Evaluation Process

Evaluation Process:

Teachers need time to implement newly acquired technology and they need continual support from administration and the campus computer technologist. The administrator’s duty is to monitor the implementation and be aware and correct any problems that may arise. Assessment can be done through lesson plans, walkthroughs, PDAS, web pages, hit counters, blogs, Texas STaR Chart, surveys and/or student projects. Teachers must have adequate time to plan and continually attend professional development and the evaluation process ensures that the participants are implementing new learning. For this particular Action Plan, the administrator will keep track of the teachers’ participation for the book study from their reflections on their blogs. To receive credit for this professional development, participants must complete the online survey in Eduphoria. Evaluation is an on-going process.

“Just as we urge teachers to plan carefully, and to make ongoing assessments of student learning an integral part of the instructional process, evaluation needs to become an integral part of the professional development process.” (p. 43)

TAKS scores, AEIS reports, AYP reports will show student achievement and how we rank according to the TEA levels of achievement.

Citation:

Guskey. T. R. (1998). The age of our accountability. Journal of Staff Development, 19(4), 36-44.

Pre and Post Assessment Survey

This self-evaluation measures your familiarity with concepts that will be discussed in today’s professional development. Rate yourself on your knowledge of these concepts and after today’s presentation, you will take a post-course evaluation to measure what you have learned.

Rating Choices: This is completely new to me. I’ve heard of this but don’t fully understand it. I understand these concepts. I use these concepts in my work. I can teach others how to do this.	My Rating
1. The Texas Long-Range Plan for Technology provides a shared vision of academic excellence and sets the goals for educational technology through the year 2020.
2. The Technology Applications TEKS, written under a dynamic, spiraling framework, and are designed to be mastered by students at the end of eighth grade.
3. There are four major domains of the Technology Applications TEKS: Foundations domain, Acquisition of Information, Work-Manipulation of Data/Problem Solving, and Communication/Publishing.
4. The Texas Teacher STaR Chart, mandated by law, establishes a framework for measuring how well teachers are prepared to equip students with the knowledge and skills to thrive in today’s information economy.
5. The Texas Campus STaR Chart, mandated by law, is designed for use in technology planning, budgeting for resources, and evaluation of progress in local technology projects.
6. State Board of Educator Certification (SBEC) has five technology standards, which include knowledge, skills and performance that all teachers must integrate in their curriculum.
7. Cyberbullying, a real danger for children, is often not reported because the children fear that they will be punished, no one will believe them, or the bullying will get worse.
8. For instruction in cyber ethics and online responsibility to be effective, it must be integrated into students’ regular assignments and discussion.
9. CSI: Ysleta Cyber Safety Initiative is available for all teachers with CSI curriculum and Teacher resources.
10. The district website has a Web 2.0 notable sites such as: Aviary, Animoto, Easy Test Maker plus more to help you with the integration of technology in your classroom.
TOTAL RATING SCORE:

Citation:

“As per Dr. Kay Abernathy, EDLD 5352, February 22, 2011, week #1, Post Survey”

I modified the evaluation for my campus.

Action Plan II

Session Purpose: Teachers will analyze data, use technology to communicate, enhance learning, and visit websites that help integrate technology.
Learning Objective to Be Addressed: · Assess technology needs from analyzing data from Data Sources: STaR Chart, AEIS report, Campus Improvement Plan, Technology TEKS, and SBEC Standards. · Teachers will learn to use Gaggle.net. Gaggle. Net has curriculum integration, gaggle training courses, CyberSmart, e-mail, blogs etc. · Learn about other websites that integrate technology into everyday lessons. Note: All participants need their Lap Tops and asked to read: Failure is NOT an Option by Alan M. Blankstein before the professional development meeting. Each department will be asked to read a particular chapter from the FINO book.
Facilitator #1 Whaley Berry #2 Miguel Molina			Facilitator #3 Sandra Saucedo #4 Barbara Borunda
Campus Staff	Persons Responsible: Principal/AP	Location: Valley View		Start Time: 8:00	End-Time: 4:00
Learner-Centered Activity	Purpose	Description		Steps	Estimated Time
Norms	Set expectations	Cell phones and taking care of “your needs.”		Read the established norms for the campus. “Parking Lot” for questions.	5 minutes
Conduct a survey (Survey will be placed on campus website)	Self-evaluation Pre and Post Self-evaluation	Items from the learning objectives		All participants take the survey. Answer questions from a scale of 1-5 points 1 not familiar to 5 being able to teach others Total the points	10 minutes
KWL Chart Learner-Centered	Activate background knowledge	What I know. What I want to know. What I learned. Chart paper/ with three columns.		Each group will have some chart paper and a color crayola. All participants must give the scribe one thing for the first two columns. Post the Charts around the room.	30 minutes
Show Power Point Presentation “STaR Chart”	Federal and state laws require that we use data to make informed decisions.	Power Point will have information about the STaR Chart, SBEC standards, TEKS, and NCLB. Websites		Show the Power Point Presentation Visit the links	20 minutes
Data Sources and Disaggregation of Data	Find all areas of need (weaknesses). Are these areas the same as in previous years?	SBEC standards, TEKS being addressed in the classroom? Goals in CIP being accomplished?		All teams analyze: AEIS report, CIP, STaR Chart etc. Participants have hard copies of each of the documents	1 hour
“Think about “Thinking		Are we serving the needs of all our students? How can we increase student achievement?		Reflect, collaborate and share with the whole group.	30 minutes
Teaching online Safety with CSI: Ysleta	We need to educate our students and ourselves on Cyber Safety.	Help prevent our students from being cyber-bullied or from predators.		Have participants go online to: http://www2.yisd.net/education/components/links/links.php?sectiondetailid=146844& Visit different links that are available and lesson plans	1 hour
“Thinking about Thinking” Ticket Out (Lunch)	Reflect and Collaborate			Reflect and Collaborate Participants will Write a reflection with paper and pencil. Note: (after Lunch) Later participants will post their reflection on a blog.	10 minutes
Note: Participants will be grouped. Learner-Centered instruction Create a blog	Early Tech, Developing Tech, Advanced Tech and Target Tech. Based on the STaR Chart	Based on the numbers in each group the location will be announced. Library, Lab 1 and Mrs. Saucedo’s room.		Participants log on to the district website: http://www2.yisd.net/education/projects/projects.php?sectiondetailid=160309& Overview of Gaggle. Net Find Training Videos: Blogging Teachers will create a blog.	1 hr. 30 minutes
Learner-Centered instruction Book Study: Failure is NOT an Option	Write a Reflection from Chapter 5 “Goals”			Participants will write their Reflection and respond to two other colleagues.	15 minutes
Post Evaluation	Compare first Pre evaluation to Post evaluation.			Reflect and Post your refection on your Blog.	30 minutes
“Thinking about Thinking”	Reflect and Collaborate	KWL What did you learn?		Write a Reflection on What did you learn? Post on your Blog.
Useful websites:	Lesson Planning Integration of Technology	NetTrekkar http://www.nettrekker.com/us Promethean Planet http://www2.yisd.net/education/components/docmgr/default.php?sectiondetailid=172620&fileitem=54774&catfilter=ALL Webpage training: http://www2.yisd.net/education/components/docmgr/default.php?sectiondetailid=172620&fileitem=54731&catfilter=ALL United Streaming http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/		Teachers do not have to “reinvent the wheel.” There are lessons that they can use in these websites and there are more websites in our district web page. Contact our campus CT for help.

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Our Lives Have Been Changed ForEver!

“Nothing within a school has more impact upon students in terms of skills development, self-confidence, or classroom behavior than the personal and professional growth of their teachers. When teachers examine, question, reflect on their ideas and develop new practices that lead towards their ideals, students are alive. When teachers stop growing, so do their students (Barth, 1981, p. 145).”

Effective and successful principals use action research as a tool to make effective changes, make improvements, produce academic achievement and promote “Lifelong Learning.”

As future administrators, we will face the daily challenges to impact student’s and teacher’s learning. Foremost, we must take charge of our own learning and as the “head learner,” we must lead by modeling the process to faculty, staff, and students.

Action Research will help us as school leaders, improve our campus, but most important, achieve student academic success for all students. We have been given the skill and knowledge to develop and how to implement our Action Research study.

In reflecting, I’ve come to the conclusion, that our discussions have been more than just collaboration among classmates and colleagues. We have made friendships without having met face to face. We listen to the words we read each week in our discussions and relate just as if we were there face to face. The distance that separates us is
inconceivable because there is no distance when we all communicate. We share and respect one another’s thoughts and views. Most of all, I think we listen with our hearts.

We are Life Long Learners!



Barth, R. (1981). The principal as staff developer. Journal of Education, 163(2), 144-162.

Improving the Collegiality at My Campus

Colleagues, classmates and friends,

I had so many problems with my 7.1 template, it was like a nightmare. So than I tried this template and it worked. I don't know what happened. If you try looking at my action research, you will only be able to view part of it. Maybe I can figure this out later.

Here we Go!

What a week this has been! Those templates gave me a bad headache and long hours without sleep. I felt overwhelmed and a little confused.


The purpose of this action research project is to improve a positive school culture through collegial relationships. Collegial relationships that will help our teachers through collaboration, building trust and growing professionally will prove beneficial to all stakeholders. Improving collegial relationships among our teachers at our campus will be our first step towards having a school culture that will be effective in promoting parental participation and achieving academic success for all our children.
There will be three teacher surveys that will be created through survey monkey and teachers will be asked to login in to survey monkey.com and take the surveys on line. The time frame for the teacher surveys will be from the first nine weeks of school, in January, and after May 18th when the eighth graders finish TAKS testing. The student surveys will be will be a paper and pencil survey and distributed through our Focused Advisory Class. Eighth grade students will be given two surveys. The first survey will be during the first nine weeks of school and the second after TAKS testing. The second survey will also be given to seventh grade students. I will ask the math department to help me with the student surveys. The students will make a graphical display from the results of the data.

A small sample of student and teacher interviews will be conducted. I am not sure which teachers will be selected or whether to randomly select the sample. The interview questions will be created about school culture and our site supervisor’s input will be sought out. It will prove beneficial to have the full support of the administration in getting the teachers to participate in completing the surveys. Data from the teacher and surveys will be collected, compared in a graphical manner.

Observations will be conducted during the school day and on team building activities. The first observation will be on August 17, 2010, our first in service day of the 2010-2011 school year. Our teachers will not be aware of the action research project that I am conducting. There will be four other Early Release Professional Development Days in which I will continue my observations on our team building. I will reflect on my observations and my reflections will be used for questions on my teacher interviews. Data will be collected on my observations on team building and participation.

I am most excited about our teachers reading Todd Whitaker’s book entitled, “What Great Teachers Do Differently: 14 Things That Matter Most.” Teachers will be asked to read designated chapters per month and do a reflection by blogging and make an effort to read other blogs from colleagues. At this time, I am not sure whether to have teachers reflect with in their perspective teams or reflect with other teams. I will collect some data from the participation on the blogging.