Instructional Technology Portfol

Instructional Technology Portfolio
Jossette Sherwood-Hill

NETS Standards | COE Conceptual Framework | Artifacts & Reflections

1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity: Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments.

A: Promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness.		MEDT 6401 - SAM Excel Project Reflection
B: Engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources.	2. Leaders: We believe that candidates should be able to demonstrate effective leadership skills to initiate and facilitate transformational systemic change.	EDLE 6322 - 21st Century Students Reflection
C: Promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes.		MEDT 7467 - Instructional Website Reflection
D: Model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments.	1.Decision Makers: We believe that candidates should be able to demonstrate knowledge and skills when making decisions that will influence effective transformational systemic change.	EDLE 6322- Article Analysis Reflection
2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments: Teachers design, develop, and evaluate authentic learning experiences and assessment incorporating contemporary tools and resources to maximize content learning in context and to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes identified in the NETS•S. Teachers:
A: Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity.		MEDT 6401-Kidspiration Reflection
B: Develop technology-enriched learning environments that enable all students to pursue their individual curiosities and become active participants in setting their own educational goals, managing their own learning, and assessing their own progress.	6. Culturally Sensitive: We believe that candidates should be able to develop awareness and understanding of individual and group differences when diagnosing and prescribing transformational systemic change.	MEDT 6401 - Diversity Assignment Reflection
C: Customize and personalize learning activities to address students' diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources.		MEDT 7467 - Instructional Website Reflection
D: Provide students with multiple and varied formative and summative assessments aligned with content and technology standards and use resulting data to inform learning and teaching.	3. Life Long Learners: We believe that candidates should seek continually to improve their knowledge, disposition, and skills to influence transformational systemic change.	MEDT 7464 - Blogging Reflection
3: Model Digital-Age Work and Learning: Teachers exhibit knowledge, skills, and work processes repres4entative of an innovative professional in a global and digital society. Teachers:
A: Demonstrate fluency in technology systems and the transfer of current knowledge to new technologies and situations.		MEDT 6401- SAM Excel Project Reflection
B: Collaborate with students, peers, parents, and community members using digital tools and resources to support student success and innovation.		MEDT 6401 - Kispiration Reflection
C: Communicate relevant information and ideas effectively to students, parents, and peers using a variety of digital-age media and formats.		MEDT 6401 - Website Evaluation Reflection
D: Model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, evaluate, and use information resources to support research and learning.	4. Adaptive: We believe that candidates should be able to demonstrate flexibility and strategic planning appropriate to a wide variety of learners for effective transformational systemic change.	MEDT 7464 - PBL Activity Reflection
4. Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility: Teachers understand local and global societal issues and responsibilities in an evolving digital culture and exhibit legal and ethical behavior in their professional practices. Teachers:
A: Advocate, model, and teach safe, legal, and ethical use of digital information and technology, including respect for copyright, intellectual property, and the appropriate documentation of sources.		MEDT 6401 - Copyright Advice Reflection
B: Address the diverse needs of all learners by using learner-centered strategies providing equitable access to appropriate digital tools and resources.		MEDT 6401 - Understanding Diversity Reflection
C: Promote and model digital etiquette and responsible social interactions related to the use of technology and information.		MEDT 7464 - Blogging Reflection
D. Develop and model cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with colleagues and students of other cultures using digital-age communication and collaboration tools.	10. Reflective: We believe that candidates should be able to demonstrate critical thinking skills in the diagnosis and prescription for transformational systemic change.	MEDT 7464 - PBL Activity Reflection
5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership: Teachers continuously improve their professional practice, model lifelong learning, and exhibit leadership in their school and professional community by promoting and demonstrating the effective use of digital tools and resources. Teachers:
A: Participate in local and global learning communities to explore creative applications of technology to improve student learning.	9. Proactive: We believe that candidates should be able to advocate for the removal of barriers that impede life long learning and hinder transformational systemic change.	MEDT 7464 - Blogging Reflection
B: Exhibit leadership by demonstrating a vision of technology infusion, participating in shared decision making and community building, and developing the leadership and technology skills of others.	7. Empathetic: We believe that candidates should be able to develop the sensitivity for individual, family, and institutional needs that will embrace transformational systemic change.	MEDT 6462 - School Improvement Plan Reflection
C: Evaluate and reflect on current research and professional practice on a regular basis to make effective use of existing and emerging digital tools and resources in support of student learning.	8.Knowledgeable: We believe that candidates should be able to demonstrate general knowledge inherent in a liberal arts curriculum, advanced knowledge in content areas, and specific knowledge in professional education for the implementation of transformational systemic change.	EDLE 6322 - 21st Century Students Reflection
D: Contribute to the effectiveness, vitality, and self-renewal of the teaching profession and of their school and community.	5. Collaborative: We believe that candidates should be able to develop skills to work effectively with various stakeholders involved in the educational process that will bring about transformational systemic change.	MEDT 6462 - School Improvement Plan Reflection

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