Jennifer Lewis 7 13 06 6 35 PM SED 514 1 Record Keeping Teachers have a professional responsibility to monitor record and communicate student progress Many schools and districts have adopted networked grading systems and some publish grades on secure websites Use a your school s gradebook program to develop a report for a real or hypothetical class of ten or more students who are assessed on five or more assignments Submit a printout of your gradebook and the detailed report card progress report for an individual student If you do not have access to such a program you may use Gradekeeper or download a sample shareware gradebook program 1 Jennifer Lewis 7 13 06 6 35 PM SED 514 I COULD NOT PRINT SO I DID A SCREEN CAPTURE 2 Assessment Teachers must regularly assess student progress Many textbook publishers make test construction easier by providing test generators software which allows the teacher to quickly compose tests and keys from question databases Test generators allow the teacher to input questions and often provide databases of questions the teacher can select from TPE tip A well structured exam may be used as an artifact for TPE3 Interpretation and Use of Assessments Use a test generator to construct an exam composed of questions you have selected from existing question banks Software such as Examview allows teachers to develop tests and post them on the Internet Take this short physics quiz generated with the Examview or this geology quiz made with Quizmaker Include a screen capture of your score actual score is inconsequential and discuss the benefits and problems associated with online testing TEST GENERATOR NOT OPERATIONAL 2 Jennifer Lewis 7 13 06 6 35 PM SED 514 Online testing has benefits and concern The benefits are you and the students can get automatic feedback regarding the test results You can email you students their test results Online testing saves the teacher time by getting the test results immediately after the students finish Usually teachers have to input the scantrons in to a machine for test result One concern about online testing is students would be able to cheat on the test if they take the test at home 3 Communication Students benefit when teachers clearly state their expectations in written form When these expectations are availalbe on the Internet all students and parents can benefit particularly students who have been absent A variety of commercial resources exist with which teachers can post calendars homework assignments and other important documents Put your class assignments on the web at Yourhomework SchoolNotes or similar service Include a screen capture of your published assignment schedule 3 Jennifer Lewis 7 13 06 6 35 PM SED 514 4 Presentations Presentation software provides teachers the opportunity to display text and graphics in a slide show fashion PowerPoint and Keynote are two of the most popular presentation tools Teachers and professors make extensive use of presentations but many are concerned about the potentially negative effects such presentations can have on instruction TPE tip A well developed educational presentation can serve as an artifact for TPE 4 Making Content Accessible or TPE 10 Instructional Time if used with presenter tools After reading the articles on the educational use and abuse of presentation software summarize how presentations should be constructed and delivered to maximize learning and minimize abuse Locate and download one or more PowerPoint presentations relevant to your teaching needs Include the URL of the location from which you obtained them and summarize the PowerPoint and where in your curriculum you will use it Make a PowerPoint presentation to teach a lesson in your subject area keeping in mind the principles you have outlined above and the guidelines provided see tutorial Your presentation should include numerous graphics and be at least 10 slides in length a Provide an electronic copy of your presentation ppt format 4 Jennifer Lewis 7 13 06 6 35 PM SED 514 on your website b Embed screen captures of your presentation in the template Make sure the content is easy to read Using iPhoto Mac Picasa Windows or similar slide viewer software create a photo library for your discipline You should include photos you have taken plus ones retreived from a graphic search engine Create two or three slide shows from the library Include a screen shot of the slide sorter window for one of your shows Create a photopage for your website Power point presentations can be very useful to teachers They should be delivered to maximize learning and minimize abuse Power Point allows teachers to create a professional presentation for their students Media files can also be inputted in to the presentation This gives teachers the opportunity to provide their students with audio and visual videos to help teach a lesson The text on each slide should be limited A teacher should never have too much text that the students need to write down The students will not be trying to learn the lesson but will be focused on taking notes The text should have bullet points on certain topics and the teacher should elaborate on the topic If the teacher is just reading the slides he she is not teaching the students Teachers need to engage students with questions and discussions regarding the information on the power point Teachers should be using active supervision while presenting the power point to ensure that all students are paying attention and participating in class The power point should include examples that are not from the textbook The textbook shows the students how to complete the problem Teachers need to use other examples so students can have various examples to reference Although power point is very useful there are some concerns If you prepare a power point presentation for class and the files you have are not combatable with the schools computer you will not be able to show some if not all of you power point Other concerns are if the file is damaged by a magnet or has physical damage You will not be able to present your lesson Always be prepared to give a lesson with out your power point DOWNLAODED PPT Below is a power point on the rules of basketball This power point has a lot of graphics When the text describes a particular movement there is a graphic for the students to see Some of the slides had too much text but it was only two or three slides Overall I think it had good presentation text and graphics Before I begin to