NETS Reflection

Kristine Nesbit

NETS Reflection

To summarize and reflect on the NETS-T and NETS-S, I believe they are both instrumental tools to help teachers ensure that they are addressing critical needs for themselves and their students. As a teacher, specifically the NETS-T will help me develop and monitor that my lessons are appropriately addressing student needs such as learning and creativity. The standards also remind me of the importance and need for professional growth and leadership, modeling digital citizenship and learning, and bringing digital learning experiences to my students.

I feel strongly about the NETS-T that describes facilitating and inspiring student learning and creativity. I feel this is my strength because I am very enthusiastic, provide encouragement and praise to students. Additionally, I model learning and creativity in my teaching so that students are inspired. For example, when student teaching I facilitated a math lesson on fractions to a third grade class. I dressed in a chef’s hat, apron, fake mustache and we proceeded to make fake pizza, sharing fractions of our pizza with friends. We all had fun being creative and learning and the kids were entertained by their teacher. I believe that as educators, we need to enjoy our profession not only for ourselves but also so our kids are engaged, look forward to coming to class and find gaining knowledge to be rewarding. The following websites can be used as tools for teachers in reaching this NETS objective:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/features/after911/ This website provides lesson plans for dealing with the tough issue of discussing 9/11 attacks of terrorism. One lesson has students research and explain the difference between revolutionaries and terrorists. This activity would inspire learning and creativity.

http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/108.html This website can be used for the primary grades during computer time. The site is age appropriate so that young students can work independently. I think that enabling children to work independently inspires learning and this website provides many opportunities for creativity through games, writing and art.

http://21things.weebly.com/index.html This website provides technology resources and tools that support the needs of all students (i.e. Nettrekker's Read Aloud and Dictionary features; Vozme’s text to speech converter; and 1ClickAnswers definition and pronunciation tools). This website inspires learning for student with learning disabilities and enables them to be creative. There is also information about funds available for assistive technology.

http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Starter+Sheets This website provides a digital toolbox for teachers. A wide range of digital tools are provided including many categories such as video, drawing, music, graphing, mapping, and audio. This is a cool site to check out especially for those teachers that may have difficulty being creative or are technology challenged.