The portfolio is coming along nicely. We are now getting into some of the areas that are taking more time and thought to complete. This week I was focused on standards. I had a tough time finding standards. As my job changes from technology to administration I wanted to find standards that reflected my new position. I did many searches for administrative standards. Finally, I was able to find the right search terms to come up with some results.
What I found was the California Professional Standards for Educational Leaders. I also found some standards for administrators from New Jersey. Many were similar so I focused on the standards from California.
As I looked through the standards I picked 5 that were important to me. I also had to have artifacts to back up the standard. I was able to use a project from our statistics class as one artifact but the others came from past administrative projects I have done in the past at my school.
There is lots of work yet to be done but the end product will be a great review of past work and preview of future direction.
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Mike, I am just beginning to put things togather also. I will be using the teaching standards, however, I do not know what I should highlight most in this project. Are you changing positions at your school from tech coordinator? Where you able to find standards for your previous position and if you were how were they different from those of the administrator's?
ReplyDeleteI will still be overseeing the direction of the technology department but I will not be doing the day to day work of the department. I never looked for standards for my current position. I had a hard enough time looking for standards for my new position.
ReplyDeleteMike, kudos in finding existing standards that fit your current and future needs as closely as possible. I elected to use the NETS-T standards rather than the state teaching standards because they more closely fit my needs. Congrats on your move to administration. I also used artifacts from my classroom to support my chosen standards as I felt they reflected how I took what I learned and played it forward to benefit my students.
ReplyDeleteInteresting choice of standards. I am struggling to choose standards between an unknown future and a current position. We all have different slants to our portfolios and I can't wait to see them develop. I too am leaning toward the NETS standards as this is current and possibly future.
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