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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.

To see my grades you can look at the supporting documents section of my webpage to click on the link. Or here is the link to my grades.

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here is an individual students grade report easily created and simple to print out and send home as a progress report

(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

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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.

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The benefits of online quizzes are that students may feel more comfortable taking a quiz at home than in the classroom. There is also quick online scoring which makes the job of correcting all the test a whole lot easier. Some possible downfalls are that students may be inclined to cheat where there is no instructor there to make sure they aren’t. Also some students may not be very computer inclined and so this could hinder their performance. (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.

I am not currently teaching so I took an example from one of the Algebra teachers from Northridge Academy High School like you requested we do in class.

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This is a very simple way to post your assignments so that students can have access to the assignments at any time. It shows the assigned date and the date it’s due so there is no question what is being asked of the students. When I start my teaching I will definitely take advantage of this software. (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 and download one or more PowerPoint presentations relevant to your teaching needs. Include the URL of the location from which you obtained them

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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). Provide an electronic copy of your presentation as well as a 3-slide or 6-slide per page summary in the portfolio.

• Using iPhoto (Mac), Picasa (Windows), or similar slide viewer software, create a photo library for your discipline. Create two or three slide shows from the library. Include a screen shot of the slide sorter window for one of your shows.

Power Point should be used as an aid in your teaching for pure pedagogical purposes. It should not replace you actually teaching the class. Your power point slides should not include a lot of text but rather be more visually powerful with images and phrases. You should never copy text onto a power point presentation unless using it for a quote of some kind. Students should not be advised to copy down the slides in their notes but rather to pay attention to the lesson. Your bullets for you presentation should be the main ideas for the lesson and a way to organize yourself when teaching. This power point is used to find the area of a circle. http://www.tburg.k12.ny.us/anderson/Powerpoint/circle-area-proof.ppt This is a great power point because it’s simple and takes you through the steps the Egyptians used. It’s historical, accurate, and one of the many ways the area of a circle has been discovered. It also introduces pi. This lesson can be used in either basic trigonometry of geometry. This PowerPoint presentation has been created as Jeopardy for a review for the final.

Below is my slide show for the 5 Platonic Solids

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Below is my slide show for Trigonometry

(5) Other resources: Complete three of the following, using content related to your curriculum whenever possible.

• Use Timeliner to create a timeline relevant to the curriculum you teach. • Develop an educational digital video. • Construct a professional resume using Word. • Develop a concept map with graphics and text. • Create a crossword puzzle or other puzzle relevant to your class. • Create and conduct an on-line survey form for one of your classes. • Find the lowest cost of a specific piece of equipment (projector, computer, digital

camera, etc.) for your classroom, or the best airfare to attend a professional conference.

Timeliner

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This program can show timelines in many ways such as the two different ways fractions are shown above. Inspiration: A simple geometric figure chart

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Finding the lowest Price for equipment Lowest price for a Hitachi CP – S3350 HD compatible LCD 2000 Front Projector Yahoo $869.99 Pricegrabber $849.99 Pricewatch $844.94 Dealtime.com $850.00-$875.00

Even though most places had projectors around $850.00 Pricewatch.com had the cheapest price at $844.94