Developmental Website Portfolio - Your developmental portfolio website is your site where you capture your learning throughout your T.E.A.M. journey. You evidence your work and reflect upon it. In it should be all work you value and care to highlight, links to your EEV collaborations, and your TEAM site.
Professional Website Portfolio -Your professional portfolio website is your site where you select the best of the best of your work to showcase to others. It will represent the most significant elements of the whole of your T.E.A.M. journey. We will not work on the professional site in the first semester in T.E.A.M.
Individual Growth Contract - Sometime during the first semester in T.E.A.M., we will examine claims we made to our accrediting organization when we described what our graduates will accomplish by the end of T.E.A.M. The accrediting body (T.E.A.C.) wants to ensure that our graduates are competent, caring, and qualified and that they are expert in subject matter, pedagogy, teaching skill, technology, have a sensitivity to diversity, and are lifelong learners. We will present our claims to you during the first semester and then ask you to evidence and reflect upon your accomplishments in your last semester through final products including your two year developmental portfolio, your professional portfolio, and a final synthesis journal. To do this, you will develop a growth plan, assessing and reassessing your work throughout the program.
EEV Collaborative Project - You (and other members of your collaborations) will have a website for each EEV collaboration you create during T.E.A.M. Each will be linked off your developmental and professional portfolios. Collaboration is at the very heart of much of your studies in T.E.A.M. and much of what living and working in life is all about. The EEV collaborative projects you chose to participate in will incorporate the three major threads of our program: Technology,Content/Action (or EEV), and Professional Growth and Scholarship (PG/S).
Leadership Logs - We expect you to be or become leader/change agents in your organizations and communities. Leading may take many forms. Write about your leadership activities in your Leadership logs. Submit at least three logs in each of Fall and Spring semesters during T.E.A.M. We also desire that you evidence leading by contributing to the very structure and content of what happens in your TEAM, working with your mentors to accomplish positive change and growth.
East End Team Website - We urge each TEAM to create a website that documents and celebrates their journey throughout the two years. This is something to discuss with your fellow teammates.
Three focal areas in T.E.A.M. throughout your two years with us are Technology, Content/Action (or EEV), and Professional Growth and Scholarship (PG/S).
The following provides an overview of most of our technology requirements.
Independent Technology Learning - You will commit to a technology contract and work independently at home on technology each week throughout the T.E.A.M. experience.
Logs -You will complete logs. In the logs, you will document the work you have done by evidencing it and reflecting upon it. We emphasize the Microsoft and Macromedia products and Video in T.E.A.M. but you may also explore many other products. Some you will choose to work on these independently. Some you will choose to delve into more deeply than we do with the rest of your TEAM. We expect a minimum of 10 technology logs during the semester, spaced out in a more or less regular pattern. Multiple log entries in a single week will be counted as a single entry.
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Seeking, Sifting, Sorting and Finding Information and Contacts of Value to you. The processes involved in finding good resources include developing strong search strategies through databases, through the collecting of reliable portals others have created, and by developing mechanisms to organize, retrieve to use as needed, and build upon what you find. Critical thinking skills, analytic skills, and the capacity to synthesize information will be vital. This set of skills is vital, but it is also rapidly changing as the Internet becomes the "digital libraries" and the "electronic museums" and the primary source of "oritinal writings" of this information rich age.
PG/S Portal -You will be required to create a place to house your "finds" of meaning to you and share that place with others. The PG/S portal will begin in the first semester as you keep track of your PG/S activities each week and evolve beginning in the second semester as you create a website to house them. You will link from your developmental portfolio to your PG/S portal and select from your portal as you create your professional portfolio by the end of the program.
Review of Journal Articles -You will be asked to locate articles (journal articles, newsletters, descriptions found in online resources, etc.) that detail the integration of some software application into the P-12 classroom. You will write reviews of these articles and post them to your PG/S logs. We will discuss this requirement with you.
Readings -There will be required readings and required study of websites throughout T.E.A.M.
Log Responses -You will be required to write logs on PG/S. These logs need not be lengthy. Responses of 300-800 words are acceptable. Note, however, that your postings need to answer all questions asked and be reflective in nature rather than summary. Again, we look for evidence and reflection. We expect a minimum of 10 PG/S logs during a semester, spaced out in a more or less regular pattern. Multiple log entries in a single week will be counted as a single entry.
EEV Collaborations. You will be required to create, enact, assess, and share meaningful, constructivist projects with others throughout T.E.A.M. Our EEV Warm Up activities as you begin will start you thinking about the possibilities. By October of your first semester, you will be ready to form your first collaborative groups. EEV collaborations will be represented by websites and linked from both your developmental and professional portfolios.
Your group will be asked to complete a Proposal/Action Plan for what you hope to complete. During each semester, you will document individual progress in your logs, and at the end of the semester, you will evaluate your personal progress and the progress of your group members. Your project will be one of the significant outcomes of your work in TEAM.
Participation in small and large group discussions, as evidenced by observation, presentation of ideas, and products of group work, will be required.
Participation in your various EEV Collaboration online conversations will be assessed and required.
Log Entries. You will be asked to write log responses about your individual progress in your EEV Collaborations. This should probably be a summary of what you have done during the week and reflection upon it. (Please don't just repeat what you have put in an online conversation.) We expect a minimum of 10 EEV logs during a semester, spaced out in a more or less regular pattern. Multiple log entries in a single week will be counted as a single entry.
At the end of a semester, you will be asked to complete a synthesis journal. Your log postings should help complete this with little effort. Instructions for your synthesis journal will be available to you a few weeks before they are due.
Personal work on software of your choice -You are required to review T.E.A.M.'s technology checklists evaluating your technology skills on various programs. You will be required to choose software application(s) that you would like to work on independently.
Optional Additional Log Entries -If you read any articles about constructivism, school change, school reform, leadership, technology integration, or if you find any really cool websites that you could use in your classroom, you would write a short summary of the article and what you think of it in your logs.
Optional EEV Workshops -EEV workshops are opportunities for you to join others in the EEV and in T.E.A.M. for community building, for technology skill learning, for studying with experts in a broad array of fields. Join us, as you wish. When you do, please submit an EEV Workshop log within three days of the workshop so we can give feedback to our workshop mentors and assess what works and what might work better in the future.