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**2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments** Teachers design, develop, and evaluate authentic learning experiences and assessments incorporating contemporary tools and resources to maximize content learning in context and to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes identified in the NETS for students. Teachers:
 * a.** design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity
 * b.** develop technology-enriched learning environments that enable all students to pursue their individual curiosities and become active participants in setting their own educational goals, managing their own learning, and assessing their own progress
 * c.** customize and personalize learning activities to address students' diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources
 * d.** provide students with multiple and varied formative and summative assessments aligned with content and technology standards and use resulting data to inform learning and teaching


 * 1. List ways in which you assess and evaluate student learning.**
 * In my classroom students are not graded, so my assessments are more for my checking and to check that students are progressing toward their yearly goal. I have generated a quarterly rubric that I would like to implement. I like the rubric because it allows me to show parents where the students are excelling and where they need extra practice. I do generate rubrics using the on-line tool RubiStar to give students guidelines to follow. I create quizzes and polls for my students to participate in using other on-line tools. I typically like using QuizStar, Poll-Daddy and Google Docs to generate assessments. I also take advantage of the commercial assessments that my district uses. When I have a student that I am screening for Gifted evaluation, I log onto specific web sites to collect DIBELS and Aims-web data. These are two assessments that our district administers three times a year to students grades K-6.


 * 1a. List at least 2 ways in which you could improve how you assess and evaluate student learning.**


 * I believe that as I continue to educate myself I will learn new and improved ways to assess student learning. I am going to start having my students complete a student interest inventory and learning style assessment at the beginning of the school year. This will help me gage where my instruction should be and how I should assess them.
 * In my current graduate class I have been reading about electronic portfolios. I think this would be a terrific benefit for my Gifted Students. I want to learn more about this and research which tools I want to use and then I want to implement this into my students GIEPs. I think this will be a terrific tool for students to have when they walk away from High School. What I like about it, is that I follow most of my students from third grade through to graduation. If I require them to put one piece a year into the Portfolio they will have a ton of material to reflect on. I also like that it will give them a chance to reflect and see how they have grown, interests have developed and strengths have changed over the years.


 * 2. List ways in which technology plays a role in helping you and your students monitor student growth and/or achievement.**


 * The commercial sites that I use have a great deal of extra resources available to teachers and students to monitor growth/ achievement. Aims-web and DIBELS offers the option to print charts that chart students individual performance. There is also the option to chart and compare Student A with Student B or with the whole class, within the building, within the District and even at the National level, all within that particular grade level. This feature is a excellent tool for me when I am compare student achievement and when I am screening students. I typically can only recommend student achieving at the 95th percentile to be send on for further Gifted Evaluation. I have had several students at a building or district level that are at the top but when compared to a National level they are just achieving on grade level. The chart print outs are a terrific tool to help show parents, it is a great visual too. DIBELS offers a chart that marks students performance on oral reading fluncey from grade 1 through 6. This is great to show students how they have been achieving. At quick glance one can see how they are performing compared to the average population. This year our district has gone to an online grade book that students/ parents can access from home. I think this is a great feature because kids can stay up to date on missed assignments and monitoring their own grade. I am not 100% familiar with this at this time because I do not have access since I do not administer grades at this time.


 * 2a. List 2 ways in which you could better utilize technology to assess students**.


 * I will be requiring students to start an electronic portfolio that they need to add one piece to every year and answer a few basic questions as a way to help me monitor their individual growth.
 * I am also going to generate all my worksheets and logs on the computer so that students can electronically submit assessments to me

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 * 3. List resources that will help you grow in this area.
 * Continue training on current tools and new tools that our district is using to chart and store student achievement, this will help me grow and become more confident in this area.
 * Training manuals, online training's, peer collaboration, and staying up to date on the latest trends will also help me grow in this topic.


 * 4. Write a summary statement of 1a and 2a above in the form of an action you can take to incorporate digital learning experiences and assessments. Add this statement to the Action Plan.**


 * I will require all my students to complete the student interest inventory and learning style inventory at the beginning of the school year. I will go over the results and develop plans/ goals with my students. I will also share the results with the students current teachers. I will be requiring my students to start creating an electronic portfolio to compile and organize student work. I will be making a committment to create more of my labs and assignments on line. This will encourage student growth and promote higher order thinking strategies.