Module+5+Reflection


 * //**// Reflection Prompt 5: //** How has technology impacted or changed your classroom assessment and evaluation? Has your data collection methodology changed with technology? If technology has not impacted your assessment and evaluation, what would you like to change? Discuss technology and your own productivity and professional practice. //**

__Description:__ This week we looked at how technology can support our efforts with assessment and evaluation, productivity and professional practices.

__Impact:__ Technology has had a slow impact on my classroom assessment and evaluation. My district has an online gradebook that teachers use to document grades. Parents are able to sign online and check their child's progress at any time. I also used Google Docs, for the first time this year, to give my students an online quiz in reading. My students enjoyed being tested online and I liked the instant results. Also, being a special education teachers requires a lot of documentation and recording of data and assessments. I've been working on a new way to log this information technologically. Although it's not up and running yet, I plan on implementing it next school year.

I know technology is making an impact in my classroom assessment and evaluation, however, I would like to be making more changes. I hope to be using more online quizzes and tests in the future. I would also like to begin using my school website as an online learning environment, where I can post materials for each lesson daily. That way, if a student is absent, he/she can sign online and get the information needed.

__Intent:__ I plan on taking the information I've learned in this module, as well as the ideas that I've begun to implement in my classroom, and make them more of a routine in my classroom. I want to have my students complete online assessments and use my website to further student learning. I would also like to use my buildings clicker system to assess students and use them to review materials.