Learning Resources - Curriculum 3.03 3.03 Assist Integration. Assist at least three teachers of different subjects and grade levels in the integration of computer-based technologies into their teaching.  Introduction In competency 3.02 you developed an effective technology based learning experience for educators. Now it's time to help teachers integrate their new technology skill sets into some facet of their teaching. Helping someone to intergrate technology into the everyday curriculm is a wonderful feeling. When you are done with this competency, you will not only experience first hand the frustrations that come with the use of a new technology, but more importantly you will feel the gratitude that comes when those frustrations are overcome and the technology changes a classroom for the better. Your Job: Use the details provided below to create a product that addresses and demonstrates mastery of this competency. Use the stepwise process listed under Your Portfolio to display the completed product in your ITSC portfolio. Product Details: In INSYS 462, assist at least three teachers of different subjects and grade levels in the integration of computer-based technologies into their teaching. Meet individually with three educators in different subject areas. Provide each educator with three examples of how this technology has been used by other educators. Identify one specific lesson that each educator would like to teach where this technology could be incorporated. Compile a list of the educational objectives for each educator's lesson. Align the educational objectives with Pennsylvania content specific standands. Align the lesson that you created with a miminum of three Educational Technology Standards for Teachers from the ISTE website. Explore and identify opportunities and various ways for each educator to integrate their new computer based skills into their area of teaching and into their classroom. Align the technology enhanced lesson with a minimum of three Technology Standards for Students from the ISTE website. Complete the sample letter for teachers. Distribute your completed letter to each educator that you worked with. Collect letters after each educator has constructed their responses. Scan all letters and include in your portfolio. Technology is never neutral! Write a one page paper that answers... 1) The frustrations teachers experienced that I had not expected were.... 2) To help overcome these frustrations, the next time I will... Include the above one page paper in your portfolio. Your Portfolio: FTP your completed product for this competency to the "3curric" folder within the web-based portfolio template provided. Click here to view the "Manage" page in the portfolio template. Download the "Manage" page from your ftp folder. Locate 3.03 Assist Integration on the "Manage" page. Under "3.03 Assist Integration" locate this sentence..."To view the evidence that I offer for this competency, please click here." Link the word "here" to your product. Delete the old "Manage" page in your ftp folder. Upload your revised "Manage" page. Click here to view the "Design" page in the portfolio template. Download the "Design" page from your ftp folder. Locate 3.03 Assist Integration on the "Design" page. Under "3.03 Assist Integration" locate this sentence..."To view the evidence that I offer for this competency, please click here." Link the word "here" to your product. Delete the old "Design" page in your ftp folder. Upload your revised "Design" page. Submit the URL for your completed product in the student database. Related Resources: Elements of Effective Staff Development for the Technological Development of Teachers Type of Resource: Web site Source: http://www.nsdc.org/library/publications/jsd/brand191.cfm Description: Glenn Brand's article in the Journal of Staff Development describes ten key features of staff development programs that effectively integrate technology with existing curricula. Making Change Happen: Planning for Success Type of Resource: Web site Source: http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=40 Description: Gerald Edmonds describes the different stages of staff development and explains how "faculty and staff development is a change process that must be carefully planned, managed, and evaluated; it should not only improve instructional and organizational processes, but also create an environment amenable to innovation and change." Beware the Shallow Waters: The Dangers of Ignoring History and the Research on Change in Schools Type of Resource: Web site Source: http://www.fno.org/jun99/teach.html#Anchor%201 Description: "Even though we have been trying to change schools for a very long time, many of the leaders of the recent drive to network classrooms appear unaware of that history... They seem headed for shallow waters as they emphasize the purchase and installation of equipment while underfunding organizational development and ignoring the lessons of the past." Inservice Projects Type of resource: Web site Source: http://pd.l2l.org/teach.html Description: Educators need experiences that will aid them in expanding their own visions of what technology might mean for themselves and their students in the learning environment. Link to Learn looks at multiple projects in various subject matter areas and give suggested use of technology in teaching. Libby Black, Internet Specialist, Boulder Valley School District Type of resource: Web site Source: http://www.4teachers.org/keynotes/black/ Description: Libby Black, Internet Specialist, talks about her job coordinating the instructional part of technology in the Boulder Valley School District. This interview concludes with advice for districts just beginning to implement technology into their curriculum and comments on the most important part of successfully integrating technology. Instructional Technology Profile Type of resource: Web site Source: http://www.ncrtec.org/capacity/profile/profwww.htm Description: Provides a profile tool to help compare your current instructional practices with a set of indicators for engaged learning and high-performance technology. For each category there is a description of the indicators and examples that fall along a continuum. Professional Development: Expected Technology Competencies for All Teachers Type of resource: Web site Source: http://www.challenge.state.la.us/state/app-c.html Description: The key technology leader who affects student learning to the greatest degree is the classroom teacher. Often teachers joined the workforce prior to the infusion of technology in the schools. Consequently, districts are left with the responsibility of encouraging teachers to participate in professional development activities to acquaint them with the uses of educational technology for improving teaching effectiveness. The ISTE Foundations guidelines suggest the technology competencies that all teachers should have the opportunity to achieve. Curriculum Integration of Technology Type of resource: Web site Source: http://scnc.mcps.k12.mi.us/tecplan.html#curriculum Description: This is the rationale for a school district's technology curriculum integration plan. Include is the type of technology use expected by grade level. Stages of Curriculum Integration Type of resource: Web site Source: http://scnc.mcps.k12.mi.us/tecplan.html#integration Description: The following are stages of integration of technology into the curricular programs at each level. Although each building is at different stages of technological advancement and has various levels of implementation, all sites need to identify their appropriate level to begin. This information has been prepared for a Michigan school district's technology plan. Summary of Findings: Presence of Computer Technology Type of resource: Web site Source: http://www.gse.uci.edu/EdTechUse/TEXTCONCL.HTM Description: The goal of this paper is to provide an analysis of school uses of new information technologies in order to assist the policy-making process. This informative survey can foster ideas for the technology specialist in the area of providing in-service training. New Tools in the Arsenal: The Web's Role in Curricular Reform Type of resource: Periodical (hard copy) Source: Connections, ISTE, 1787 Agate St, Eugene, ORR 97403-1923, 800-336-5191, Volume 13, #4, "New Tools in the Arsenal: The Web's Role in Curricular Reform." P.6-13 Description: No description sent with resource. "Mass Ed Online" Type of resource: Periodical (hard copy) Source: Connections, ISTE, 1787 Agate St., Eugene, ORR 97403-1923, 800-336-5191, Volume 12, #4 "Mass Ed Online". Mass. Dept of Education, p.11-13 (MEOL is a resource for curriculum integration materials.) Description: No description sent with resource. [Competencies Home Page] [ITSC Home Page]