Middle School - D Parker

1. How do your proposed strategies (Week 8 Step 6) meet the required standards as your Week 6 Step 4 stated?

The primary goals written in the Week 8, Step 6 proposal was written within the context of creating more independence for teachers to work with technology with students.  By establishing confidence in our teachers with technology, the teachers will feel more comfortable integrating technology.  This will reach the ISTE NETS for teachers to “facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity.”  They will also feel more comfortable with “modeling digital age work and learning.” (ISTE NETs, 2012) 

Students will benefit by teachers being able to trouble shoot computers so that time is not wasted because the computers are down if a teacher can diagnose the problems with the computers.  Based on the survey performed at the beginning of this process, it was noted that teachers are frustrated when something they have planned doesn’t work and they must work on the fly.  By strengthening their computer knowledge, they will know how to better prepare their lessons with technology and how to not lose the class if something does go wrong because they know how to fix it.

2. Review the reading materials in Technology domain to propose using other standards which were not adopted by your studied school.  Explain why those new standards should be considered for your studied school.

ISTE-NETS 4: Promote and model digital citizenship and responsibility. 

This should be addressed more within our district standards.  These topics are addressed at the beginning of the school year but are not addressed again unless an issue arises.  These are primarily taught if a student has a technology course. This should be addressed with our teachers that do not teach technology so that they may refer to digital citizenship and responsibility each time research or computers are being used.

ISTE-NETS 5: Engage in professional growth and leadership.

This is lightly addressed in the campus plan but is not in a great deal of detail.  Teachers will feel more confident to share and implement technology is the training for digital use and resources are taught in small pockets through out the year.  When a teacher just attends training over the summer and then does not revisit the training, they tend to figure what they learned.  If teachers are in core or academic teams they could work together on a project that would be used throughout the campus. (ISTE NETs, 2012)

Works Cited

ISTE NETs. (2012). Retrieved March 31, 2012, from International Society for Technology In Education: http://www.iste.org/standards.aspx