Cherilyn+Eveleth+Standard+2

Name: Cherilyn Eveleth Date Completed: 4/4/10

=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: Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity. Artifact 1: The students are creating and designing a computer slideshow for their colonial unit in social studies that they will share with their classmates.

Artifact 2: With a novel that we will be reading about the dust bowl, students will have a choice of different digital projects that they can choose from to demonstrate what they learned about the story elements of the novel. This will be a cooperative effort between myself and the media teacher.

=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: I think indicator b. is something I can improve upon. Goal: I think just giving students more options from the start on how to showcase what they have learned through digital tools will spark their curiosity and empower them in their learning. I have discovered that many of the students are the best teachers to others who need assistance with creating projects digitally.

=**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 think continuing to pose questions to the students about their learning will enhance their learning. I still need to work on letting them choose how they want to display their information from some choices of digital formats. I think also continuing to discuss guidelines and expectations of projects with students and letting them offer input from the start of the project will increase learning. With the two above goals, the sixth grade teacher and I are currently working to implement a digital project with our fifth and sixth graders. The students will be studying Iowa History, and each student will have a particular famous Iowan to research and design a digital poster using Glogster to illustrate what they have learned. Neither the other sixth grader teacher nor myself have used Glogster yet, so we are excited for the opportunity to learn together. Also, none of the fifth or sixth grade students have ever used this program, so they will be excited to learn as well.