Module+6+Reflection

//**Reflection Prompt:**// How did understanding the standards and the pre-comp verification help you design your FE plan? How can your use your ePorfolio to help others understand how to integrate technology more effectively in the classroom?

=Description:= This week I reviewed the the ISTE standards book, my pre-competencies verification, and the "Understanding the NETS TF" wiki. I also took the survey on the ISTE site which asked about how my school, district, and state had adopted or planned to adopt the revised NETS-S standards in preparation for designing my field experience plan.

=Impact:= First, I think that I have been creating a much bigger project out of this field experience plan than it needs to be. Looking at my pre-comp verification made me realize that my classroom skills are strong, but that I really had to stretch for examples that reflected any sort of building level presence or interaction with my colleagues in regards to technology integration. At my school, we don't have a designated facilitator, just a couple teachers who are willing to share technology and pedagogy ideas with others and during staff meetings, and I'm sure they wouldn't mind some help with this adopted extra responsibility. I was also impacted by the ISTE survey. I actually had to do a little research while taking the quiz to avoid putting "I don't know" in most of the blanks. It also made me even more aware of the issues that a very large, poor, urban district faces. Turn around times are very slow just because of our size. I'm sure that someone up at the top has some sort of technology integration plan, but the scope and timetables will never be shared with me. I can get hints sometimes based on the types of tasks that are sent to me, and the reports that are taken. My school's plans, especially the AAP are available to me, and I need to become more up-to-date.

=Intent:= First, I intend to get more involved with our technology committee. We have a lot of good things that are available to us, but have flopped at the implementation phase simply because of time constraints and all of the other things asked of us as teachers. Hopefully I can share the burden with our two "techie" teachers and that will ease the implementation along. I will also attempt to involve myself with writing a grant, we have several web-based applications that have been purchased for us, but lack of working equipment has hindered our use. I also want to create a web-based learning module for my students instead of posting individual assignments one at a time.