Teacher as a Collaborator

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Teacher
as Collaborator
Module 3 Chapter 10

• Bringing Your Strengths and Interests to the
  Teachers Lounge

Natascha Lewis - JSU - EIM504 - Dr. Payne
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Learning Objectives

• 10-1 Recognize the value of engaging in
  collaborative planning with your colleagues.
• 10-2 Co-learn with your students to explore
  hardware and software systems, including
  troubleshooting routine problems as they arise.
• 10-3 Use technology to facilitate collaboration
  among experts, peers, and students.
• 10-4 Identify strategies you can incorporate in
  a culturally responsive classroom to promote
  cultural understanding and global awareness.

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ISTE Standards for
Educators Addressed in Ch. 10

• Standard 4 Collaborator
• Educators dedicate time to collaborate with both
  colleagues and students to improve practice,
  discover and share results and ideas, and solve
  problems. Educators
• 4a. Dedicate planning time to collaborate with
  colleagues to create authentic learning
  experiences that leverage technology.
• 4b. Collaborate and co-learn with students to
  discover and use new digital resources and
  diagnose and troubleshoot issues.
• 4c. Use collaborative tools to expand students
  authentic, real-world learning experiences by
  engaging virtually with experts, teams, and
  students, locally and globally.
• 4d. Demonstrate cultural competency when
  communicating with students, parents, and
  colleagues, and interact with them as
  co-collaborators in student learning.

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10-1 Planning Together

• What are professional learning communities?
• PLCs are groups of educators who unite,
  purposefully with a specific focus.
• Effective PLCs are highly driven by student data
• Technology as a support
• -help teachers conduct analysis and generate
  reports
• -a means to continue dialogue away from common
  planning times
• -lesson plans can be shared

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10-2 Collaborating with Students to Explore and
Troubleshoot Technologies

• Your students can be a source of technical
  assistance!

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10-2a Solving Routine Problems 4 Troubleshooting
Steps

• 1.Isolate the problem by identifying where the
  problem occurs and under what circumstances does
  it occur.
• 2.Identify the best solution by accessing
  computer/software manuals, user groups or
  discussion forums, call a technician, or...ask
  your students.
• 3. Apply the solution and if it works, thats
  awesome! If each possible solution has been
  tested to no avail, try to return the entire
  system to the way it was before you started.
• 4. Repeat, if necessary!

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10-3 Technology as a Collaborative Tool

• We. . . are. . . all. . . in. . . this. . .
  TOGETHER!
• Presentation Slides educators and students can
  share their work
• Desktop Sharing/Shared Control users can reach
  out and touch someone desktop, virtually.
• Document Sharing shares real-time documents.
• Web Tour users can visit and show websites.
• Shared Whiteboard users can write, draw, or
  annotate images/text displayed on the whiteboard.
• Lecture Mode allows user to mute all lines while
  he/she is speaking.
• Chat helps users communicate without
  interrupting audio connection.
• Webcam Support increases visual cues for users
  and viewers
• Polling, Quizzes, Surveys allows users to get
  feedback from viewers.
• Recording and Replay provides audio and screen
  recordings

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10-4 Culturally Responsive Communications

• The International Society for Technology in
  Education (ISTE) expects us to demonstrate
  cultural competency when communicating with
  students, parents, and colleagues and interact
  with them as co-collaborators in student
  learning.
• THE 6 BEHAVIORS OF CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE
  TEACHERS
• Socially conscious
• View students diverse backgrounds as assets
• Feel personally responsible for helping schools
  be more responsive to ALL students
• Understand how learners construct knowledge
• Know about the persona lives of their students
• Design instruction that builds upon students
  prior knowledge and experiences and stretches
  them beyond the familiar

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10-4a,b,c We must ALL respect cultural diversity
AND work with our students to develop a cultural
understanding.

• Explore other cultures.
• Model the positive concepts in your culture.
• Accept and respect cultural norms (ie directness
  in communicating, when to listen and when to
  speak, etc.).
• Integrate a culture of communal communication.
• Facilitate classroom discussions on various
  cultures.
• Implement activities where students share their
  heritage.

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"It is essential that as an institution of higher
learning we continue to develop a culture of
diversity. The students we are charged with
educating must learn how to work and live with
people who are different from themselves"
(Sylvester, 2008).
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References Link

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