Standards:
The candidate continually seeks appropriate ways to employ technology to support assessment practice both to engage learners more fully and assess learner needs. The candidate engages all learners in using a range of learning skills and technology tools to access, interpret, evaluate, and apply information. The candidate understands how content and skill development can be supported by media and technology and knows how to evaluate these resources for quality, accuracy, and effectiveness. The candidate advocates, models, and teaches safe, legal, and ethical use of information and technology, including appropriate documentation of sources and respect for others in the use of social media. The candidate designs authentic, learner-driven activities and environments that recognize and accommodate learner variability. The candidate facilitates learning with technology to support student achievement of the 2016 ISTE Standards for Students. The candidate understands and uses data to drive his or her instruction and supports students in achieving their learning goals. The candidate demonstrates his or her proficiencies to understand and apply knowledge and skills appropriate to his or her professional field of specialization so that learning and development opportunities for all P-12 are enhanced, through supporting appropriate applications of technology for his or her field of specialization. The candidate inspires students to contribute to and responsibly participate in the digital world.
I was teaching kicking and passing to my fifth-graders using the smartboard. In summary, I went through the whole lesson plan, starting with showing them an illustration of a pair of shoes and the sides they will use for the kicking exercises. I also gave them a rundown of the day's activities. However, I missed a critical element that I should have mentioned first before I began the lesson. I should’ve asked them why kicking and passing are important, especially in soccer, when I started the lecture, and not in the middle. The whole lecture took me around 10 minutes, which is a lifetime for eager students to go out and do the assigned activities. At the end, I gave them the opportunity to create their own activity using the skills learned that day.
The objectives were met, and the technologies used were the smartboard, my electronic whistle, my portable speaker with headset, and my digital stopwatch. There is no management plan for the technology used, most of the technology equipment that is used can be managed by me.