Maryland Teacher
Technology Standards
1.
Information Access, Evaluation, Processing, and
Application
In order to effectively address the teaching standards of Information
Access, Evaluation, Processing, and Application, I plan to make students work
in groups which requires finding data online for a project where they will be
required to design a hypothesis that they would like to examine deeper, find
data to test their hypothesis, and then through statistics and graphing, make
conclusions about the data. By doing a group project, students will have to come
up with their topic on their own and be approved by me to make sure it is
appropriate, find the correct data to test their hypothesis, and make an
accurate conclusion whether that is their hypothesis is supported, their
hypothesis has been refuted, or that they cannot make any true conclusions
without more data which is not available. Each group will be expected to come
up with their own data for the project from the internet, most likely through
the census bureau website, http://www.census.gov/,
and will have to present it in a
PowerPoint with charts and graphs that demonstrate their results as well as
conclusions that show their understanding of their project and the topic being
covered.
2.
Communication
In order to effectively address the teaching standards of communication,
I plan to make students work in groups for a project where some class time will
be given to work on it, but most of the time required to work will be out of
class. By doing a group project, students will have to communicate in the
classroom as well as over either e-mail or google docs. Each group will be
expected to come up with their own data for the project from the internet, most
likely through the census bureau website, http://www.census.gov/,
and will have to present it in a
PowerPoint with charts and graphs that demonstrate their results as well as
conclusions that show their understanding of their project and the topic being
covered.
3.
Legal, Social, and Ethical Issues
In order to address the standard of Legal, Social, and
Ethical Issues related to technology use, I would plan to have a set of rules
in the classroom on the wall or on the back of the computer screens that would
show my expectations for students using computers in the classroom. I would
have a class period where we spend the first half of the class to discuss computer
usage in the classroom and students will all participate by signing an internet
agreement that we as a class develop. In this agreement, I would expect
students to include things such as: no communicating between students in rude
or harmful ways, no communicating about things that are not related to class or
current homework/ projects, no game playing/web searching for inappropriate
materials, no distracting other students while they are working on their
computers unless it is related to class, and no damaging the computers of the
school or another individual.
4.
Assessment for Administration and Instruction
In order to address the standard of Assessment for
Administration and Instruction, I would use exit tickets and surveys of
students throughout the semester to address issues within the courses of
mathematics and students initial thoughts of mathematics from the beginning of
the school year as well as throughout the year to see if students attitudes and
their self-esteem towards mathematics changes. I would accomplish this by student surveys
where students are to rate their feelings towards mathematics on a scale of 1-5
where one is strongly disagree and five is strongly agree. This would allow to
collect data and see how student’s opinions towards mathematics change
throughout the year to see the hopeful growth mindset taking over for my
students.
5.
Integrating Technology into the Curriculum and
Instruction
In order to address the standard of Integrating Technology
into the Curriculum and Instruction, I would have students fill out learning
surveys to get an idea for how the students feel most comfortable and successful
when it comes to learning mathematics. By doing this, I can accommodate student’s
learning needs and make adjustments to lesson plans as necessary by
incorporating videos, discussions, inquiry based learning activities, group
work, homework reviews, and mastery learning opportunities. This
could be accomplished through WebQuests using websites like Khan Academy and
other mathematics education sites. I would also give students opportunities to
provide me with feedback informally on a class by class basis to ask a random
sample of 5-10 students each day what they thought about the activity and what
they liked or did not like to generate more conversations about their learning.
6.
Assistive Technology
In order to address the standard of Assistive Technology, I
would differentiate my teaching and resources for my students who require
assistance to be successful. From, e-books to recording the class lecture to
sending students the class lectures, I feel that students have every right to
be given whatever they need to be successful in the classroom. I would give
students timers on the board so they can understand how long it will take them
to complete drills and problems in preparation for their exams as well as the
use of calculators when it is necessary. In addition, I would give students
surveys to find out if students have test anxiety and try to create the most
relaxed and safe environment possible to help students take their tests without
feeling pressured or nervous. In addition, I would allow students to use WebQuests
if they feel more comfortable learning through videos and replaying the
material until they understand it completely. I would all of my students to
have the learning resources they need for a quality education that they can
expand and apply in future courses and even careers down the road.
7.
Professional Growth
In order to address the standard of Professional Growth, I
would spend my summers and winter break to attend teaching conferences to learn
about new teaching strategies that could be effective for technology based
learning. For instance, two of the last three years, I have attended the
American Mathematical Society National Convention in Baltimore and Seattle and
learned from countless teachers and college professors on mathematical studies
that have conducted in their classes to collect data about student learning
through inquiry based and mastery learning based styles of teaching as well as
the use of various textbooks and technology resources. I plan to continue to
attend these conferences and hopeful start my on studies of student learning to
make a greater impact on student learning for future teachers to learn from my
mistakes and successes. I plan to re-evaluate all of my lesson plans on a
regular basis and provide alternative ways to complete each lesson where I can
change the lesson plan to accommodate student’s learning strategies while still
covering the same material that needs to be taught. I plan to speak with
co-workers and constantly ask them for advice as a new teacher and hope they
will mentor me into becoming a more skilled teacher as well as mentor new
teachers I as become experienced too.
8.
Literacy Skills
In order for my students to be successful in a technology-integrated
classroom, students will need to be able to read, write, speak, and think
critically about information through websites and videos as well as make
connections between the material and their prior knowledge. Students will need
to be able to take in new information and be able to create new idea from the
information that they have been exposed to in the classroom. Students will need
to be literate in technology and media as to be able to communicate with peers
and their teacher to convey their understanding of the material and their
ability to apply what they have learned and respond to questions and articles
related to their learning. Students will need to be flexible to work with
others as well as working with different online applications and websites.
Students will need to be perseverant and hard working to learn the material through
the learning style that best suits them while being engaged to ask questions
when things are confusing.
References
Teacher Standards. (2003). Retrieved June 18, 2016, from
http://www.marylandpublicschools.org/msde/programs/technology/techstds/teacher_standards.htm
