George Learns HTML
Assessment
has become a horrible word for most educators in Kentucky.
With it comes an image of beautiful weather and the students
being asked to take the CATS test which they are rarely
accountable for or see no value in. For 7th grade
Language Arts teacher it brings the crunch time of trying to
get proficient writing out of adolescents. Luckily for
Kentucky teachers that assessment means more than standardized
tests and portfolios. Authentic
assessment happens daily in the classroom in various forms. My
competency in assessment was… let’s say… tested in Dr.
Peach’s EDU 554 class called Instructional
Technology.
In
the class we studied ADDIE which is a model of instructional
design. And it emphasized for the teacher one of the important
aspects of assessment for teachers and that is the need to
constantly assess to ensure your teaching is focused. For this
project I teamed up with two classmates that teach technology
centered classes, Amy Ford and
Kerry
Elliot So, we decided that we wanted to
teach a technology lesson.
Analyze
is the first phase of the ADDIE model. We all agreed that
teaching HTML can be boring and challenging. So, we decided
that we would teach basic HTML. We were also asked to tell
when we would teach it which we decided when we introduced
HTML to our class. And the last question of the Analyze phase
was to decide where the training would occur which was in the
classroom. We were asked to come up with a task analysis to
define what we wanted to teach. Click
here to see our task analysis portion.
Designing
is the next phase of
the ADDIE model. This phase requires you to design what
specific skills that you want your students to learn. In this
phase you also decide what activities the teacher will ask the
student to perform to attain the objectives. As created these
we kept referring to our task analysis and evaluated if they
matched up. Click here to see our objectives
and learner activities.
Develop
is the third phase of the ADDIE model. We were asked to
develop the vehicle we would use to ensure the objectives were
reached. We evaluated what teaching tools we had to use. We
wanted the project to address students with multiple
intelligences so we incorporated music, audio narration, a
storyline and humor. We also decided to make the project
multimedia using Flash, PowerPoint and Pinnacle.
Click here to see
the development plan.
Implement
is the next phase of the ADDIE model. This is when we were
finally able to use the final product in class and see if it
worked. Click
here to see the final project: George Learns HTML.
Evaluate
is the last phase of
the ADDIE model which is also continuous phase. This is why
George Learns HTML is a good example of my assessment
competency because it is important to evaluate if the final
product worked in teaching the objectives. When it was used in
class an observation was recorded on how the final project
worked in class. Click here to see the
evaluation.
Assessment
is also addressed in the scoring guide for the student’s
html pages. Click
here to see the scoring guide.
Also the students assess themselves when they view
their product in the browser. All in all ADDIE is the best
kind of assessment that forces teachers to evaluate their
instruction and continue to make it better.
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