Module 3 WMarrero

·       Where do the ISTE, NBPTS, and WVPTS "speak" to or promote teacher leadership, particularly leadership for technology integration?

ISTE- International Society for Technology in Education ISTE has specific standards for evaluating administrators and leaders to support and implement technology. ISTE.NETS advancing digital age leadership has five areas in technology standards;

1. Visionary Leadership

2. Digital Age Learning Culture

3. Excellence in Professional Practice

4. Systemic Improvement

5. Digital Citizenship.

These standards are to help promote policies that support excellence in teaching and leading. It is important for teachers to promote responsibility and engage in growth and leadership

NBPTS- National Board for Professional Teaching Standards promotes advance student learning and achievement by establishing the Five Core Propositions. These definitive standards and systems are for certifying accomplished educators, providing programs and advocating policies that support excellence in teaching, leading and engaging National Board Certified Teachers (NBCTs) leaders in that process.  http://www.nbpts.org/mission-history

 The Board understands the need to be a strong educational system. Teachers should be leaders within the classroom and school so that students can learn from them.  National Board Leaders also feel it is important to work with all school personnel in order to achieve a positive learning environment.

WVPTS- WV Professional Teaching Standards emphasize the importance that leaders should always look for ways to improve their skills.  This can happen by the process of self-reflection or looking at the community as a whole to see what actions should be taken to improve.

Standard 4 - The teacher engages in professional learning to critically examine his/her professional practice and to engage in a continuous cycle of self-improvement focused on changing how to learn, teach and work in a global and digital society.

Standard 5 – The teacher demonstrates leadership by implementing classroom and school initiatives that improve education as well as by making positive changes in policy and practice that affect student learning. http://wvde.state.wv.us/teachwv/wvde1890master.pdf#page=10

    If you were designing a program or professional development intended to prepare teacher leaders to take advantage of these multiple pathways, what would it look like? What learning experiences would you include?

My professional development program would begin with first researching what my current school system has in place for professional development.  I would then set up a committee with experienced teachers in each pathway Leadership, administrative and classroom teaching for 21^st Century. I would ask each of them to share their ideas on what has worked for them and what hasn’t. This committee would also look to other states to see what they are doing to plan, engage and mobilize in the three pathways. The learning experiences would include networking via video conferences, Skype or just google video to provide hands on experience on each pathway. Training in new classroom technology tools for the classroom, how to transition from the classroom to administrative duties, and quarterly faculty senate meetings that would include guest speakers on how to collaborate spending  time in a classroom and part of the time on additional administrative and professional responsibilities.

·        Share at least one strategy you will use/are using to assess the technology needs of your context (how will you document needs, what kind of data will you use, etc.).

I am currently working on an action research project in another class that is titled Technology in the classroom. My research question is what type or type of technology tools work best for the 11th & 12th grade newspaper class. The need is- what type of technology tools are being used to write and research in a newspaper class. I will document the finding by using a pretest and post test created in survey monkey, I am also observing the class for two weeks, and I will be conducting interviews. I will design five simple questions for the pretest to see what students feel about the technology they are using in their class. Then after two weeks I will give them a post test to see if they still feel the same or if they feel better about their technology tools. Who know s maybe I can introduce them to something new. This will all be documented as part of the data collected. I am actually really excited about this project because it will give me a chance to experience being in the classroom for two full weeks.