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Chapter 5 TF/TL Standard V Productivity and Practice

Technology Standard V is related to educators needing technology to enhance and excel their productivity in classrooms and their professional practice. Leaders and Facilitators will be faced with the task of designing and implementing professional development opportunities in their districts. These professional development opportunities would be created in order for teachers to become familiar and fluent with technology practices. There are many ways that teachers can benefit from using technology. These include saving time, effort and become better collaborators with their co-workers. Many tools can provide more efficient ways of just doing everyday tasks in the classroom. Teachers need time, support, examples and chances to utilize technology in order to increase their productivity. If teachers are doing their job more efficiently, they will have more time for other things like planning, reflection, and other types of professional development. In TF/TL V, facilitators and leaders must collaborate with others in order to facilitate teachers’ personal technology integration. In result, they will see positive climate changes. Teachers will integrate more effective practice which in return will create better teaching and more students learning. It states in the ISTE's Technology Facilitation and Leadership Standards that, "The goals for education must focus on improving student learning, and all educators must share collective responsibility for reaching them." (Williamson & Redish). Emails, discussion forums, centralized document files, desktop applications, presentation technologies, and even the World Wide Web ensure and reinforce technology integration. They even help teachers collaborate and become more efficient educators. In Standard V, facilitators are required to plan professional development activities. Facilitators and leaders need to understand that like children, adults learn well from constructing knowledge through solving problems and producing projects with peers. This is unlike the traditional models of instruction. Leaders and facilitators’ tasks in Standard V are to ensure that schools are transformed into effective Professional Learning Communities. They must ensure that educators become better communicators and collaborators. They must ensure that educators are lifelong learners dealing with technology in order to increase in their personal productivity and professional practice. We have learned much about the importance of integrating technology and the reasoning and research behind it. Leaders and facilitators must give teachers the background knowledge and awareness of how their own growth will affect the entire classroom and school in many positive ways.

Williamson, J. & Redish, T. (2009). //Technology facilitation and leadership standards: What every K-12 leader should know and be able to do//. Eugene, OR: International Society for Technology in Education.