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Samatha

There are many different ways excel can be used in a classroom. While just pondering on this weeks discussion I noticed it works best with math. You can do different graphs and the spreadsheet even has a way to add and subtract different equations for you. In the past I have used it for taking attendance and data. For me it is the easiest way to input data and show your students their growth points. As I stated above when doing data you do not have to calculate the number of correct or incorrect questions a student has. You can simply input the equation in the functions and it will work it out for you. When I was teaching English and had to do my data talks excel was my best friend. I know it is a lot more to the spreadsheet and doing different research for this discussion showed me I could do the impossible with it.

I am a 7th grade U.S. History teacher now and we deal with a lot of different timelines. I learned this week that I could use excel to create a timeline for whatever lesson we are working on. In my lesson plans for this week I incorporated this method. My original plan was to complete the timeline on the board and have the students help fill it out. Instead we will work through the timeline by inputting the important dates as well as titles into a spreadsheet. We will complete this using the smart board in class so each student has a opportunity to give input. We will also be able to print it out for notes.

Natasha

Creating the excel formative check sheet can be useful in many ways as a great tool to manage students learning. First, it can provide visual information about each student’s data after being assessed. Excel can eliminate the difficult task of trying to keep up with all your students’ scores with progress monitoring and formative assessments. In this week’s lecture, Mohn stated that a formative assessment checklist is a good tool to record information and keep track of activity. It can be used as a tool to organize data easier. In my classroom, my students also do Waterford Reading Academy. My students do both reading and math/science each day. The program assesses our students learning and gives data scores as well. Excel is a good tool to use for their Waterford scores and data.

Your check sheet/list also allows teachers to make judgments about how well students are performing academically. You can identify learning goals deficiencies by observing each student’s data on the sheet frequently. Checklists provide specific criteria that can be used to determine the skills students have learned and skills that they may need improvement in. Basically, teachers can check off the skills or standards their students have already mastered. The skills/standards that they haven’t mastered teachers can reteach them to see if the students will improve in that area.

My checklist will function as a daily tool to help me to plan tasks that can accommodate students learning and possibly help me provide differentiated learning skills to struggling students. Also, it can help me to prioritize schedules for monitoring students‘ data in Waterford and as well as MKAS.

Jasmine

I have come to the conclusion that technology is a big thing and would be great to use in classrooms. I sometimes have trouble with keeping things organized on my end when teaching. Learning how to use the excel spreadsheet will come in handy in all of my classes. I first can use this sheet for documentation in my classroom. I can list all of my students name and dates and if they misbehave in my class I can easily pull up this sheet and document for parents, administrators and myself. I can also use it as a positive reinforcement and mark all the times my students behaved and did all of their work. I like the idea that I can put all of my assignments for the week on a spreadsheet and then simply put a mark indicating if they completed or in –completed my assignments. I can spot out deficiency from students by first checking to see if they did all of the work and if they did not I can easily see who did not and learn why it is not done. Creating a spreadsheet could help me keep track of all my assignments and whether or not a child participated in my class for the day. I can also use this as a motivation tool by physically letting the students see how much they have accomplished by the end of the week. My students who have an IEP plan could definitely benefit from me doing a spread sheet because it will give them a clear insight on the accommodation I have established for that particular student.Reply