EME 2040 Digital Badge #D Laura Guzman Moreno Becoming a 21st century teacher.

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Meeting Educational standards got  my interest in this chapter. According to  transforming Learning with new Technologies, planning  teaching and assessing, all directly connected, sometimes become separate when teachers think about their work in the classroom (83). this article is true and scary at the same time. Most of the times this means like 3 jobs in one for a teacher.  Teachers plan their lesson to engage their students and when they evaluate the students they find out that they have 3 different groups. I think that it might be easy to plan, but when she is teaching what planned to teach, it can be difficult because all students are in different levels. A teacher job is not as easy as it looks. On my experience,I have  work with teachers who enthusiastically have share about how she planed to teach this class and at the end of the day she needs to change her planning because it didn't work as she planned. also I agree with the Personal Experience assessment,which means that a teacher teaches the same way she was thought  That is true om my experience because when I teach reading Horizon to my little group, I always try to imitate the teacher who thought me.


 Another subject that got my interest was New Approaches to Assessments. As Transforming Learning With New Technologies  states, "A former supporter of No Child Left Behind flatly declared that education reform has been "hijacked" by and over-reliance on standardize tests. It also says that Tests are driving the curriculum instead of the curriculum driving the tests (86). I agree with this comment because I have witness how teachers work together to try to figure out what to teach the  students. They invest most of their time trying to find the best thing to teach them with out knowing if this is going to be in that certain test. Teaching Learning With New Technologies reads, "For students the joy and purpose of learning is taken away as they have fewer and fewer opportunities to explore topics that do not appear on the tests (87). I agree with this comment because as teachers prepares students for the "Holy FCAT " tests, students get bored just to know that this might be on the test and many things are not there. I think that would be more helpful if teacher knows what this people wants  from the students to learn, if they make the tests, they should do the lessons to be teach to students stead of letting teacher brake their heads with some thing that are not on their lists. According to Transforming Learning With New Technologies, "out right dishonesty," teachers adjust the test conditions so students do better or, some instances, actually given students answers to difficult questions(Popham, 2002.pp.1-3). For example,ESL (English as a second language) , teachers are teaching middle schoolers

 from 2nd and 3rd grade level because that is  their level as English speakers, but when FCAT comes these students are given a regular 6,7, or 8 grade test. So how do they expect these students to get a passing grade?

Last but not least, I over read   the Web Resources and Apps for Students Assessment. I really never thought about Rubrics,or even knew what that was , so I navigate in Ribistar. com and when I went back to my place of work, I comment to some of the teachers that I need it to work on a Rubric, and more than 3 teachers mention Rubistar. com. they told me not to worry about it because with Rubistar it was going to be easy because it does it for you. So I will use this web site for my Rubrics on the future. Another subject that i really like is the eClcklers. Math teachers use these clickers.  The math teachers and students really enjoy using these clicker  Teachers save time and students enjoy using and looking at their answers right away. I will be happy to use these apps and webs for my teaching experience,if by that time theres  anything better than this invented .

One thing I know about teachers,they never finish studying because there is always something new on education standards ,new approaching assessments, and bunch of new websites and apps to learn from .                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Somereserved by ecastro   Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.