Candidate Professional Growth and Development
Standard 6: Candidate Professional Growth & Development
Candidates demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to engage in continuous learning, reflect on professional practice, and engage in appropriate field experiences.
Candidates demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to engage in continuous learning, reflect on professional practice, and engage in appropriate field experiences.
- Element 6.1 Continuous Learning - Candidates demonstrate continual growth in knowledge and skills of current and emerging technologies and apply them to improve personal productivity and professional practice.
- Element 6.2 Reflection - Candidates regularly evaluate and reflect on their professional practice and dispositions to improve and strengthen their ability to effectively model and facilitate technology-enhanced learning experiences.
- Element 6.3 Field Experiences - Candidates engage in appropriate field experiences to synthesize and apply the content and professional knowledge, skills, and dispositions identified in these standards.
FRIT 7335: Web Design and Development
The final project for FRIT 7735 Web design was quite frankly the most time consuming and difficult part of my time in the GSU Graduate Program. It was created from the ground up using Adobe Dreamworks, and represents 60 hours worth of man hours. It was utilized in recruiting consumers in need of creative solutions for their artistic endeavors. I have always believed that quality takes precedent over ease. I am extremely pleased with this website and am happy to report that I have gained multiple freelance engagements as a result of its publication.The screen shot below features the home page, the full site is linked at www.jayjernigan.net.
On a personal note, while it may have been easier to complete the project using simpler software, I enjoyed learning Dream Works. It is a tool that can be a part of growing. In fact, my dance department website was created and maintained using Dreamworks and hosted at GoDaddy.com. It is my intention to be able to update and maintain it myself once my degree is completed. It is currently two years out of date.
On a personal note, while it may have been easier to complete the project using simpler software, I enjoyed learning Dream Works. It is a tool that can be a part of growing. In fact, my dance department website was created and maintained using Dreamworks and hosted at GoDaddy.com. It is my intention to be able to update and maintain it myself once my degree is completed. It is currently two years out of date.
Standards Achieved
Elements 6.1 6.2
Self Directed: Savannah Arts Academy Departmental Dance Assessments
A major part of being an arts major of any kind in the collegiate circuit is the experience of juries. The Jury process is one in which all of the arts faculty observes candidates in various technique classes to decide your future in their department, or if you need to explore your options elsewhere. Anyone who has been through them can tell you it is one of the most difficult processes to endure.
Upon arrival, my school did not have anything like this in place. Slowly but surely, I devised a system of not only evaluating the students, but all of the materials listed below,demographics, score sheets, rubrics have become a major part of tracking student ability. Students are evaluated by faculty three times a year. While this is not anything impressive, we needed for students to evaluate themselves so we could identify inconsistencies in their self perception in comparison of actual ability. The process underwent many revisions, but ultimately has become a cutting edge evaluation tool. The entire process is now online. Faculty evaluate students during the class and scores and comments are entered into a spreadsheet. Students are recorded and their entire class is uploaded to a semiprivate YouTube channel so that they can view themselves. The entire data sheet is completed online and submitted to us digitally. The results allow many options. Data can be sorted upon any parameter and allows for long term tracking of both faculty and student scores. This would allow the identification of all students dance technique, providing the faculty with a snapshot of student deficiencies at any given time, encouraging curriculum revisions to accommodate learner's needs.
Upon initial implementation the administration planned to use it as a template for all of the arts majors. However, the idea that students could be placed on arts probation or eventually removed based on lack of artistic merit did not sit well with parents. They petitioned the board to have it removed and were successful. While we still complete the assessments, no student can be removed as its result. While disappointing, I was able to utilize this process in creating the national dance SLO's this past fall. I am very happy to be a part of creating national documentation for my initial certification field.
Upon arrival, my school did not have anything like this in place. Slowly but surely, I devised a system of not only evaluating the students, but all of the materials listed below,demographics, score sheets, rubrics have become a major part of tracking student ability. Students are evaluated by faculty three times a year. While this is not anything impressive, we needed for students to evaluate themselves so we could identify inconsistencies in their self perception in comparison of actual ability. The process underwent many revisions, but ultimately has become a cutting edge evaluation tool. The entire process is now online. Faculty evaluate students during the class and scores and comments are entered into a spreadsheet. Students are recorded and their entire class is uploaded to a semiprivate YouTube channel so that they can view themselves. The entire data sheet is completed online and submitted to us digitally. The results allow many options. Data can be sorted upon any parameter and allows for long term tracking of both faculty and student scores. This would allow the identification of all students dance technique, providing the faculty with a snapshot of student deficiencies at any given time, encouraging curriculum revisions to accommodate learner's needs.
Upon initial implementation the administration planned to use it as a template for all of the arts majors. However, the idea that students could be placed on arts probation or eventually removed based on lack of artistic merit did not sit well with parents. They petitioned the board to have it removed and were successful. While we still complete the assessments, no student can be removed as its result. While disappointing, I was able to utilize this process in creating the national dance SLO's this past fall. I am very happy to be a part of creating national documentation for my initial certification field.
Digital Copy of Assessment Documents and Rubrics
You Tube Playlist of 2013-2014 Assessment for Juniors
Link/Embedded Digital Survey for Students to Complete Self Assessment
Elements Achieved
6.1, 6.2, 6.3