Review of GAME plan

• What resources will you need to carry out your plan (video, reading, experts or colleagues, etc)?

One resource I will need is time. Since my goal is to change at least two lessons in each class over a semester I will need to set aside time to accomplish this task. The resource that I already have is the new knowledge I am constantly gaining through my Master’s courses. I have plenty of ideas that I want to use in my classes I just need the foresight and planning to know when things will fit well and add to the lesson components.

My other goal is to work collaboratively with others. To achieve this goal I wanted to either teach a professional development workshop in my classroom on a new technology I have learned about that would be helpful to a large part of the staff or to compile a mini-textbook that has good links, resources, etc. for each content area. There have been so many good resources, videos, and websites in this course that I think could help the staff at my school easily integrate technology into their existing lessons.

• What additional information do you need?

For the first goal I need to create a journal to document what I have done and how it improved student achievement/learning. I also need to set up my Outlook calendar on my district laptop and schedule in the time slots to work on lessons.

For the second goal I need to put out a staff email to see if there is more interest for a professional development opportunity in my classroom or for a mini-textbook with links, resources, and websites.

• What steps have you been able to take so far?

This week I was able to implement Webspiration in my Business Law classes. Students did not seem to make very good connections between their learning and the last assessment. I started this Chapter with students skimming the chapter for important information and then transferring their ideas into a Concept Map using Webspiration. Most students created a map using one of the templates. I modeled how I would break the content up and how it would best make sense for me. I also told the students how I pictured they would use their Concept Map in the future to study for their test, to see which connections were still fuzzy and needed a clearer understanding, and to help visualize while taking the assessment if there was a question they did not understand.

As for my second goal I have not taken any steps so far other than to speak with colleagues I know to see if they had interest in either of the scenarios.