Sissi O'Reilly

I have taught High School English for 6 years and have been working as a curriculum and instruction advisor providing Professional Development in English Language Arts for Secondary Schools for the past 2 years. My aspiration is to become an instructional leader whose primary focus and realm of influence is the educational success of all secondary students using the latest research in content and instruction to build instructional leaders and promote academic success. My current goal in integrating technology into the classroom includes providing teachers with lessons that build skills and comfort with real world technology and software applications for their students. Students need to learn how to gather information, synthesize and evaluate the information academically, manipulate the information, share the information, and use it effectively with the skills, resources, and technology available to them. Students also need to be apprenticed in the usage & application of technology that they can transfer into their future careers and goals as adults.

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National Educational Technology Standards for Students

International Society for Technology in Education.

According to the International Society for Technology in Education, prior to completion of Grade 12, students will:

7. Routinely and efficiently use online information resources to meet needs for collaboration, research, publications, communications, and productivity. (4, 5, 6)

In order to prepare students to meet this standard, I will develop lessons that will focus collaboratively researching, publishing, communicating, and producing work using online informational resources. Students will be able to work together in order to research information. They will be then able to use technology as a means for communication and producing their end product. The finished products will be then published online in order to be a resource for other students.

In teaching this standard, I will focus on:

The process of using and developing the skills in the application of technology

The finished performance-based final product

12. Collaborate with peers, experts, and others to contribute to a content-related knowledge base by using technology to compile, synthesize, produce, and disseminate information, models, and other creative works. (4, 5, 6)

The primary focus of instruction for this standard culminates into the development of a project that disseminates information or expresses a creative work through a collaborative process of compiling information and synthesizing knowledge. Students will learn this standard through processes that utilize technology and technological resources in order to develop content-based learning and performance products. Students will to work together to incorporate technology into their content learning.

I will plan lessons that are focused on:

Content-related knowledge dissemination Using technology to compile, synthesize and produce Developing skills in technology in a collaborative manner

If you have any questions about this page e-mail me at sissidinh@yahoo.com.Last edited on October 9, 2006.