JMU Partnership for 21st Century Skills

NETS*T Standard III:  Teaching, Learning, and the Curriculum

Rubric III.D elaborated:
 Teachers manage student-learning activities in a technology-enhanced environment.
 

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Following must be included to achieve “meets” on all criteria.
□ Two or more lessons/activities that show evidence of technology use by students and the teacher.
□ Activities document management techniques of technology resources and products of student work are shown to prove active engagement.
□ Activities show a variety of student grouping to provide appropriate interaction with technology.
   
 
Criterion Meets

Develop classroom management techniques

Instructional activities outline effective classroom management techniques to facilitate active engagement with the technology resources to enhance learning.
   
 
Key Words and Phrases to Include and Address in Reflections:
1. Management techniques – address how you manage your classroom during your activities involving technology.
2. Active engagement – explain how your students are actively using technology during activities.
   
Tips
1. Must submit at least two lessons/activities that address management techniques of technology resources that facilitate active engagement by you and/or your students.
   
Examples of content for reflection:

1.

 “My classroom has five computers with Internet access and network printing.  I use these computers as one of five stations when I implement my unit on the solar system.  Students rotate to these computers after they have rotated from the reference station where they wrote down facts about a predetermined planet.  The students use Microsoft Word to write their reports on their planet.”
2. “I have a SMART Board with a ceiling mounted projector to use as a presentation tool for my class.  It is situated so all my students have an unobstructed view of the board.  The ceiling mounted projector eliminates cables on the floor so students are not stepping over them.”
 
Criterion Meets

Integrate Technology Use

Instructional activities integrate technology as both a teacher demonstration tool and a tool for student learning.
   
 
Key Words and Phrases to Include and Address in Reflections:
1. teacher demonstration tool – identify how you used technology to demonstrate a concept or idea in your classroom.
2. tool for student learning – identify how students used technology to learn a skill or objective. 
   
Tips
1. In at least one of your lessons/activities, choose an activity where you use technology as a demonstration tool.  (projector, SMART Board, computer/TV, etc.)  Explain how it is used.  At least one or more of your lessons/activities involve technology use by your students.  Explain why technology is being used and how it can assist in student learning.
   
Examples of content for reflection:

1.

 “To introduce some general information about the solar system, I show a PowerPoint presentation using my computer and my television.  My computer is connected to my TV via a TVviewer.
2. “When we go to the computer lab, each of my students has a desktop computer with a digital microscope.  The microscopes allow each of my students to view a cheek cell and draw it in their notebooks.”
3. “We play Jeopardy to review for our test using PowerPoint and my classroom projector.”
 
Criterion Meets

Vary student grouping

Instructional activities group students in a variety of ways appropriate to the learning context to interact with the technology such as the one computer, small group, and lab environment.
   
 
Key Words and Phrases to Include and Address in Reflections:
1. group students – identify how students are grouped for a class activity
2. appropriate – identify why you grouped students the way you did during an activity
3. interact – identify how your students used the technology during the activity and give some examples of their work.
   
Tips
1. In your lessons/activities, address how your students are grouped and explain how this is appropriate for the lesson. This could be a lab setting where everyone has access to a computer, a small group situation, or the one computer classroom.  Also explain how your students interact with the technology and share examples of their work.
   
Examples of content for reflection:

1.

 “My students viewed a video from unitedstreaming on the causes of the American Revolution via my computer and TV.  They answered questions using personal response transmitters with the questions being displayed via PowerPoint on the TV. The students enjoy using the personal response transmitters …”
2. “During station rotation, students used the five computers in my classroom to create a brochure in Microsoft Publisher on their state they selected.  The brochure is to contain state facts, tourism information, important products, …”
3. “When we work on our environmental health project related to energy consumption, I always sign up for the use of the wireless laptop cart.  This allows every student in my class to have access to the Internet and PowerPoint so they have ample time to do research and create their presentation.”