ITSE Goals

IB.  Technology Concepts and Operations

This is a teacher-centered goal.  For this goal, I would continue to explore new and interesting technologies and determine how they can relate to classroom application.  Through teacher blogs, technology websites and teacher communities, I would explore new technologies.  In some cases, I may take additional coursework at a community college to increase my knowledge.

IIB. Planning and Designing Learning Environments and Experiences

For this goal, I would create a science lesson that would incorporate both hands-on (tactile) and technology-driven lab stations.  With the diverse amount of online resources, I could successfully plan both a technology and hands-on driven lab environment that would give students multiple ways of solving problems.  This could include hands-on experiments with rocks combined with a online lab that shows plate movements and volcanic activity in which they could control or change to see results.

IIIC.  Teaching, Learning and the Curriculum

For this goal, I could have children create a wiki space that children would update regularly.  This space would be centered in the Language Arts environment and encourage children to reflect and persuade other students to read the books that they are reading.  They can design their own space, enhancing creativity.  In addition, instead of summarizing the book, they would give persuasive arguments on why other student's should read the book, taking them from just regurgitating information to 'selling' the book.  Other student's would post to the wiki space after reading the book confirming the persuasiveness of the argument.

IVA. Assessment and Evaluation

For this goal, I envision a school where cell phones can be used in class to enhance the learning experience.  In this case, after presenting a lesson or discussion, I would use the immediate feedback poll sites to ask children question and have them text their responses to the poll site.  This will give real time data of understanding and confusion, in an anonymous way.  Even though the evaluation is not personalized, it will give me, the teacher, data to review, enhance or modify the lesson for maximum understanding.

VD.  Productivity and Professional Practice

For this goal, I envision a class website that gives access to both students and parents.  This website allows me to post pictures from class, projects and solicit feedback from parents.  This can be a facebook group page in which parents can talk with me, review class assignments/projects or just feel connected to the class and the teacher.  I believe this real time connection will enhance the parents engagement and get children excited about showing their parents what they do in class, increasing child productivity.

VIA Social, Ethical, Legal and Human Issues

This goal could be difficult to apply to different grades, but I can envision the use of society to enhance this goal.  By discussing and reviewing how social media, twitter, facebook, etc. is used in society, I can teach the students the right and wrong way to use technology.  Relating positive uses or negative uses to current news stories would allow me to tie in how technology affects individuals and society as a whole.  Positive uses such as texting to donate money to the Japan earthquake relief allow students to see how quickly the world can come together to support a cause.  Negative uses such as the comments made by Gilbert Godfrey show how words used by an individual can quickly become seen by world and affect that individual personally and professionally.