments or questions to the teacher. Being able to see what we are doing in class could result in having a parent or community member coming into the class to be the expert on a topic we are covering. Having an expert on the topic and educational support team member would make the learning more relevant to the students. I will monitor the amount of views from the moodle site and email contacts to assess the progress of the goal.
Another standard that I developed a GAME plan for is to "Model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments." (National Education Standards for Teachers (NETS-T). To accomplish this goal I plan to use interactive virtual field trips, have students use the VoiceThread application for a project, and have the students test out Second Life a virtual environment. Using an online moodle survey the students will be assessed to their thoughts on these types of educational experiences versus the traditional educational ways.
Cennamo, K., Ross, J., & Ertmer, P. (2009). Technology integration for meaningful classroom use: A standards-based approach. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.
National Education Standards for Teachers (NETS-T) retrieved from http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NETS/ForTeachers/2008Standards/NETS_T_Standards_Final.pdf on
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Zach,
ReplyDeleteI really like the idea of giving the parents access to your moodle site. I also agree with you that involving the community is a powerful tool in the classroom. I especially love the quote about computer time. Technology should be supportive of and integrate seamlessly with your curriculum, not be used as a reward or fun end activity.