Chapter 11 Engaging Teachers and Students in Learning and Self-Reflection
Focus Question #1 What is performance-based assessment for teachers and for students?
Performance-based testing for teachers are how their supervisors will assess them in classrooms. This includes the teachers being evaluated by people in charge of the teacher license programs and also the teachers in the school. In order to get a full-time job, teachers will have to take a state test, be observed teaching in their classroom, write papers how how they teach in the class what what methods they use for students, and how that they can relate to the community. They also are self-evaluated and learn new ways to make their teaching skills better. Students are assessed by their everyday work and how they are doing overall in school. This allows other teachers to view a students' file and see how they are progressing in class, as well as seeing what they need help with.
Tech Tool 11. 2
Online surveys are great ways to get feedback from students and helps teachers decide how to further help them in class. Surveys from Zoomerang allow teachers to design their own surveys using different templates and greetings to help the students view the surveys easier. It also allows teachers to put the information online so people can see how they are doing. SurveyMonkey gives ways to make polls and surveys to collect information. It has many examples to follow so teachers understand what they are doing, which is super helpful. It also gives real-time results and allows teachers to make surveys quick and easy. Poll Builder allows teachers to make polls for free; it does not have a lot of options but it does formulate quick polls.
Summary and Connection
This chapter highlights ways that can get a young teacher's career started. Just like the other chapters of this book, it contains different resources teachers and students can use to excel academically. Portfolios are discussed and the book states the many uses of it for teachers; teachers can put their past lessons and information about themselves into this online resource. There are advantages and disadvantages to using online portfolios, but as time goes, it is probably not as hard as it used to to get access to a computer. Teachers use this tool to display their knowledge and skills over time, and it can also be edited with more information. This tool is a great resource due to the fact schools can view them and see what each teacher has done in their past; I think it is a good evaluation process so teachers can use to show themselves off as well. The online surveys and student participation systems such as clickers are great resources because they involve the students with the activity. They allow students to see their responses on the board but it does not show who got it wrong or right, so that there will not be any embarrassment. I like how this chapter embraced students and encourages teachers to include them in decision making so that they will be more interested in the work. My philosophy of education is focused on the students so I really liked that aspect of this chapter.
Resources
Maloy, R. W., Verock-O, R. E., Edwards, S. A., & Woolf, B. P. (2010).Transforming learning with new technologies. Allyn & Bacon.
