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.