Stage+2

Stage 2
= __Assessment__ =
 * || Assess the Six Facets of Understanding whenever possible:
 * Explain, Interpret, Apply, Perspective, Empathize, Self-Reflection** ||
 * **Formal summative performance task:** Create a class Blog in order to communicate with the parents of the students in your class as well as other community members. The initial blog post will be an intro and welcome from the teacher.

Your task is to create a classroom blog that can be used to communicate with the parents of the students in your class. This blog should communicate the news in the classroom and should be a way to keep the parents up to date. The blog should be used for real-time communication and allow parents see what is happening in their child's classroom. Also, teachers should be able to comment on the blog to allow for an online community to form.

Also, in order to demonstrate your understanding of how to be a member of an online community, you must contribute to the district set up blog using proper web etiquette. Remember this is a collaborative site and you must not only be able to ask questions, but as you learn, you must help others out by adding to our collective knowledge. || As a teacher, and the one sharing all of the information, each facet should be considered when writing a blog post. ~ Was the post informative? ~ How can the parent apply this information? ~ Are you, as the teacher taking time to reflect on the information you're sending out? Is it consistent and clear? ||
 * **Formal on-going graded assessments:** (selected response, short answer, essay, portfolio, etc.) **- Each teacher will share the link to their classroom blog on the district blog so as to not only contribute to the district site, but also as a means to start meaningful discussions about the content of the classroom blogs. The collection of blog entries will serve as a portfolio of the teacher’s work to be assessed periodically at each six week period. Because of the personalized nature of this activity, procedures will be the main skill assessed, with attention being paid to the appropriateness of what has been written on the blogs. ** || As a teacher, you must decide what you want to share online and how. At minimum, all assessments should be listed and explained.   ||
 * **Informal on-going formative assessments:** (ungraded quizzes, tickets out, journal, observation, discussion, self-assessment etc.)

While the participants are working on the construction of their blog, the teachers will observe and adjust their teaching to meet individual needs. After the initial introduction of blogging in the classroom, a short question and answer session will be held so the instructors can assess understanding of the participants and be able to spot check and work with the participants to apply what they have learned. 

Also, a short survey and reflection sheet will be handed out to each teacher and their feedback will be gathered. || It is always a good idea to keep a running record of each student, however, a blog is NOT the place to post student-specific information!  ||