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Week 2 Assignment

Star Chart Opinion

The second key area of Preparation and Development will be my focus in this assignment. This area to me is described as a continual learning environment for the educator. Just as all of us are doing with this course; our colleagues need to do with their selected field of choice and that is to grow. Our local findings show a very inconsistance among our teacher over the past three years. We are on the way back up of teachers going back and studying for the betterment of our students. Our district is in the advanced tech area for the time being. This is not going along with national and state reports. It shows that 74% of the state is still in developmental stages of this area. The trend for the state appears to move in the direction of: Use of technology is for administrative tasks and classroom management. There is use of online resources. Forty % of educators meet SEBC standards. Administrtors expect teachers to use technology. six - twenty four % of technology budget is allocated for professional development. For our district the lowest areas are our Capabilities of Educators and Professional Development for Online Learning. Our biggest strenght is that we have access to professional development. This tells me that the teachers are not using the resources that are being provided to them. A lot of this has to do with our district employing so many uncertified teachers and not staying on them to finish their degrees. We must as educators stay up with the times or our schools will parish by the waste side along with the future leaders we are trying to educate.

Grade Cluster: 6-8

Technology Application Strand
Strand Description
Summary of TEKS #1
Summary of TEKS #2
Foundations

The student demonstrates knowledge and appropriate use of hardware components, software programs, and their connections
Compare and contrast LANs, WANs, internet and Intranet
Explain the differences between analog and digital
Information Acquisition

Student uses a variety of strategies to find electronic sources to better understand
Use on-line help and other documentations
Determine and employ methods to finding electronic information
Problem Solving

Students use appropriate computer-based productivity tools to create and modify solutions
Plan create and plan data bases
Create a document using word and other spreadsheets to gather information
Communication

Student learn how to use a variety of media with appropriate supervision
Evaluate the relevance of the assignments
Publish assignments in a variety of different ways

week 1 assignments 5352

My Technology Applications Inventory has left me knowing I need a lot of work in technology. In Fondations I answered yes to 7 of the 18 questions. In Informative Acquisition I was 5 yes and 5 no; which was my strongest area based off of percent. In Solving Problems with Technology Tools my yes was 6 and my no was 12. In Communication I fell the shortest as only 2 yes and 10 no. My strenghts are very basic; I can do email and a blog now, work on excel and some different spreadsheets, but that is about it. Powerpoint, copyright laws, vertor graph guides and group software are just a few of my shortcomings. I'm not real good at communicating over a screen, but I'm pretty good at communicating in person and dealing with people.

SETDA Teacher Survey
This assessment was really eye opening for me to see that the school I'm at right now is pretty good on technology and it is technology driven. I personally don't use the technology very much in Physical Education classes, but I do give assignments that students can use a computer to research the information needed.