Digital Blog Post #I

First, academic content is every important for a teacher. The content is is the fact, concepts, ideas, skills, and understandings they try to share with the students. every teacher must make choices what what content they want their students to learn and leave out any content that they believe is not relevant to what they learning. Teacher will get most of their textbooks, books, and internet resources. technology plays a every important role in helping teachers find what they are going to teach in the classroom. By using the internet search engines, electronic databases, blog, wiki, and other technology tools teachers and student can get new way to research and retrieve information rather than just by your standard classroom textbook.

Second, as a teacher you will be doing a lot of grading so it is important to become familiar with using electronic grading software as a virtual record keeping system. Having a quick way to calculate and record student grades onto a computer is important because that way you can see all the students grade and see the students that are struggling so that you can help them with what they are struggling. Gradekeeper and Easy Grade Pro are a couple of the systems that are purchased by a school district for all the teachers to use. Also teachers can assign a certain percentage value different types of work like tests, quizzes, homework, participation, and more. This important because is sets up how you what your class to work. For example, if you want the classroom to have a lot of participation you will raise the assign percentage for participation from 5% to 10% or 15% to show the students that a go part of their grade requires them to participate in class. Also if an assign percentage is to low students will just not do it because they think that is won't affect their grade. It is important to have a nice balance in assign percentages because you don't what the percentage to be too heavy on a certain percentage for if they fail then they will have to a hard time trying to bring their grade up since that one grade overpowers the rest.

Third, student performance assessment is important to evaluate how you student is doing in the class. This also help evaluate how you are doing teaching your students to determine if you need to change how you are teaching because it is not working. Teachers may do performance assessments in the form of tests or quizzes which test their knowledge on what they are learning in class. But to be able to evaluate student word on class assignments and activities teachers must establish a student performance rubric laying out what skills they want to see the student develop to problems. The rubric tells the student the skill that they teacher wants them to use  to do the assignment.

Resources:

Maloy, R., O'Loughlin, R., Edwards, S., & Woolf, B. (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education Inc. 

"Teaching English : Grading With Percentages". YouTube. N.p., 2017. Web. 20 Mar. 2017.

"Performance-Based Assessment: Making Math Relevant". YouTube. N.p., 2017. Web. 20 Mar. 2017.