Who Should Participate?
This series is appropriate for:
- Teachers who want to effectively utilize a blended model of instruction, using online components to supplement the face-to-face experience of their students
- Curriculum specialists who need to understand the critical success elements of blended teaching models
- Administrators who want to experience first-hand the power of online learning while determining their own district’s online professional development needs.
What Will Be Learned?
Participants in the 21st Century e-Teacher Professional Development program will:
- Transform curriculum with technology-based real-world learning for students
- Integrate technology and core content to teach problem solving, analytical skills, and techniques for presentation
- Create new lessons that incorporate technology applications into their core curriculum
- Develop new media-based instructional resources for use with their students
- Use the Internet in instruction efficiently and effectively to develop student-centered, project-based learning that supports the development of 21st century skills
- Design content that enhances learning and fosters students' engagement with technology
- Create their own version of a topic-specific 21st Century training module for use with their peers/students
- Lead their own online professional development training session
- Cite and evaluate Internet sources
- Develop assessment and online safety strategies.
Participation Requirements & Graduate Credit:
21st Century e-Teacher includes a series of four, 6-week courses taken entirely over the Internet. Courses move forward on a weekly schedule, and there are approximately 3-4 hours of course activities per week which includes time for reading/viewing, projects, and exploration.
Participants may opt to earn three graduate credits per course, for an additional fee. For details on pricing, options, and course numbers, see the University of Virginia School of Professional and Continuing Studies for more information.
Building your NETS•T Portfolio: Learners create a digital portfolio of teaching artifacts to demonstrate mastery of each rubric of the NETS•T standards. The key components of the portfolio are the Personal Development Plan, Lesson Plans, and a Clasroom Management Plan. Submission of artifacts is self-paced, and learners can take up to 1 year to complete their portfolio.
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Educators need to integrate technology into their curriculum to transform student learning and meet the goals of being prepared to develop and use 21st Century skills. To succeed in today's information-driven academic environment, students need to know how to find, use, manage, evaluate and convey information efficiently and effectively. This includes not only knowledge of technology, but the ability to use critical-thinking skills to solve problems within a technological environment. Teachers wrap 21st century literacy skills into lesson content using a variety of strategies. This professional development program helps educators plan and assess effective technology teaching methods, incorporate technology into any discipline, and develop key accountability and assessment strategies.
In this series of four online, asynchronous courses, educators wear both a "student hat" and a "teacher hat" as they use digital and mobile technologies and communication tools to solve problems. Educators experience how to use technology as a tool to research, organize, evaluate and communicate information, as well as develop a fundamental understanding of the ethical/legal issues surrounding the access and use of information. This valuable, first-hand experience demonstrates the essential technology skills students need to succeed in the 21st Century.
