The manner in which I will utilize these two organizations to support my continued professional development is to become an individual member and organizational membership and support services because they both provide educational technology resources that support professional learning for educators and educational leaders. Additionally as a member I will be able to also take advantage of the ISTE conferences and Expo they offer. This is a worldwide comprehensive ed tech event which provides ways of integrating ISTE standards in learning, teaching and leading with technology. More so I will also take advantage of their webinars, online resources, books, consulting services and publications. I will use these organizations to learn new ways …show more content…
This way learning is geared towards student’s interest and teachers are not forced to teach curricula towards standardization.
One issue identified in relation to my theme “technology has changed the methodology of teaching” and my work environment is technology is an integral part of how we learn today however I believe NCLB “no child left behind act curricula did any justice to the k-12 learning. Instead it created a bunch a standardized tests and teachers are forced to teach these curricula to students. At the end it left a portion of students to carry on to the next grade level without mastering the previous. Printed and non-printed to effect are as follows
1. The K-12 education/ the white which talked about knowledge and skills for the future, and also stated that for the students to succeed in the today’s global economy they should be given an education based on knowledge and
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The Evolving classroom: A study of Traditional and Technology-Based instruction in a STEM Classroom; argued like it not the NCLB has been a catalyst to improve student learning. However some researchers established that too many students enrolled in K–12 classrooms do not achieve at levels necessary to be globally competitive. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JTE/v25n1/devlin.html
4. Back in the 1800’s Horace Mann intentions in administered testing system for the school was to make sure that students have the ability and have mastered the grade level to move to next. If not what strategies could be incorporated In the curriculum for those lagging behind to close the gap. However with the NCLB it created a budget cut for schools who do not meet the AYP which is set back to schools that needs funding in the technology integration.
5. Finally I believe schools will forego testing obsession the NCLB act created which has made curriculum writers less focus on visual arts, physical education, music and world languages. The explosion of technology integration in the classroom will help open curriculum writers’ minds to the infinite possibilities students are faced with in these areas as