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Welcome to the Joseph Osgood School Assessment Team Wiki

Purpose:  As a group, we created a Wiki for the Osgood School Assessment Teams to share valuable information, data, and tools in an easily accessible forum for the whole school. This Wiki will enable any teacher, administrator, or specialist to access relevant information that is posted by both assessment teams, which will ensure better communication among faculty, consistency, and more time for valuable collaboration about topics that truly matter to us as a staff. We created this professional development workshop and resource to address a real-life issue at the Osgood School. Currently, our Assessment Teams are continuing to spin our wheels and discuss the same things, where if we were able to communicate, document, and correspond on the wiki, we would be able to streamline our meetings, effectively use time, and get more accomplished. This wiki could also be a helpful mentoring tool for new teachers (and principals) to help them understand more about the inner workings of assessment within the Osgood School. Because the wiki holds a history of posts and comments, it provides accountability to ensure that people are following through and goals are being met. Grade level teams will no longer need to use valuable face to face time discussing updates from these two assessment teams. Grade level teams will be able to focus their time and energy during the valuable common planning times for things relevant to their grade level specifically because they can share their ideas and opinions about topics posted on the Wiki prior to meeting.

Here are the teacher standards under National Technology that are met through use and development of this Assessment Team Wiki.

**National Education Standards for Teachers** //3. Model Digital Age Work and Learning- //Teachers exhibit knowledge, skills, and work processes representative of an innovative professional in a global and digital society.

 a. Demonstrate fluency in technology systems and the transfer of current knowledge to new technologies and situations

 b. Collaborate with students, peers, parents, and community members using digital tools and resources to support student success and innovation

 c. Communicate relevant information and ideas effectively to students, parents, and peers using a variety of digital age media and formats

 d. Model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, evaluate, and use information resources to support research and learning

//5. ////Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership- //Teachers continuously improve their professional practice, model lifelong learning, and exhibit leadership in their school and professional community by promoting and demonstrating the effective use of digital tools and resources.

 a. Participate in local and global learning communities to explore creative applications of technology to improve student learning

 b. Exhibit leadership by demonstrating a vision of technology infusion, participating in shared decision making and community building, and developing the leadership and technology skills of others

 c. Evaluate and reflect on current research and professional practice on a regular basis to make effective use of existing and emerging digital tools and resources in support of student learning

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;"> d. Contribute to the effectiveness, vitality, and self-renewal of the teaching profession and of their school and community

Please click on an Assessment Team page to access important information. Wiki Professional Development Plan: