The Assignment:
Submit evidence of reflection on your individual teaching abilities. Include artifacts, evaluation feedback, your own reflections, e-portfolio links, professional growth plans and anything else that showcases introspection into strengths and weaknesses as an online educator and document all in your individual blog.
This is a link to 2013-2014 School Year Portfolio on Dropbox. This file will only be open for a short amount of time.
Sunday, February 1, 2015
Differentiation Quest
The Assignment:
Provide sample data from student results for a course within your field. The data can be entirely theoretical and written out in text form.
Upon completion of the data, discuss the method used to group students based on abilities, strategies utilized to examine student performance, and areas requiring modification of instruction.
Next, focus on the individual level. How could the data be referenced to identify the needs of each student? How could the settings of the LMS be used to create personalized learning paths? Note that a personalized learning path does not necessarily mean one student sees a resource no one else does, but that the overall order and selection of work one student does may be entirely unique from the order and assignments others did. Once the product is complete, share the results in your blog.
Here is data from a practice multiple choice for my AP English Language course. This was probably our first attempt at doing multiple choice. The scores are low, but that was to be expected.
1. I would group students based on the questions they got wrong. Each of the six questions represent a specific type. With these "types," it would be advantageous to group students together so they can work on how to solve the specific type of problem that they are missing.
2. Then, in an LMS, I would create a set of assignments for specific types of problems. This may be a combination of exercises, websites, resources, activities. Because the tasks are based on the students' strengths and weaknesses, the tasks are individualized.
3. Finally, we would do another assessment with similar types of questions and see how students do. Another means of doing this activity would be to jigsaw the activity. In a jigsaw, students could actually be paired with a student who is stronger, and then they can create a teaching module via some presentation tool discussing how to solve a specific problem. They could define the words, key terms, etc.
Rubrics & Competencies
The Assignment:
For this section, set up a competency structure for one unit of your sample course. Associate the assignments in that unit with the competency. Submit both a screenshot of the structure and a detailed explanation of why you created the structure that way. Include a discussion of the various pathways a student may go through to attain the competencies in the unit and document all in your blog.
Currently, my students are reading The Slave Narrative of Frederick Douglass, and as they read, they have to complete multiple assignments associated with the reading in their Interactive Notebooks. To integrate United States' History with my American Literature Course, I often assign students a Document Based Question (DBQ). This DBQ serves as a performance task. While completing the daily assignment like completing the graphic organizer, I will use a class participation rubric. But, for the writing, I may use a different rubric. Students can earn multiple grades while completing the DBQ because the writing is a process! I can also break the DBQ process into smaller chunks or stages. For example, students could easily create some type of DBQ project like a PowerPoint or Prezi, or students can create informational graphics with all the documents and then complete another task.
The DBQ Assignment on The Civil War
Classwork Rubric
For this section, set up a competency structure for one unit of your sample course. Associate the assignments in that unit with the competency. Submit both a screenshot of the structure and a detailed explanation of why you created the structure that way. Include a discussion of the various pathways a student may go through to attain the competencies in the unit and document all in your blog.
Currently, my students are reading The Slave Narrative of Frederick Douglass, and as they read, they have to complete multiple assignments associated with the reading in their Interactive Notebooks. To integrate United States' History with my American Literature Course, I often assign students a Document Based Question (DBQ). This DBQ serves as a performance task. While completing the daily assignment like completing the graphic organizer, I will use a class participation rubric. But, for the writing, I may use a different rubric. Students can earn multiple grades while completing the DBQ because the writing is a process! I can also break the DBQ process into smaller chunks or stages. For example, students could easily create some type of DBQ project like a PowerPoint or Prezi, or students can create informational graphics with all the documents and then complete another task.
The DBQ Assignment on The Civil War
Classwork Rubric
- Answering questions on the DBQ
- Annotating Documents
- Completing graphic organizer(s)
- Another graphic organizer
- Graded on the Classwork Rubric
Sample Rubrics for Essay
Data Driven Instruction
The Assignment:
Review the artifacts above on student enrollments and student progress in the course. Then, provide a detailed description of all that this information tells you about the hypothetical course. Include how the teacher might adjust the course in the future based on the previous activity of these students. Document in a reflection on your blog.
The sample website and coursework show all the factors that contribute to data analysis. It looks as if the LMS keeps track of students' attendance. This teacher also provides multiple opportunities for students to re-take quizzes. The LMS also provides how many students are enrolled in specific courses, and it provides information concerning if the student has to pay or not. I'm not quite sure why a teacher would need to know if students are required to pay. The parent contact log seems to be very informative; it also allows teachers to type individualized comments. Based on some of the comments, it looks like teachers can use some type of calling post to complete contact logs. This teacher used it as a Welcome call! This teacher created a generic email and personalized emails for his/her students. There is a very colorful chart, but it doesn't offer any identifying information, so I cannot access what it should mean to the teacher. Finally, the LMS allows students to provide peer-to-peer evaluation or self-evaluation, something that is particularly important to gifted students.
What does the teacher need to change? Nothing from what I can tell. She/he seems pretty thorough.
Review the artifacts above on student enrollments and student progress in the course. Then, provide a detailed description of all that this information tells you about the hypothetical course. Include how the teacher might adjust the course in the future based on the previous activity of these students. Document in a reflection on your blog.
The sample website and coursework show all the factors that contribute to data analysis. It looks as if the LMS keeps track of students' attendance. This teacher also provides multiple opportunities for students to re-take quizzes. The LMS also provides how many students are enrolled in specific courses, and it provides information concerning if the student has to pay or not. I'm not quite sure why a teacher would need to know if students are required to pay. The parent contact log seems to be very informative; it also allows teachers to type individualized comments. Based on some of the comments, it looks like teachers can use some type of calling post to complete contact logs. This teacher used it as a Welcome call! This teacher created a generic email and personalized emails for his/her students. There is a very colorful chart, but it doesn't offer any identifying information, so I cannot access what it should mean to the teacher. Finally, the LMS allows students to provide peer-to-peer evaluation or self-evaluation, something that is particularly important to gifted students.
What does the teacher need to change? Nothing from what I can tell. She/he seems pretty thorough.
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Summative Assessment
The Assignment:
The Rubric
Showcase an assessment created and include how the method was used to assess the validity, reliability, and security. Post the assessment in your blog.
The best assessments offer choice and variety for students. And, I like to offer a number of free online resources to help promote a paperless classroom. Validity and reliability depends on the authenticity of projects. I like to try assignments that are not readily available to reduce the propensity to cheat.
The Summative Assignment
The best assessments offer choice and variety for students. And, I like to offer a number of free online resources to help promote a paperless classroom. Validity and reliability depends on the authenticity of projects. I like to try assignments that are not readily available to reduce the propensity to cheat.
The Summative Assignment
The Rubric
Quality Feedback
The Assignment:
Student Responses (2)
Sample 1
In your blog, provide a student work sample and accompanying feedback that showcases some of the expectations listed above and offers a sound example of quality, authentic feedback. Discuss aspects of the sample that align with the best practices discussed in this quest.
The Assignment for AP Language
(The Directions)
Benjamin Banneker, the son of former slave, was a farmer, astronomer, mathematician, surveyor, and author. In 1791 he wrote to Thomas Jefferson, framer of the Declaration of Independence and secretary of state to President George Washington. Read the following excerpt from the letter, an analyze ONE RHETORICAL STRATEGY used to argue against slavery.
Please respond to one other student in the course. Provide them with commentary for their post! Simply saying, "Good Job," is empty and means very little to a writer. Give them ideas and food that resonate with them so they can improve as a reader and writer. Thank you.
Due Date: Sunday, August 31, 2014 by midnight!
I will lock the assignment after this date.
Student Responses (2)
Sample 1
Sample 2
Reflection:
My feedback is customized for each student's writing. This feedback references strengths and weaknesses in the writings, and it also gives incite to other resources to help them improve.
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Formative Assessment
The Assignment:
Consider the best means of developing and delivering assessments, projects, and assignments that meet standards-based learning goals and assess learning progress by measuring student achievement of learning goals. How might a teacher employ ways to assess student readiness for course content and method of delivery? To demonstrate this, create a formative assessment in a demo course you are creating. Post a link to the assessment in your blog.
Schoology Account:
Consider the best means of developing and delivering assessments, projects, and assignments that meet standards-based learning goals and assess learning progress by measuring student achievement of learning goals. How might a teacher employ ways to assess student readiness for course content and method of delivery? To demonstrate this, create a formative assessment in a demo course you are creating. Post a link to the assessment in your blog.
Schoology Account:
Access Code
Reset82HWF-4QBGJ
1. Click on course "Introduction to Digital Citizenship"
2. Click Folder, Digital Citizenship Curriculum
3. Click last item, module wrap up
4. Click Preview, then Begin Tests
There are multiple ways teachers can assess learning. Personally, I like reflection activities that make the students share what they have learned. Technology makes assessments easier and paperless!
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