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Field Experience Log & Reflection

Instructional Technology Department
Candidate:
Matthew Hall

Mentor/Title:
Susan Gordon/Computer
Teacher
Field Experience/Assignment: Course:
Impact on Student Learning
ITEC/EDL 7305 Data
(ISLA)
Analysis & School
Improvement

School/District:
Wilcox County Elementary
School/Wilcox County
Professor/Semester:
Jones/Spring 2015

Part I: Log
Date(s)

Activity/Time

STATE Standards
PSC

NATIONAL Standards
ISTE NETS-C

01/20/15

Reviewed our school improvement plans and

researched into data vision plans for Elementary
schools to create an Elevator Speech to invite
staff to join a Data Team.
(2.5 hours)
Completed Data Team Summary for WCES
(3 hours)
Created Instructional Initiative Inventory for
WCES
(2 hours)
Reviewed current data collection with school
admin then created a Data Inventory for WCES
(2.5 hours)
Met with Assistant Principal and then
Superintendent to review school data from
previous years.
(1 hour)
Compiled collected data to create Data Overview
from WCES 2011-2014
(4 hours)
Compiled information collected to create Action
Plan I and II for WCES
(2.5 hours)
Total Time: 17.5 hours

1.1, 1.2,1.3,1.4,1.5

1a,1b,1c,1d

1.1, 1.2,1.3,1.4,1.5

1a,1b,1c,1d

1.1, 1.2,1.3,1.4,1.5

1a,1b,1c,1d

1.1, 1.2,1.3,1.4,1.5

1a,1b,1c,1d

1.1, 1.2,1.3,1.4,1.5

1a,1b,1c,1d

1.1, 1.2,1.3,1.4,1.5

1a,1b,1c,1d

1.1, 1.2,1.3,1.4,1.5

1a,1b,1c,1d

02/10/15
02/28/15
03/11-12/15
03/31/15

04/14-15/15
04/30/15
05/02/15

DIVERSITY
(Place an X in the box representing the race/ethnicity and subgroups involved in this field experience.)

Ethnicity
Race/Ethnicity:
Asian
Black
Hispanic

P-12 Faculty/Staff
P-2

3-5

Native American/Alaskan Native

White
Multiracial
Subgroups:
Students with Disabilities
Limited English Proficiency
Eligible for Free/Reduced
Meals

6-8

P-12 Students
9-12

P-2

3-5

6-8

9-12

Part II: Reflection

CANDIDATE REFLECTIONS:
(Minimum of 3-4 sentences per question)

1. Briefly describe the field experience. What did you learn about technology facilitation and
leadership from completing this field experience?
During the field experience, I created and designed my Impact on Student Learning (ISLA). The
ISLA was a compilation of many different data reviews. It was several documents showing the
many different uses and possibilities of data collection within the school and the benefits we can
gain from that collection. While creating these documents, I was able to learn more about
technology facilitation because I was trying to think of a variety of ways to incorporate
technology, but still have it simple enough for my school to complete. By this trial and error
process, I think I learned that you can always come up with several technology ideas, but in the
end it is just best to try it out. If it works, great! If not, toss that idea and try another.
2. How did this learning relate to the knowledge (what must you know), skills (what must you
be able to do) and dispositions (attitudes, beliefs, enthusiasm) required of a technology
facilitator or technology leader? (Refer to the standards you selected in Part I. Use the
language of the PSC standards in your answer and reflect on all 3knowledge, skills, and
dispositions.)
Knowledge: The biggest task of a coach for this area would be background knowledge of the
different tools that can be considered for implementation. This experience helped me to realize
the huge variety of options and skill levels that you can use them with to create that shared vision
of technology and data use within your school.
Skills: With not only being aware of the many different categories of data collection, a coach must
be aware of how to locate resources on becoming familiar with the selected data. Data is useless
if no one knows how to use it, or ever tries to incorporate its results into their classroom. Coaches
need to be able to use the collections and spread knowledge of those products throughout the
school so teachers know they are there to be used.
Dispositions: With these considerations and implementations, you have to have a positive yet
flexible attitude. There may always be questions on how beneficial the data may or may not be
and as a coach you have to realize that it takes work and monitoring to find that perfect option and
incorporation.
3. Describe how this field experience impacted school improvement, faculty development or
student learning at your school. How can the impact be assessed?
This project has really opened eyes to some of the teachers at my school on how slack we are in
pushing proper implementation from data collection. We use a great deal of it and are very
fortunate with the abundance of tools we currently have, but teachers are not being informed of
better uses of these items and ways to enrich the learning of students through set goals of data
use.
This impact could be assessed next year, by teacher review of how well the process worked and if
it is worth completing in future years. Even if for some reason this project is not successful, it has
opened the door to other teachers at how they could create projects similar to this to use in their
classrooms.