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ILP Participation – Attend a Webinar

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For my second independent learning project I chose to watch another webinar because of the positive experience I had with my first. This webinar was titled: “The ABC’s of Early Childhood Assessment: Managing the Bits and Pieces.” The main focus of this webinar was how to develop appropriate framework for early childhood assessment. This is a lot more difficult to develop than one would think. The webinar’s instructor used an analogy to explain this: Just like many tools are necessary for building a house, there’s no single assessment that can fully test a student. We therefore need a “toolbox of assessments” for different things teachers want to measure, like approaches to learning, self-regulation, numbers, literacy etc. I learned that it’s very difficult to monitor students just through formal testing. For written tests, young kids get fatigued and bored faster. They also have a more restricted ability to comprehend instructions. I thought it was very interesting to learn about
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Blog Post 10

As a teacher I would like to utilize Excel and surveys in my own classroom. I want to be an elementary school teacher, preferably 3 rd grade. I feel like young students don’t get much say in the activities they do, they feel like they just have to go along and do whatever the teacher says. But want more feedback and creativity in my classroom, so I would love to use surveys to have students vote on specific learning activities. For example, I might have the class take a survey on what they have learned so far and what they would like to learn more of in depth. I could also take a poll on what creative projects they might want to do. I found it really interesting to look through my classmate’s blogposts and recognize the topics that they took a completely different approach on than I did. I thought Bianca’s newsletter for Blog 3 was really cute and she mentioned how she felt like an actual teacher when she made it, I totally agree with her. I also thought Dejah had a super creativ
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Blog Post 9

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The “flipped classroom” is a different way of using classroom time. Instead of listening to a teacher’s lecture during class and then doing activities for homework after, a student’s homework is listening to a prerecorded video lecture before class. Then, when they come to class there can be more in depth conversations and group activities about what they listened to. It’s active learning instead of passive learning. I think this is a great idea. Students need to have the ability to come to class with a grasp on the topic already, and specific questions so they can absolutely understand the material. http://www.teachertube.com/videos/ The term "open content" is similar to copyright. It explains what content materials teachers can and cannot use legally online. The four R’s of open content are reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute. "Open source" refers to software. These software source codes are made for anyone to access. Teachers will find open sources ver
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