3.7 Communication & Collaboration
Candidates utilize digital communication and collaboration tools to communicate locally and globally with students, parents, peers, and the larger community.
Artifact: Race to the Top Wiki Interactive Whiteboard Use, Evaluation Rubric
Reflection:
During the last two years our school district has been involved in the Race to the Top program in the state of Georgia.One of the elements that I have been involved with is working with administrators to develop an evaluation rubric for interactive whiteboard use. All of our middle and high schools have Smartboards and our elementary schools have Promethean boards in every classroom. Administrators wanted an evaluation rubric that they could use when evaluating classroom teachers.The administrators also wanted training on what kind of teaching and learning can be accomplished with the interactive whiteboards. With another teacher, I started a Wiki with information about the interactive whiteboards, the evaluation rubric, and examples of lesson files that show different levels of use of the interactive whiteboard. Administrators were invited to a 2 1/2 hour session to see the different levels demonstrated and to gain input from them about the evaluation rubric. We met last year and again this year with about twenty principals and assistant principals.They were also given access to the Wiki as a resource and to contribute any information to share with everyone that had attended the sessions.The evaluation rubric has not been adopted by the school board yet. Some administrators are opting to use the rubric with their teachers.
This artifact demonstrates mastery of standard 3.7 because it is utilizing a digital resource to communicate and collaborate with administrators and peers in our school district to develop an evaluation rubric that will be used to further student learning and engagement in the classroom. In working with the administrators, I learned that everyone does not know how to access or edit a Wiki, so we needed to show them a few basics. I was also surprised that more administrators did not attend the sessions. In the future, I would like to share this evaluation rubric and Wiki with teachers in my interactive whiteboard classes to gain their insight and input. Parents and students may like to contribute, too. School improvement, faculty development and student learning will all be impacted by this project. Assessment of this impact will take place with the use of the evaluation rubric by school administrators evaluating teachers' integration levels during teacher observations of the interactive whiteboard with their students. Student learning will benefit the most because hopefully teachers will be motivated to create more engaging interactive whiteboard lessons. Student learning will be assessed through classroom observations of student engagement, unit assessments, and benchmark assessments.
During the last two years our school district has been involved in the Race to the Top program in the state of Georgia.One of the elements that I have been involved with is working with administrators to develop an evaluation rubric for interactive whiteboard use. All of our middle and high schools have Smartboards and our elementary schools have Promethean boards in every classroom. Administrators wanted an evaluation rubric that they could use when evaluating classroom teachers.The administrators also wanted training on what kind of teaching and learning can be accomplished with the interactive whiteboards. With another teacher, I started a Wiki with information about the interactive whiteboards, the evaluation rubric, and examples of lesson files that show different levels of use of the interactive whiteboard. Administrators were invited to a 2 1/2 hour session to see the different levels demonstrated and to gain input from them about the evaluation rubric. We met last year and again this year with about twenty principals and assistant principals.They were also given access to the Wiki as a resource and to contribute any information to share with everyone that had attended the sessions.The evaluation rubric has not been adopted by the school board yet. Some administrators are opting to use the rubric with their teachers.
This artifact demonstrates mastery of standard 3.7 because it is utilizing a digital resource to communicate and collaborate with administrators and peers in our school district to develop an evaluation rubric that will be used to further student learning and engagement in the classroom. In working with the administrators, I learned that everyone does not know how to access or edit a Wiki, so we needed to show them a few basics. I was also surprised that more administrators did not attend the sessions. In the future, I would like to share this evaluation rubric and Wiki with teachers in my interactive whiteboard classes to gain their insight and input. Parents and students may like to contribute, too. School improvement, faculty development and student learning will all be impacted by this project. Assessment of this impact will take place with the use of the evaluation rubric by school administrators evaluating teachers' integration levels during teacher observations of the interactive whiteboard with their students. Student learning will benefit the most because hopefully teachers will be motivated to create more engaging interactive whiteboard lessons. Student learning will be assessed through classroom observations of student engagement, unit assessments, and benchmark assessments.