TF-V. Productivity and Professional Practice
Educational technology
facilitators apply technology to enhance and improve personal productivity and professional practice. Educational technology
faciltators:
A. Use technology resources
to engage in ongoing professional development and lifelong learning. Candidates:
1. identify resources and participate in professional
development activities and professional technology organizations to support ongoing professional growth related to technology.
2. disseminate information on district-wide policies
for the professional growth opportunities for staff, faculty, and administrators.
B.
Continually evaluate and reflect on professional practice to make informed decisions regarding the use of technology
in support of student learning. Candidates:
1. continually evaluate and reflect on professional practice to make informed decisions regarding the use of technology
in support of student learning.
C.
Apply technology to increase productivity. Candidates:
1. model advanced features of word processing, desktop publishing, graphics programs, and utilities to develop professional
products.
2. assist others in locating, selecting, capturing, and integrating video and digital images in various formats for
use in presentations, publications, and/or other products.
3. demonstrate the use of specific-purpose electronic devices (such as graphic calculators, language translators, scientific
probeware, or electronic thesaurus) in content areas.
4. use a variety of distance learning systems and use at least one to support personal/professional development.
5. use instructional design principles to develop hypermedia and multimedia products to support personal and professional
development.
6. select appropriate tools for communicating concepts, conducting research, and solving problems for an intended audience
and purpose.
7. use examples of emerging programming, authoring or problem-solving environments that support personal/professional
development.
8. set and manipulate preferences, defaults, and other selectable features of operating systems and productivity tool
programs commonly found in PK-12 schools.
D.
Use technology to communicate and collaborate with peers, parents, and the larger community to nurture student learning.
Candidates:
1. model the use of telecommunications tools and resources for information sharing, remote information access, and
multimedia/hypermedia publishing in order to nurture student learning.
2. communicate with colleagues and discuss current research to support instruction, using applications including electronic
mail, online conferencing, and Web browsers.
3. participate in online collaborative curricular projects and team activities to build bodies of knowledge around
specific topics.
4. design, develop, and maintain Web pages and sites
that support communication between the school and community.
TF-V Reflection and Artifacts
TF-V. Productivity and Professional Practice is the standard that allows educators to improve their productivity and professional teaching methods. This standard
identifies the technology that is utlilized everyday by professional teachers such as email, video conferences, on-line graduate
courses, website building, and collaborative projects that use technology and authoring tools to solve a problem. This
digital portfolio is a prime example of using available technology to communicate with administrators, faculty or peers. My
second example is a blog which professional educators could reflect on. I have included a small blog which was built for students
but could easily be made for teachers. My third example is a collaborative Powerpoint project created to educate
faculty on the use of Microsoft Moviemaker. This powerpoint can be used for an inservice for teachers as well as for
demonstration to students before an assigned project with moviemaker.A feedback survey is also attached. My final example
would be Kittatinny Regional High's website for use by students, parents, community and faculty and staff.
