Teaching Tools > Website Learning Objectives and Standards
Learning Objectives
An important learning objective for Charlie's course is that students become "builders of community." His course Web site supported work toward this objective by helping students stay connected with one another and with Charlie. Using the web site, students learned valuable lessons about community among learners:
The web site encourages students to access information about how to build community among learners. It also encourages them to stay in touch with the ways that each of them are building community among the learners they’re working with. It also makes a coherent set of expectations available to them relative to course requirements.”
Standards
Charlie has spent significant time considering how his courses' content supports the achievement of programmatic and state standards by students. Take a look at this document prepared by Charlie to see how these courses align to various teaching standards: Goals and Outcomes
Technology Standards
The following tables describe Charlie's use of a course web site to prepare pre-service teachers to meet ISTE NETS for teachers
The first table lists each ISTE standard while the second table illustrates exactly how each of Charlie’s uses of a web site addresses these standards.
Standard I
Standard II
Standard III
Standard IV
Standard V
Standard VI
Technology Operations and Concepts
Planning and Designing Learning Environments and Experiences
Teaching, Learning, and the Curriculum
Assessment and Evaluation
Productivity and Professional Practice
Social, Ethical, Legal, and Human Issues
Description of Use
Standards Addressed
Explanation
Students use the website to get updated information about assignments and access to related resources anytime, anywhere.
Standard I
Standard III
Standard V
This use provides teachers with training and experience in using websites to access resources and information.
This use models to pre-service teachers how websites can be integrated into course content.
This use provides teachers with experience in using technology to enhance their own productivity – skills which they can transfer from their work in Charlie’s course to their future professional practices.
Charlie posts students' ideas on the Interaction page of the site. Students check the site to see if their ideas have been posted, and get a chance to see what some of their peers are thinking. This form of sharing has created a better sense of community among students who are generally isolated from one another in their student teaching assignments.
Standard III
Standard V
Standard VI
This use models to pre-service teachers how a course website can be integrated into course content.
This use provides teachers with experience in using technology to enhance their own productivity – skills which they can transfer from their work in Charlie’s course to their future professional practices.
This use heightens understanding of classroom dynamics, status, and equity – major themes in Charlie’s course.
