(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.
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(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.
(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 multiple versions of an exam.
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.
Exam (Version 1)
For questions 1-6, circle the letter for the best answer.
1.) The B-flat major pentatonic scale includes these notes, in the correct order:a) Bb, D, Eb, F, Gb) Bb, C, D, F, Gc) Bb, C, Db, F G
2.) A Pagoda is:d) a Chinese sport, resembling baseballe) a small house in Asian culturesf) a tiered tower common in China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and other parts of Asia that serves for
religious functionsg) a leaning tower found in Italy
3.) The architecture for pagodas was adopted from ______ culture:h) Germani) Cubanj) Indiank) Native American
4.) The major pentatonic scale is the basic scale of the music of:a) South Americab) Japan and Koreac) China and Mongoliad) Chile
5.) A compositional technique that can be used in a variation is:a) roundb) rhythmic alterationc) call and responsed) all of the abovee) choices a and c onlyl) Bb, D, E, F, G
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6.) A musical round can be best described as:a) placing musicians in a circle as they playb) modulation based on the circle of fifthsc) a musical conversationd) a melody played by two or more sections, beginning at different times.
Exam (Version 2)
Results from Geology Quiz:
Online testing presents several benefits and problems. One benefit is that the teacher does not have to spend time grading the test. The test will be graded by the program that the students are using to take it. Sometimes teachers take days, even weeks before they return exams. Through online testing, students will know their results much sooner. If the students are allowed to take the online test at home, the teacher cannot reality monitor the students. Hence, students can use any resource that they can find in order to help them find the answers. This can be a problem if the teacher does not want the students to
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Spring 2009use any resources for the test, other than their brains. It can also be a problem if students do not have access to the internet. They would need to go to the library or to a friend’s house that has internet connection in order to complete the test. Another problem is that if a student has a question on the wording of a problem or on the directions, they will be left in the dark unless they can find some form of contact with the teacher. Online testing is much faster and convenient to some extents, but the teacher needs to be aware of the problems with it and should have remedies for any problems that may arise.
(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.
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(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) 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.
In order to maximize learning and minimize abuse, presentations such as powerpoints should be kept simple and neat. A powerpoint slide should not be bombarded with a lot of words. A slide should be modified so that words and sentences can appear one at a time. Pictures and images help to draw more attention from the students. Images should be relevant to the presentation and should be used as a teaching aid. When describing a certain musical instrument, the clarinet for example, it would help if a picture of a clarinet and its parts was shown to the students. The text on the slides should be big enough for the students in the back row to see. Pictures should also be suitable in size. Backgrounds should be kept simple, and the text should stand out from the background and should not blend in. Powerpoints and other like presentations can be an exceptional teaching tool if used correctly.
This is a great powerpoint on the life of Leonard Bernstein. I would use this powerpoint when teaching a unit on American composers. The powerpoint has many pictures and the text appears one at a time. The backgrounds are also very clean and suitable. It also has a quiz at the end, which I would use with my students.
(5) Digital Video of your TeachingDevelop a video of your teaching in accordance with the requirements of PACT.
Put your video in your TaskStream account Burn and submit a DVD that includes your movies and other photos
The video that I made of my teaching for PACT is linked on my website. A second video was made, which included Dr. Herr’s skiing video. I edited this video by adding texts, transitions, music, voiceover, and pictures. This is also linked on my website.
(6) DVD: Develop a lesson using a computer-based DVD-player that includes bookmarks and video clips to access speficic scenes.
Itentify the DVD and explain why you chose this for a lesson.
Include a screen capture showing your catalog of bookmarks and video clips.
Describe how the scan fast, scan slow, step, mute, bookmark, video clip, and screen size features can be used to enhance your lesson.
I chose a DVD from BBC’s Video Series Planet Earth. The DVD that I worked with included many of natures wonders, including the ocean, volcanoes, and mountains. Many animals were present throughout the video. I made several bookmarks and video clips of different animal activities and of Earth’s wonderful sceneries. It is a terrific DVD to use when teaching about the planet Earth and about different species of animals. The bookmarks and video clips make it easy to navigate between key portions of the video
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Many of the DVD functions can help to enhance the lesson. Muting the DVD will allow for the teacher to explain certain things as the students view the video. Bookmarks and video clips allow for easy access to key parts of the video. Closed captioning is a terrific tool to use. Hearing impaired students can greatly benefit from this. The scan fast feature will allow you to quickly skip through certain sections and get to the part that you want. The scan slow feature will the teacher to slow down an important part of the video, to ensure that all students understand it. Being able to make the screen smaller allows for displaying of several things at once on the desktop.
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(7) Concept Maps: Develop a concept map with graphics and text.
