5.1 Needs Assessment
Candidates conduct needs assessments to determine school-wide, faculty, grade-level, and subject area strengths and weaknesses to inform the content and delivery of technology-based professional learning programs. (PSC 5.1/ISTE 4a)
Candidates conduct needs assessments to determine school-wide, faculty, grade-level, and subject area strengths and weaknesses to inform the content and delivery of technology-based professional learning programs. (PSC 5.1/ISTE 4a)
Artifact:Teacher Technology Assessment
Reflection:
I have attached the
Technology Needs Assessment Project as my artifact for Standard 5.1. This was created in one of my last classes,
during the spring 2014. In ITEC 7460, Professional
Learning and Technology Innovation, I used a Google docs form to create this
needs assessment to give to a teammate of mine that I was going to coach. Standard 5.1 states that Candidates conduct
needs assessments to determine school-wide, faculty, grade-level, and subject
area strengths and weaknesses to inform the content and delivery of technology-based
professional based learning problems.
I have been coaching this teammate of mine for a couple years. She is lacking in technology skills as well as the time to devote to mastery. I feel like I have been moving at a snail’s pace with her as she knows I am always there for her when she needs me. For this project, after discussing her most pressing needs, we set up a plan with goals that she wanted to achieve. I made sure to boost her confidence and talk about her strengths as well as areas that I want to help her get stronger. We set the Smartboard as an area to improve on as goal number one getting more familiar with the iPads in order to check out the iPad cart as goal number two. After practicing with both devices repeatedly a few times a week, she did get stronger at the Smartboard and did check out the iPad cart at the end of the year.
Not everyone has the same confidence level integrating technology into the classroom. This teammate could have checked out the iPads without help from me because she has her own iPad. So, she was already familiar with it. My teammate was more the fearful of someone having difficulty or not being able to help twenty four students all at once. I believe it really was more of a class management issue than a technology issue. Those are two separate things and this coaching experience may have helped her to recognize the difference. I was glad I was able to make progress in the Smartboard area as well. She really did progress and it was rewarding see her things on the Smartboard that she could not do earlier.
This needs assessment impacted Timber Ridge because it allowed me to work with this teammate on a weekly basis for about six weeks. This project helped make a teacher at Timber Ridge get more confident with technology. It impacted our school because another class was able to work with the iPads..We need to get our teachers stronger in the area of technology and this artifact took us one step closer with all the growth that my teammate made this semester.
I have been coaching this teammate of mine for a couple years. She is lacking in technology skills as well as the time to devote to mastery. I feel like I have been moving at a snail’s pace with her as she knows I am always there for her when she needs me. For this project, after discussing her most pressing needs, we set up a plan with goals that she wanted to achieve. I made sure to boost her confidence and talk about her strengths as well as areas that I want to help her get stronger. We set the Smartboard as an area to improve on as goal number one getting more familiar with the iPads in order to check out the iPad cart as goal number two. After practicing with both devices repeatedly a few times a week, she did get stronger at the Smartboard and did check out the iPad cart at the end of the year.
Not everyone has the same confidence level integrating technology into the classroom. This teammate could have checked out the iPads without help from me because she has her own iPad. So, she was already familiar with it. My teammate was more the fearful of someone having difficulty or not being able to help twenty four students all at once. I believe it really was more of a class management issue than a technology issue. Those are two separate things and this coaching experience may have helped her to recognize the difference. I was glad I was able to make progress in the Smartboard area as well. She really did progress and it was rewarding see her things on the Smartboard that she could not do earlier.
This needs assessment impacted Timber Ridge because it allowed me to work with this teammate on a weekly basis for about six weeks. This project helped make a teacher at Timber Ridge get more confident with technology. It impacted our school because another class was able to work with the iPads..We need to get our teachers stronger in the area of technology and this artifact took us one step closer with all the growth that my teammate made this semester.