Answer in a complete paragraph response: How has the Evaluate module prepared you to meet each standard listed? Link to or provide specific examples from your work in Evaluate. What strategies will you take away from the Evaluate module and apply to your teaching? What lessons were most beneficial for you?
Standard D: The online teacher promotes student success through clear expectations, prompt responses, and regular feedback.
Standard G: The online teacher demonstrates competencies in creating and implementing assessments in online learning environments in ways that ensure validity and reliability of the instruments and procedures.
Standard H: The online teacher develops and delivers assessments, projects, and assignments that meet standards-based learning goals and assesses learning progress by measuring student achievement of the learning goals.
Standard I: The online teacher demonstrates competency in using data from assessments and other data sources to modify content and to guide student learning.
I believe the lessons on formative assessment and quality feedback have helped me understand the importance of utilizing constructive, descriptive feedback to promote ensure student engagement and promote student success, as described above in Standard D. Technology tools certainly make it easy to automate this process, as described in this post on formative assessments. Rubrics are a great way to communicate expectations for learning and to assess students against learning objectives, as described in this post on quality feedback.
To see other posts outside this course that I believe demonstrate my mastery of Standard D, check out these links too.
Learning how to assess the validity and reliability of assessments as described in Standard G has probably been the most helpful and informative module in this assessment. You'll find my reflections on this process in this post on summative assessments.
As I described in my self-reflection, I believe that assessment and using assessment data are some of my strengths as a teacher. I use formative assessments and summative assessments to evaluate students' progress against standards and learning goals (Standard H, see formative and summative links above). And I use assessment data to inform my instructional plans, and create personalized learning paths that provide students multiple ways to develop competencies (Standard I).
For me, the Evaluate module has been best course in the eTeacherTOOL. It has taught me that reflection is essential to ensuring student success and that reflection happens at sooooo many different levels. We must reflect on our students as a whole and as individuals. We must reflect on our assessments to evaluate their validity, reliability, and security. We must reflect on ourselves, considering our strengths and weaknesses and maintaining a growth mindset.
I believe that going forward I will maintain my current practices of evaluating student data and differentiating instruction, but that I will also spend more time reflecting on the assessment tools that I use to evaluate students' progress toward mastery of the standards. I'll be more intentional about finding multiple ways to assess students' mastery and about ensuring that these assessments are reliable and valid. I hope to also be more diligent about leveraging technology tools to provide timely, constructive, effective feedback on these assessments as well.
I appreciate all the thought, research, and resources that GAVS has put into developing the eTeacherTOOL and what these things have taught me as an online teaching endorsement candidate. Wish me luck as a submit my final documentation to obtain my online teaching endorsement!
Standard D: The online teacher promotes student success through clear expectations, prompt responses, and regular feedback.
Standard G: The online teacher demonstrates competencies in creating and implementing assessments in online learning environments in ways that ensure validity and reliability of the instruments and procedures.
Standard H: The online teacher develops and delivers assessments, projects, and assignments that meet standards-based learning goals and assesses learning progress by measuring student achievement of the learning goals.
Standard I: The online teacher demonstrates competency in using data from assessments and other data sources to modify content and to guide student learning.
I believe the lessons on formative assessment and quality feedback have helped me understand the importance of utilizing constructive, descriptive feedback to promote ensure student engagement and promote student success, as described above in Standard D. Technology tools certainly make it easy to automate this process, as described in this post on formative assessments. Rubrics are a great way to communicate expectations for learning and to assess students against learning objectives, as described in this post on quality feedback.
To see other posts outside this course that I believe demonstrate my mastery of Standard D, check out these links too.
- Using screencasting individualize feedback, shown in Communicate posts here and here.
- Using automated feedback and quiz response conditions to provide feedback and differentiate student learning, shown in a navigate post found here.
Learning how to assess the validity and reliability of assessments as described in Standard G has probably been the most helpful and informative module in this assessment. You'll find my reflections on this process in this post on summative assessments.
As I described in my self-reflection, I believe that assessment and using assessment data are some of my strengths as a teacher. I use formative assessments and summative assessments to evaluate students' progress against standards and learning goals (Standard H, see formative and summative links above). And I use assessment data to inform my instructional plans, and create personalized learning paths that provide students multiple ways to develop competencies (Standard I).
For me, the Evaluate module has been best course in the eTeacherTOOL. It has taught me that reflection is essential to ensuring student success and that reflection happens at sooooo many different levels. We must reflect on our students as a whole and as individuals. We must reflect on our assessments to evaluate their validity, reliability, and security. We must reflect on ourselves, considering our strengths and weaknesses and maintaining a growth mindset.
I believe that going forward I will maintain my current practices of evaluating student data and differentiating instruction, but that I will also spend more time reflecting on the assessment tools that I use to evaluate students' progress toward mastery of the standards. I'll be more intentional about finding multiple ways to assess students' mastery and about ensuring that these assessments are reliable and valid. I hope to also be more diligent about leveraging technology tools to provide timely, constructive, effective feedback on these assessments as well.
I appreciate all the thought, research, and resources that GAVS has put into developing the eTeacherTOOL and what these things have taught me as an online teaching endorsement candidate. Wish me luck as a submit my final documentation to obtain my online teaching endorsement!
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