Profile+Rating+Scale

This is a rating scale and description of the categories for my capabilities as a Lifelong Learner and a Teacher of Technology
Rating scale for Program Capacities  Date: January 13, 2009 - responses in red ​ ** Rating scale for Program Capacities Date: January 13, 2010 - responses in green **  



¨  **Autonomous-Lifelong Learner **, developing a disposition for self-directed, continuous learning which is motivated and guided by a desire for professional development outside the traditional setting which may include challenging situations and involve some element of risk taking;  **8**  ¨ <span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Reflective Practitioner, **<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> being able to use self-assessment and formative evaluation on an ongoing basis to realistically monitor and value change in educational practice, personal learning experiences, and personal beliefs; **6** <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-list: Ignore; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">¨ <span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Critical Practitioner **<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> by analyzing current educational theories, research, philosophies, and policies; resulting in thoughtful educational decisions which consider resources, culture, and diverse learning needs in their personal and professional environment; **5** <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-list: Ignore; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">¨ <span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Facilitator of Learning, **<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> through understanding the educator’s role, selecting and using appropriate technologies to provide a safe, rich learning environment to achieve curricular outcomes while recognizing student autonomy in learning, diverse learner needs, and possible extension of learning outside the classroom**; 3** <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-list: Ignore; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">¨ <span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Knowledgeable Educator **<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">, being able to evaluate, select or create diverse learning and instructional opportunities for themselves and their students that are based on relevant literature and assessment data; ** 8** <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-list: Ignore; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">¨ <span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Supportive Colleague, **<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> contributing constructively toward enhancing learning communities, supporting members of the community in one’s learning and inquiry, helping to design and evaluate learning projects, and valuing the contributions to learning of others and self; **5** <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-list: Ignore; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">¨ <span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Educational Leader, **<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> helping others in understanding and using appropriate technology, facilitating learning activities, stimulating and facilitating discussion around educational issues, and being aware of one’s role as an agent of change; and <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-spacerun: yes; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">**6** <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-list: Ignore; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">¨ <span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">User of Technology **<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> in one’s personal and professional roles which will enhance one’s learning and teaching. **3**
 * <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">I truly believe I am an autonomous-lifelong learner. <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-spacerun: yes; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">I have had several careers in the past and they were motivitated by my desire to expand my knowledge about various subjects. <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-spacerun: yes; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">I am looking forward to adding yet another dimension to my knowledge base. <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-spacerun: yes; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">I am somewhat of a risk-taker, but I definitely look at all avenues of a situation before going down them. **
 * <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">I feel that I score moderately high in this category because although I do analyze current education theories, I am a little hesitant to change my old ways if they are working well. <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-spacerun: yes; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">I also do some formative evaluation, but not enough for my liking. **
 * <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">I don’t feel that I am a very critical practitioner. <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-spacerun: yes; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Since I only work part time, I have not attended enough professional development activites over the last few years. <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-spacerun: yes; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Therefore, I am not up on the current theories and philosophies in education. <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-spacerun: yes; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Those teachers who feel professional development is a waste of time have their heads in the sand. <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-spacerun: yes; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">We, as teachers, must always change and evolve to keep up with the current trends, if for no other reason that to avoid being “the old fart” that is talked about in the staff room. <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-spacerun: yes; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">At any rate, I need to improve in this area. **
 * <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">I am far from where I would like to be in terms of being a facilitator of technology in the classroom. <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-spacerun: yes; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">I can assist students with word processing, but that’s about it. <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-spacerun: yes; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">I need to increase my comfort level and knowledge of all kinds of technology so students can readily use it in the classroom. **
 * <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The reason I give myself high marks in this area is because I actually try to use assessment data to assist the students in the areas they are struggling in. <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-spacerun: yes; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">For instance, as a school we assess students literacy and numeracy capabilities and endeavour to improve upon them. <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-spacerun: yes; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">I tailor my lessons to focus on the needs of my class. **
 * <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Once again, I am not doing this enough at the moment. <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-spacerun: yes; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">I whole-heartedly believe in learning teams and their benefits to students and educators. <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-spacerun: yes; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">However, I have not yet been a part of one. <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-spacerun: yes; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">I value the contributions to learning and would hope that LTT will be a jumping off point for me in terms of facilitating inquiry in the future. **
 * <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">I think that I gave myself a slightly higher score in this category because I understand the power I have as an educator to facilitate change in the lives of my students. <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-spacerun: yes; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">I encourage their use of technology, yet I don’t use it enough in the classroom at present. <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-spacerun: yes; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">I go into great detail about finding good internet sites and the copyright issues attached to various print materials they take from the internet. **
 * <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">I would like to be a teacher who uses technology regularaly in the classroom. <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-spacerun: yes; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">In order to do this, I must have a different mindset about how technology will enhance my students’ learning . <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-spacerun: yes; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">I must tailor my lessons to incorporate technology and model the appropriate use of the internet, cameras, i-pods etc. <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-spacerun: yes; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">As we live in the computer age, children must be made aware of all the uses of technology so they can make informed decisions about using it in their daily lives. <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-spacerun: yes; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">I’m on the path to acquiring this knowledge and that feels good. **<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">