Tech Class / ASSURE Personal Project - Phase 5

Materials and Artifacts from Lessons

Phase 5

Evaluate and Revise

• Review conventional and authentic assessments from the lesson to determine learner achievement of standards and objectives.

Within this lesson, students were substantially involved in rating themselves without having to write something down or fill out an exit ticket. By assessing in this fashion, I can quickly generate results from my dancers while in the process of working and save paper. I took a consensus of what students new about PowerPont at the beginning of the lesson to gauge my teaching using a 1-5 finger rating system. Assessing students in this manner kept the flow of the class going and again requiring very little set-up on my part or labor from my students. I frequently use this method because it aligns closely with our schools 1-4 standard grading system and can quickly be used in various ways to establish groups or guide the lesson. By the end of the lesson, I could see a definite change in thinking and use of PowerPoint once important nuances were explained and time was given to play around with various PowePoint tools and options.

• Examine the instructional process and impact of using tech and media.

When dancers sign up to take my class, they are not expecting to learn all of the ins and outs about dancer greater than movement. I originally created this project for dancers who had missed to much rehearsal time to pick up choreography and dancers who have anxiety at a level that could cause more harm than good. In the end, I realized how impactful the media projects were to our first-semester performance and thought all of my students could benefit from learning about other aspects of dance greater than the movement. After doing this project, my dancers should gain a greater appreciation for the behind the scenes work done to put on a quality performance.

                    

• List modifications to lesson to address any concerns.

No changes were made to this particular lesson plan. If I could go back to when I originally created this project for a group of three students, I would have created a clearer timeline of when things were due. I created this project on the fly to give three failing seniors an opportunity to not have my class being a determining factor on why they didn't graduate. I needed something they could do with little supervision and help on my part but failed to keep them truly accountable for getting things done on time.