I am excited to come off of summer break and use some of the things that we learned from this course. Things like the GAME plan I have developed and improved through the weeks of this course. I also believe the NETS-S, social networking and digital story telling will all become a large part of my curriculum and I am also going to try and involve my collagues as well. This will all be a big part of how I can help my students in the 21st century. We as teachers need to help them apply technologies that will help them become competitive in this technolgy challanged world. By using the GAME plan strategy in classes I feel that students will get more out of my classes. Using technologies and encouraging students to think deeper on their own will help them become better problem solvers.
Some of the immediate adjustments will be that I will have students learn and understand what online blogging and wiki sites can do for them and their education. I feel that showing the students from the skills of technolgy and stratagies of answering questions they will be stronger students. I want students to become more intrigued with questions and answers that will affect their lives and have them seeking knowledge.I think that using and showing technologies to them right now will help them time to become comfortable with the technology and also become more excited about the possibilities that exist. I would also like to do more cross curricular work with other teachers and form a bigger and stronger base for the students to work from.
Monday, August 23, 2010
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Week 7 Walden
By combing GAME and NET-S to meet the needs of our students, we will help our students to become almost proficient in technology. I think the Standard 3,6 (select digital tools or resources to use for a real-world task and justify the selection base on their efficiency and effectiveness) will be a great focus to implement into my GAME plan because here students are using real-world experiences that will be forming what projects they create. By providing them with projects that they can relate to, they will become more intrigued and enjoy working on something that has meaning to them.
NETS-S Standard 1,4 (Employ curriculum-specific simulations to practice critical-thinking process) will allow students to understand that they are responsible critical thinkers. I believe we as teachers should provide guide them to self-discovery. I feel that by using more technology with students and doing more projects with them they will become more tech savy. This will also create a more comfortable enviornment for them and they will have the skill they will need later on in life.
NETS-S Standard 4,5,6 (Analyze the capabilities and limitations of current and emerging technology resources and assess their potential to address personal, social, lifelong learning, and career needs) This standard will assist me in helping the students learn about individual needs so they will become that life long learner. Also if the students are creating projects though online resources and social networking they will become more proficient with their personal and social needs.
By providing online resources to my students and helping them to understand what is expected they will be able to set goals. I think the GAME plan process is a great way to help students take accountability for their own actions as well as the needs of a group. I also believe that by monitoring them and evaluating their progress there project will get better and they will become more comfortable working online. I feel that the sooner we as teachers incorporate technology in the classroom and start our students in the technology direction they will become self motivated. I plan to use the GAME plan process with the intention of my studnets enjoying technology and becoming life long learner.
NETS-S Standard 1,4 (Employ curriculum-specific simulations to practice critical-thinking process) will allow students to understand that they are responsible critical thinkers. I believe we as teachers should provide guide them to self-discovery. I feel that by using more technology with students and doing more projects with them they will become more tech savy. This will also create a more comfortable enviornment for them and they will have the skill they will need later on in life.
NETS-S Standard 4,5,6 (Analyze the capabilities and limitations of current and emerging technology resources and assess their potential to address personal, social, lifelong learning, and career needs) This standard will assist me in helping the students learn about individual needs so they will become that life long learner. Also if the students are creating projects though online resources and social networking they will become more proficient with their personal and social needs.
By providing online resources to my students and helping them to understand what is expected they will be able to set goals. I think the GAME plan process is a great way to help students take accountability for their own actions as well as the needs of a group. I also believe that by monitoring them and evaluating their progress there project will get better and they will become more comfortable working online. I feel that the sooner we as teachers incorporate technology in the classroom and start our students in the technology direction they will become self motivated. I plan to use the GAME plan process with the intention of my studnets enjoying technology and becoming life long learner.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Game Revision Week Six
What have you learned so far that you can apply in your instructional practice?
I have learned that after watching the social networking video, that incorporating it more frequently into classes will be more intriguing for students. I feel that by continuing to work towards meeting my goals for my GAME plan I will be able to correct and change ideas and ways that social networking will affect both my students learning and my teaching. I feel that social networking will help my students become more independent and once they are comfortable with the blogging, the wiki, and the online classrooms, they will take more responsibility for their learning and understanding.
What goals are you still working toward?
I am still working towards developing my professional relationships. I feel when teachers collaborate and connect with one another and share ideas that the students benefit. I feel that by allowing other teachers to help influence my ideas then I will develop a larger spectrum of ideas and assessments for my students.
Based on the NETS-T, what new learning goals will you set for yourself?
I think by reflecting on the NETS-T standards I have learned that the more technology my students are used to using the more comfortable and confident they will become. I also believe that by creating authentic learning experiences for my students and allowing them different learning opportunities we as teachers are giving them more opportunities to develop on their own and seek their own understanding. Also it is very important to monitor student progress and continue to assess how students are performing. If they need to be guided to change directions we as teachers are there to help them understand how to solve problems that have been provided to them.
If you are not ready to set new learning goals, how will you extend what you have learned so far?
I am not ready completely to set new goals. I would like to work on the ones that I have set for myself and then continue to assess and modify them. What I have learned over the past 6 weeks has helped givin me new ideas that will help change how my classes function and perform to meet standards. I look forward to helping them learn through the use of technology, and I'm encouraged to help myself seek professionals that enjoy collaborating to help improve the classroom.
What learning approaches will you try next time to improve your learning?
I will continue to seek support and research new information that will guide the classes I teach. I think social networking is a great tool and I plan to use it frequently. I also enjoy using the wiki sites and would like to involve myself more in them.
I have learned that after watching the social networking video, that incorporating it more frequently into classes will be more intriguing for students. I feel that by continuing to work towards meeting my goals for my GAME plan I will be able to correct and change ideas and ways that social networking will affect both my students learning and my teaching. I feel that social networking will help my students become more independent and once they are comfortable with the blogging, the wiki, and the online classrooms, they will take more responsibility for their learning and understanding.
What goals are you still working toward?
I am still working towards developing my professional relationships. I feel when teachers collaborate and connect with one another and share ideas that the students benefit. I feel that by allowing other teachers to help influence my ideas then I will develop a larger spectrum of ideas and assessments for my students.
Based on the NETS-T, what new learning goals will you set for yourself?
I think by reflecting on the NETS-T standards I have learned that the more technology my students are used to using the more comfortable and confident they will become. I also believe that by creating authentic learning experiences for my students and allowing them different learning opportunities we as teachers are giving them more opportunities to develop on their own and seek their own understanding. Also it is very important to monitor student progress and continue to assess how students are performing. If they need to be guided to change directions we as teachers are there to help them understand how to solve problems that have been provided to them.
If you are not ready to set new learning goals, how will you extend what you have learned so far?
I am not ready completely to set new goals. I would like to work on the ones that I have set for myself and then continue to assess and modify them. What I have learned over the past 6 weeks has helped givin me new ideas that will help change how my classes function and perform to meet standards. I look forward to helping them learn through the use of technology, and I'm encouraged to help myself seek professionals that enjoy collaborating to help improve the classroom.
What learning approaches will you try next time to improve your learning?
I will continue to seek support and research new information that will guide the classes I teach. I think social networking is a great tool and I plan to use it frequently. I also enjoy using the wiki sites and would like to involve myself more in them.
Monday, August 2, 2010
Week 5 Game Plan Update
How effective were your actions in helping you meet your goals?
This is really something that I cant accomplish at this time because I am on summer vacation right now. Howevery through the application process I am learening more each week about the different resources offered . By leraning abour the PBL I am understand that there is more meaningful and exciting ways to teach my studnets throught the different technologies. One way this is going to help my students learn is they will understand the process of PBL and they will become more efficient learners and problem solvers.
What have you learned so far that you can apply in your instructional practice?
I have learned that the way we present the ideas and problems to the students is what will encourage them to become better problem solvers and thus become more involved in the content that is delivered. PBL will also help my students with curriculum cross-over, by bringing in more content to the problems presented, the students then will begin to start becoming more efficient at cross curricular discovery themselves. This will help with my first goal and have students develop more of a responsibility for their education.
What do you still have to learn? What new questions have arisen?
I still have a ways to go with making sure my GAME plan will help the students and myself and learn more about the PBL process. I think that the problem based actions will help students understand more of how they need to accept and learn what they can do for themselves. I haven’t developed any new questions.
How will you adjust your plan to fit your current needs?
I am not sure what adjustments I will need to make until I apply this approach in class. I am hoping that with the PBL process I will be able to learn along with the students and we will work through the process together. I want to make sure that I adjust assessments to meet the needs and understand what the needs are in full and how each student is affected.
This is really something that I cant accomplish at this time because I am on summer vacation right now. Howevery through the application process I am learening more each week about the different resources offered . By leraning abour the PBL I am understand that there is more meaningful and exciting ways to teach my studnets throught the different technologies. One way this is going to help my students learn is they will understand the process of PBL and they will become more efficient learners and problem solvers.
What have you learned so far that you can apply in your instructional practice?
I have learned that the way we present the ideas and problems to the students is what will encourage them to become better problem solvers and thus become more involved in the content that is delivered. PBL will also help my students with curriculum cross-over, by bringing in more content to the problems presented, the students then will begin to start becoming more efficient at cross curricular discovery themselves. This will help with my first goal and have students develop more of a responsibility for their education.
What do you still have to learn? What new questions have arisen?
I still have a ways to go with making sure my GAME plan will help the students and myself and learn more about the PBL process. I think that the problem based actions will help students understand more of how they need to accept and learn what they can do for themselves. I haven’t developed any new questions.
How will you adjust your plan to fit your current needs?
I am not sure what adjustments I will need to make until I apply this approach in class. I am hoping that with the PBL process I will be able to learn along with the students and we will work through the process together. I want to make sure that I adjust assessments to meet the needs and understand what the needs are in full and how each student is affected.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Monitoring my game plan progress
Do you need to modify your action plan?
I don’t believe I need to modify my action plan because, I think that I have a broad plan for my action steps and will be able to reach my students if I take the proper steps. I believe that if I have students take responsibility for their own actions and taking appropriate steps to helping them succed they will be self sufficient. This will also help them in become life long learns after my class. I also believe that allowing the students to participate in class blogging sessions they will find their way around the internet and they will use it to become understanding with topic and with the assignments.
Another part of my action plan will be to continue developing my professional community which will in turn help with the learning purposes. I plan to reach out to my collagues in the state and regionally, so I am able to network monthly with them on current issues.
What have you learned so far?
I have learned that there are multiple approaches to meeting my GAME plan and helping students meet there goals. I believe that by being a good student myself and allowing for learning and positive growth I will become a better teacher. I think that by giving them different assessment in various ways that the students will understand the topic and feedback that I provide for them.
What new questions have arisen?
Some questions that I have are how will I make sure I am using the right assessments with my students to fully understand whether or not they fully understand what is being taught in class. And how many different assessments for each unit should I complete? I need to make sure I am in constant contact with my co-workers and also with teachers around the state that teach Health and PE to make sure we are all staying up to date with the latest information that the students need.
I don’t believe I need to modify my action plan because, I think that I have a broad plan for my action steps and will be able to reach my students if I take the proper steps. I believe that if I have students take responsibility for their own actions and taking appropriate steps to helping them succed they will be self sufficient. This will also help them in become life long learns after my class. I also believe that allowing the students to participate in class blogging sessions they will find their way around the internet and they will use it to become understanding with topic and with the assignments.
Another part of my action plan will be to continue developing my professional community which will in turn help with the learning purposes. I plan to reach out to my collagues in the state and regionally, so I am able to network monthly with them on current issues.
What have you learned so far?
I have learned that there are multiple approaches to meeting my GAME plan and helping students meet there goals. I believe that by being a good student myself and allowing for learning and positive growth I will become a better teacher. I think that by giving them different assessment in various ways that the students will understand the topic and feedback that I provide for them.
What new questions have arisen?
Some questions that I have are how will I make sure I am using the right assessments with my students to fully understand whether or not they fully understand what is being taught in class. And how many different assessments for each unit should I complete? I need to make sure I am in constant contact with my co-workers and also with teachers around the state that teach Health and PE to make sure we are all staying up to date with the latest information that the students need.
Monday, July 19, 2010
Carring out my "GAME PLAN "
To carry out my game plan and reach my goals there will be a few resources needed that will be critical to my success. I believe the most important resources will be that students start to take responsibility for their own actions and understanding what is expected. I also believe that the help of my colleagues and their opinions will help in conjunction with my goals. They will also help when it comes to my 2nd goal of learning what is taking place in classrooms around the state and around the world. I think keeping an open mind and being open to suggestions will help in my success.
Additional information would be on how to motivate students to take full responsibility for their education. I would also like to take class that are offered on latest classroom behavior and how maintain the positive learning environment.
I will not be able to take any of these steps however until school resumes after our summer break. However, I am a member of our State AHPERD (Alliance, Health, Physical, Education, Recreation and Dance) chapter that has helped form great relationships with people around the state. I believe by being involved with this I have learned what we as teachers can expect out of ourselves and other colleagues.
Additional information would be on how to motivate students to take full responsibility for their education. I would also like to take class that are offered on latest classroom behavior and how maintain the positive learning environment.
I will not be able to take any of these steps however until school resumes after our summer break. However, I am a member of our State AHPERD (Alliance, Health, Physical, Education, Recreation and Dance) chapter that has helped form great relationships with people around the state. I believe by being involved with this I have learned what we as teachers can expect out of ourselves and other colleagues.
Monday, July 12, 2010
BIG IDEA
After reading and going through the standards in ISTE and NETS-T, I found many standards that I need to use to improve my skills as a teacher. However I will focus on two I feel I lack the most knowledge in. The first one that I decided to use applies both to PE and Health class. It is standard 4 sub-standard “b” (teachers allow and encourage students’ to take control of their own time management and skill development) and Standard 4 sub-standard “d” (collaboration with teachers and other classes around the state and country). Both of these standards will both benfit my students as well as myself and create a better learning environment.
Goals:
By looking at my first goal of having students take control of their own time management and skill development they will become more self-directed in their learning skills and take more responsibility for their own learning. I feel this goal is important so my students can develop and become more rounded learners. This will as help to relieve me of managing their time, because if they are responsible for their effort they will then understand the consequences of not working hard, or working hard for the grade they earn.
Secondly the goal I will focus on will help students understand what other students in the same city, state, and country are doing to advance their knowledge. I think the more students understand who is learning what they are learning, the more interested they will be in performing at a higher level. This will also help me understanding what other teachers in different places are teaching and what their students are expected to learn.
Action:
I will make sure the action that I take is done in steps. I want students to learn correctly how to help themselves and to be self-sufficient learners. When students can take responsibility for their actions they will be able to then engage more in learning and understanding. I will provide multiple opportunities during class that will help students understand how they need to take control of their learning and how to ask questions and participate in discussions. I would like to provide a blog site for my classes so that periodically in class they will be required to talk about a topic we are discussing in class. This will give the students more time in class learning and exploring and the discussions posts will be done to further their learning's.
The action step for collaborating with other teachers will help me to be more aware of what is going on around the community and the state. I try to stay up to date with what is changing so the students understand what is being learned and they can then understand the importance of their knowledge and how powerful their decision making and understanding of current events will be. I plan to converse more frequently with community teachers and also teachers in the state. I will do this through email and through conference meetings and workshops. I feel the more I know, them more my students will know.
Evaluate:
I will evaluate my students on how they begin at the start of the year and then how they move forward during the different units. I feel the way to see whether or not they are progressing and taking control of their management and skill development will be shown through projects they complete. I will also evaluate through assessment via a worksheet that will ask questions on whether or not they are understanding the information and how they are processing it. The blogging will also help determine whether or not they are taking more control of their learning and how they will advance. I will also ask students individually how they feel they are doing and what they would be further interested in learning and how they will try and advance.
I will evaluate the 2nd goal by reflecting on how often I meet and talk with other professionals in the community and around the state. I will look at my reflections and determine also when I get new information if I am using what I have learned. I will also have other teachers help me go over what they have taught and possibly watch me teach to see whether or not I am doing things correctly and the students are understanding what is taught.
I feel by assessing and setting these 2 goals for myself I will become a better teacher and educator for my students.
Goals:
By looking at my first goal of having students take control of their own time management and skill development they will become more self-directed in their learning skills and take more responsibility for their own learning. I feel this goal is important so my students can develop and become more rounded learners. This will as help to relieve me of managing their time, because if they are responsible for their effort they will then understand the consequences of not working hard, or working hard for the grade they earn.
Secondly the goal I will focus on will help students understand what other students in the same city, state, and country are doing to advance their knowledge. I think the more students understand who is learning what they are learning, the more interested they will be in performing at a higher level. This will also help me understanding what other teachers in different places are teaching and what their students are expected to learn.
Action:
I will make sure the action that I take is done in steps. I want students to learn correctly how to help themselves and to be self-sufficient learners. When students can take responsibility for their actions they will be able to then engage more in learning and understanding. I will provide multiple opportunities during class that will help students understand how they need to take control of their learning and how to ask questions and participate in discussions. I would like to provide a blog site for my classes so that periodically in class they will be required to talk about a topic we are discussing in class. This will give the students more time in class learning and exploring and the discussions posts will be done to further their learning's.
The action step for collaborating with other teachers will help me to be more aware of what is going on around the community and the state. I try to stay up to date with what is changing so the students understand what is being learned and they can then understand the importance of their knowledge and how powerful their decision making and understanding of current events will be. I plan to converse more frequently with community teachers and also teachers in the state. I will do this through email and through conference meetings and workshops. I feel the more I know, them more my students will know.
Evaluate:
I will evaluate my students on how they begin at the start of the year and then how they move forward during the different units. I feel the way to see whether or not they are progressing and taking control of their management and skill development will be shown through projects they complete. I will also evaluate through assessment via a worksheet that will ask questions on whether or not they are understanding the information and how they are processing it. The blogging will also help determine whether or not they are taking more control of their learning and how they will advance. I will also ask students individually how they feel they are doing and what they would be further interested in learning and how they will try and advance.
I will evaluate the 2nd goal by reflecting on how often I meet and talk with other professionals in the community and around the state. I will look at my reflections and determine also when I get new information if I am using what I have learned. I will also have other teachers help me go over what they have taught and possibly watch me teach to see whether or not I am doing things correctly and the students are understanding what is taught.
I feel by assessing and setting these 2 goals for myself I will become a better teacher and educator for my students.
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