"GAME"-PLAN

Teachers of the 21st century have to know the Technology Standards (NETS-T)and feel confident teaching while integrating the standards. To be honest, less than two years ago I would have felt uncomfortable within all the technology standards but now I feel confident with most and still need to improve in some. For example, I feel confident that I have what it takes to "inspire student learning by using tools such as voice threads and blogs" because my students ended this past school year using blogs and voice threads to communicate or even reflect on what they were learning at school and at home. In addition, I feel comfortable "modeling digital age work and learning" because I love to communicate ideas and work collaborately with my students and parents with the use of technology therefore my students are expose to that form of modeling digital age working and learning.

The standards I have to work on are "Design and Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences and Assessments" and "Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership." These two areas goes beyond teaching with tools, it digs deeper into becoming life long learners within technology by using sophisticated assessments and always finding new ways forever. 

Standard:"Design and Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences and Assessments"

Sub-standard: Getting students to assess progress on their individual goals

Goal: My goal is to model and guide students to assess their progress by showing them how to do so with the use of technology. 

Action: Find a internet program for each subject that can help students follow their progress and work on areas of need. For example, there is a program called Acuity that helps students increase their reading and writing skills based on an assessment taken online. This program shows students how they performed and assigns them activities to work on to improve. I need to find programs such as these for other subject areas

Monitor: I will check progress my going onto the program's page for teachers to manage. In addition, I will conference with students on what they are working on and why.

Evaluate and Extend: I would evaluate their progress by giving them an additional assessment in class and have students respond to their growth by using the class' blog page. 

Standard: "Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership"

Sub-Standard: Participating in local and global learning communities

Goal: Become a life-long learner by using the internet to participate in local and global communities in order to remain aware of issues and ideas around the world

Action: First, receive permission from guardians that students are allowed to communicate on the wide world web for educational purposes only. Then, find websites that are directed to students and teachers from around the community or world and learn from one another. Finally, use these websites to become involved in participating ideas and more with people from outside of school to gain many perspectives. 

Monitor: I will check progress by having students and myself write a reflection each month about something we learned from somewhere outside of our classroom with the use of technology.

Evaluate and Extend: I will evaluate our progress by allowing my students to make any suggestions on how we can become more involved with the outside world of our classroom. 

Hopefully this will improve my skills as a teacher overall. 

Veronica