6.3 Field Experiences
Candidates engage in appropriate field experiences to synthesize and apply the content and professional knowledge, skills, and dispositions identified in these standards. (PSC 6.3)
Artifact: ITEC 7400 Unstructured Field Experience Log
Reflection:
Standard 6.3
The Unstructured Field Experience Log artifact was created for the 21st Century Teaching and Learning course. Throughout the program, field experiences were required as a way for ITEC candidates to immediately put into practice the knowledge, skills, and dispositions acquired during the semester. Field experiences could range from offering a professional learning session to colleagues to something as simple as working on a class website. For this standard, I have chosen an unstructured field experience log citing my time collaborating with the Buford Academy Technology teachers on the creation of their Student Learning Objective assessments as required by the Georgia Department of Education.
The artifact is a direct indicator of my abilities to engage in field experiences to synthesize and apply the content and professional knowledge, skills, and dispositions identified in the ISTE Standards for Coaches. For this unstructured field experience, I documented the time spent helping my colleagues build a Student Learning Objective Assessment in Google Forms. My colleagues had a few unique challenges including the security of digital testing items as well as how to implement a digital test with hundreds of students at Buford Academy. The tool that I saw as the best fit was the utilization of Google Forms. Further, I was in a good position to help my colleagues. I had been lucky enough to meet with a DOE representative and discuss question creation focusing on appropriate depth of knowledge indicators. I was able to take the knowledge gained from my meeting with the DOE representative and what I knew about using Google Forms to my two colleagues and we were able to successfully create their assessments.
This unstructured field experience occurred in June of 2014 which was well before Flubaroo came onto the scene. Flubaroo is a wonderful Chrome extension that auto grades tests. Prior to Flubaroo, educators had to manually grade Google Form assessments using if statements within an excel spreadsheet which is difficult. When I was working with my colleagues, I used Mark Wagner’s wonderful post to educate them on how to work with if statements. In retrospect, this was something that was difficult for my colleagues’ to learn. If I were to revisit an SLO collaboration with them, I would show them how to use the Flubaroo extension to auto grade tests. Flubaroo has been an invaluable tool for myself and likely a lot of other educators.
The impact of this unstructured field experience can be seen as my colleagues were able to implement their Student Learning Objective Assessment in the Fall of 2014. They were able leverage Google Forms to reduce the amount of paperwork and score calculation thus allowing them more time to impact positive learning outcomes in other more effective ways.
Standard 6.3
The Unstructured Field Experience Log artifact was created for the 21st Century Teaching and Learning course. Throughout the program, field experiences were required as a way for ITEC candidates to immediately put into practice the knowledge, skills, and dispositions acquired during the semester. Field experiences could range from offering a professional learning session to colleagues to something as simple as working on a class website. For this standard, I have chosen an unstructured field experience log citing my time collaborating with the Buford Academy Technology teachers on the creation of their Student Learning Objective assessments as required by the Georgia Department of Education.
The artifact is a direct indicator of my abilities to engage in field experiences to synthesize and apply the content and professional knowledge, skills, and dispositions identified in the ISTE Standards for Coaches. For this unstructured field experience, I documented the time spent helping my colleagues build a Student Learning Objective Assessment in Google Forms. My colleagues had a few unique challenges including the security of digital testing items as well as how to implement a digital test with hundreds of students at Buford Academy. The tool that I saw as the best fit was the utilization of Google Forms. Further, I was in a good position to help my colleagues. I had been lucky enough to meet with a DOE representative and discuss question creation focusing on appropriate depth of knowledge indicators. I was able to take the knowledge gained from my meeting with the DOE representative and what I knew about using Google Forms to my two colleagues and we were able to successfully create their assessments.
This unstructured field experience occurred in June of 2014 which was well before Flubaroo came onto the scene. Flubaroo is a wonderful Chrome extension that auto grades tests. Prior to Flubaroo, educators had to manually grade Google Form assessments using if statements within an excel spreadsheet which is difficult. When I was working with my colleagues, I used Mark Wagner’s wonderful post to educate them on how to work with if statements. In retrospect, this was something that was difficult for my colleagues’ to learn. If I were to revisit an SLO collaboration with them, I would show them how to use the Flubaroo extension to auto grade tests. Flubaroo has been an invaluable tool for myself and likely a lot of other educators.
The impact of this unstructured field experience can be seen as my colleagues were able to implement their Student Learning Objective Assessment in the Fall of 2014. They were able leverage Google Forms to reduce the amount of paperwork and score calculation thus allowing them more time to impact positive learning outcomes in other more effective ways.