What item do you beleive you can incorporate form this class into your professional or personal life and how will you ensure that you achieve the goal of incorporating it. If you can discuss it in terms of being a SMART goal for incorporating.
S - Provideseveral mini in-service opportunities for staff members at my school using a variety of different web tools. I would like to work with about 4 to 5 staff members at a time to help show them how to incorporate a specific tool into their class.
M - I can prove that it is done by showing the teachers that I worked with as well as the tools that they were taught.
A -I definitely have the resources to do this, time is the question. Part of the reason that I am making this a year long goal is because I think I will be able to use time when we have teacher in-service days for this, but I may also have to use prep time that the teachers have or I may be able to get hours during the school day when teachers can get substitutes so that they can have some time for in-service during the school day.
R - I don't know that I will be able to touch every single staff member, I would like to focus on two groups, first are teachers who are doing very little technology wise on their own. I would like to help them feel more comfortable technology and have them incorporate at least one tool into their teaching. After that group I would like to focus on the teachers who really want to do things with technology, but they just don't know what to do or where to look. I think that if I focus on these two groups I will have given a great deal of technological wealth to the staff in my building and then we can continue to make it grow from there.
T - Throughout the remainder of the school year and into next school year. (Within a years time)
I agree that your goals need to be on going and will be a big time comittment. You are right about not being able to reach out to every single teacher, but as long as you do your best and at least make an effort, then I say you have efficiently done your job successfully. As an educator you can't force a person to want to learn, you can simply provide them the tools to be successful and ultimately it is there decision whether to go with it or sit back and do nothing with it.
ReplyDeleteI really like the idea of having mini in-services for the staff. I think by having a small group of teachers at one shot is the way to do it.
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