Descriptions of Technology and Professional Growth Plan Projects

MIT 2004-06, Winter Quarter 2006  

I. Creating a Digital Still Image of Yourself as Teacher

Wednesday January 11

You will select one frame from your student teaching video that presents you in a way that might be appealing to a prospective employer. Once you select and save this frame you will use it 1) on the home page of your web site, 2) on the opening slide of your Professional Development Plan PowerPoint presentation. Be sure to save this picture in your Calawah folder and/or on your own flash drive or disk as well as in the documents folder of your computer. 

II. Creating Your Teaching Video

Begin Wednesday January 11, finish Friday January 13 or, if needed, by January 27

Overview: You will create a 60-90 second video presentation that highlights your teaching, using video footage from your student teaching videotape. You will save this video temporarily in the documents folder of your computer and at the end of the week it will be moved onto one of our MIT fire wire drives. This video will be incorporated into a PowerPoint presentation.  

The video will include:

•An opening title screen that lists your name, the name of the school, the grade level of your class, and gives a brief descriptive name for the lesson you are teaching.

•A series of approximately 10 second clips that show you and your students in action. You are free to be creative in selecting these clips, but typically you would begin with a clip showing you starting the lesson, and end with a clip showing you concluding the lesson, with some representative clips in the middle.

•Between the clips you will need to place transitions. Again, you can be creative, but typically a cross-dissolve of 3 seconds would be a good choice.

•An ending title, to let the viewer know the video is over; it can simply say "the end".  

Once the video is fully completed, you need to save it as a Quicktime movie and store it in your Calawah folder or your flash drive or disk. Later you will place it into a PowerPoint presentation. Optionally, you can also include this video on your website to share it with a larger audience.  

III. Updating your Webpage for your Job Search

Begin Thursday January 12, finish Friday January 13 or, if needed, by January 27

Overview: You will revisit your web page to update it as a potential resource for your job searching over the next few months (the college has allowed MIT students to keep their web pages on the Evergreen web server for a year or more after graduation and we expect this to continue).  

The update must include:

• A revised home page so that it includes your student teaching picture (taken from your video) and has a somewhat professional look. You are welcome to keep your existing links and pictures, but be sure that the overall impression of the opening page is one you would want to give to a potential employer.  

• A page that tells something about you. For now, this might simply be your name and the kinds of teaching positions you will be seeking. After the January 25 resume workshop you might want to replace this brief page with a more detailed resume (you can simply save your resume as a web page in Word).  

The update can include:

•A link to your student teaching video clip which you will be creating this quarter

•A link to a blog, which Simona will be talking about during week 1.  

IV. Your Professional Growth Plan: Text-only version

Begin developing on Tuesday, January 10, email to colemans@evergreen.edu and your seminar leader no later than Tuesday March 14.

Overview: Over the past few years the State of Washington has incorporated the idea of teachers creating individual plans for their own continuing development into teacher certification renewal and into professional development in general. Your first experience with professional growth plans is inspired by the new state requirement that all students create a brief professional development plan that targets one or more areas for growth after completion of their Residency certification programs. In brief, you will do some self-assessment and then, based on your assessment, describe what you need to work on, and how you might work on it during your first year or so of teaching.  

In developing this plan you will use the 12 Professional Certificate Criteria as the basis for reviewing your competence and for helping you select two areas to include in your Professional Growth Plan. After giving some careful thought to your plan, you will create a 1-2 page document including the components described below. Once it is done, you will email it to colemans@evergreen.edu to verify that you have met this certification requirement.

The plan will include:

•A description of two specific areas for growth. In your descriptions of each growth area, specify which one of the Professional Certificate criteria (1 of 12) it best fits into.

•A description of your current level of proficiency in each of your growth areas – this is to give your readers and yourself an idea of where you are now and why you have selected this area for growth.

•A description of what you will do to grow in each of the areas you have selected. You can, for example, mention classes or workshops you will attend, books you will read, teachers you will observe, projects you will design. You should also mention specifically when you might do each of these growth activities – within the span of winter quarter through the end of your first two years of teaching.

V. Professional Growth PowerPoint Presentation

Demonstrate on Tuesday, January 10, complete and give to Scott or Kaili electronically no later than Friday January 27 unless special arrangements are made.

This presentation will combine your professional growth plan and your teaching video. It will be shown to the rest of the cohort on March 1 as one of our culminating activities. As you work on this presentation, you can save it in your Calawah folder. By the end of February, this presentation will need to be copied onto one of our MIT firewire drives so it can be prepared to share with the cohort.   

This presentation will include:

•A opening slide with your name and a picture of you teaching

•A slide that describes the two areas you have specifically selected for growth in your Professional Growth Plan

•Slides that briefly show your current level of performance in each of your areas (typically, two slides total – one for each area)

•Slides that briefly describe what you will do to improve in each area (again, probably one slide for each of the two areas)

•A slide that contains your video clip that will automatically start playing the video when the slide is shown.  

When you have completed this PowerPoint project, print it for your portfolio, using the option of four slides per page.  

VI. Conference Paper Presentation

Begin on your own, due Tuesday February 28.

From the syllabus, page 6) : Develop Power Point slides or other high quality electronic visual to support your presentation and to project during your presentation  Merely reading the summary of your paper to the audience is not permissible, nor is reading your Power Point slides.