JMU Partnership for 21st Century Skills

NETS*T Standard V:  Productivity and Professional Practice

Rubric V.B elaborated:
 Teachers continually evaluate and reflect on professional practice to make informed decisions regarding the use of technology in support of student learning.
 

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Following must be included to achieve “meets” on all criteria.
□ Reflection(s) on professional practice
□ Documented classroom technology integration
□ Technology Professional Development Plan
□ Evidence included in the above that technology is used to increase productivity and support student learning.
   
 
Criterion Meets

Evaluate and reflect on professional practice

Reflects on professional practice, documents classroom technology integration, and maintains a professional development plan.  Reflections discuss making informed decisions regarding the use of technology for productivity and to support student learning.
   
 
Key Words and Phrases to Include and Address in Reflections:
1. Reflects on professional practice – reflection(s) on how professional development, technology integration, or action research has affected your teaching or student learning
2. Documents classroom technology integration – description of how technology resources will be matched to student learning objectives
3. Professional development plan – a documented plan
4. Productivity – reflections on how technology is used to increase teacher efficiency
5. Support student learning – reflections on how professional development or technology integration has affected student learning
   
Tips
1. Reflections may be included in a variety of different ways.  Reflections may be submitted with artifacts.  Lesson plans may include reflections after the plan is used in the classroom.  The professional development plan may include reflections after the activity has taken place.
2. Documented technology integration may be in the form of a document describing how technology resources are allocated in the classroom on a daily basis or it may be specific to a lesson plan describing the resource allocation for that particular lesson.
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Reflections submitted, in whatever form, should describe how technology or professional development has helped to increase productivity and/or its impact on student learning.
   
Examples of content for reflection:

1.

 Technology Professional Development Plan (see excerpt: Word format, PDF format).
2. Lesson Plan aligned with Technology Professional Development Plan (see excerpt: Word format, PDF format).
 
Criterion Meets

Make informed decisions to improve student learning

Periodically updates action research projects, classroom technology integration documents, and professional development plans.  Carefully selects professional development opportunities to support student learning and reflects on experiences to ensure alignment with student learning and professional development goals.
   
 
Key Words and Phrases to Include and Address in Reflections:
1. Action research projects – “learning by doing” – see excerpt of article below
2. Support student learning – professional development plan or reflections indicate a link to student learning
3. Reflects on experiences – reflects on professional development or action research, and its impact on student learning
   
Tips
1.

What is action research?  This link will provide you with an in depth definition (http://www.web.net/~robrien/papers/arfinal.html) and is excerpted below.

“Action research is known by many other names, including participatory research, collaborative inquiry, emancipatory research, action learning, and contextural action research, but all are variations on a theme. Put simply, action research is "learning by doing" - a group of people identifies a problem, does something to resolve it, sees how successful their efforts were, and, if not satisfied, tries again. . .

Several attributes separate action research from other types of research. Primary is its focus on turning the people involved into researchers, too - people learn best, and more willingly apply what they have learned, when they do it themselves. It also has a social dimension - the research takes place in real-world situations, and aims to solve real problems. Finally, the initiating researcher, unlike in other disciplines, makes no attempt to remain objective, but openly acknowledges their bias to the other participants.”
   
Examples of content for reflection:

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Action research projects may be in the form of a lesson plan involving a new technology to be used with students and a reflection of its impact.

Example:
 The “excerpt from a professional development plan” noted above indicates a research project will result from newfound knowledge of digital video streaming.  The teacher will use video streaming in the classroom to determine if it has an impact on student learning.  The project is described in the form of a lesson plan.  A reflection is presented at the end of the lesson plan indicating an apparent impact on student learning.  The presentation of the lesson is reviewed with extensions described in the form of student products.