3.7 Communication & Collaboration
Candidates utilize digital communication and collaboration tools to communicate locally and globally with students, parents, peers, and the larger community.
Artifact: Online Teaching Portfolio
Reflection:
This artifact is an Online Teaching Portfolio created for the Facilitating Online Learning course. I implemented a 6 week online learning experience for my AP Calculus class that reviewed the entire course in preparation for the AP Exam. This artifact is extensive and shows evidence of my abilities in all 24 PSC Online Teaching Endorsement Standards. The relevant artifacts for this standard are Artifact 12- Teacher-Student Communication, Artifact 13- Teacher-Parent Communication, Artifact 14- Student-Student Communication, Artifact 15- Synchronous Collaboration Tool, and Artifact 16- Asynchronous Collaboration Tool.
These artifacts show my ability to facilitate the use of many digital tools to foster communication between parents, students, and peers. I use emails, discussion forums, online synchronous sessions, text messaging, and digital class announcements to communicate with parents, peers, and students. The same principles can be applied to a global scale. This summer, I will be hosting live tutoring sessions to help prepare the upcoming freshmen for Accelerated Math. These sessions will be broadcast live to anyone who wishes to view the sessions. I have communicated this to the parents through 8th grade parent night at our school and through the 8th grade teachers who hand out the summer packets along with the handout informing parents of this opportunity. I will communicate to the students through the use of e-mail, twitter, and live chats if their parents allow them to use that feature in the live session. I do anticipate there to be a learning curve with this, so I am piloting it with my AP Calculus students for a AP test review this May.
I learned a great deal about the wide variety of communication tools that technology has to offer. I also learned that sometimes it is best to have the same information in multiple places because each receiver of the information may have a personal preference on how they like to get their information. Including more synchronous sessions with students and not just peers could improve this artifact. I believe synchronous sessions are very important to online learning of any subject, but especially math because students need a way to verbalize their struggles and actually see a teacher respond to their questions.
This artifact is an Online Teaching Portfolio created for the Facilitating Online Learning course. I implemented a 6 week online learning experience for my AP Calculus class that reviewed the entire course in preparation for the AP Exam. This artifact is extensive and shows evidence of my abilities in all 24 PSC Online Teaching Endorsement Standards. The relevant artifacts for this standard are Artifact 12- Teacher-Student Communication, Artifact 13- Teacher-Parent Communication, Artifact 14- Student-Student Communication, Artifact 15- Synchronous Collaboration Tool, and Artifact 16- Asynchronous Collaboration Tool.
These artifacts show my ability to facilitate the use of many digital tools to foster communication between parents, students, and peers. I use emails, discussion forums, online synchronous sessions, text messaging, and digital class announcements to communicate with parents, peers, and students. The same principles can be applied to a global scale. This summer, I will be hosting live tutoring sessions to help prepare the upcoming freshmen for Accelerated Math. These sessions will be broadcast live to anyone who wishes to view the sessions. I have communicated this to the parents through 8th grade parent night at our school and through the 8th grade teachers who hand out the summer packets along with the handout informing parents of this opportunity. I will communicate to the students through the use of e-mail, twitter, and live chats if their parents allow them to use that feature in the live session. I do anticipate there to be a learning curve with this, so I am piloting it with my AP Calculus students for a AP test review this May.
I learned a great deal about the wide variety of communication tools that technology has to offer. I also learned that sometimes it is best to have the same information in multiple places because each receiver of the information may have a personal preference on how they like to get their information. Including more synchronous sessions with students and not just peers could improve this artifact. I believe synchronous sessions are very important to online learning of any subject, but especially math because students need a way to verbalize their struggles and actually see a teacher respond to their questions.