Standard 3.7: Communication and Collaboration
Candidates utilize digital communication and collaboration tools to communicate locally and globally with students, parents, peers, and the larger community. (PSC 3.7/ISTE 3g)
Artifact: TRMS School-wide blog
Reflection:
This artifact involved deploying a consistent and uniform blogging system for 95 teachers at Taylor Rod Middle School. The school administration had the vision to utilize a consistent and uniform blogging system for communication with students, parents and colleagues. I met several times with teacher leaders and school administration to ensure that the vision was clear to me so that I may support them with their vision for parent-student communication and staff collaboration on a digital platform. This vision was implemented by creating and online classroom on a Content Management platform - OneNote. The links to each teacher’s individual space is shared with the data specialist to publish on the teacher directory on Taylor Road middle school website. Parents will visit the staff directory page on the school website to access each teacher’s blog.
Standard 3.7 communication and collaboration is established by collaborating with teacher leaders and the administrative team at Taylor Road Middle School to create a consistent blogging platform to meet our school’s vision for communication with collaboration tools. I created an online classroom and added individual teachers as students would be added in an online classroom. Instead of documenting academic work, teachers will be able to document announcements and upcoming assignments. Teachers are also able to collaborate by easily sharing and distributing pages and sections of their lessons/assignments with fellow teachers, students and parents with only a few clicks. Students and teachers will utilize the Onenote online classroom as a communication and collaboration tool. When announcements and assignments are published by teachers, students, parents and colleagues may locally or globally access the information. By creating this uniform platform for teachers’ blogs, they are able to communicate locally and globally with students, parents, peers and the larger community. This artifact takes a school-wide approach to communicate and collaborate with all stakeholders regardless of their location.
What I learned during the completion of this artifact is that communication is key to maintaining a shared vision. When teachers communicate with parents, students, students, and other stakeholders, expectations and responsibilities become clearer. What I would likely do differently with this project is to explore other options for communicating with parents such as podcasts. The reason for exploring other options is to identify ease of use of other platforms to support blogging and communication needs that may arise. I also learned that when deploying any school-wide initiative for communicating with technology, professional development plans should be made to support teachers with its adoption and integration.
This artifact may be assessed by CCRPI scores where school culture and school climate is reflected. A culture of ongoing communication demonstrates positive school climate. In addition, teachers’ consistency with updating their blogs on a weekly basis (as required) is a reflection of how effective this artifact is. Its accessibility locally and globally will also be used to assess how effective it is. One more way of evaluating the school-wide blogging artifact is by evaluating its collaborative component and observe how teachers collaborate and share instructional resources as colleagues.
Artifact: TRMS School-wide blog
Reflection:
This artifact involved deploying a consistent and uniform blogging system for 95 teachers at Taylor Rod Middle School. The school administration had the vision to utilize a consistent and uniform blogging system for communication with students, parents and colleagues. I met several times with teacher leaders and school administration to ensure that the vision was clear to me so that I may support them with their vision for parent-student communication and staff collaboration on a digital platform. This vision was implemented by creating and online classroom on a Content Management platform - OneNote. The links to each teacher’s individual space is shared with the data specialist to publish on the teacher directory on Taylor Road middle school website. Parents will visit the staff directory page on the school website to access each teacher’s blog.
Standard 3.7 communication and collaboration is established by collaborating with teacher leaders and the administrative team at Taylor Road Middle School to create a consistent blogging platform to meet our school’s vision for communication with collaboration tools. I created an online classroom and added individual teachers as students would be added in an online classroom. Instead of documenting academic work, teachers will be able to document announcements and upcoming assignments. Teachers are also able to collaborate by easily sharing and distributing pages and sections of their lessons/assignments with fellow teachers, students and parents with only a few clicks. Students and teachers will utilize the Onenote online classroom as a communication and collaboration tool. When announcements and assignments are published by teachers, students, parents and colleagues may locally or globally access the information. By creating this uniform platform for teachers’ blogs, they are able to communicate locally and globally with students, parents, peers and the larger community. This artifact takes a school-wide approach to communicate and collaborate with all stakeholders regardless of their location.
What I learned during the completion of this artifact is that communication is key to maintaining a shared vision. When teachers communicate with parents, students, students, and other stakeholders, expectations and responsibilities become clearer. What I would likely do differently with this project is to explore other options for communicating with parents such as podcasts. The reason for exploring other options is to identify ease of use of other platforms to support blogging and communication needs that may arise. I also learned that when deploying any school-wide initiative for communicating with technology, professional development plans should be made to support teachers with its adoption and integration.
This artifact may be assessed by CCRPI scores where school culture and school climate is reflected. A culture of ongoing communication demonstrates positive school climate. In addition, teachers’ consistency with updating their blogs on a weekly basis (as required) is a reflection of how effective this artifact is. Its accessibility locally and globally will also be used to assess how effective it is. One more way of evaluating the school-wide blogging artifact is by evaluating its collaborative component and observe how teachers collaborate and share instructional resources as colleagues.