Palmer+Goal+2

Name: Ruth Palmer Date Completed: April 12, 2010 = **2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments** = === Teachers design, develop, and evaluate authentic learning experiences and assessment incorporating contemporary tools and resources to maximize content learning in context and to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes identified in the NETS•S. 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. ||

=**Step 1: For standard two, select the indicator that is your strongest suit for the standard and give two examples (artifacts) of why you selected it as your strongest suit.**= Indicator selected: 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. Artifact 1: Individual Career Development Plans from our teachers Artifact 2: McElroy grants written together with two of our teachers

=**Step 2: For standard two, select the indicator that is your "least strongest" suit for the standard and write a professional goal of how you are going to increase your competency with the goal this year.**= Indicator selected: 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. Goal: I will use Survey Monkey or Google Docs Forms to assess St. Benedict School teachers’ understanding of increasing rigor as part of the Iowa Core Curriculum Self Study to focus professional development in our building =Step 3: On the final TCL day, reflect on each standard and goal you set for yourself. How did you do and why?=

Reflection: I did create surveys using Survey Monkey, but have not taken the time to learn and use Google Docs forms effectively. This is one area where I have tried some new tools but find it difficult to find the time to work with them long enough to really become comfortable enough to say that they are a consistent strategy or tool that I would think of using. Although I like the challenge of learning new tools, I am challenged with so many of them and not using them frequently enough on a consistent basis so that it FEELS like I am too frequently learning them from scratch again. As a total staff we are making more effort to work with Google Docs and finding the collaborative work a good way to document our work with documenting the implementation plan of our Iowa Core Curriculum work.