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Self-Assessment Instrument for Topic
2
ICT as an integral component of the subject matter
content of the disciplines you are planning to teach.
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Self-Assessment Instrument for ICT as a
Component of the Content of the Disciplines You Are
Preparing to Teach
- Computers have significantly changed the field of
graphic arts and are now an integral and routine part of
the content of this discipline.
- Computers have significantly added to the field of
music composition and performance and are now an integral
and routine part of the content of this discipline.
- All fields of science now include "Computer modeling
and simulation" as a third general methodology, along
with the traditional Experiment and Theoretical
methodologies.
- Interactive multimedia is now a common mode of
"writing" and is thus an important component of Language
Arts.
- Calculators and computers can rapidly and accurately
carry out the computational and algebraic procedures that
currently form the bulk of the K-12 math curriculum.
If your goal is to become an elementary school teacher,
you will eventually be teaching Language arts, Math,
Science, and Social Science. You may also be teaching a wide
variety of other disciplines such as Art, Music, and so on.
Each discipline can be defined by the problems that it
addresses, the tools and methodologies that it uses to
address these problems, and the accumulated results it has
achieved. Each of these aspects of a discipline are being
strongly affected by ICT. In each of these disciplines,
special software has been developed to aid in the
representation and solution of the problems in the
discipline.
If your goal is to become a middle school or secondary
school teacher, you will likely end up teaching in a small
number of disciplines. The self-assessment instrument given
below focuses on ICT as a component of the content of six
different disciplines. If you are teaching or planning to
teach at the middle school or high school, some of the
questions are not applicable to you. And, quite likely you
will need to add questions to cover the specific areas that
you are teaching or are preparing to teach.
Please rate yourself using the following 7-point scale
for each question that is applicable to you.
Click here for a
discussion of the meaning of the scale points.
Each question is accompanied by a brief discussion of the
topic being assessed. If you do not understand the details
given in a particular brief discussion, the chances are that
you are at the (1) or (2) level on this topic. If you are
not familiarly with the contemporary discipline-specific
(that is, content specific) software within a topic area,the
chances are that you are at the (1) or (2) level on this
topic. After you give yourself a numerical rating on the
7-point scale, write a paragraph that explains and justifies
your numerical rating.
1. Art (Fine Arts , Graphic Arts, Creative &
Performing Arts): 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
The fine arts include painting, sculpture, drawing,
graphics, and architecture. A graphic artist is one who
communicates information or suggests ideas through the use
of color and form, making use of a variety of technologies
such as computers, ink, paint, pencils, photography, and so
on. The creative and performing arts include dance, theater
and drama,, vocal, and so on. ICT now plays a significant
role in the arts. Briefly discuss your knowledge, skills,
and experiences roles of ICT in the content of the arts.
2. Language Arts: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Language arts includes reading, writing, speaking,
listening, creating, and communicating in oral, print, and
visual media. ICT can be thought of as providing new
communication media (for example, interactive hypermedia,
hypertext, email, instant messaging) as well as aids to
creating and using the media that existed prior to the
development of computers. Briefly discuss your knowledge,
skills, and experiences in the roles of ICT in the content
of language arts.
3. Math: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Mathematics is a science that provides tools useful in
all other disciplines. Mathematics is the posing,
representation, and solution of problems using the ideas,
and notation, and vocabulary of the language of mathematics.
Mathematics includes arithmetic, algebra, geometry,
analysis, probability and statistics, topology, real and
complex variable, and a number of other subfields. The
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics first
recommended use of calculators in the elementary school
curriculum in 1980. Now, calculators and computers are built
into the NCTM Standards. Briefly discuss your knowledge,
skills, and experiences in the roles of ICT in the content
of mathematics.
4. Music: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Instrumental and vocal are a form of human expression and
communication. Music is often combined with other
communication media, such as video and the performing arts.
The discipline of music includes composition and
performance. There are a huge range of musical instruments,
including many different electronic instruments. These are
used in the composition, editing, performance, and
distribution of music. Reading and writing music (using
musical notation and the vocabulary of music) are an
important component of the discipline of music. Briefly
discuss your knowledge, skills, and experiences in roles of
ICT in the content of music.
5. Science: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
A "traditional" dictionary definition of science tends to
emphasize that science is the study of the physical world
and its manifestations, done by using systematic observation
and experiment. It includes the development and testing of
theories. This definition underlies the theoretical and
experimental approaches that are used in each science. A
third approach, using computational modeling and simulation,
is now common throughout all sciences. For example, a1998
Nobel Prize in chemistry was given for the previous 15 years
of computational chemistry work of the prize winner. Briefly
discuss your knowledge, skills, and experiences in roles of
ICT in the content of the sciences.
6. Social Studies: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Social studies includes the social sciences and
humanities. A social studies curriculum provides
coordinated, systematic study drawing upon such disciplines
as anthropology, archaeology, economics, geography, history,
law, philosophy, political science, psychology, religion,
and sociology. ICT is an important part of the content of
many of these disciplines. In addition, computational
modeling and simulation is beginning to become a useful tool
for researchers and practitioners in many of these
disciplines And, of course, ICT is providing students and
others far more access to a broad source of information,
including primary resources, than was possible in the past.
Briefly discuss your knowledge, skills, and experiences in
roles of ICT in the content of the social studies.
7. Other (Please Specify) ___________________: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8. Other (Please Specify) ___________________: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
9. Other (Please Specify) __________________: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
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