Here is the prompt:
Where you are at on tech skills to be a great teacher and where you think you need to be? What are your strengths and weaknesses in technology use for instruction and professional development? What kind of plan can you develop for your professional growth?
1. I consider myself in the middle of the road technologically. I'm exploring, getting to know key programs such as Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. I am not proficient in anyone of these areas and there is definite room for improvement before I hit the classroom. I am not, however afraid of exploring with these programs and I wish I could learn them faster.
2. My strengths: I like to use technology. If I know it, I use it. I also am not afraid, once I know how to use a piece of technology, to take it outside of the box and use if for creative projects. My weaknesses: I have to be told about the technology; I don't just go looking for it by myself. Just because I can conceive of something, doesn't mean I go looking for it. Nor can I create it.
3. A long term plan for my professional growth would include getting some intermediate level classes for anything and everything under the sun technology speaking. I would like to become known as the teacher who is the most creative and most innovative in the school. I want to know how to take my students to the levels they need in technology and to do that, I need a starting foundation from which to build.
I think that is my weakness too, I don't really go looking for new technology and am not very aware of what all is out there. I probably really don't even know how to look. I think though that you probably know a lot more about technology than what you give yourself credit for, from what I've seen and heard anyway. A good example of that is when you worked alone on the asteroid project last semester--I was impressed!
ReplyDeleteI think that being proficient and confident with a fair amount of technology is a good start for the classroom, and then as you said, find ways to increase our learning and we will do well.
Thank you, Virginia! I had forgotten about that project! It was quite the challenge. It is just I know there is so much more out there that I don't know!
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