Artifact: Submit evidence of reflection on your individual teaching abilities. Include a minimum of (2) two artifacts: evaluation feedback, your own reflections, e-portfolio links, professional growth plans, recommendation letters, stakeholder feedback and anything else that showcases introspection into strengths and weaknesses as an online educator and document all in your individual blog. TKES Evaluations Instructional Survey Loading... Answer: What are your teaching strengths?  What are your teaching weaknesses? Provide a reflection on your teaching abilities, philosophy and how Evaluate has prepared you to teach online. Since I began teaching 7 years ago, my philosophy has always been that the purpose of education is to equip students with the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to be successful in life. An essential part of this is teaching students to self-reflect and to see their strengths and weaknesses as learners, to understand what areas of the...

Artifact: Provide sample data from student results for a course within your field. The data can be entirely theoretical and written out in text form. Create: Examine your sample student performance data. Create an action plan that you would implement in your classroom to personalize teaching and learning.  Provide both a class and individual approach in your plan. Answer:  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? How would this data change your teaching plan? How could it help with remediation or enrichment, etc.? They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Hopefully a video is worth even more than that, because I've got a lot to say about this topic, and I'm not sure I could put it all into writing! For this reflection, please review the following screencast I created on evaluating learning and creating personalized learning paths. The benchmark that I rev...

Create: For this section, set up a competency structure using standards for one unit of your sample course. Associate the assignments in that unit with the competency. Artifact: 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. Standard, Domain, and Strand: SB6. Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to assess the theory of evolution. a. Construct an explanation of how new understandings of Earth’s history, the emergence of new species from pre-existing species, and our understanding of genetics have influenced our understanding of biology. Competencies/Learning Objectives: Evaluate people and influences that shaped Darwin's understanding of the natural world. Hutton and Lyell's theories on an ancient earth Malthus' theories on populations and competiti...

Reflect: Review the (9) nine data image artifacts from this lesson on student enrollments, student progress, communication and feedback in the course. What can you learn about the hypothetical instructors course from each of the (9) nine data images? From the images, I've been able to determine: the teacher has over 160 students to keep up with (WOW! And I thought my 120 was a lot) the teacher makes communication a high priority the teacher strives to include descriptive feedback on assignments, not just scores the teacher communicates regularly with all students and with individual students the teacher has an awesome SIS that generates a communication log (jealous — wish my SIS did that) the teacher does a great job with differentiation Answer: Based on your analysis of the (9) nine data images, how might the teacher adjust the course in the future based on the previous activity of these students? What other uses does data have for online instruction? What advantages ...

Artifact: Showcase an assessment created and include what method was used to assess the validity, reliability, and security. Answer: What process was used to determine the validity, reliability, and security of the assessment? What was the result? In this assignment I evaluated a district-wide benchmark that covers cell replication and genetics. Although I do not have access to all district-wide data, I did evaluate the data for all of my classes. A screenshot of part of the benchmark is included below. Because the questions are the property of USATestprep and because this is a secure district assessment, I cannot post the full assessment or a link to the document here. Validity: The benchmark was created in our online learning system and item bank, USATestprep. To ensure the validity of the test, I reviewed the content weights for the Georgia Milestones Biology EOC ( pg 9 in this PDF ) to determine which domains and strands (standards and sub-standards) are most important. ...

Create: In your blog, provide or create a student work sample and accompanying feedback that showcases some of the expectations listed below and offers a sound example of quality, authentic feedback. Encouraging, customized feedback which propels the student to strive for better performance or for deeper thought and application Student data drives the feedback provided as individual feedback, as well as the class as a whole. Teacher is not only assessing current progress on individual items, but is also analyzing each student’s continuous progress from grade item to grade item. Instructor clearly strives to assist all students in meeting and exceeding expectations and considers feedback as the cornerstone of that success. Artifact: Provide a student work sample and accompanying feedback. In my blended biology classroom, I begin each new unit with a phenomenon or mystery. Before we begin instruction, students propose explanations based on prior knowledge or in some cases, resea...