Among the NETS - T standards two stand out as areas that need to be improved. This feeling comes after a period of careful reflection on my typical classroom performance. It is important to note that I do not consider myself in anyway a masterful teacher. These areas were selected as a starting point.
NETS - T mentions that teachers must continually grow in professional practice and leadership in terms of incorporating technology and encouraging colleagues to do the same. While I have done a fair job of incoporating technology in the classroom and have a seat on the technology committee for my school I have not truly worked with other teachers in an attempt to build technology use. My goal is to create a network of techers that have the desire to enhance instruction through technology and build basic skills and understanding of the resources that are available to all teachers within my school. I plan on meeting this goal by participating in a series of technology tutorials hosted by my local PBS station. These courses are held within my school and are open to any teacher in the viewing area. This is roughly 500 school districts and private schools. These courses range in topics from webconferencing to creating websites through Google. The monitoring portion of this plan is simple. I need to ensure that I am present at each of the meetings and creating a collection of contact information of the participates who wish to work together to enhance classroom instruction. Once these courses are completed and instructional methods have been employed I will be able to compare this years instruction with past years and judge if it has improved or not.
NETS - T also mentions that classroom instruction should relate to a work place that is technologically advanced. Without going into great detail I feel that one technology that is going to be consistent is webconferencing. My school recently purchased the equipment necessary. My goal is to collaborate with teachers who are comfortable creating lesson plans utilizing this resource. Since I have limited knowledge and experience it is my desire that I would be able to learn how to effectively use the equipment from my colleagues. My action plan for this goal relates to my previous goal. One of the courses offered by the local PBS station is on webconferencing. When that course is offered I plan on establishing a connection with a teacher that is willing to work with me. Monitoring the progress of this goal comes in establishing meeting times and collaborative lessons with this other teacher. As I become more comfortable with the resource I will be able to develop more of the lesson plans. In the end the evaluation comes in comparing student performance on assessments after this lesson from those students who completed similar assignments without the use of the webconferencing equipment.
PB
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Phil,
That sounds so interesting. How did you find out about this PBS web conferencing? I'd be interested in that...I wonder if my local PBS does that as well. Getting together with other teachers to discuss and learn technology is fabulous. I find that talking to other teachers gives me so many more ideas than doing research online or trying to reinvent the wheel myself!
I actually found out about the PBS webconferencing through my administration. They apparently created the connection and opened it up to the staff.
PB
First of all, I admire you for admitting that you are not a masterful teacher. I do not believe that anyone is and if they believe they are, they will discontinue learning and become stagnant. Second of all, I am fascinated by the idea of webconferencing. I know that I can learn so much from other educators, just as I do from this program. It is something that I will bring up to my administrators.
My school district has web conferencing. I teach at the alternative school. We are the last get access to any new technology. I have enjoyed PBS sources in the past. I know that webconferencing making learning exciting.
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