Assignment 1 - Best Practices

Assignment #1Best Practices

Personal PhilosophyTechnology

Assessment

Motivation

Environment

TechnologyWhy

Digital Natives

TechnologyTechnology is a major component of my teaching

Smartboard

Wiki’s

Multimedia

Smartboard

Planning

Participation

“is a large interactive display that connects to a computer and projector. A projector projects the computer's desktop onto the board's surface, where users control the computer using a pen, finger or other device. from

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_whiteboard

Wiki’s

Class Projects

A storehouse for class

“a wiki is the simplest collaborative content management system that could possibly work.”

from http://webtrends.about.com/od/wiki/a/what_is_a_wiki.htm

MultimediaExamples:

History

Math

Assessment and Evaluation

Assessment and Evaluation must have a point

Purposeful

Meaningful

Different types of Assessment and Evaluation have different purposes

Assessment and Evaluation

Evaluation

At regular intervals

Tests

Half-Chapter Quizzes

Finals

Review assignments

This is important to students, parents, administration

Assessment and Evaluation

Assessment

Regular and constant feedback

“1 to 3”

Pop Quizzes

Exit Cards

This is important to me

MotivationLearning is Fun Work

Fun

It is good to know stuff

There is a lot of fun stuff in class

Dog and Pony Show

Work

Anything worthwhile is hard

EnvironmentClassroom Environment is key

Mutual Respect

Management

Routines

Fair vs. Even

Curricular Development Experiences

Involved in the Development of the new High School Math Curriculum

Has become the unofficial lead in my area for the new curriculum

Professional Development

Regular Conferences

NCTM

TlT/IT

Sciematics

Conventions

Meaningful

Other

PDP Model

Instructional Practices Used

Direct Instruction

Experiential Learning

Indirect Instruction

Independent Study

Direct InstructionMy Trusty Back-Up

Explicit teaching

Demonstrations

Teacher-Created Guides

Drill and Practice

Experiential LearningUsed mostly in History and in Science

Experiments

Labs

Essays

Indirect InstructionUsed in Math and Science

Simulations

Problem Solving

Independent StudyUsed quite a bit

Reports

Research Projects

Assigned Questions

Assessment and Evaluation Practices

I use two types of Assessment and Evaluation

Formative (Assessment)

Summative (Evaluation)