Pre-Competencies+Verification

1. **Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity** **Artifact**

For this project the Social Studies teacher and I collaborated and alternated the research and work days in the computer lab. They were to select a country and find the information that was required in the rubric and create a folder that contained all of the infornmation. They were to submit their completed projects into the public folders under the Social Studies teacher as well as myself. The students really enjoyed this project and it was great to see their creativeness shine trying to out do their neighbor.

This is one of the Jeopardy games that the Language Arts department collaborated in creating to support the vocabulary content requirements. We created these games using a template that a teacher in our district provided. We included the prefixes and suffixes that we deemed most important. The students love to play this game and they actually have been learning and retaining the information.

[|Study Island] This website has been part of our bi-weekly plans. It models the OAT and provides a game-like setup to motivate the students. The students earn ribbons for percentage goals that I was able to set. The scores are e-mailed to me and I use them to determine strengths and weaknesses of individual students as well as class strengths and weaknesses. It is very user friendly to break down state standards, strands, and indicators.

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 * 2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments**

I created this power point to help illustrate information that my team and I read in a chapter of a book that the staff divided up chapters to read. It was presented to the entire staff at a monthly staff meeting. It was fun to add clip art, animation, and sound effects to the slides to make them more interesting. This Powerpoint 2007 was easier to use than previous versions.

[|OAT Test Practice] This website it one that I use frequently. Our school has an Academic Emergency status and in order to give my students ample exposure to OAT- like questions I use this website to create tests using a bank of old questions. I am able to select questions based on strands and create tests using the number and type of questions I want. There is also a feature where I can administer online versions of these same tests. The program scores and organizes the data for me.

[] I used this website to show video clips of the ocean and Caribbean Islands in order to expose my students to these elements so that they could better understand the setting and how it affected the plot of the novel __The Cay__ we were reading in class. We viewed low lying islands and learned how they were even created. We also watched a video that showed the sea creatures that we also read about in the story. We viewed a short clip that also demonstrated how submarines were used during World War II. This is a website that I suggested to other Language Arts teachers to use. Our students have not been exposed to many things outside of their city and surrounding areas and it is great to be able to provide videos for them to watch to gain a better understanding.

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 * 3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning**



This is a sheet that I created to use for my classes to organize tests scores, Study Island grades, and so have easy access to student data. A copy was given to parents at Parent Teacher conferences and it was used as a tool for students to view their progress and set goals during individual Student Teacher conferences. I also shared the template with other teachers in my building so they could edit it to fit their classroom needs.



This is an example of the lesson plans that I e-mail weekly to our building administrators as well as the intervention specialist I work with daily. I save my lesson plans on my flash drive as well, and in the event of an unexpected absence I upload the file to our online substitute placemenet system and I am able to include any other instruction that the sub might need for that day. Plus, there are three other people that have my lesson plans in the building if needed, and it is no extra work for me.



This tracking sheet was created to make an easy way to record and view student scores on weekly five-question quizzes. They students have their own sheet and I have one that I record scores on. My students and I are able to quickly see the areas that they may need additional remediation in and it makes it easy to scan and e-mail a students scores to parents, other teachers, and/or the administrators.

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 * 4. Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility**



I was a member of the discipline committee for our school. The area that I decided to complie rules and expectations for was the computer lab. In recent years we have had severe destruction of technology equipment by students and I had to collaborate with other teachers to create a plan to prevent, or at least track the damage. This sheet was enlarged into posters and placed in each computer lab in the school. Before the final draft was made, all staff members had to agree to the rules.

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 * 5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership**

This is a copy of the receipt from where I attended the E-Tech Conference in Columbus, Ohio February 1st and 2nd, 2010. (The certificate of attendance will not arrive for a few more weeks, since I filled out the form online). There I attended sessions that demonstrated ways to incorporate technology into student learning in the Language Arts classroom. I learned how to make use of and have students use as well, podcasts, vodcasts, voice threads, text reading programs, blogs, e-mail, videos, and inernet. This was a very beneficial conferece for me and I am now working on lessons to incorporate what I learned. I am in the process of creating a presentation to share with my colleagues the best ideas I saw and learned.

I feel that my strengths are that I have knowledge of the programs that are available and I can create ways to incorporate these into my classroom as well as colleagues'. I learn very quickly and I can navigate well through the internet, various websites, and word processing programs. I use technology frequently in my classroom to enhance my teaching and motivate my students.
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My weakenesses lie in the fact that I use th technology and I don't allow my students to immerse themselves in technology the way I should. I need to begin to look past traditional ways of teaching the standards and look for more innovative ways to teach them in order to reach my digital native students. I also need to use the methods and ideas that I learn and become a "risk taker" for the sake of effectively educating my 21st century students instead of maintaining the "norm".
 * WEAKNESSES**