Kathleen Jerome

Program of Study

ISTE Technical Facilitator Standards

Technical Facilitators Standard V

Productivity and Professional Practice.

• TF-V.A. Use technology resources to engage in ongoing professional development and lifelong learning. Candidates:
  • Identify resources and participate in professional development activities and professional technology organizations to support ongoing professional growth related to technology.
  • Disseminate information on district-wide policies for the professional growth opportunities for staff, faculty, and administrators.
  
  
• TF-V.B. Continually evaluate and reflect on professional practice to make informed decisions regarding the use of technology in support of student learning. Candidates:
  • Continually evaluate and reflect on professional practice to make informed decisions regarding the use of technology in support of student learning.


• TF-V.C. Apply technology to increase productivity. Candidates:
  • Model advanced features of word processing, desktop publishing, graphics programs, and utilities to develop professional products.
  • Assist others in locating, selecting, capturing, and integrating video and digital images in varying formats for use in presentations, publications and/or other products.
  • Demonstrate the use of specific-purpose electronic devices (such as graphing calculators, languages translators, scientific probeware, or electronic thesaurus) in content areas.
  • Use a variety of distance learning systems and use at least one to support personal/ professional development.
  • Use instructional design principles to develop hypermedia and multimedia products to support personal and professional development.
  • Select appropriate tools for communicating concepts, conducting research, and solving problems for an intended audience and purpose.
  • Use examples of emerging programming, authoring or problem solving environments that support personal/professional development.
  • Set and manipulate preferences, defaults, and other selectable features of operating systems and productivity tool programs commonly found in P-12 schools.


• TF-V.D. Use technology to communicate and collaborate with peers, parents, and the larger community in order to nurture student learning. Candidates:
  • Model the use of telecommunications tools and resources for information sharing, remote information access, and multimedia/hypermedia publishing in order to nurture student learning.
  • Communicate with colleagues and discuss current research to support instruction, using applications including electronic mail, online conferencing, and web browsers.
  • Participate in online collaborative curricular projects and team activities to build bodies of knowledge around specific topics.
  • Design, develop, and maintain Web pages and sites that support communication between the school and community.

Reflections

1. Why is this standard important?

   It is important for technical facilitators to assess and use tools to increase their productivity, and to show colleagues those tools so that their teaching is more productive as well. Communication with the community is also important because often it is the community that spurs the school on to better technology use. After my podcasting news team, our elementary school decided it would be great to have a school newspaper which is created using desktop publishing. The community saw what could be done, the other teachers saw what could be done, and they had their own ideas and got the newspaper communication going long term. Having teachers pick up where the facilitator leaves off is so important. The technology should be used well, to make things more productive and to communicate.

2. Why have you included each artifact or link and how will you use them in the future?

   I used the on-line office review as an artifact because it shows that I can "evaluate" and "reflect" on "professional practice". The review also impacts standard TF.V.D. in that it can be used systematically for information sharing and collaboration. This evaluation process made me aware of new resources that I can use, and knowledge of them that I can pass on to other teachers. In future I will definitely be using and assessing these products as they grow and change, and will use them for collaboration and communication with colleagues and the community.

   I included the page set-up PowerPoint because it "models the advanced features of word processing�" to develop professional products. In this case, I am not only modeling this process, but communicating with the community through my blog. I will use this type of information in the future to show new features, such as setting up comprehensive style sheets in word when creating a document. There are so many ideas to show teachers, and now that I have the facility to use them, I will. Communication is key.

   I included the podcasts because, among other things, they "support communication between the school and the community.

   I will consistently be able to use new techniques (has anyone tried TUMBLR) to communicate with the community, my colleagues, and to enhance my professional practice.

3. How does this artifact demonstrate that you are a competent and effective technology educator?

   These artifacts show that I am willing to continually search for tools that will make teaching more effective and that I will communicate what I have found about those tools and do what I can to make it easy for teachers to use these tools.

4. How will you continue to develop you proficiency with this standard?

   To continue to develop under this standard, I will continue to create and communicate about new options through my website, blog and through professional sites such as http://www.tappedin.org. When I am working I will communicate with my colleagues every day as well, whether I am giving short seminars of showing them one on one or simply talking after school.

Artifacts:

Artifact 1: To accommodate TF.V.B.,I discuss on-line office products and their use. This on-line office sites review will be available on zoho writer at http://writer.zoho.com/public/catnap25/online_offices_review1/script