I have had my elementary educator certificate via the Commonwealth of Massachusetts since June 1987. I even had one for the State of New Hampshire along with a temporary special education certificate for two years. I completed the preschool teachers program with the U.S. Navy, many years ago. When I completed my masters degree with Lesley University and first became the technology teacher, I was able to obtain my Instruction Technology Teacher certification. I had to use the first 6 months as my practicum due to teaching in a regular (inclusion) classroom did not count for the certificate.
Since I became the technology teacher for our school, I have several less formal but concentrated certificates. I have an online teaching certificate, and a TESOL certificate endorsement via Lesley University. I began my Google Educators training in 2015 and just renewed the Educator 1 certification today. I am glad to say I passed again and can include the Google badge along side its pair, the Educator 2. I also completed my certified trainers test,earlier this year, and have a few more steps to complete to hopefully be chosen as a Google Trainer.
This week, I also completed my BrainPOP certified educator program and am considered certified. I have several endorsements with Discovery Education. Currently I am working with a few of my fellow educators in their Discovery Ambassadors program. I have attended course training for Code.org (twice- old curriculum and new).
I will soon begin a MakerBot certificate program so I can not only teach students how to create 3D items but also teachers and help them incorporate the tool with subject themes.
Basically the theme here is as a technology teacher there are so many areas to become familiar. The best way is to immerse oneself into a new technology App, program, or device and get that training done. Test it with your classes and then teach others how to use it in their classroom. ...repeat... repeat... repeat!
(Just a note-- it is a long weekend and yet I spent a minimum of 3 hours doing school work!)
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