5.2 Professional Learning
Candidates develop and implement technology-based professional learning that aligns to state and national professional learning standards, integrates technology to support face-to-face and online components, models principles of adult learning, and promotes best practices in teaching, learning, and assessment. (PSC 5.2/ISTE 4b)
Candidates develop and implement technology-based professional learning that aligns to state and national professional learning standards, integrates technology to support face-to-face and online components, models principles of adult learning, and promotes best practices in teaching, learning, and assessment. (PSC 5.2/ISTE 4b)
Reflection:
I have supplied two artifacts for Standard 5.2. My first artifact, I completed for ITEC 7460,
Professional Learning and Technology Innovation. It was a Technology Workshop on VoiceThread. I
completed the second artifact in my final semester of my Master’s program
during the summer of 2014. It was a Web
2.0 Technology Workshop that I presented at the Teachers Leading Cobb Forward, 2014
Summer Conference.
I showed mastery of Standard 5.2, Professional Learning, which states candidates develop and implement technology-based professional learning that aligns to state and national professional learning standards, integrates technology to support face-to-face and online components, models principles of adult learning, and promotes best practices in teaching, learning, and assessment through both of the artifacts above. Both artifacts were teaching components that were standards based, relating to Common Core Curriculum and the GA PSC/NETS-C Technology Standards. Both workshops that I presented have a Google Forms handout that goes along with the presentation. The technology workshops both have a strong emphasis on Web 2.0 tools. It is my goal to get more teachers at my school using Web 2.0 tools. I held my Web 2.0 tools workshop at my school three times to accommodate teachers. I did not allow them to have an excuse. When they told me that they could not come the day I had it scheduled, I asked them their preference for days and scheduled it then.
I learned so much about myself and about putting together a presentation. It was a lot of work and I was precise in making sure I did not miss a step for the participants. I wanted to be ready for any question that they might have so I had plenty of information on their handouts. I made sure I was very knowledgeable about everything that I was teaching. I also learned that standing up in front of your peers and teaching a workshop is not the same as teaching all day in front of a class of first graders.
This technology workshop that I put on for the staff at Timber Ridge had a great impact. I was able to present it to staff members three times last spring. That gave teachers many options to be able to come. With the three workshops, I was able to introduce Web 2.0 tools to seventeen members of our staff. This was huge as they were planning to be the support to each other when needed. They were excited to learn VoiceThread and could not wait to get back to their rooms to get started on their first one. I am hoping to see more of them on their blogs this fall.
I showed mastery of Standard 5.2, Professional Learning, which states candidates develop and implement technology-based professional learning that aligns to state and national professional learning standards, integrates technology to support face-to-face and online components, models principles of adult learning, and promotes best practices in teaching, learning, and assessment through both of the artifacts above. Both artifacts were teaching components that were standards based, relating to Common Core Curriculum and the GA PSC/NETS-C Technology Standards. Both workshops that I presented have a Google Forms handout that goes along with the presentation. The technology workshops both have a strong emphasis on Web 2.0 tools. It is my goal to get more teachers at my school using Web 2.0 tools. I held my Web 2.0 tools workshop at my school three times to accommodate teachers. I did not allow them to have an excuse. When they told me that they could not come the day I had it scheduled, I asked them their preference for days and scheduled it then.
I learned so much about myself and about putting together a presentation. It was a lot of work and I was precise in making sure I did not miss a step for the participants. I wanted to be ready for any question that they might have so I had plenty of information on their handouts. I made sure I was very knowledgeable about everything that I was teaching. I also learned that standing up in front of your peers and teaching a workshop is not the same as teaching all day in front of a class of first graders.
This technology workshop that I put on for the staff at Timber Ridge had a great impact. I was able to present it to staff members three times last spring. That gave teachers many options to be able to come. With the three workshops, I was able to introduce Web 2.0 tools to seventeen members of our staff. This was huge as they were planning to be the support to each other when needed. They were excited to learn VoiceThread and could not wait to get back to their rooms to get started on their first one. I am hoping to see more of them on their blogs this fall.