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= Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments = ​
 * Teachers design, develop, and evaluate authentic learning experiences and assessments incorporating contemporary tools and resources to maximize content learning in context and to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes identified in the NETS for students. Teachers:**
 * **design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity**
 * **develop technology-enriched learning environments that enable all students to pursue their individual curiosities and become active participants in setting their own educational goals, managing their own learning, and assessing their own progress**
 * **customize and personalize learning activities to address students' diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources**
 * **provide students with multiple and varied formative and summative assessments aligned with content and technology standards and use resulting data to inform learning and teaching**

**1 & 1a. How Do I Assess and Evaluate Student Learning?** Our district has a District Wide Assessment that we use to formally assess our students. The proficiency level has been set by our assistant superintendent, grade head, and panel of teachers. The Kindergarten assessment is all one on one, but not individualized. Informal assessment is mostly based off of teacher observation during class discussions and whole group instruction. Students also complete projects during our daily work stations that are based off of the model by Debbie Diller. Their work helps me to gauge my students overall understanding of specific concepts taught in all subjects. very traditional (teacher poses questions to students and the student answers verbally or performs the instructed action).
 * = **Areas for Improvement** ||= **3. Resources Needed** ||
 * < All of our district assessments seem

My goal would be to provide my district with ideas for alternate forms of assessment (whether formal or informal). ||< - Time needed to research alternate forms of assessment for our district (to be sure that the new assessment resource aligns with current practice) - Palm Pilots for Dibels? - Administration Cooperation || into small group and work station situations ||< - Poll Daddy for pre and post assessments -Discovery Education for previewing and pre-assessment clips - Trackstar to either preview or review specific units. ||
 * < Incorporating various types of assessment

Our district uses PerformanceTracker and Individual Language Assessment Spreadsheets to monitor student performance. Performance Tracker is not very helpful to Kindergarten teachers as there is no performance to track! We do have an ILA Spreadsheet where we record Dibels, DRA, District Writing, and Alphabet Recognition scores. The spreadsheet cells change color as data is entered so that we can get a quick and clear picture of overall class proficiency and note student growth or decline. The parents never see either set of information. rubrics based on assessment benchmarks. The rubrics could be quickly filled out and sent home as midterms. For instance I could have a rubric designed for KidWriting or Alphabet Recognition/Writing. || [|www.rubistar.com]
 * 2 & 2a. How Do I Use Technology To Monitor Student Growth and Achievement? **
 * ** Areas for Improvement and Growth ** || ** 3. Resources Needed ** ||
 * To help initiate parent contact, I could create performance

GASD Assessment Binder || to note what interventions were attempted between marking periods. This may be helpful to other teachers becausethe spreadsheets follow students across grade levels || Microsoft Excel Existing ILA template ||
 * Adding a comment column to the ILA spreadsheet


 * 4. Summary Statement **

Due to the nature of my district's assessment procedure, in which most assessment is handled at the overall district level, it seems difficult to change assessment practices in order to incorporate more technology. However there are individual choices that I can make within my own classroom to incorporate more technology into my assessment practices and better utilize student time during our daily computer work station. I was especially excited to locate a parent component during my thoughts. I have always felt like a report card every nine weeks was not enough of a picture for the parents, so by adding rubrics from Rubistar I can keep in closer contact with my parents. Also, I feel as if we complete so many interventions but never have an accurate record of what is successful (or not) for our students. By adding comment sections to our spreadsheet that is already in use, teachers can get an overall picture of what interventions and supports students have received. Finally, I have addressed the lack of differentiation in our assessment practices. It seems that all we hear as educators is to differentiate instruction, but the assessments never match the level of differentiation that our students are receiving. To me there is a disconnect in practice, so my hope is to better fill this gap utilizing technology and resources that are already available to us.