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V. Productivity and Professional Practice.
TF-V.A.
Use technology resources to engage in ongoing professional development and lifelong learning. Candidates:
- Identify resources and participate in professional development activities and professional
technology organizations to support ongoing professional growth related to technology.
- Disseminate information on district-wide policies for the professional growth opportunities
for staff, faculty, and administrators.
TF-V.B.
Continually evaluate and reflect on professional practice to make informed decisions regarding the use of technology in support
of student learning. Candidates:
- Continually evaluate and reflect on professional practice to make informed decisions regarding
the use of technology in support of student learning.
TF-V.C.
Apply technology to increase productivity. Candidates:
- Model advanced features of word processing, desktop publishing, graphics programs, and utilities
to develop professional products.
- Assist others in locating, selecting, capturing, and integrating video and digital images
in varying formats for use in presentations, publications and/or other products.
- Demonstrate the use of specific-purpose electronic devices (such as graphing calculators,
languages translators, scientific probeware, or electronic thesaurus) in content areas.
- Use a variety of distance learning systems and use at least one to support personal/ professional
development.
- Use instructional design principles to develop hypermedia and multimedia products to support
personal and professional development.
- Select appropriate tools for communicating concepts, conducting research, and solving problems
for an intended audience and purpose.
- Use examples of emerging programming, authoring or problem solving environments that support
personal/professional development.
- Set and manipulate preferences, defaults, and other selectable features of operating systems
and productivity tool programs commonly found in P-12 schools.
TF-V.D.
Use technology to communicate and collaborate with peers, parents, and the larger community in order to nurture student learning.
Candidates:
- Model the use of telecommunications tools and resources for information sharing, remote
information access, and multimedia/hypermedia publishing in order to nurture student learning.
- Communicate with colleagues and discuss current research to support instruction, using applications
including electronic mail, online conferencing, and web browsers.
- Participate in online collaborative curricular projects and team activities to build bodies
of knowledge around specific topics.
- Design, develop, and maintain Web pages and sites that support
communication between the school and community.
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Reflection:
Life long learning and technology go hand in hand because in the ever
changing world of technology it is impossible not to stop learning. In a recent study it was noted that people who are
open to change and are risk-takers are more inclined to use technology in the classroom. Technology training is
important and effective especially when teachers personally experience technology's power as a learning tool during training.
Self reflection and collaboration with collegaues also need to be included in training. School districts should schedule
opportunituies for for teachers, parents, and administrators to discuss pedagogy, technology use in the classroom, and instructional
practice.
A great way to show your professional productivity is to create a web site
for parents, students, faculty, and the community. Schoolwires is web company that hosts district web sites. I use mine to showcase what the
students are working on and my class expectations.
The artifacts I have included are a quarterly faculty health newsletter
which showcases advances in medicine. Each quarter has a theme- for example heart disease. Not only does it disperse
information to the faculty but also shows them ways in which Microsoft Publisher can be used. The second artifact is
a How To sheet for teachers and students that explains step by step how to create a digital portfolio on my district's server.
The third artifact is an article with a 71 item teacher survey about technology use in the classroom. I have also included
a job description for a technology facilitator.
Technology Facilitator Job Description
Quarterly Faculty Health Newsletter
Teacher How To Sheet for Creating Digital Portfolios
Click here to read the article "Teacher Dispositions as Predictors of Classroom Technology" and the surevy that follows
Standard V. Critique
Erica Hartman Portfolio Home Page
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