Management & Professional Growth
(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. If you do not have access to such a program, you may use the free-trial in a web-based system such as Snapgrade. You may import an artificial list of students by copying and pasting from this list of Nobel prize winners in physics.
- Provide screen captures including:
- gradebook (summary of performance for entire class)
- detailed report card (progress report) for an individual student.
- seating chart (adjust the seating chart by dragging "desks")
- attendance records (records for attendance for the a week)
(2) Searching / Identifying Plagiarism
The ease of information access can accelerate the learning process, but it can also be counter-productive by facilitating plagiarism. Discuss the importance of intellectual honesty with your students and illustrate how you can easily identify work plagiarized from sites on the Internet.
- Using an advanced search engine, find text from one of your students or from a website related to your field that appears to be plagiarized. Copy and paste the text and the URLs of both pieces in question.
- Use an online plagiarism detection service such as tunitin.com (Professor Herr, course: sed514su09; number 2747255; password: sed514su09) . If you can not find any plagiarized student work, use an article related to your field from Wikipedia.
(3) 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.
- Generate a test with at least 7 questions using ProProfs.com .or a similar resource. Make sure you include sound, photos, and video in some of your questions. Provide a link to the quiz as well as a screen capture of the score someone received after taking the quiz.
(4) Communication
Students benefit when teachers clearly state their expectations in written form. When these expectations are available 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 a Google Site and include a calendar showing when the assignments are due.
(5) Professional Growth
Teachers should model "life-long learning" by attending workshops, reading journals, and participating in professional organizations.
- Describe a professional conference (related to your field)
you may benefit from attending. Describe the purpose and scope of
the professional
organization sponsoring
the conference and provide a synopsis of the conference and one or
more selected workshops or presentations you would like to attend.
Include a link to the professional organization and to the specific
conference.
(6) Employment
Most schools and districts advertise job openings on the Internet. Teachers should use such resources not only to find employment for themselves, but also to attract others to their schools and thus build strong departments.
- Find a job announcement for a teaching position for which you are qualified. Include a screen capture of the advertisement. Describe the school and community using information found on the Internet. Cite your resources.
- Put your resume online. You can copy the template found at the bottom of this page.