Poll everywhere and Survey Monkey serve as great tools to engage learners and evaluate their social-emotional development, all while including technology! These interactive APPS would work especially well in middle and high school classrooms. intermediate grades would also enjoy activities like this one that they could participate in during class using their assigned chrome book or I-pad!
Here are a few polls that you can participate in for a chance to have your teaching philosophies, discoveries, and best practices displayed here to share with others. Take a look at a few polls and share your thoughts!
Challenges & Difficulties of teaching
Respond at: pollEv.com/Kaylanrobins587 OR
Text KAYLANROBINS587 to 22333 once to join, then text your message
Social Emotional Tools/ Curriculum
Respond at: PollEv.com/KAYLANROBINS587
text KAYLANROBINS587 to 22333 once to join, then text your message
Evidence-based Rationale for using Poll Everywhere as a Social-Emotional support
Although I strongly believe that standards-based models are an accurate measurement of student growth and learning, I have struggled with the validity and fairness of measuring teacher effectiveness based on student achievement alone; without considering other factors that could play into overall student achievement! Considering the other factors that affect overall student achievement, is a way to hold school districts more accountable for student learning and, more importantly, provide genuine social-emotional supports for students. Teachers generally collect and evaluate academic data to inform their practices; but how can educator's begin to collect and evaluate social-emotional data from our students when they don't always show how they are feeling? Interactive tools like Poll Everywhere and Survey Monkey can help us understand students' social-emotional needs; giving us a peek into their minds and how they think!
Hull, J. (2013) forces me to reflect on the fairness of standard-based assessments when I learned that teacher evaluations have began to be significantly informed by student achievement. This is troubling considering all of the other factors that should be included in a teacher-effectiveness evaluation! One of these factors; Social-Emotional development, directly affects how well students learn and process new information. Since 24 states allow for teachers to be dismissed based on teacher-evaluation ratings, these teacher evaluations should combine both standards-based and growth-based models to accurately assess how effective a teacher is! Standards-based assessments are great for evaluating teachers based on student achievement, but fail to evaluate school districts based on the factors that can influence student learning; like students' social and emotional growth and development!
Achievement tests don't measure the important character traits, academic curiosity, or persistence in tackling difficult challenges that teachers help build and maintain throughout an academic school year!
All in all, standards-based models should no longer be viewed as the single and most-effective way to measure teacher effectiveness alone. Because teaching is indeed so complex, school districts should be held accountable for social-emotional growth of students as well. Using multiple methods to evaluate teacher effectiveness is a great start to holding districts accountable for student learning as well.Poll-everywhere is one interactive application that teachers can use to gather social-emotional data from their students. Asking students questions about how they are feeling about learning a particular subject,If they feel safe at school, or if they feel proud of themselves are questions teachers and districts should be consistently asking. If we use value-added models to help evaluate teachers, then other factors are considered. Once these factors, such as attendance, family environment, Social-emotional development, past schooling/scores, and second-language learners, are measured and evaluated, school districts will be forced to reflect on the services and supports they provide to schools in order to help increase and maintain student achievement, helping to bridge the gap between schools and home.
References:
RAND Corporation. (2012). Value-added modeling 101: Using student test scores to help measure teaching effectiveness Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation. Retrieved from
http://www.rand.org/pubs/corporate_pubs/CP693z4-2012-09.html
Hull, J. (2013).Trends in teacher evaluation:How states are measuring student performance. Center for Public Education. Retrieved from
http://www.centerforpubliceducation.org/Main-Menu/Evaluating-performance/trends-in-Teacher-Evaluation-At-a-glance/trends-in-Teacher-evaluation-Full-Report-PDF.pdf.
Here are a few polls that you can participate in for a chance to have your teaching philosophies, discoveries, and best practices displayed here to share with others. Take a look at a few polls and share your thoughts!
Challenges & Difficulties of teaching
Respond at: pollEv.com/Kaylanrobins587 OR
Text KAYLANROBINS587 to 22333 once to join, then text your message
Social Emotional Tools/ Curriculum
Respond at: PollEv.com/KAYLANROBINS587
text KAYLANROBINS587 to 22333 once to join, then text your message
Evidence-based Rationale for using Poll Everywhere as a Social-Emotional support
Although I strongly believe that standards-based models are an accurate measurement of student growth and learning, I have struggled with the validity and fairness of measuring teacher effectiveness based on student achievement alone; without considering other factors that could play into overall student achievement! Considering the other factors that affect overall student achievement, is a way to hold school districts more accountable for student learning and, more importantly, provide genuine social-emotional supports for students. Teachers generally collect and evaluate academic data to inform their practices; but how can educator's begin to collect and evaluate social-emotional data from our students when they don't always show how they are feeling? Interactive tools like Poll Everywhere and Survey Monkey can help us understand students' social-emotional needs; giving us a peek into their minds and how they think!
Hull, J. (2013) forces me to reflect on the fairness of standard-based assessments when I learned that teacher evaluations have began to be significantly informed by student achievement. This is troubling considering all of the other factors that should be included in a teacher-effectiveness evaluation! One of these factors; Social-Emotional development, directly affects how well students learn and process new information. Since 24 states allow for teachers to be dismissed based on teacher-evaluation ratings, these teacher evaluations should combine both standards-based and growth-based models to accurately assess how effective a teacher is! Standards-based assessments are great for evaluating teachers based on student achievement, but fail to evaluate school districts based on the factors that can influence student learning; like students' social and emotional growth and development!
Achievement tests don't measure the important character traits, academic curiosity, or persistence in tackling difficult challenges that teachers help build and maintain throughout an academic school year!
All in all, standards-based models should no longer be viewed as the single and most-effective way to measure teacher effectiveness alone. Because teaching is indeed so complex, school districts should be held accountable for social-emotional growth of students as well. Using multiple methods to evaluate teacher effectiveness is a great start to holding districts accountable for student learning as well.Poll-everywhere is one interactive application that teachers can use to gather social-emotional data from their students. Asking students questions about how they are feeling about learning a particular subject,If they feel safe at school, or if they feel proud of themselves are questions teachers and districts should be consistently asking. If we use value-added models to help evaluate teachers, then other factors are considered. Once these factors, such as attendance, family environment, Social-emotional development, past schooling/scores, and second-language learners, are measured and evaluated, school districts will be forced to reflect on the services and supports they provide to schools in order to help increase and maintain student achievement, helping to bridge the gap between schools and home.
References:
RAND Corporation. (2012). Value-added modeling 101: Using student test scores to help measure teaching effectiveness Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation. Retrieved from
http://www.rand.org/pubs/corporate_pubs/CP693z4-2012-09.html
Hull, J. (2013).Trends in teacher evaluation:How states are measuring student performance. Center for Public Education. Retrieved from
http://www.centerforpubliceducation.org/Main-Menu/Evaluating-performance/trends-in-Teacher-Evaluation-At-a-glance/trends-in-Teacher-evaluation-Full-Report-PDF.pdf.
