Week 10 Assignment #3

Article: https://www.amle.org/portals/0/pdf/articles/Formative_Assessment_Article_Aug2013.pdf

PPT: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rcCHqPdV_jsOOHgwsn1SoYJc8VrLWbO50EGm6Rb0PtE/edit?usp=sharing

ScreenCast: https://www.screencast.com/t/XwNDcIXB

Week 10 Assignment #2

Teaching Philosophy 

My teaching philosophy stems from the notion that I am here as a teacher to facilitate learning as best as I can to eager and hungry learners. As that facilitator I also am sensitive to be all-inclusive to all the students, regardless of their background, education level, and what their individual needs may be. The actual tools, philosophies and strategies I use, as the facilitator, are based on Scholars from yesteryear, whether it is scaffolding or differentiation or the plethora of other available philosophies that has guided teachers throughout the times and given us direction on how to teach, and most importantly, how students learn.

While standing on the shoulders of giants from yesteryear we also have entered an era of Technology playing as a major role in the education of our children. And this will be true moving forward in to the foreseeable future. Technology including but not limited to, personal computers, laptops, tablets, cell phones, smart boards, educational websites, educational games, videos, ebooks, real-time messaging tools, SMILE etc..

The technology I will use is will not just be a means to accomplish the old tasks, but more rapidly and efficiently, or more widely used rather it will shape the new way that we need to think about how we educate, real-time feedback tools, interaction tools with our students, and the like, will change the approach of how we educate moving forward and how we  act as facilitators so that the students can absorb as much as they are willing and striving for.

Week #4 assignment 2

Link to my Jing presentation

https://www.screencast.com/t/8OiENfcJad

Week 4 assignment #1 - Reader Response

"Explain how you identify the desired results, how you come up with essential questions and determine what understandings are desired?"


To come up with the desired result I look at the class and what I want my students to leave my class knowing. I then determine what they currently know (gap analysis). This leaves me with a list of desired results. The essential questions are derived by examining the desired results, and bridging that gap, if a student could answer the following question that would lead them to the desired result.



"Explain how you determine what knowledge and skills students should acquire as a result of learning (connecting to college and workforce readiness)"

Experience and research would best lead me to decide the critical skill sets necessary for a student succeed in college and beyond. I then can determine based on the age group and stages of my student how best I can build with them their knowledge and skills so eventually they can acquire those skill sets 

Week 3, Assignment #2

Week 3 Assignment #1: Backward Design

Week 2, Assignment #3: Backward Design

The first step in Backwards design is to establish a goal.
The next step is then to design a roadmap for how is the student going to get to that goal. A teacher would then use assessments to make sure that each student was on a pathway which would lead that student to the desired goal.