These standards were found here:
(BOLDED & ITALICISED words are my own comments written about individual standards.)
Effective teachers model and
apply the NETS·S as they design, implement, and assess learning experiences to
engage students and improve learning; enrich professional practice; and provide
positive models for students, colleagues, and the community. All teachers
should meet the following standards and performance indicators.
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
b.
Engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources
c.
Promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify
students’conceptual understanding
and thinking, planning, and creative processes
d.
Model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with
students, colleagues, and others in
face-to-face and virtual environments
Technology is particularly helpful in
this aspect. You are able to show students things that you could never describe
with words only. For example, world maps in the classroom is not as effective
in inspiring students as technology can be in organizing and presenting “the
world”.
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.
a.
Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and
resources to promote student learning
and creativity
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
c.
Customize and personalize learning activities to address students’ diverse
learning styles, working
strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources
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
This is the fun part of technology for
students. They are allowed to pursue their own interests/curiosities through
education. Students learn more about themselves as well as learning to work
with technology.
3. Model Digital Age Work and
Learning
Teachers exhibit knowledge,
skills, and work processes representative of an innovative professional in a
global and digital society.
a.
Demonstrate fluency in technology systems and the transfer of current knowledge
to new technologies and situations
b.
Collaborate with students, peers, parents, and community members using digital
tools and
resources to support student success and innovation
c.
Communicate relevant information and ideas effectively to students, parents,
and peers using a variety of
digital age media and formats
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
At this point, I think the students are
learning that technology can and most likely will be used in the classroom
every day. I think students are able to experience its benefits through power
points, the web, concept maps,…etc.
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.
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
b.
Address the diverse needs of all learners by using learner-centered strategies
providing equitable access to appropriate
digital tools and resources
c.
Promote and model digital etiquette and responsible social interactions related
to the use of technology and
information
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
Here, students learn how technology can
be unethical and dangerous, but at the same time, they are seeing how it is
relevant and necessary in our digital age culture. Communication, banking, and so
much more of our lives are now centered around technology.
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.
a.
Participate in local and global learning communities to explore creative
applications of technology to improve
student learning
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
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
d.
Contribute to the effectiveness, vitality, and self-renewal of the teaching
profession and of their school and
community
This is especially prevalent now with
the use of ebooks, smart boards, screen projections, …etc.
