1. Classify technology goals in a proper domain (technology, management, funding).
Technology
Goal 1: Integrate technology into all curriculum areas to achieve information literacy at an appropriate level for all students.
Objective: Provide Technology Resource Teacher (TRT) to work with elementary teachers to integrate technology into all curriculum areas so students become discerning users of the internet and are able to cite and determine meaningful information from a variety of sources.
Management
Goal 2: Provide technology professional development to improve job performance and student achievement.
Objective: Provide a district master technology trainer to conduct technology professional development for elementary teachers and staff.
Funding
Goal 3: Use technology to improve, maintain and support student achievement at or beyond grade level.
Objective: Obtain funding for technologies through local, state technology allotment, federal, e-rate grants, and private partnership sources
2. Identify the major steps required to accomplish technological goals.
The major steps required to accomplish technological goals are:
- Assess needs to identify instructional goals - Identify what it is the learners are expected to be able to do at the end of the instruction.
- Conduct instructional analysis - Determine what skills and knowledge are required.
- Analyze learners and contexts - Identify learners' present skills, preferences and attitude as well as the characteristic of the instructional setting.
- Write performance objectives - Specify what it is the learners will be able to do with the statements of the skills to be learned, the conditions, and the criteria.
- Develop assessment instruments - Develop a criteria-referenced assessment consistent with the performance objectives.
- Develop instructional strategy
- Develop and select instruction - Use the instructional strategies to produce the instruction.
- Design and conduct formative evaluation - Collect data that are used to identify how to improve the instruction.
- Revise Instruction
- Design and conduct summative evaluation - Measure the value and success of the instruction (Dick, Carey, and Carey, 2001).
3. Develop assessment instruments to test the objectives for the technology plan. Describe the desired instrument(s) under each objective.
Objective 1:
Provide Technology Resource Teacher (TRT) to work with elementary teachers to integrate technology into all curriculum areas so students become discerning users of the internet and are able to cite and determine meaningful information from a variety of sources.
- Teacher Lesson Plan
- Teacher observations of technology integration
- Teacher portfolio
- Student assessments
- Student work samples
Objective 2:
Provide a district master technology trainer to conduct technology professional development for elementary teachers and staff.
- Maintain training class log.
- Certificates
- 100 training classes per year
Objective 3:
Obtain funding for technologies through local, state technology allotment, federal, e-rate grants, and private partnership sources.
- e-Rate Team maintain record of increased funding
- Grant proposals received
- Maintain record of private/partnership funding
References:
Technology
Dick, Carey, and Carey (2009). The Dick and Carey / Systems Approach Model of Instructional Design.
National Educational Technology Standards: NETs for Students 2007
http://www.iste.org/Libraries/PDFs/NETS_for_Student_2007_EN_sflb.ashx
National Educational Technology Standards: NETs for Teachers 2008
http://www.iste.org/standards/nets-for-teachers/nets-for-teachers-2008.aspx
State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) Assessments Comparison Chart for the 2011-2012 School Year
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ID=2147504245&libID=2147504239
Donzella,
ReplyDeleteI also have a teacher portfolio as an assessment instrument. I am planning to use this assessment to evaluate how teachers are improving their technological skills and the effectiveness of technology implementation in the classroom. The assessment portfolio should present work demonstrating that the teacher has met specific learning goals and requirements. Daniels (2011) mentions five steps inherent in the development of effective electronic portfolios:
1. Selection: the development of criteria for choosing items to include in the portfolio based on established learning objectives.
2. Collection: the gathering of items based on the portfolio's purpose, audience, and future use.
3. Reflection: statements about the significance of each item and of the collection as a whole.
4. Direction: a review of the reflections that looks ahead and sets future goals.
5. Connection: the creation of hypertext links and publication, providing the opportunity for feedback.
It seems like it is a lot of work for a teacher, and even more in a school where no one has worked on it before. How would you present this assessment to all teachers to avoid a negative response?
Daniels, M. (2011). Electronic portfolios in the K-12 classroom. Education world. Retrieved March 03, 2012 from http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech111.shtml
Angela,
DeleteAt my school each teacher is required by administrators to complete a Teacher Portfolio. At the end of each school year the teacher portfolio has to be turned in to the principal by the assigned due date. Additionally, we would just use the same portfolio to evaluate teachers technology integration into the curriculum. Our school portfolios are more formal, structured, and focused on accountability.
Donzella,
ReplyDeleteThank you for your post. I was most drawn to your use of Teacher Portfolios for your assessment piece. I wish I would have thought of that. Maybe I didn't think of it because too often it doesn't get used? Portfolios are a great tool for authentic assessments and it interesting that we are more likely to use it as a tool for our students and not ourselves.
Was wondering if you planned on including a reflection component to your teacher portfolios? Allowing teachers to time to reflect could have a huge impact in their growth as an educator. Peter Pappas has done Professional Development for my district before and he focuses a great deal on teacher reflection. I highly recommend anything that has his name on it.
Pappas, P. (n.d.). The Reflective Teacher: A Taxonomy of Reflection Part 3. Copy/Paste- Peter Pappas . Retrieved March 7, 2012, from http://www.peterpappas.com/2010/01/reflective-teacher-taxonomy-reflection.html
Kristina,
DeleteAccording to Handbook on Teacher Portfolios for Evaluation and Professional Development,(2002) there are different types of Teacher Portfolios. My objective 1, I will use the teacher portfolio on for teacher evaluation only. However, my objective 2, the teacher portfolio for profession development can be used. This type of teacher portfolio has a component for reflective journal entries. Thanks for the reference The Reflective Teacher: A Taxonomy of Reflection Part 3, I enjoyed reading it.
Donella, good job!
ReplyDeletePlease review question 1, the funding goal. The proposed funding goal seemed no mentioning anything about the fudget and funding. Please redo the funding goal and provide your feedback to the reviewers. Thanks!
Dr. Shannon,
DeleteI could not edit my original post.
Funding Goal: To provide funding for digital textbooks and tablets to improve students technology skills, maintain and support student achievement at or beyond grade level.
Funding Objective:Obtain funding for technologies through the school budget, local, state technology allotment, federal e-rate grants, and search for partnership sources.