Standard 6.3 Field ExperiencesCandidates engage in appropriate field experiences to synthesize and apply the content and professional knowledge, skills, and dispositions identified in these standards. (PSC 6.3)
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I engaged in numerous field experiences during my time at Kennesaw State University. The artifact I chose to demonstrate PSC standard 6.3 is a structured field experience log from ITEC 7400. For this experience I identified a web 2.0 product to address a need and organized a pilot for the school. The log for this field experience covers only the first fifteen hours of the actual work on this pilot. Those 15 hours include the data analysis, participant recruitment and the design of the initial training. The analysis, and selection of the tool were largely complete when the field experience began. I spent most of the time recruiting and training teachers to use the tool. The two reasons that I hate to see a pilot fail are technical issues or a lack of training. It is my belief that a pilot scuttled by either of these issues is a waste of everyone’s time.
Standard 6.3 requires that candidates engage in appropriate field experiences to synthesize and apply the content and professional knowledge, skills, and dispositions identified in these standards. The artifact presented here demonstrates my ability to put my training and ISTE standards to use for the betterment of my staff. By keeping these logs and reflecting on the standards addressed and the impact they had I was able to assess my current level and build scaffolds for improvement in my technique.
Keeping these logs gives me data to analyze, a forum for reflection and a catalog of experiential evidence that can be accessed in the future when confronting similar tasks. I have always been predisposed towards introspection and having a formal foundation to build upon has sparked numerous insights over the last two years. Going forward I plan to utilize this technique to keep track of hours invested in a given project and to formally reflect on projects to better understand what went right or what went wrong.
This process has the potential to change professional development at my school as I use the results to inform initiatives, strategies, instructional design decisions. At the core of this process seems to be a sort of cognitive speed bump designed to slow things down enough that self reflection occurs which results, among other things, in greater efficacy of inter-staff communication. We can assess the impact of adding this process by looking at several metrics including usage and survey results. In technology I have always felt that usage is the single most important metric to look. A great tool that sits unused or, worse, is misused is worth far less than a lesser tool that it used to good effect.
Standard 6.3 requires that candidates engage in appropriate field experiences to synthesize and apply the content and professional knowledge, skills, and dispositions identified in these standards. The artifact presented here demonstrates my ability to put my training and ISTE standards to use for the betterment of my staff. By keeping these logs and reflecting on the standards addressed and the impact they had I was able to assess my current level and build scaffolds for improvement in my technique.
Keeping these logs gives me data to analyze, a forum for reflection and a catalog of experiential evidence that can be accessed in the future when confronting similar tasks. I have always been predisposed towards introspection and having a formal foundation to build upon has sparked numerous insights over the last two years. Going forward I plan to utilize this technique to keep track of hours invested in a given project and to formally reflect on projects to better understand what went right or what went wrong.
This process has the potential to change professional development at my school as I use the results to inform initiatives, strategies, instructional design decisions. At the core of this process seems to be a sort of cognitive speed bump designed to slow things down enough that self reflection occurs which results, among other things, in greater efficacy of inter-staff communication. We can assess the impact of adding this process by looking at several metrics including usage and survey results. In technology I have always felt that usage is the single most important metric to look. A great tool that sits unused or, worse, is misused is worth far less than a lesser tool that it used to good effect.