5.3 Program Evaluation
Candidates design and implement program evaluations to determine the overall effectiveness of professional learning on deepening teacher content knowledge, improving teacher pedagogical skills and/or increasing student learning. (PSC 5.3/ISTE 4c)
Artifact: Action Evaluation Plan (ITEC 7410)
Reflection:
Designing an Action Evaluation Plan was a requirement of ITEC 7410, Technology Leadership & Vision in Schools, completed in Spring 2013. The purpose of the Action Evaluation Plan is to identify technology goals for the upcoming academic year, including indicators of success, strategies, timelines, a budget, and required personnel. This artifact involved collaboration with school administrators and the school technology coordinator to determine what goals would be feasible and would help the school to improve based upon the findings of the previously-completed Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) Analysis.
Creating the Action Evaluation Plan allowed me to demonstrate mastery of Standard 5.3, which states that candidates “design and implement program evaluations to determine the overall effectiveness of professional learning on deepening teacher content knowledge, improving teacher pedagogical skills and/or increasing student learning.” After completing the SWOT Analysis, I designed this Action Evaluation Plan to improve our weaknesses by building upon our strengths. The plan included one goal for differentiated student assessment, one goal for instruction, and one goal for student creation of portfolios to document growth of knowledge. The plan provided a timeline for teachers to attend training to learn more about differentiated and personalized instruction as used in an online learning management system (LMS). This focus would allow teachers to improve pedagogical skills and in turn, to increase student engagement and achievement.
If I have the opportunity to implement the goals outlined in the Action Evaluation Plan in the future, I hope to work with the administration and the Professional Learning team at my school to include additional ways of delivering differentiated assessment of student learning. Because the student portfolio portion of our LMS has proven to be not as effective as originally hoped, I will also need to research and provide alternative methods of designing student portfolios. It will also be necessary to collect data throughout the plan implementation to determine how working with teachers to meet the different goals deepened student learning, increased teacher effectiveness, and improved technology literacy skills for both students and teachers. One way of doing this would be surveys at the end of professional learning sessions and at the end of each quarter to evaluate participants' learning and their use of new knowledge and skills. Questionnaires could also be distributed to students to collect data determining if student performance improved and if students are more confident learners.
Designing an Action Evaluation Plan was a requirement of ITEC 7410, Technology Leadership & Vision in Schools, completed in Spring 2013. The purpose of the Action Evaluation Plan is to identify technology goals for the upcoming academic year, including indicators of success, strategies, timelines, a budget, and required personnel. This artifact involved collaboration with school administrators and the school technology coordinator to determine what goals would be feasible and would help the school to improve based upon the findings of the previously-completed Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) Analysis.
Creating the Action Evaluation Plan allowed me to demonstrate mastery of Standard 5.3, which states that candidates “design and implement program evaluations to determine the overall effectiveness of professional learning on deepening teacher content knowledge, improving teacher pedagogical skills and/or increasing student learning.” After completing the SWOT Analysis, I designed this Action Evaluation Plan to improve our weaknesses by building upon our strengths. The plan included one goal for differentiated student assessment, one goal for instruction, and one goal for student creation of portfolios to document growth of knowledge. The plan provided a timeline for teachers to attend training to learn more about differentiated and personalized instruction as used in an online learning management system (LMS). This focus would allow teachers to improve pedagogical skills and in turn, to increase student engagement and achievement.
If I have the opportunity to implement the goals outlined in the Action Evaluation Plan in the future, I hope to work with the administration and the Professional Learning team at my school to include additional ways of delivering differentiated assessment of student learning. Because the student portfolio portion of our LMS has proven to be not as effective as originally hoped, I will also need to research and provide alternative methods of designing student portfolios. It will also be necessary to collect data throughout the plan implementation to determine how working with teachers to meet the different goals deepened student learning, increased teacher effectiveness, and improved technology literacy skills for both students and teachers. One way of doing this would be surveys at the end of professional learning sessions and at the end of each quarter to evaluate participants' learning and their use of new knowledge and skills. Questionnaires could also be distributed to students to collect data determining if student performance improved and if students are more confident learners.