Self-Assessment Instrument for Topic
4
ICT as a personal productivity tool in a teacher's
professional work and career.
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Self-Assessment Instrument for ICT as a Personal
Productivity Tool in a Teacher's Professional Work and
Career
This self-assessment instrument focuses on a teacher's
use of ICT as a personal productivity tool. Please rate
yourself using the following 7-point scale for each
question.
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discussion of the meaning of the scale points.
Each question is accompanied by a brief discussion of the
topic being assessed. If you do not understand the details
given in a particular brief discussion, the chances are that
you are at the (1) or (2) level on this topic. After you
give yourself a numerical rating on the 7-point scale, write
a paragraph that explains and justifies your numerical
rating.
1. Using ICT in preparing handouts for students: 1 2 3
4 5 6 7
Handouts for students need to be legible, at the
students' reading level, and designed for effective
communication with students. Usually the handouts need to be
saved for future revision and reuse in subsequent years.
Thus, a word processor is an important aid to teacher
productivity of such handouts.
2. Using ICT in preparing quizzes and exams for students:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Some textbook publishers make available electronic copies
of databanks of exam questions that are aligned with their
textbooks. There are many free and commercial electronic
databanks of exam questions. Software for use in generating
exams is widely available. Typically, quizzes and exams
should be nicely desktop published and should be saved in
electronic format for possible revision and reuse in the
future.
3. Electronic Gradebook: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Electronic gradebooks, that may include seating charts,
pictures of students, contact information for parents, space
for written comments about students, and so on, are quite
popular with teachers. Some schools and school districts
require teachers to prepare and submit grades in electronic
format.
4. Using ICT in preparing documents to send to parents:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Many teachers (especially elementary teachers) find it
necessary and/or desirable to periodically provide their
students with written messages to be delivered to parents.
Of course, these documents should be carefully written,
carefully proofread, and nicely desktop published. Many
teachers find it useful to develop electronic templates for
a variety of such documents.
5. Preparing multimedia material for use in teaching:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Many teachers make routine use of an overhead projector
and/or a computer display system in their everyday teaching.
Thus, they need to have the knowledge and skill to
efficiently develop materials in electronic format to use as
aids in instruction. Increasingly, teachers are finding it
helpful to place such materials on a personal Website for
ease in saving, revision, and sharing with colleagues.
6. Building and maintaining a class or course Website:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Many teachers make use of a classroom Website that can be
accessed by their students, parents, colleagues, and other
people. The Website may include assignments, resource
materials, and samples of current and previous students'
work. Such a "public" Website needs to be of appropriate
quality so that it is not an embarrassment to the teacher,
the school, and the school district, and so that it
accomplishes the tasks it is designed to accomplish.
7. Electronic professional vita and portfolio of your work:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
There is a trend toward preservice teacher education
programs to require their preservice teachers to develop an
electronic portfolio of their work. This may include a vita,
work samples, videos of micro teaching, videos of field
experiences, videos of student teaching, projects and papers
done for a variety of courses, and so on.
8. Using ICT in communication with colleagues: 1 2 3
4 5 6 7
An important component in developing one's professional
career as a teacher is building a network of colleagues.
Many teachers make routine use of Email in communicating
with their colleagues. They join Distribution Lists, they
join and participate in discussion groups, and they use a
personal or classroom Website to help share materials with
their colleagues.
9. Using ICT in your continuing professional development:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
All teachers are faced by the twin problems of "keeping
up to date" and "continued professional growth (capacity
building)." ICT is both part of the problem and part of the
solution. There is a trend toward professional development
workshops and courses being made available on the Web. There
is a huge amount of materials available on the Web that can
help a teacher in personal capacity building and in
continuing professional development.
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