Transcript NEAG School of Education - Teachers for a New Era at UConn

What Do We Want Them to Know and
How Do We Know They Know It?
Electronic Portfolios in the Neag
School of Education
Bob Hannafin, TNE Fellow
Neag School of Education
University of Connecticut
Change Perspectives
Students:
• “Change… just happens. Get on the
train or get run over.”
• Translation: “DUDE, I get to use my IPod in class.”
Change Perspectives
Deans:
• “Change is a healthy and inevitable
part of human growth and
development.”
• Translation: “Hey man, if it’s cheaper,
we’re doing it!”
Change Perspectives
Faculty:
• “Change sucks.”
• Translation: “Change sucks.”
Presentation Overview
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What we want them to know
How we know it - E-Folios
Challenges
Benefits
Summary
What
• Conceptual framework, NCATE and
state standards
• Teacher Candidate Assessment
Committee identified assessments
aligned with benchmarks
• Signature artifacts per course
How – E-Folios
• Laptop initiative
• Vendor solution
www.taskstream.com
• Standards manager
• Portfolio and assessment tool
• Gradual implementation - full
program by Fall 2006
Tense Conversations
• Forces conversations that reveal disagreements
that would go undetected:
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Content coverage
Inter- and intra-departmental coordination
Willingness to change
Priorities in R1 institution
Faculty freedom
Who pays?
Induction years - state coordination
• Technology-induced conversations - laptop
initiative - day of reckoning for tech integration
more broadly
Benefits
• Makes things visible
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Opportunities for vertical integration
Assessment more open process
Storage/archive
Documented Growth
• Scaffolding feedback, rubric
• Tracks revisions of submissions
• Students generally like it
Summary
• It is “messy” but worth it
• Has to be a process rather than an event
• Horizon should go beyond teacher prep,
into induction years
• Affords broader developmental view of
teacher candidates.
• E-portfolios are a piece of a puzzle for
coherent program integration and change.
• It’s a work in progress
Contact
• Bob Hannafin
• 860-486-1456
• [email protected]