2. Formative Assessment
I am learning to use formative assessment
practices in ways that can have powerful
implications for learning.
3. Engage in a critical cycle of action–reflection
to understand and develop your practice. This
term my focus is really more about developing my
teaching practice and the critically understanding
what I believe about assessment and putting those
beliefs into practice.
4. ISTE NETS Standard 2d
providing students with multiple and varied formative
and summative assessments. My hope is to be much
more intentional with formative assessment practices in
my classroom, in every facet, but with particular focus on
writing.
5. From the student’s point of view, the formative
assessment “script” reads like this: “What
knowledge or skills I am to develop? How close
am I now? What do I need to do next?”
It’s not fair to students to present them with
feedback and no opportunities to use it. It’s not
fair to students to present them with what
seems like constructive criticism and then use it
against them in a grade or final evaluation.
14. Developing Personal Learning Goals
My goal was to make sure that I had no spelling mistakes and to make sure my
sentence’s made sence!
My goal for this piece of writing was to have striking words and phrases that are
used accurately and effectively.
My goal today is Conventions, spelling every word right.
My goal is to use expressive and bold words in my blogging.
My goal was to use descriptive language to help my readers, see, hear, and feel
what I’ve experienced.
20. Where To Now?
I want to continue developing my use of
formative assessment practices in my
classroom. Specifically I would like to work
on developing my questioning techniques
(Bloom’s Taxonomy), and increasing the
variety of formative assessments that I use
consistently.
21. Personal Learning
Network/Community
I am learning to grow my Personal Learning Network
and Personal Learning Community in deeper ways
which are impacting me as a person and as a result
impacting my teaching practice.
22.
23. Big Idea:
My PLN is a critical part of my
teaching practice. I am hugely
influence by the people I include in
my PLN.
24. Big Idea:
Twitter and my PLN are dynamic,
friendly places, which allow me to
connect with people in ways I
previously could not.
25. Big Idea:
My PLN is becoming a “networked
community.” I am participating more
relational ways within my PLN. It is
growing in deeper ways, not just in
numbers.
30. Where To Next?
I have just begun to unleash the power of my PLN on
my practice. I want to continue to develop my use of
tools like twitter in ways that will impact me
personally and professionally. As well, I would like
to develop my students use of their PLN
(Collaborative Learning).
31. Integrating Technology
I am learning how to better integrate technology
into my practice in meaningful and powerful
ways.
32. Integrate existing and emerging
technologies in your practice to support student
learning. I want to use technologies that I am familiar
with in a more integrated way in my practice. I want
to use google docs so that students can provide
feedback for each other, but also so that they can
collaborate on writing. I want to use our classroom
blog to extend what we did last year, with a focus on
formative assessment and self/peer evaluation.
39. Where To Next?
I want to continue to develop how I integrate
technologies into my practice. I want the integration
to always be purposeful, powerful and moving
towards ubiquitous. Specifically, I would like to
continue to develop my use of blogs in writing and
connecting my students with the larger community.
