Creating & assessing Math e-Portfolios
Professional Development Webinar
Created By: Ryen A. Jackon
•Founder and Owner of RJ Consulting Math LLC, RJ Consulting and RJ Academy
•NYS Nassau County and NYS Western Suffolk Boces consultant
•Instructional Coach, trainer and lesson demonstrator in Grades K-12
•She has a B.A. in Mathematics, an M.S. in Curriculum Development and Instructional technologies.
•Pursuing an EdD in E-learning and Instructional Design
•Expert in incorporating and creating instructional manipulatives, deconstructing standards, and curriculum development.
•A creator of stations-based differentiated programs and online curriculum writer
•A high impact teacher and one of a few teachers able to guarantee 100% proficiency on Florida’s Algebra I State Assessment
•Engager of exciting, hands-on and innovative instruction
Welcome to a Ryen A. Jackson P.D. Course!
Course Contents Below
Our Purpose
The purpose of "Creating and Assessing Math e-Portfolios " online course, is to provide math educators with effective standards-based instructional strategies and various forms of measuring student achievement and proficiency through digital portfolios. Math standards-based e-portfolios are a new innovative way students can learn and grow through self-reflection, engaging assignments, and collaborative feedback from others. By offering this professional development webinar, I hope to provide an alternative way to assess for learning that allows students to collect and display many kinds of artifacts like assignments, tutorials, projects, and discussions. After this webinar, you will have a framework to create and design e-portfolio activities to challenge students to think and a platform to accommodate multiple learning styles.
Learning Outcomes & Modules
Introduction Module Advantages of a Math e-Portfolio
The participant will participate in a course reading and watch a module tutorial about advantages of implementing e-portfolios into math classrooms.
The participant will be able to identify significant components of implementing e-portfolios in the math classroom by participating in course discussions.
The participant will become familiar with on-site school resources to take advantage of when implementing this strategy into instruction.
Module I Planning & Considering e-portfolio contents
The participant will participate in course readings about how to effectively plan for a e-portfolio and how to effectively deconstruct NYS Next Generation standards.
After the participant completes course readings, the participant will be asked to choose and deconstruct a NYS Next Generation standard for the first component of their final course resources.
Module II Designing & Evaluating the e-portfolio
The participant will become familiar with instructional technologies that would be beneficial when creating e-portfolios through course readings.
The participant will complete a final course resource/artifacts , designing the components of a e-portfolio they'd like to implement in their classrooms.
What should you expect?
This course requires a constructivist learner. There are 5 attitudes you must have to be successful in this course.
Be inquisitive. An inquisitive learner is one that asks many questions and wants to find out new information and will investigate.
Take initiative. A learner that takes initiative is one that is able to make decisions independently and is a problem solver.
Be confident. A confident learner is a learner that is not afraid to take risks and express their thoughts and ideas. A confident learner is able to handle frustration and disappointments
Be inventive. An inventive learner is a learner that is able to think about things in new ways and to transfer ideas into different contexts.
Be reflective. A reflective learner is a learner that will more than likely use their prior experiences to direct them in new situations and experiences.
This course will require
the participant to construct knowledge that is based on personal experiences and hypotheses of the environment
collaborative learning with colleagues, building relationships of mutual trust and respect
all participants to be actively engaged, and they take responsibility for their own learning and for other’s learning.
the participant to set goals of implementing e-portfolios in their math classrooms
the participant to discuss their ideas and the ideas of others
the participant to create the framework for their own e-portfolio and strategies on how to seamlessly integrate the e-portfolio into their classrooms
What are the issues with e-Portfolios?
E-portfolios are time consuming...
Assessing e-portfolios has many disadvantages including additional demands placed on teachers and students time (e.g. maintaining portfolios and preparing explanatory documentation). More disadvantages include development time to learn, to understand and to customize the reform, preparation time to create new materials and lessons, classroom time to produce and refine portfolio pieces, and scoring time to assess the quality of student work. Teachers find searching for effective tasks can be burdensome, others feel scoring student portfolios is burdensome.
How to incorporate e-portfolios into classrooms and curriculum maps...
Many teachers are overwhelmed with daily lesson plans and instruction. They find it hard to make time to incorporate new technologies such as digital portfolios into an already hectic schedule.
How will this P.D. course address the needs of e-Portfolios in the math classroom?
This course will discuss ways to implement e-portfolios as an ongoing process of learning, reflecting, and assessing. The greatest advantage to using digital portfolios throughout the learning process is the correcting of student misconceptions and having students constantly reflecting on learning by writing reflective statements that provide commentary about the artifact, as well as information about what students have learned from it.
This course will also discuss ways to partner with your school’s librarian so they can use their expertise to help you and your colleagues learn the use of new tools such as digital portfolios. School librarians can serve in an important capacity by helping teachers develop and use digital portfolios for effective student assessment.