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Chapter 11 addresses in performance assessments for both the teacher and student and ways to actively involve students. Three concepts that I believe as a teacher one should be aware of is that just as we re going to evaluate students we will be as well evaluated as educators, also that there is a concept called democratic schools, and how to engage them using technology,

I want to discuss that as future teachers we will go through evaluations. administrators will walk and see how one is performing. They will evaluate our class management, our academic and class performance. I feel like this is important because as new teachers one has to be aware of what they can improve in. I feel like it will only allow us to get better. I also think though that evaluations are great, there can be complications. I feel that education politics comes into play.

An interesting concept I found was democratic schools and classrooms. Until reading this chapter I did not view schools like this or that such thing existed.  This is a movement that wants to allow students to be part of the educational and academic learning decisions, Its about establishing a balance and It sounds great. The teacher is in charge but the students have more voice. I think this concept is great as long as the student is accomplishing things, In the after school program I work in I feel like I have set up this type of environment. My students decide what games they want to play or what they want to watch based on some options. They feel like they have a voice and therefore they enjoy and tend to be more attentive,

I think the book provided an example on how to engage students using clickers, which is a student participation system. I personally have experienced this and feel like it i a great way to engage students. I think as educators things  like these will allow us to know which child is participating and we can know where they stand in a certain subject. There are also other things that have come since clickers, such as things like Socrative or Kahoot.it. I have experienced many of these while in school I think they are great. In kahoot it automatically shows you the result and it feels more of a game than anything else. Socrative is more I want to say formal. All of these are a great way to get the student engaged, to know if they understand or not, Also I think it can be used for other reason other than academic. It can be used to get to know the students better or to see what they want to do as activities or as a poll. These are great tools!

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Gonzalez, I. (2015, November 4). Socrative. Retrieved November 5, 2015.

 Free Image on Pixabay - Playschool, Children, Human, Kids. (n.d.). Retrieved November 5, 2015. 

Kahoot! (n.d.). Retrieved November 5, 2015.

Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.