Evaluate Reflection

Standard D: The online teacher promotes student success through clear expectations, prompt responses, and regular feedback.

Evaluate 1- Quality Feedback
Feedback taught me that when giving feedback, I need to recognize how hard the student has worked.  Students will be much more into hearing things that need to be improved on if they know you see how they tried their best. I often hear from one sweet girl, "Well, I tried my best". Bless her. I tell her all the time to not cry, that I'm very proud of her. She is so hard on herself. She wants everything to be perfect.  I like showing student exemplars to show what to strive for.  Many years ago with a former principal, she had exemplars enlarged and placed in the halls for students and families to see what is expected at each grade level.

Standard G: The online teacher demonstrates competencies in creating and implementing assessments in online learning environments in ways that ensure validity and reliability of the instruments and procedures.
Evaluate 1- Summative Assessments
I have learned about the difference between assessment validity and reliability.  While validity ensures that an assessment is measuring what it is intended to measure, reliability ensures that the assessment results are consistent among my young students.  When checking validity, I can make sure to have to a end result in mind during the assessment beginning process.  After the assessment is given, I learned that I can look at the data and desegregate the data to determine the reliability.  Security within an online test can be different.  I can set time limits, develop several versions of a test, and limit the amount of times a student can retake a test.

Standard H: The online teacher develops and delivers assessments, projects, and assignments that meet standards-based learning goals and assesses learning progress by measuring student achievement of the learning goals.
Evaluate 2- Competencies
Competencies has taught me how to create and deliver online assessments that measure student achievement of specific learning goals.  My assessments should correlate to the standard that is being taught  and to the learning objectives within those standards.  This section showed me that I needed to think about how I was going to have students show they have mastered the standards.  I need to think about how I am going to tell them to demonstrate the mastery.  I also learned that I need to give various assessments and have the student pick which one they would like to do to prove they have mastered the standard.  

Standard I: The online teacher demonstrates competency in using data from assessments and other data sources to modify content and to guide student learning.
Evaluate 3- Personalized teaching and Learning
I have learned that I need to look at data from assessments and make instructional decisions based on the data.  (We do this weekly at my school.) Everything is data driven.  From interventions to small groups, we look at data.  I put students in groups according to their data.  Doing it online, I could reopen a test and have them be retaught, then retest on those standards to make sure they master it.

Lessons that were most beneficial were the Personalized teaching and Quality Feedback.  It helped cement in why we look at data weekly within our grade level to make sure students are on the right track. We look at our intervention programs, small group instruction,  and whole group instruction to make sure they are getting the exact curriculum they need.  The Quality Feedback made me really think about how hard they work to complete their project or test. Reassuring them that they will master the standard is what they want to hear.