Self evaluation for The iNACOL standards for Quality Online Teaching
Standard A
The online teacher knows the primary concepts and structures of effective online instruction and is able to create learning experiences to enable student success.
Teacher Abilities. I learned from this course how to modify or create my lesson to be more accessible and meaningful for all my different grades. I am creating lesson that will involve student to work and collaborate as a team by using web 2.0 tools like Google docs and voicethread. I do have my teacher’s credential that authorizes me to teach Media and Technology as well as mathematics. In order to keep up with new technologies and academic skills I have collected a vast of web sites that contain these particular concepts.
Standard B
The online teacher understands and is able to use a range of technologies, both existing and emerging, that effectively support student learning and engagement in the online environment.
This course introduced me to learn how to manage Haiku Learning Management System and the capabilities built within this computer program. I have learned to troubleshoot common problems in Haiku, for example reset student’s passwords and send open invitations for students’ enrollment in the online course.
In my resent attendance to the CUE (Computers Using Educators) conference in Palm Spring CA. I learned about more resources to teach in my Scratch Programming class and technologies that can be implemented in the online course.
Standard C
The online teacher plans, designs, and incorporates strategies to encourage active learning, application, interaction, participation, and collaboration in the online environment.
In the past weeks I have been trying out most of my learning from this course to implement them in my own courses. I have learned to create interaction among students by creating group discussions and wikiprojects. How to facilitate instruction for student’s projects and assignments. I am currently using Edmodo as the main source of communication with all my students, I have been able to provide remote assistance to students and parents.
Standard D
The online teacher promotes student success through clear expectations, prompt responses, and regular feedback.
I have learned to communicate my course expectations more clearly by correcting my own mistakes and the recommendation from my Instructor. This is one of the areas where I need to have a peer review before posting my syllabus and rubrics online. I have been contacting more frequently with students and parents that are falling behind the course schedule by facilitating them with copies of my lesson and giving them alternate assessments.
Standard E
The online teacher models, guides, and encourages legal, ethical, and safe behavior related to technology use.
This course emphasizes the importance of communicating Digital Citizenship to our students and has provided me with resources to use by my own and my students. I provide resources and useful links that are legal to use and download in my Photoshop class. I constantly communicate with my students’ ethical and safe behavior when browsing the Internet or when they are working on a project. Students are provided with an AUP (Acceptable Use Policy) at the begging of each year. FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) is a new term that I learned in this course.
Standard F
The online teacher is cognizant of the diversity of student academic needs and incorporates accommodations into the online environment.
I have learned to make my resources accessible for all students. It took me a while to add captions to my project but at the end it was a rewarding experience. I learned about the legal requirements by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). I do communicate with the corresponding RSP Teacher (Resource Specialist Program) with the special accommodation or modification for students with IEP (Individualized Education Program) or 504 plans
Standard H
The online teacher develops and delivers assessments, projects, and assignments that meet standards-based learning goals and assesses learning progress by measuring student achievement of the learning goals.
In this course I was able to identify the different types of assessments. This learning took place during our group discussions. I learned to use RubiStar to create or modify my own rubrics.
Standard I
The online teacher demonstrates competency in using data from assessments and other data sources to modify content and to guide student learning
This is the one area that I need to strength. I need to collaborate with the core subject’s teachers to create lessons that incorporate current lessons.
I learned to make a self-evaluation of my current learning and I will use it to incorporate in my current courses.
Standard J
The online teacher interacts in a professional, effective manner with colleagues, parents, and other members of the community to support students’ success.
I have been using Edmodo as the main communication medium between teacher, students and parents. I constantly check my email for correspondence or notifications. I make phone calls to keep information with parents. I am also developing lessons in Spanish and make them accessible in our school’s parent center.
Standard K
The online teacher arranges media and content to help students and teachers transfer knowledge most effectively in the online environment.
This is my area of strength. I try to keep myself updated with new resources for my students. This is my first year using a LMS and I love Haiku, It is so easy to manage and students can browse the pages and upload materials with minimum help from the teacher. I started using and transferring my learning from this course into my own courses. My students love using Haiku as a source to access the course’s information.
I personal gain a lot from this course, not only with the technical staff to manage the LMS but on making my instructions clearly and easier to follow. I also learned to post my lesson by embedding the HTML code rather than uploading the videos or documents.
I have started to implement my new learning with my own classes, for example I assigned them The about me Project and students up to date keep updating their wikiproject constantly.
I plan to continue using Haiku as the main LMS, but I am also planning on learning to more about Moodle. I will keep in contact with my classmates from this course to exchange ideas and information, but more than anything I hope to teach an online course in a near feature.
Thank you Jeff for all your support
JRizo
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