Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity is a performance indicator I believe I can strengthen throughout the school year and my teaching career. Through social studies I have a great avenue to promote, support, and model creative thinking. Lessons involving historical concepts or events will be a create opportunity to provide students with technological resources that will improve their learning and learning experiences moving forward in the 21st century. Actions I will take will to strengthen student creativity will be promoting student assessment through tools that allow for student creativity and inspire student learning. Assessment opportunities like projects, presentations, or other forms of assessments that have a focus on technology. I will monitor my progress by the assessment opportunities I provide students that promote student creativity. Evaluating my ability to extend my learning on student creativity will probably be a year end reflection where I look back on the course and with information available on the year decide whether or not I effectively promoted student learning and creativity to level that needs to be expected and needed to be successful.
Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership is the other performance indicator I would like to focus on and improve. A lot of our teachers and myself included, focus on professional development in our curriculum. However, I believe not enough time is spent improving and demonstrating the effectiveness of digital resources in our school district. By incorporating learning opportunities for teachers and then promoting digital resources in our classrooms, we as teachers would be modeling lifelong learning. These learning opportunities will allow for teachers to explore creative and digital learning opportunities that can be incorporated into our classrooms. Not enough teachers within our district use technology enough or at all. I believe by developing teachers’ understanding of technology will promote teachers to use more technology within their individual classrooms. Teacher development will lead to more professional growth and leadership. Looking back at the end of the year we will be able to see if teachers participated in professional development and whether or not it had an impact on their curriculum and technology use within it.
Digital recourses are extremely imporant in today's education of the youth. I too hope to better incorperate digital devices more often in my classroom.
ReplyDeleteCorey,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that teachers do not spend enough time promoting digital resources within the classroom. It does not do our students justice to acquire information and not use it with them in the classroom. This year, my school receive Activboards in every classroom. The teachers seem to be so excited about using them, but I have noticed that they have forgotten the impact of digital cameras, flipcams, blogs, wikis and PowerPoint to name a few. I think it is important to embrace new technology but still place an emphasis on creating a variety of technology opportunities for each student.
Have tried any virtual field trips with your students? I would think that this application would benefit your students tremendously in the area of social studies. The students could visit the places that they are learning about and see first hand accounts of what occurred during a specific time period.
Corey,
ReplyDeleteSometimes I think teachers believe incorporating technology into their lessons is just one more thing to do, but actually it's not. It is just creating and teaching lessons in a different format. My school district is focusing on technology heavily. They are constantly offering in-service opportunities and we also have technology coaches that come into our classroom to model lessons that have technology embedded into them. They are there to help make teaching easier for us not to make it harder.
It's just a matter of wanting to change the way teach or keeping it the same and being "sage on the stage".
Gayla
I like that your goals are very measurable. I have never used a GAME plan before but have always been instructed to use SMART goals. Measurable and Attaniable within a time limit are the most important psrts and your goals seem to follow that.
ReplyDelete