CONTENT AREA / INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM

Choose the answer that best describes your current practices

STUDENT COMPUTER USE: In your classes, how often do STUDENTS use computers…

To create multimedia presentations, slide shows, video reports, and/or projects?

To analyze information (manipulate, organize, filter, sort, display, or graph data)?

To practice skills or receive drill?

To run simulations? (Scenario-based interactive environments, online or on CD, that involve learners in problem solving. Titles include The Oregon Trail, Green Globs and Graphing Equations.)

To do research on the Internet, online library catalog, and/or reference databases?

TEACHER COMPUTER USE: In your role as teacher, how often do YOU use computers…

To promote cooperative learning? (Methods that provide structured opportunities for students to work together in small groups/pairs to help each other learn).

To individualize instruction?

To integrate two or more curriculum areas?

To adapt instruction (e.g. with special population students)?

To present a lesson or part of a lesson?

TEACHER COMPUTER USE: In your role as teacher, how often do YOU use computers…

To locate instructional materials and/or lesson plans (e.g., on the Internet, CDs, library system, reference databases)?

To do word processing?

To create spreadsheets?

To build databases?

For drawing, painting, or graphics?

For multimedia production (e.g., HyperStudio, PowerPoint)?

For video editing?

For email?

TECHNOLOGY STANDARDS FOR INSTRUCTIONAL PERSONNEL (TSIPS) (You may have completed the TSIP requirement through the ACPS TIE program, through other VA school districts, or through college coursework.)

I completed the TSIP requirement....

Which of the following best describes your use of computer technologies in your content area/ instructional program/ area of responsibility?