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Jana M Willis Michelle Giles

Competence and Confidence: Keys to Preparing Teachers to Meet the Challenges of Tomorrow’s Technologies. Jana M Willis Michelle Giles. The Question.

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Jana M Willis Michelle Giles

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  1. Competence and Confidence: Keys to Preparing Teachers to Meet the Challenges of Tomorrow’s Technologies Jana M Willis Michelle Giles

  2. The Question What are the competence and confidence levels of preservice teacher candidates in the use of the various tools used in a technology integration course.

  3. The Premise During training teacher candidates, need to gain both competence and confidence in their own abilities related to a variety of technologies.

  4. The Study • Offering opportunities for exploration of new technologies can build confidence and motivate candidates to initiate technology use in the future. • This presentation explores the pre-survey competence and confidence levels of preservice teachers.

  5. The Background During an educational technology class, preservice teacher candidates were required to use selected online tools as part of class assignments and for a final group project.

  6. In the beginning… • Curriculum Library Closed • PT3 Grant – EE Demonstration • Adopted Project Learning Tree • Integrated Technology • Adopted Project Wild • Re-Adopted Project Learning Tree

  7. The Unit Model • 5E Lesson Plan • TPACK Model • Technology • Pedagogy • Content

  8. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity

  9. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity

  10. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity

  11. Design and Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences and Assessments

  12. Model Digital Age Work and Learning

  13. Model Digital Age Work and Learning

  14. Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility

  15. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership

  16. Comfort Levels

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  24. Self-Evaluation • David Dunning, Ph.D. at Cornell has found that the least competent performers inflate their abilities the most; that the reason for the over inflation seems to be ignorance, not arrogance; and that chronic self-beliefs, however inaccurate, underlie both people's over and underestimations of how well they're doing.

  25. Self-Evaluation • In a subjective area like intelligence people tend to perceive their competence in self-serving ways. • People don't like giving negative feedback. • Inflating one's sense of self creates positive emotions and feelings of self-efficacy, but the downside is that people don't really like self-enhancers very much“ (Heine, 1999).

  26. Getting to the Truth. • How to frame competence and confidence self-evaluation to obtain an accurate measures. • Overconfidence produces underachievement: Inaccurate self evaluations could undermine students’ learning and retention

  27. Questions willis@uhcl.edu giles@uhcl.edu

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