Tuesday, March 29, 2016

ISTE Standards for Coaches


While you may not be an instructional coach or technology coach in your building you still are a leader in the use of technology in your classroom.  How do the ISTE Standards for Coaches influence your interactions with your colleagues in promoting transformation in classroom instruction?

ISTE Standards for Coaches

Guiding Questions (choose a question to expand on)
How does this connect to leadership?
How do the Coach Standards apply to being a leader in your building?
What will you do to extend your professional learning after the cohort has finished?

8 comments:

  1. I have loved having a Growth Mindset about technology! I was a total novice two years ago - and completely overwhelmed! Now, I have really become intentional about balancing my classroom instruction leveraging technology with the 21st century skills students need to master. I have loved having opportunities to offer my skills and new learning in my building! I have taught my teammate how to implement Google Classroom for our Weather Report. I have also created and shared documents and note catchers for my team to use. My students are in second grade - and I was discouraged to hear that "they are not ready to utilize technology at this age." Well I set the bar high for these kids, and they are now the "Ninja Experts" who go to other classrooms and teach others (the ultimate 21st century goal)! My kids all have their logins memorized, they can create Google Docs, copy and paste with toggling, highlight paragraphs in the colors of Step Up to Writing, add text boxes, and insert images! This has been a tremendous opportunity to watch these kids thrive and prove me and others wrong about their abilities! I enjoy sharing my ideas with others and especially enjoy my students becoming coahes as well!

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  2. I have loved having a Growth Mindset about technology! I was a total novice two years ago - and completely overwhelmed! Now, I have really become intentional about balancing my classroom instruction leveraging technology with the 21st century skills students need to master. I have loved having opportunities to offer my skills and new learning in my building! I have taught my teammate how to implement Google Classroom for our Weather Report. I have also created and shared documents and note catchers for my team to use. My students are in second grade - and I was discouraged to hear that "they are not ready to utilize technology at this age." Well I set the bar high for these kids, and they are now the "Ninja Experts" who go to other classrooms and teach others (the ultimate 21st century goal)! My kids all have their logins memorized, they can create Google Docs, copy and paste with toggling, highlight paragraphs in the colors of Step Up to Writing, add text boxes, and insert images! This has been a tremendous opportunity to watch these kids thrive and prove me and others wrong about their abilities! I enjoy sharing my ideas with others and especially enjoy my students becoming coahes as well!

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    1. I totally agree. I think technology is a great example of teachers needing to have a growth mindset with all the changes it will always be going through. Unfortunately, teachers without this mindset are probably not helping their students achieve what they could be.

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  3. For me, Dana L's email tagline sums up the standards and their connection to leadership for me:
    " Keep focused on the desired outcome rather than the technology and you’ll make good decisions."
    Whether we are functioning in a role of teacher/facilitator with students, a teacher/facilitator liaison with administration, or a colleague, we are focused on what tools will foment collaboration, creativity, and innovation. We want to facilitate and model powerful choices that will ultimately lead to our students being prepared to be productive (wise) digital-age citizens and participants in the highly competitive global society.

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  4. I'm just wondering if all of these different sets of standards are really necessary. It seems that they all basically cover the same ideas. I think I'd like to see a document that has the different areas of the standards and then something that shows how they would look in different areas.
    For example: digital citizenship-what would that look like for a teacher?, for a student?, for an instructional coach?
    In general everything seems pretty wordy. I'd like to see it all simplified.

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  5. What will you do to extend your professional learning after the cohort has finished?

    I know that I am helping some teachers in my building learn how to use Google apps and that helps me practice what I learned and master it. I am thinking of attending a Blackboard conference this summer to learn how to use it next year. I will sign up for more LPS classes too since they usually offer ways for me to improve.

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  6. One more thought, Randy helped me create a survey to use about the amount of homework that's being given each night to students. I have been in several parent conferences where parents say that many times a week their kid is doing 2 hours or more of homework. I decided to see if I could collect some data about this and shine some light on this subject. Here is the survey link: https://docs.google.com/a/lps.k12.co.us/forms/d/1XKqudII8YeBRwP8lUP-R7eC40JokKAAwmz1_d5I-rMk/edit?usp=drive_web

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  7. I just feel alright with expressing what I can do and cannot do using technology in my French classes. I'm always aware that the students are way ahead of me and most of my colleagues as well. But, then, this is why I push myself to join such groups in the first place. I'm constantly learning and coming up with new ideas for myself. I do need the summer months perhaps to go forward with my own ideas.

    Thank you all.

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