Access Reflection

This project has helped me understand that you can use technology in various ways in the classroom. This project has tought me that you can use this software not just for learning but to become a more organized teacher. By using Access to organize yourself as a teacher or creating a leason teaching students how they coould become organized in the future. I believe that this project follows NETS T standards three and four. I think in follows standard three because it technology for a teacher more to use then a student also because it’s a very helpful tool in the work force. I believe that in follows standard four because it promotes students and teachers to be responsible for what they organize.

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Google Earth Reflection

I believe this project is going to make me a better teaching in the future because it has shown me as a history teacher various different techniques for geography and different history subjects. As a teacher you can use Google Earth for a lot of different interesting things such as look up the location for an old boat crash or an old battle site. Too see the geography of the land the battle was fought on. I believe this project fellows NETS T standard 1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity and 2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments. I believe that I have gotten a lot better in both of these standards because it has shown me many ways to have my future students to be creative and to use different programs to teach various lessons.

Reflection

I believe that this project has made me a better teacher because it has shown me various ways to construct learning activities for students using different tools. While making this project I was trying to find different ways to make my project more entertaining as well as educational. This project I felt was a good steeping stone for creating more complex presentations that are good for learning in different ways such as having a game or another informational activity. I believe that this follows nes.t standard 2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments. I believe I have gotten a lot better at this standard, learning different techniques for various programs.

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NETS FOR TEACHERS 2008

1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity

I believe that I would rate myself in this area a 4 because I would use technology to have students research current events and have them relate that event to a past event. Also I would use technology to present notes in the classroom and to present other classroom activities.

2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments

In this area I rate myself a 2 because I’m do not have the technological skills that would require me run activities for students. But I would be able to develop assignments for various learning strategies.

3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning

Again I would rate myself a 2 because I would need to learn more about the technology that is required to be worked for the students to learn the material that is being taught.

4. Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility

I would rate myself in this area a 5 because I would use technology to teach about the history of various cultures and religions. Also I would have students use the Internet to do various projects on these cultures and religions.

5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership

In this area I would rate myself a 5 because I feel that I portray very good leadership qualities, also because I feel that I improve on my skills in the classroom very rapidly.

5 Educational Websites

1) http://www.besthistorysites.net/Lessonplans.shtml
- This site is a very good site for history professors and majors. It gives examples of lesson plans on specific subjects; it also gives other links for informational sites.

2) http://www.theteacherscorner.net/
- This website gives very good incite on how to make creative projects and group activities. Also it talks about different methods on how to have two or more classes work together.

3) http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/home.jsp
- This site gives lesson plans for a grades pre-K through 12th also they have many other helpful tools and information for beginning teachers.

4) http://www.teachingdegree.org/2009/06/21/100-helpful-websites-for-new-teachers/
- This site is a very helpful as well, it gives you over 100 informational websites that teachers who are just started use for teaching tools and information.

5) http://teachers.net/#
- This website gives example ideas for lesson plans, projects, and gives examples of teaching tools. This site is going to be very helpful in the future for setting up lesson plans and other activities.

Teaching Philosophy

I always had a passion to become a teacher because I like helping children and I also enjoy learning new things and challenging my strengths and my weakness. Also I have always wanted to coach football and lacrosse, I have help with many summer camps for little and older kids for football and lacrosse. This help me in making my dissection in becoming a teacher a tremendous amount because most of my coaches were very big mentors to me on the field and in the classroom.

I believe it is very important to have some sort of technology in the classroom, this is because instead of a teacher lecturing the inter class period the students could get involved. With the students being involved I feel that kids stay more into the information that is given so it is more likely to learn more.

I would use a variety of types of technology, such as power point to give notes and demonstrate straight points to students to further continue the topic. I would also us other technology programs to get students more involved in there work. Also using different type of learning methods you could us movies to relate things to students and to help them understand the material in a different way.

My goal to integrate technology into the my future classroom, is to give each student that entered my future classroom a learning experience that will not put them to sleep. And that keeps all the students involved in each class activity and us technology to help with each activity.

Myself Introduction

Hi, I'm Jarred Ferraro I am a sophmore at NYIT and I am a History major. I hope to one day be a History professor for 11 and 12 grade students. I play lacrosse here at NYIT and like to play various othe sport such as surfing and skiing. My passion are and always will be History I always enjoy learning more about it.