Artifact Description:
TeacherKit is an app. You can sign up for it on the app, create a class, then add students for the class. For each student, you can add their name, their parents' names, and contact information. You can also easily email the whole class. The first picture shows the first screen when logging into TeacherKit. The other tabs include class calendar, attendance, behavior, grade book, and a progress report. The second picture shows the page for behavior. If you select a certain student, the third picture appears and show the behaviors that were tracked. If you want to report a behavior, the fourth or fifth screen will come up. The teacher can then select one of the behaviors and possibly add a description. Unless you pay for TeacherKit, you cannot add behaviors. This tool can be used in my future classroom to track behavior, take easy attendance, see overviews of grades, contact parents, or summarize all of the above information. TeacherKit fits into component 2D because it manages student behavior. Student behavior should be managed without interrupting class, and this is an easy way to record it.
Artifact Reflection:
If I were to use this tool again, I would pay for the account to have more options to work with and more control over personalizing it. I would also use more than the behaviors and use the grade book, attendance, and other tools. It was easy to use, set up, and quick to add a behavior. I hope that if I use this in the future, it can help with discussing student progress with a parent as well as quickly record homework grades in the beginning of class. Using the app for behavior was very easy and quick to do, but it would have been nice to have other behaviors that I had made regarding my expectations for students. This learning ties in with educational psychology by demonstrating being a professional in the classroom and dealing with behaviors in a professional manner. It is very important that recording behaviors does not interrupt from student learning. TeacherKit provides this opportunity to quickly record behaviors.
TeacherKit is an app. You can sign up for it on the app, create a class, then add students for the class. For each student, you can add their name, their parents' names, and contact information. You can also easily email the whole class. The first picture shows the first screen when logging into TeacherKit. The other tabs include class calendar, attendance, behavior, grade book, and a progress report. The second picture shows the page for behavior. If you select a certain student, the third picture appears and show the behaviors that were tracked. If you want to report a behavior, the fourth or fifth screen will come up. The teacher can then select one of the behaviors and possibly add a description. Unless you pay for TeacherKit, you cannot add behaviors. This tool can be used in my future classroom to track behavior, take easy attendance, see overviews of grades, contact parents, or summarize all of the above information. TeacherKit fits into component 2D because it manages student behavior. Student behavior should be managed without interrupting class, and this is an easy way to record it.
Artifact Reflection:
If I were to use this tool again, I would pay for the account to have more options to work with and more control over personalizing it. I would also use more than the behaviors and use the grade book, attendance, and other tools. It was easy to use, set up, and quick to add a behavior. I hope that if I use this in the future, it can help with discussing student progress with a parent as well as quickly record homework grades in the beginning of class. Using the app for behavior was very easy and quick to do, but it would have been nice to have other behaviors that I had made regarding my expectations for students. This learning ties in with educational psychology by demonstrating being a professional in the classroom and dealing with behaviors in a professional manner. It is very important that recording behaviors does not interrupt from student learning. TeacherKit provides this opportunity to quickly record behaviors.
Danielson, C. (2007). Enhancing professional practice a framework for teaching (2nd ed.). Alexandria, Va.: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.