After examining the National Education Standards for Teachers, I have identified two areas where I would like to develop more confidence and proficiency. These two areas are Standard two and Standard five. Standard 2-C states “customize and personalize learning activities to address students’ diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources.” Standard 5-D states “contribute to the effectiveness, vitality, and self-renewal of the teaching profession and of their school and community.”
My Game Plan
Goals
• To introduce and familiarize myself and may students with emerging and existing digital tools that will enhance the learning environment. My colleague often says he wants to help his students “work smarter, not harder.” As I work my way through this program, the statement makes complete sense!
• To increase my knowledge, skills, and abilities with digital tools and share my knowledge with colleagues through collaboration and professional development.
Action
• I will share my goals with others verbally
• I have already started this phase of my game plan by taking this Master’s program at Walden. I will continue to take classes that engage in the use of digital tools to expand my experience. In addition, I will seek out authentic experiences in my own life using blogs, wikis, and other tools to become more proficient in using them.
• I will follow blogs, communicate with other educators who have similar beliefs and establish support networks to broaden my spectrum of knowledge in the area of classroom integration of technology. I can systematically increase the use of these tools over time.
• I will meet with administrators of my building to convey my interest in being a proactive part of the team in this area and offer to present new and improved ways of integrating technology at PD breakout sessions in our building.
• I will model “working smarter, not harder” to my students and colleagues.
Monitor
• To monitor my achievement of my technology integration goals I will recruit one of the administrators I work with to set appointments to regularly discuss the types of digital tools I have added to our class toolbox and assess their effectiveness in enhancing the learning experience.
• I will share new technology tools with other teachers and offer to work together with them to strategize creative ways to implement and modify the current uses of the tools
Evaluate & Extend
• I will survey my students for feedback on the usefulness of each tool we introduce and experience.
• I will reflect on my ability to facilitate the use of each new tool in the educational setting and determine if I need to find more resources or collaborate with a teacher who has more experience and success using the various tools
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Molly,
ReplyDeleteYour plan to become a leader in your building to share with others uses of technology is great! I appreciate learning from close colleagues in those situations. My school has recently changed inservices to this type of situation. Teachers in our building share strategies and technologies with each other instead of hiring someone to come in and talk about something many of use can't relate to. How many times have you heard teachers complain about useless inservices? Try asking your administrators if you could run an inservice like this.
Shannon,
ReplyDeleteI agree this type of situation is much more helpful to my daily practices in the classroom. At our building we dedicate part of each PD Day to break out sessions that run very similar to what you are describing. So far they have been well received.