Riverside County Office of Education
Digital Reflection Criteria – Induction

Digital Reflection Website Criteria

Synthesize your induction year by creating a website!

Directions

As a culminating reflection of your professional growth, you will create a website to reflect on your induction journey. This is your opportunity to share with the professional learning community what you can do!

        • Your reflection should demonstrate your technology, pedagogy, and content knowledge.
        • The website you publish should reflect pride in the profession with the real-world purpose to inspire and support other new teachers.
        • You will be presenting your digital reflection website during Colloquium.
        • CTI will ask your permission to feature your website on our Center for Teacher Innovation website, future publications, and/or Twitter account.

Tip:  Consider including additional tabs or pages on your website for organization of professional documentation like your resume or completed professional development for convenient use and access throughout your career.

Year 1

You will create a website at the end of Year 1.

Start

Start by selecting a free website builder as a tool to capture your digital reflection. 

Create

Create 3 categories (pages/tabs) on your website:

    • Name
    • Grade level
    • Content
    • Why do I teach? Include multimedia in a way that reflects your passion for and philosophy of teaching. This multimedia response should be embedded or linked on the Introduction page of your website.

Tools can include, but are not limited to the following:

Revisit your professional growth goal(s) and compare and contrast your Initial CSTP and your Final CSTP Self-Assessment results.

      • What are your areas of strength?
      • Where are your opportunities for continuous improvement?
      • What are you most proud of?
      • Share a specific example of student success or achievement, consider including a quote from a student or student work examples.
      • Share statement from an educational leader, that highlights your impact on student success.

Year 2

Start

You can continue from your digital reflection website from Year 1 or create a new one.

Create

Create 3 categories (pages/tabs) to your website:

If you no longer have access from Year 1 from last year, please be sure to include the information below: 

    • Name
    • Grade level
    • Content
    • Why do I teach? Include multimedia in a way that reflects your passion for and teaching philosophy. This multimedia response should be embedded or linked on the Introduction page of your website.
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Tools can include but are not limited to the following:

Revisit your professional growth goal(s) and compare and contrast your Initial CSTP and your Final CSTP Self-Assessment results.

    • Describe a professional goal you have for yourself beyond induction. Why have you identified this as a need or interest?
    • What actions will you take? How will you measure goal attainment?
    • What actions can you take to remain a connected educator throughout your career?
    • What can you do personally and professionally, to sustain the energy it takes to be passionate about students, teaching, and learning? (Ideas from Edutopia)
    • What advice do you have for new teachers entering the profession?

Throughout Induction, you have been provided Curated Resources with the intent to keep you informed of the newest and most relevant teaching strategies and web-based teaching tools available. Now, it’s your turn!

    • On your website, create a tab/page that features at least 3 quality resources that any new teacher in your grade level and/or content should not be without.
    • Include brief explanations of how you used them in your unique context.
    • Featured resources should include those you are excited to continue using in the future and those that would contribute to the success of other new teachers and students.
    • Featured resources can include lessons, activities, or other teaching resources you created, adapted, or found from another source. If you feature a resource that you did not create, be sure to cite your sources.
    • The resources you choose to feature should support effective use of technology, pedagogy, and/or content.
    • The goal of this task is for you to engage in being an active contributor to what’s great in the profession.
    • Throughout your induction experience, you have refined areas of expertise; now share with the world!

Early Completion Option

You will complete all digital reflection requirements at the end of your single program year.

Start

Start by selecting a free website builder as a tool to capture your digital reflection. 

Create

Create 5 categories (pages/tabs) on your website:

        • Name
        • Grade level
        • Content
        • Why do I teach? Include multimedia in a way that reflects your passion for and philosophy of teaching. This multimedia response should be embedded or linked on the Introduction page of your website.

      Tools can include, but are not limited to the following:

Revisit your professional growth goal(s) and compare and contrast your Initial CSTP and your Final CSTP Self-Assessment results.

      • What are your areas of strength?
      • Where are your opportunities for continuous improvement?
      • What are you most proud of?
      • Share a specific example of student success or achievement, consider including a quote from a student or student work examples.
      • Share statement from an educational leader, that highlights your impact on student success.
    • Describe a professional goal you have for yourself beyond induction. Why have you identified this as a need or interest?
    • What actions will you take? How will you measure goal attainment?
    • What actions can you take to remain a connected educator throughout your career?
    • What can you do personally and professionally, to sustain the energy it takes to be passionate about students, teaching, and learning? (Ideas from Edutopia)
    • What advice do you have for new teachers entering the profession?

Throughout Induction, you have been provided Curated Resources with the intent to keep you informed of the newest and most relevant teaching strategies and web-based teaching tools available. Now, it’s your turn!

    • On your website, create a tab/page that features at least 3 quality resources that any new teacher in your grade level and/or content should not be without.
    • Include brief explanations of how you used them in your unique context.
    • Featured resources should include those you are excited to continue using in the future and those that would contribute to the success of other new teachers and students.
    • Featured resources can include lessons, activities, or other teaching resources you created, adapted, or found from another source. If you feature a resource that you did not create, be sure to cite your sources.
    • The resources you choose to feature should support effective use of technology, pedagogy, and/or content.
    • The goal of this task is for you to engage in being an active contributor to what’s great in the profession. Throughout your Induction experience, you have refined areas of expertise; now share with the world!

Webtool Builders

CTI recommends that you use Google Sites to create your website.  However you are more than welcome to select any other website builder you are comfortable using.  Options are not limited to this list below:

Examples

View digital reflection examples that reflect the required criteria. These are just samples of the possibilities. You have full autonomy to personalize your digital reflection.

 

Digital Reflection Checklist for Reflective Coaches

Once your candidate has completed their Digital Reflection, use the information below to ensure that all required criteria have been met. Your candidate will be placing the link to their website in the Digital Reflection section of their ILP.  They will also create a brief Flipgrid recording of their website to share at Colloquium.   Access the Checklist Document here for the printable version.