Reflective Statement
Artifact: http://msheitingsclassroom.weebly.com/
STANDARD 6 – Telecommunication and Information Access
The competent teacher will use telecommunications and information-access resources to support instruction.
I selected to use my future classroom website as an artifact for Technology Standard 6 because it demonstrates my ability to use technology to develop a profession website that is used to communicate to students and their families the happenings, expectations, and work of the class. For this assignment, I was instructed create a way to communicate the classroom management plan and expectations to the parents of my future students. I decided to create a website so that I can continually add to it and parents can always know where to find out class information. The goal was to create a resource for parents that will give them all of the information they need in order to support their child’s learning in my classroom, and also a forum to post recent happenings and pictures of work the class created.
This artifact is an appropriate representation of the standard because it shows that I can use technology as a professional resource to communicate with parents and create an online portfolio of the classroom creations. This supports my teaching in the classroom because it allows me to gain parental support and their input and the input of others based off of the posted happenings of the class. Performance indicator 6B states that the competent teacher “ accesses and uses telecommunications tools and resources for information-sharing, remote information access and retrieval, and multi-media/hypermedia publishing.” Throughout the website, this knowledge is demonstrated through the use of a variety pages and visuals in order to communicate effectively with parents using the professional website. This allows parents to know how to contact me, the expectations of the class, supplies, upcoming events, and recent happenings of the class and their work.
Creating this website aided in the development of my skills to share information and to communicate with parents, as well as my skills in using technology. Choosing to use technology is sometimes intimidating, but it is a great way to communicate and create professional documents. It was difficult to consolidate the amount of information to put on the website in order for parents to read only information that is important and pertinent for them to know to aid in the success in their child’s education for the year. Overall, the creation of this artifact has developed my knowledge and abilities in using technology in my professional development, and I will definitely use this website one day.
Artifact: http://msheitingsclassroom.weebly.com/
STANDARD 6 – Telecommunication and Information Access
The competent teacher will use telecommunications and information-access resources to support instruction.
I selected to use my future classroom website as an artifact for Technology Standard 6 because it demonstrates my ability to use technology to develop a profession website that is used to communicate to students and their families the happenings, expectations, and work of the class. For this assignment, I was instructed create a way to communicate the classroom management plan and expectations to the parents of my future students. I decided to create a website so that I can continually add to it and parents can always know where to find out class information. The goal was to create a resource for parents that will give them all of the information they need in order to support their child’s learning in my classroom, and also a forum to post recent happenings and pictures of work the class created.
This artifact is an appropriate representation of the standard because it shows that I can use technology as a professional resource to communicate with parents and create an online portfolio of the classroom creations. This supports my teaching in the classroom because it allows me to gain parental support and their input and the input of others based off of the posted happenings of the class. Performance indicator 6B states that the competent teacher “ accesses and uses telecommunications tools and resources for information-sharing, remote information access and retrieval, and multi-media/hypermedia publishing.” Throughout the website, this knowledge is demonstrated through the use of a variety pages and visuals in order to communicate effectively with parents using the professional website. This allows parents to know how to contact me, the expectations of the class, supplies, upcoming events, and recent happenings of the class and their work.
Creating this website aided in the development of my skills to share information and to communicate with parents, as well as my skills in using technology. Choosing to use technology is sometimes intimidating, but it is a great way to communicate and create professional documents. It was difficult to consolidate the amount of information to put on the website in order for parents to read only information that is important and pertinent for them to know to aid in the success in their child’s education for the year. Overall, the creation of this artifact has developed my knowledge and abilities in using technology in my professional development, and I will definitely use this website one day.