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According to TPACK.org, TPACK is "a framework that teachers can use to help them identify knowledge they might need to focus on to be able to teach effectively with technology". The image to the right shows that technological knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, and content knowledge all overlap, and cannot be fully successful without the other two areas. When all of the knowledge areas fully overlap, that is when there is TPACK. Technological Knowledge: The school I am teaching at has great access to technology, and has some professional development. I feel comfortable using technology to teach and plan, but there is always more technology out there to try! A lot of teachers at my school have access to technology, but feel unsure of how to best use it in their classroom. Pedagogical Knowledge: I feel quite comfortable in this area - planning units/assessments, teaching strategies, behavior management. However, this is an area I need to push myself in order to become more consistent, and I need to collaborate with fellow educators on strategies they use in their own classroom. Content Knowledge: My elementary school that I teach at finally has great access to curriculum across subject areas, as this was a problem a few years ago. Depending on the topic, my subject knowledge could be vast or limited. One area I need to work on is deepening the content knowledge I have on specific subjects. How does this look in my classroom? The goal is to incorporate all three areas seamlessly into the classroom. While this is not true of my classroom every minute of every day, there are times where I feel like I have balanced all three. This is definitely a goal for me - to improve on how I can make sure my teaching includes all three. I most often feel like I am missing pedagogical knowledge - how can I use informal/formal assessments to guide my teaching? How can I use pre-assessments to deepen the learning of students who have already mastered the concepts? Where is my class as far as our year-long plan. Do we need to speed up? Slow down? Reteach? My biggest area that I am working to improve is to use PK to deepen the learning of my excelling students. Here is a different image to represent TPACK. I love the image create by the words, and see another way of how these knowledge areas are connected.
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