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Standard II Reflection The focus of TF/TL Standard II: Planning and Designing Learning Environments and Experiences is for facilitators and leaders to help their colleagues transition from teacher-centered learning to student-centered learning through careful planning and design of classroom experiences with the integration of technology. This standard is one of the most challenging to implement because as Williamson and Redish state (2009) it is a standard “… that challenges teacher’s long-standing beliefs about teaching and learning” (p. 38). Planning classroom lessons that are engaging, inspiring and content infused are difficult enough without having someone ask you to incorporate technology into it and make it student-centered as well. I found it hard to incorporate this standard myself. In planning lessons that include technology it is important for educators to keep in mind what they want their students to learn and how they want them to showcase that learning. Teachers need to design a quality lesson and then select the “…most appropriate technologies to support that lesson” (Pitler, Hubbell, Kuhn & Malenoski, 2007, p.217). In completing activities that correlated with this standard, I found that some colleagues I work with were willing to change and revamp their lessons others were not as willing to change what they had been doing. I am fortunate in that I work with an outstanding colleague who teaches 7th grade science as I do and she is just as willing to incorporate technology and shift the burden of learning to the students as I am. We together were able to plan an entire unit in our science curriculum that from start to finish the students were using our new campus technology to research, analyze and summarize information and present their findings to their fellow classmates via our classroom technology. With the addition of our new campus mimio interactive hardware and software, I was able to assist many of our teachers in integrating this technology into lessons they created previously. Our campus now has a one to one computing ratio for our students and in order to manage student use of the technology, it is necessary to have classroom management software for tracking what students are using the technology for. Our campus has chosen Netop Vision for classroom management and I was able to assist many teachers with the set up and use of this software in their classrooms. It is important for me, as it is for all educators, to keep the attention of the students in class so that they may learn the necessary skills to be a productive member of society. In doing this, I must reach them through technology because this is what connects them to society today. Solomon & Schrum (2007) emphasize that technology affects every aspect of their life from how they communicate to when and where they learn (p.27). This standard is one that is time consuming to implement but necessary if we are going to keep the interest of and educate 21st century students.

Pitler, H., Hubbell, E., Kuhn, M., & Malenoski, K. (2007). //Using technology with classroom// // instruction that works //. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development .

Solomon, G., & Schrum, L. (2007). //Web 2.0: New tools, new schools//. Eugene, Oregon: International Society for Technology in Education.

Williamson, J., & Redish, T. (2009). //Technology facilitation and leadership standards: What every K-12 leader should know and be able to do//. Eugene, Oregon: International Society for Technology in Education.