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1. Best Teaching Practices

2. Technology • Important for success in education • Kindergarten through high school • Electronic tools to enhance learning • Information organization • Better teaching • Variety of students and learning styles

3. Technology’s Use • Offer images, sounds, and information. • Structure interaction with information. • Children • Teachers • Others • Organization

4. Classrooms Teachers: • Build appropriate curriculum. • Develop a flow of knowledge. • Incorporate technology into activities. • Overcome challenges. • Have less experience with technology than students.

5. Regional Educational Technology Assistance • New Mexico • Best teaching practices • Research based • Technology integration into the classroom

6. Teaching Practices Technology enhanced lessons: • Based on standards. • Driven by content. • Utilized collaboration. • Applied to authentic problems. • Demonstrated student learning. • Measured evaluations of objectives.

7. Standards • National and/or state • Overall teaching goals • Quality learning experiences Each school and school district in New Mexico is required to align its grade level curricula with the state standards.

8. Lesson Plans • Access RETA website. • Address content standards. • Target national educational technology standards. • Plan lessons that focus on specific standards. • Assure area and grade level lessons. • Achieve appropriate educational goals.

9. Content • Motivate learning with digital tools. • Appeal to many students and learning styles with electronic tools. • Allow several creative approaches to learning. • Use for any and every subject.

10. Technology in Classroom • Research • Information analysis • Problem solving • Decision making • Appropriate • Real projects • Balance

11. Workplace • Utilize technology. • Word processing • PowerPoint • Electronic spreadsheets • Email • Improve efficiency and productivity. • Attain business goals. • Integrate into curriculum.

12. Student Collaboration • Workforce principles • Communication • Lessons • Technology assisted • Technical expertise • Subject knowledge • Social skills

13. Product or Presentation • Real world setting • Classroom production • Work of art • Publication • PowerPoint presentation • Knowledge and understanding • Learning ownership

14. Presentations • Newsletters • Brochures • Spreadsheets and databases in PowerPoint • Science fair projects • Experiments • Reports • Real learning environments

15. Radio and Television • Radio • Dramas • Newscasts • Words of wisdom • Playlists • Television • Investigative reporting • Documentaries

16. Authentic Learning • Concepts and information • Real world application • Motivation • Understanding • Certain skills and concepts

17. Publish a Magazine • Form a desktop publishing project. • Use new skills. • Utilize knowledge. • Work with graphic designer. • Produce stories with writers. • Edit stories.

18. Experience • Real world • Desktop publishing field • Graphics field • Layout • Adobe Photoshop • Stories to pictures • Published product

19. Assessment and Evaluation Teacher - student: • Measuring. • Understood material. • Find unmet needs. • Teaching more effectively. • Helping students learn. • Assuring students succeed.

20. Student Evaluation • Formative assessment • Progress report • Assessment • Peer • Self • Constructive feedback • Work improvement

21. Learning Community Students: • Sharing • Knowledge • Skills • Ideas • Example: peer edit • Punctuation • Detail

22. Evaluation Literature: • Read stories. • Create PowerPoint presentation. • Present to the class. • Look over work. • Evaluate by group peer evaluation. • Improve for next presentation.

23. Website Evaluation Students: • Build a website. • Offer a digital portfolio. • Academy students • Other students • Parents • Administrators

24. Incorporating Technology • Develop a process. • Realize technology always changes. • Introduce one tool at a time. • Choose appropriate tools. • Look at students’ ages and activities.

25. Teachers • Utilize RETA workshops. • Use technology - step by step. • Learn it. • Put it into your classroom. • Involve it in your teaching style. • Include RETA best teaching practices.

26. Best Teaching Practices Technology enhanced lessons: • Base on standards. • Focus on content. • Offer opportunities for collaboration. • Solve real world “authentic” problems. • Demonstrate what students learn. • Allow to evaluate success.

27. Technology Tools • Challenging • Learning opportunities • New • Better • Educational gains

28. Teachers and Technology • Change by using technology. • Show to be a good teacher. • Use new strategies for teaching. • Consider the students. • Devote to their student’s future.

29. Students • Encourage them to use technology. • See how technology helps learning. • Utilize technology for the future. • Achieve higher goals.

30. Access to Technology Students: • Desire to learn. • Want to explore their environment. • Use the Internet. • Utilize electronic communication tools.

31. Students with Technology Help with: • Solve problems better. • Address real world problems. • Communicate more effectively. • Video • Writing • Offer several possibilities.

32. Life-Long Learners