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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 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.

(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 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.

There are both benefits and problems with online testing. The biggest benefit is the use class time, the test is taken outside of class and the student can take as long as they want. The biggest problems are not all my students have computers or internet access and you really don’t know who is answering the questions. They can also use what ever resources they want so the test could be viewed as an open book test. The best way to utilize this is to either have mostly open-ended questions or have so many tests that whoever is taking the test for the student gets sick of doing their work.

(3) 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 the web at Yourhomework, SchoolNotes or similar service. Include a screen capture of your published assignment schedule.

(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 download one or more PowerPoint presentations relevant to your teaching needs. Include the URL of the location from which you obtained them 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). Your presentation should include numerous graphics and be at least 10 slides in length. (a) Provide an electronic copy of your presentation (ppt format) on your website. (b) Embed screen captures of your presentation in the template. Make sure the content is easy to read.
  • Using iPhoto (Mac), Picasa (Windows), or similar slide viewer software, create a photo library for your discipline. You should include photos you have taken plus ones retrieved from a graphic search engine. Create two or three slide shows from the library. Include a screen shot of the slide sorter window for one of your shows. Create a photopage for your website.

When using power point one should use the KISS method. Keep it Simple Stupid. Power Point is meant to be a enhancement to a speech or lesson not an alternative to it. Some people over use the use of power point and it tends to loose its power. A good suggestion is that too much information on one slide will confuse people and will have them not paying attention to the slide, not you. About 3-4 bullet points and no more than 6 lines of text per page is recommended. Also limit the text styles, text colors, animation, delivery of lines and other unnecessary distractions.

This is a power point that is actually designed to educate the parents and community on the importance of music education. Music is one of the few areas in education that you have to explain to people why it is important even though there has been so many studies on how it makes you a smarter person.

C:\Documents and Settings\Scott Murphy\Desktop\Removable Disk (E)\CSUN\514\514 pictures\internship_power_point_final_project.ppt

I also received this power point off the internet and would use this for my general education classes in the younger grades. This ppt would help discuss instruments and the countries they came from. Although a little too simplistic I could use this for a spring board to add in my own ideas.

514 pictures\music_culture.ppt

This is a ppt that I created in my adolescent health class as a informational presentation on cutting and self mutilation. This was a difficult presentation to create because a friend of mine was a cutter and is still dealing with depression. It was truly interesting going to the websites created for and by the young adults who are cutting themselves. They don’t do it for attention and not to commit suicide because cutters tend to hide it for years without anyone knowing and without dieing.

Since music deals so much with emotions I find myself being a counselor to the children by discussing things that would not come up in Math class. Drugs, suicide, war, love, sex, believe me it has all come up in music class. I handle it all very carefully by letting kids discuss it, ask their opinion of the situation and not imposing or revealing my own views by using a music example and discussing what that composer thought. I think it is important to educate the whole child, especially their mental well being. What good is a person who can write a 10 page paper on Shakespeare if they cant deal with the emotions involved.

..\Credential\Cutting[2].ppt

These are pictures from the two Christmas concerts that I put on at Somis school this year.

Ill include these on my main web page

(5) Digital Video
  • (5) Digital Video of your Teaching Develop a video of your teaching in accordance with the requirements of PACT.
  • Put your video in your TaskStream account
  • Burn and submit a DVD that includes your movies and other photos

I don’t feel comfortable putting my lesson on youtube and could not figure out where my taskstream account is so I will just give you a CD and will try to add it to my web page.

(6) DVD: Develop a lesson using a computer-based DVD-player that includes bookmarks and video clips to access specific scenes.

Identify the DVD and explain why you chose this for a lesson.

Include a screen capture showing your catalog of bookmarks and video clips.

Describe how the scan fast, scan slow, step, mute, bookmark, video clip, and screen size features can be used to enhance your lesson.

I chose the Buena Vista Social Club as the DVD to use in my lesson because it shows both the culture and the lives of the musicians involved. This has been a favorite DVD of mine to show the students for the past few years and I have developed a set of questions that help keep the students engaged during the movie. Some of them are just random quotes to keep them thinking but others point out specific facts that I would like them to remember after watching the video.

The problem I have had is some of the information goes by too fast for the students to write down the answer. Or there is a long space where nothing interesting is happening. The bookmarks could help the students come back to the specific spot where the answers are and allow them to get the necessary information or they could skip the unimportant sections. In other videos where the visual information is important I could use the slow or fast buttons so that students could understand the effect or situation better. Likewise I could pause and show different sections during a lesson and lecture on different selections on the screen. However, the various media players that I tried would not allow me to use the “clip” feature for copyright reasons on purchased DVDs. (apparently it is not letting me do a screen capture either.) Plus when I show full DVD’s in my class they tend to be an entertainment reward or something for the substitute to do (most subs don’t know anything about music) rather than a full blown lesson.

(7) Concept Maps: Develop a concept map with graphics and text.digital camera, etc.) for your classroom, (b) identify the next national conference for your discipline, AND (c) determine the best airfare to attend the conference.

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