Monday, November 30, 2009
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Power Point Upload
I have had severe difficulty getting my PP to upload to authorstream or slideshare. It will be posed as soon as it gets "converted". It is going on 1 1/2 hours right now.
Brian
Brian
STaR Chart - Educator Preparation & Development
The Texas STaR Chart addresses the four key areas of the Texas State Long-Range Plan for Technology 2006-2020. This assignment re quires me to blog about one of the sections of my Campus' STaR Chart results. I chose the area of Educator Preparation and Development. This area includes the following: training content, educator competency, models of professional development, levels of understanding and patterns of use, professional development for online learning, and teacher access to professional development. I chose to address this area because it is an area of concern for my campus. All areas for my campus are Developing Tech, but I thought it would be higher. This particular area in 2006-2007 rated a 10, but increased to 12 the next year, and the most recent results in 2009 being 12 as well. There is little if any apparant growth in this area, I think that training for our teachers about how to use our technology in their classroom more efficiently would be beneficial, not only to this key area, but also to the area of Teaching & Learning. As teachers get more effiicient with using technology, their delivery will become better, and hopefully we will see the direct result of a focused and concentrated .
http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/comm/PartIIIEducatorPreparationandDevelopment.pdf
http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/comm/PartIIIEducatorPreparationandDevelopment.pdf
Pre-K Technology Applications TEKS
Students who enter the Pre-K program in our public schools have a curriculum that is expected to be taught to them that includes a technology component. The focus of the TEKS is to expose the student to the basic components of a computer and the various uses of the computer. As with all subjects, vocabulary of the computer is also an integral part of the curriculum. Then the students get to the good stuff - using the computers through the use of interactive stories and games. These stories and games can address any subject area, but can be used and delivered via the computer The Pre-K Technology TEKS lays a foundation for students to build experiences on and carry on through the upcoming grades. Technology exposure should begin as soon as they enter a formal school setting, and hopefully before. As with the TEKS in other areas of study, the State of Texas has designed the curriculum to be a spiraling of skills and concepts, to ensure mastery of the objectives.
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Texas Long Range Plan, Wk 1 Part 3
As a teacher of 17 years, I thought that I was pretty current on trends and requirements for teachers. I was wrong. I didn’t know the state has been working on technology initiatives for over 20 years, and have never heard about Phase I, II or III of the Texas Long Range Plan. I have known that technology was always a focus for our school to promote and sustain development in these areas. No one formally ever mentioned this plan to our staff. I assure you they will now.
Most school age kids already use technology. Most have a better phone than I do, and some have more skills in computers than I do. This is why it is so crucial for the staff to address the use of technology. Not only do we need to address the tools and tricks of the technology, we also need to be sure to address the safety and legal issues concerning technology and copyright issues.
As mentioned in my earlier blog, I found that I have not been implementing technology effectively into my individual curriculum. As a district, we are doing well toward that end, but I as an individual am not. The district has access to the internet in all classrooms, as well as offices. The number of computers still needs to be advanced, but there is access by any one, and never with a line to get access. Working closely with our campus technology representative will help ensure that we continue to advance toward a more digital relationship with our students.
Most school age kids already use technology. Most have a better phone than I do, and some have more skills in computers than I do. This is why it is so crucial for the staff to address the use of technology. Not only do we need to address the tools and tricks of the technology, we also need to be sure to address the safety and legal issues concerning technology and copyright issues.
As mentioned in my earlier blog, I found that I have not been implementing technology effectively into my individual curriculum. As a district, we are doing well toward that end, but I as an individual am not. The district has access to the internet in all classrooms, as well as offices. The number of computers still needs to be advanced, but there is access by any one, and never with a line to get access. Working closely with our campus technology representative will help ensure that we continue to advance toward a more digital relationship with our students.
Tech Assessments, Week 1, Part 2
This blog is in response to the two surveys completed as part of week 1 of my Instructional Leadership class. We were to take two surveys – the Texas Technology Applications Inventory and the SEDTA survey for teachers. The first of the surveys dealt primarily with the individual teachers’ preparedness for technology, while the second dealt with the teacher and school’s integration of the technology into their respective class room.
The results of the Texas Inventory was as follows:
Foundations domain – 17 yes/1 no
Information Acquisition domain – 9 yes/1 no
Solving Problems domain – 13 yes/5 no
Communication domain – 7 yes/5 no
This didn’t really surprise me because technology is something I enjoy and try to integrate into my classroom as much as possible. These results do not surprise me and are about what I expected.
The results I did not expect came from the SEDTA survey. I did expect the district to do as well on my survey as they did, but the area that concerned me was the minimal impact that my class is having on the digital education of my students. Since I value technology as I do, I am concerned at my lack of integration into my class. Yes my class is a performance based class, and no amount of technology will ever be able to replace the tactile experience of playing an instrument, but there are areas where technology can be implemented and developed in my students. This will be an area of personal development that I will focus on in the coming months, so that at the beginning of next year, I will be able to take this survey and fare better.
Texas Technology Applications Inventory
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/technology/techapp/assess/teksurv.pdf
SEDTA survey for teachers
http://www.setda-peti.org/tools.html
The results of the Texas Inventory was as follows:
Foundations domain – 17 yes/1 no
Information Acquisition domain – 9 yes/1 no
Solving Problems domain – 13 yes/5 no
Communication domain – 7 yes/5 no
This didn’t really surprise me because technology is something I enjoy and try to integrate into my classroom as much as possible. These results do not surprise me and are about what I expected.
The results I did not expect came from the SEDTA survey. I did expect the district to do as well on my survey as they did, but the area that concerned me was the minimal impact that my class is having on the digital education of my students. Since I value technology as I do, I am concerned at my lack of integration into my class. Yes my class is a performance based class, and no amount of technology will ever be able to replace the tactile experience of playing an instrument, but there are areas where technology can be implemented and developed in my students. This will be an area of personal development that I will focus on in the coming months, so that at the beginning of next year, I will be able to take this survey and fare better.
Texas Technology Applications Inventory
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/technology/techapp/assess/teksurv.pdf
SEDTA survey for teachers
http://www.setda-peti.org/tools.html
Introduction
I am a band director in the Rio Grande Valley. I have been teaching for 17 years. I have finally begun to work on my masters degree, and am eager to finish. Check here for my assignment postings for my Instructional Leadership class.
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