Capstone 5: Connected Learner
Standards
We begin this Capstone with a thoughtful review of the Standard:
ISTE-Education Leader Standard - Connected Learner
Leaders model and promote continuous professional learning for themselves and others. Education leaders:
5a. Set goals to remain current on emerging technologies for learning, innovations in pedagogy and advancements in the learning sciences .
5b. Participate regularly in online professional learning networks to collaboratively learn with and mentor other professionals.
5c. Use technology to regularly engage in reflective practices that support personal and professional growth.
5d. Develop the skills needed to lead and navigate change, advance systems and promote a mindset of continuous improvement for how technology can improve learning.
For additional details, visit the ISTE web site ISTE Standards for Education Leaders.
Leaders model and promote continuous professional learning for themselves and others. Education leaders:
5a. Set goals to remain current on emerging technologies for learning, innovations in pedagogy and advancements in the learning sciences .
5b. Participate regularly in online professional learning networks to collaboratively learn with and mentor other professionals.
5c. Use technology to regularly engage in reflective practices that support personal and professional growth.
5d. Develop the skills needed to lead and navigate change, advance systems and promote a mindset of continuous improvement for how technology can improve learning.
For additional details, visit the ISTE web site ISTE Standards for Education Leaders.
After Completing the 5 E's
Assignment
-Share Your Vision - Help Others Visualize-
Reflect on your growth and learning upon completion of Capstone 3: Excellence in Professional Practice.
Reflect on "next steps" for this standard. How will you continue to empower educators:
Reflect on "next steps" for this standard. How will you continue to empower educators:
- through allocation of time & resources for professional growth,
- through facilitation & participation in nurturing learning communities,
- through promotion and modeling of effective communication & collaboration using digital tools, and
- through your plan for staying abreast of research, emerging trends and new technologies
Share digital artifacts demonstrating how you met the goals of this assignment, and the web tools/web site(s) you used. Facilitators are looking for artifacts as evidence that are either:
1) a link to a digital artifact - a resource, document, visual, media creation, or
2) proof/documentation that participant has viewed, created, or participated in learning activity (e.g. reflection, summary, visual representation, data or feedback from staff activity)
Be sure to capture and insert relevant links or screenshots to communicate your vision.
1) a link to a digital artifact - a resource, document, visual, media creation, or
2) proof/documentation that participant has viewed, created, or participated in learning activity (e.g. reflection, summary, visual representation, data or feedback from staff activity)
Be sure to capture and insert relevant links or screenshots to communicate your vision.
Post-Assess Yourself
After completing the activities for this Capstone, where do you see yourself (Beginning, Developing or Secure) in relation to the ISTE-A Standard for Excellence in Professional Practice? Complete the self-assessment form linked below and then follow-up with a shared reflection in the discussion forum based on the prompt that follows the standard below.
Complete the Post-Assessment form for Capstone 3 - Excellence in Professional Practice:
Complete the Post-Assessment form for Capstone 3 - Excellence in Professional Practice:

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