Strengths & Weaknesses

I feel that my strengths according to the UNI survey are the Basic Technology Equipment Operations and Concepts. The one concern I had on part one was the "demonstrate awareness of resources for adaptive assistive devices for students with special needs"- I answered that I was an apprentice at this meaning that I have observed assistive devices in use; however, I feel that this is one of my weaknesses because I do not feel like a practitioner or expert on them yet. The second part of the survey I felt that I had a little less knowledge on. There was only one whole section that I felt I could be an expert on it was "tools to access information." There were some in particular that I felt like I need to work on. The are using video conferencing to communicate with others, using databases, using spreadsheets. I marked novice on all of these selections, and I feel that I should be come better introduced to these topics.

I feel that according to the NET standards I have both weaknesses and strengths. Some of my strengths would be demonstrating continual growth in technology knowledge and skills, apply technology to develop students' higher order skills and creativity, designing developmentally appropriate learning opportunities that apply technology-enhanced instructional strategies, use technology resources to engage an ongoing professional development, apply technology to increase productivity, use technology to communicate and collaborate with peers. I need to work on a couple categories in order to become a more knowledgeable teacher. I think that I need to better learn how to use technology in assessment and evaluation, I need to learn more about the social, ethical, legal, and human issues (that way I am down pact and can teach my future students correctly). These are the two that I feel the least educated on.

Some goals that I would like to make according to the results I have learned from this research would be become more knowledgable on the social, ethical, legal and human issues with technology use, learning spreadsheets and tools like this better, and also learn how to better use technology in assessments and evaluations of the students. On UEN I found a couple of workshops that would help me better my knowledge on some of these goals. The first workshop is Excel 2007 for teachers held March 2 and 3. I think that this workshop would be me because it could help me better my knowledge my skills on spreadsheets to calculate and display information properly. I would really like to better my knowledge on this tool so that way I could share this knowledge with my future students and classes. Also, I think it would help me with certain tasks as a teacher to calcuate information and display data. The second workshop I found will help me continue my knowledge on the social, ethical, legal, and human issues standard. The workshop is Internet Safety for Educators held on Janurary 31. I think that this workshop would help me because one the the main objectives of this standard is promoting safe and healthy use of technology. I would love to learn safe ways to use technology so that way I can share this with my students. This way everytime we were using technology we could do it in a safe and healthy manner.