Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Revising My GAME Plan
What have you learned so far that you can apply in your instructional practice? What goals are you still working toward? So far I have learned some new technologies that I can use in my classroom, such as, Moodle, EdModo, and wikis. Since creating the wiki with my classmates I have a better understanding of how I can use them in the classroom. I have already altered three lessons to include technologies and have tried using Webspiration in the classroom with great success. As far as helping my fellow teachers find ways to integrate technology into their classrooms I am having difficulty getting my colleagues to engage. This time of year is very difficult for many teachers and for the time being I am just going to jot down and record my favorite resources and try to do a professional development session in the fall. Based on the NETS-T, what new learning goals will you set for yourself? I am going to continue to change and update my lessons. A new learning goal will be to “design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity.” (http://www.iste.org/standards/nets-for-teachers/nets-for-teachers-2008.aspx). I have tried to just do a little at a time and it has worked very well for me. I did not feel overwhelmed yet I did feel like I was making progress in achieving my goal of adding technology to my lessons. If you are not ready to set new learning goals, how will you extend what you have learned so far? This is basically an extension of my first learning goal of “demonstrate fluency in technology systems and the transfer of current knowledge to new technologies and situations” (http://www.iste.org/standards/nets-for-teachers/nets-for-teachers-2008.aspx). What learning approaches will you try next time to improve your learning? I think I have use a fairly good approach this time around. I am excited for the summer where I can concentrate more time and energy on the classes I teach first semester and am not currently teaching this semester. I am also excited to compile the book of resources for my colleagues that I can hand out in the fall. This will complete one of my learning goals that I have been unable to complete due to the time of year.
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There are so many new and exciting tools that we were introduced to over that past few weeks. I am finding it difficult to get the time to preview or to develop the necessary competency to use many of them. I can see that overtime I will have to select several of the online tools and sort of specialize in those. I will select those that best support the core themes of my two specialties; geography and social studies. All the best with your game plan for the upcoming week.
ReplyDeleteYou have created a plan that seem to be very feasible which will allow you to accomplish your goal with implementing new technology into the curriculum. I find it much easier to focus on learning advance technology when I am not so overwhelm with teaching during the school year. The strategy that I use during the school year is to explore a new device bi-weekly this gives me the time to learn the feature of the new device so that I can effectively implement it into my instructions to help increase student achievement.
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ReplyDeleteThe book of resources sounds like such a valuable contribution--I'd love a copy when you create it.
It sounds like your plan is going well.
I find that there are times I am just too busy to move ahead with much--I feel like I am lucky to be "treading water" but the busy time lets up and then I can dive into my projects.
Thanks for sharing.
Susan
Taking the time to update your courses will prove beneficial down the road. Even if you are only implementing small changes at this point, they can help guide bigger changes in the future. Everyone is experiencing many of the same challenges with workload this time of year, and they can have the tendency to shut down rather than make their work better. You are doing some great things that will benefit your classes later and provide you with more time for yourself this summer. Again, good luck with the resource book. It's such a great idea.
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