Section One: Mission and Vision Statement
A mission and vision statement is important in order for an educator to remain focused on what one will like to accomplish within the classroom. Without a mission and vision statement one will have a harder time accomplishing their personal goals as well as their goals for the students.
Vision
A teacher’s mission is to help each student reach their full potential in education and life skills. A teacher’s job is to discover how each student learns and teach in a way that each student is able to understand. With the use of technology one will be able to determine how each child is learning and use the information to make a difference with every child. The use of hand held devices will help to understand if each student is grasping the material. Teachers will include parents in the learning process of the students. Incorporating e-mails, links to web pages, and text messaging in order to communicate to parents what is being discussed in class. As an educator one will be available and encourage students and parents to ask questions on how to better understand the material being taught in class. The classroom will be an environment that promotes learning and welcomes questions. The classroom will be a place of discovery and provide new ways to deliver a lesson plan.
Rationale
Technology in the classroom is more important today than ever before. Today’s children live in a society where just about every child has access to the internet, text messaging and cell phones. Cell phone ownership in children between the ages of 4 to 14 doubled during 2005 and 2008 (Bers, Kazakoff, 2012). In order to hold the current generation’s attention one must stimulate their interests by allowing the...
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Technology is everywhere; in the home, office, restaurant and the classroom. As teachers, we need to begin to embrace this technology and apply it to our students’ lives. But this begins with the teacher’s attitude and according to Johnson,
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The article, How and Why Digital Generation Teachers Use Technology in the Classroom: An Explanatory Sequential Mixed Methods Study, discusses the use of technology in the classroom. Traditional teachers have been viewed as an obstacle to introducing technology in the classrooms. It is also believed that this issue will resolve once the technological generation of teachers enter the profession.
“Digital and computer skills have become essential for nearly 80 percent of middle-skill jobs” (Soergel). With an increasingly technological society, the question of when young kids should be exposed to technology has been raised. Kids in wealthier societies have begun to explore technology at an extremely young age. Schools offer technological solutions to provide alternative learning pathways that keep kids interested in learning. These technologies have caused many different opinions from parents and students. Some people think that they cause distraction and schools should stick to paper and pencil, while others believe that they are needed in such a tech savvy world. The technology gives a surplus of freedom to students, but also places
to take up “Computer Security” as an elective in order to develop a deeper understanding of the subject.
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Mission and vision statements are very important part of developing strategic planning framework. It answers the question, “why are we here”. It gives the organization purpose and meaning and answers the question of why someone would want to work for the organization. Every
Every teacher will have to make dissections based on their students, age, learning styles, and ability levels; and teachers will need to invest time in preparing technology inclusion in their classrooms. Smartphone’s, are the middle to high school level teachers biggest threat; meaning social media, cheating opportunities, and communication opportunities. The solution to Smartphone usage in the classroom can vary, for example, having a “cell phone box” where students are required to place their cell phones in a designated area, as soon as they enter a classroom. Another effective method, to the Smartphone issue for teacher, is educating parents on parental controls they can enact on their children’s phone that can disable usage of social media sties, and text messaging during school
One reason to consider the introduction of cell phones in learning is to promote digital etiquette, a concept that is foreign to most people. According to Liz Kolb (the author of “Toys to Tools”) Digital etiquette is “a basic set of rules you should follow in order to make the internet better for others, and better for you.” Kolb says in her book that “an educator’s job is to help students navigate and stay safe in their media world”. Students often are unaware to the consequences of their use and misuse of technology. Currently, many students do not overthink about protecting their own privacy. For example 55% of students do not care whether the digital material they use is copyrighted. Students ages 10 to 17 often do not take in appropriate cell phone use. According to Kolb “While nine out of ten 10- to 17- year olds believe that they are courteous on their cell phones, 52% admit to sending text messages at the movie theater, while 28% admit to sending texts at the dinner table.” These statistics show that teens are unaware with cell pho...
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