NET STANDARD - 5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership

Assistive Technology

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5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership
Teachers continuously improve their professional practice, model lifelong learning, and exhibit leadership in their school and professional community by promoting and demonstrating the effective use of digital tools and resources. Teachers:

a.	participate in local and global learning communities to explore creative applications of technology to improve student learning.
b.	exhibit leadership by demonstrating a vision of technology infusion, participating in shared decision making and community building, and developing the leadership and technology skills of others.
c.	evaluate and reflect on current research and professional practice on a regular basis to make effective use of existing and emerging digital tools and resources in support of student learning.
d.	contribute to the effectiveness, vitality, and self-renewal of the teaching profession and of their school and community.

This standard I think is saying that you can  use technology in your classroom in all type of ways.  The Assistive Technology Assignment, we looked up information off of the internet and included in a PowerPoint.  In this assignment we learned how to prepare a PowerPoint for the visual impaired and also the hearing impaired.  It is the teacher responsibility to make the classroom lesson modify to the students abilities.  In the Assistive Technology Assignment, we learned how to turn on the magnifier, the sound device and other features for students that have some type of disability.