My Personal GAME Plan
G: Set Goals
A: Take Action
M: Monitor
E: Evaluate and Extend
After looking over the NETS-T (National Education Standards for Teachers), I have chosen two indicators I would like to work to improve proficiency and confidence with.
NETS-T Indicators:
1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity
Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments.
3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning
Teachers exhibit knowledge, skills, and work processes representative of an innovative professional in a global and digital society.
Set Goals:
1. Promote student reflection using collaborative, digital tools to reveal and clarify students’ conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes.
2. Strengthen collaboration with students and parents through the use of digital tools and resources to support student success and innovation.
Take Action:
1. Students will be required to write in journals using the computers, rather then a paper notebook.
2. Students will communicate ideas, opinions, and suggestions through a collaborative classroom wiki page.
3. Through the class wiki page, students and parents will be able to access support and ideas to help students at home by keeping a weekly agenda of what is going on in the classroom.
4. Parents with access to the Internet will be sent resources to help their child via electronic sites, journals, or activities.
Monitor:
To monitor my progress, I will have students complete an anonymous survey with the use of clickers. Students will answer questions related to the classroom wiki page as well as their daily electronic journals. I will also monitor the class site for parent comments.
I will assess student learning through formative assessments that students will complete twice a week.
Evaluate and Extend:
As a whole class, we will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of completing journals via the computer. We will also discuss the wiki page and offer suggestions for improvements. Students will have an opportunity to voice their opinion and work closely with the technology to make necessary changes or improvements.
Collaboration will take place with other professionals who employ this form of technology in the classroom to get their opinion on student successes and failures.
Reference:
Cennamo, K., Ross, J. & Ertmer, P. (2009). Technology Integration for Meaningful Classroom Use: A Standards-Based Approach. (Laureate Education, Inc., Custom ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.
I really like your idea for having the students creating a journals using the computer. Did you consider having the students posting them possible to a blog? This way their parents could view their journals and what they have been doing in school.
ReplyDeleteI also liked your idea for the online journal. Are these journals private, or for sharing? How, specifically, will you use formative assessments to monitor progress?
ReplyDeleteHaving a computer generated journal is a neat way to keep their ideas in an organized and easy to read format. I am also wondering if there is a way to have students post a journal entry on your class Wiki page or in a blog.
ReplyDeleteThat is a great idea! I don't know why that slipped my mind but having students create blogs will give them more experience with technological advances that are taking place. This would take a little more preparation for the students to become familiar and comfortable with but well worth it.
ReplyDeleteThe student wiki page to have the students keep up with what is going on in the classroom sounds like a great way to keep the students revisiting their current and past lessons. I am interested in hearing whether your students enjoy the journaling on the computer. I would imagine some students could be very creative in their journaling if given the opportunity.
ReplyDeleteIf your school uses the open internet, you can set up a class page on office live. There the kids can have access to a cloud page to post their work, journal, as well as communicate with one another. I am unable to use this at my school due to security issues.
ReplyDeleteI think emailing parents resources and activities is one of the best things we can do when we utilize technology with our classes. I have been sending emails like that to my students for two years now, and it makes a world of difference. One recommendation I have from experience is that when you send out emails, keep a copy of those emails in a word document. I found myself recreating the same emails each trimester, and each school year. Then I realized that I will always send out these specific emails, so why not save them so in the future I can just copy/paste emails that are already created. This will save time, and keep your organized and prompt with feedback to parents.
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