Kentucky Experienced Teacher Standard 10:  Demonstrates Implementation of Technology

10.12
CRITERION#

Purpose:  "The teacher uses technology to support instruction; access and manipulate data; enhance professional growth and productivity; communicate and collaborate with colleagues, parents, and the community; and conduct research."

 Author:  Carole Frakes
8th Grade Language Arts
Grant County Middle School

 

What criterion 10.12 says:

The teacher. . .  explores, uses, and evaluates technology resources:  software, applications, and related documentation.

What this criterion seems to mean:

An educator investigates, applies, accesses, determines, and critiques tools using instruments to deliver educational data or programs to enhance curriculum needs and to showcase the learning of both students and teachers.

What a teacher does when demonstrating this knowledge or skill:

Teachers who meet this criterion will:

  • Know whom to contact when exploring the use of new or different technology. 

  • Investigate the use of technology resources via demo disk, CD-Rom and related periodical sources, on-line sources, and technology showcases.

  • Develop avenues of communication for the evaluation of hardware and software resources.

  • Obtain technology equipment and determine the usefulness of products based on teacher, student, and curriculum needs.

Ways this criterion might be assessed:

Possible teacher assessment tools or methods could include:

  •  Creates a spreadsheet of thorough and definitive facts and figures of technology equipment obtained throughout a school year.

  •  Develops a web resource page for other professionals to browse and locate useful technology resources easily.

  • Create a newsletter for teachers in schools in your district with updates of new software and hardware programs and applications.

What are some resources  teachers might use to help gain competency in this area?

 To improve your skills on this criterion, consider the following sites and online resources: 

On-line resources are very useful in gaining competency in technology resources.  One site that I especially like is Google.Com.  This site offers various software programs to download and try.  I found it to be very interesting and providing many opportunities for evaluations and critiques.  Another site that is valuable to this standard is Marcopolo.Com.  It was useful in providing software and hardware regulations and related periodical sources.  Third, shareware.com was another site that offers many software programs that can be downloaded and evaluated for exploring various technology resources. The last site that I found that offers online resources for this standard is AT Centers.  It offers many varied technology resources for educators to gain further competency with this standard.

This resource for teachers was created by students in Dave Forman's EDU 556: Integrating Technology and Teacher Standard 10 class at Georgetown College. (May 2001)