Week 7 GAME Plan Continued

In order for the students that I teach to understand that technology is important in all that they do I will need to model how important it is to them all the time. I am loving being able to use the SMART response clickers in my classroom. I think that they are a great tool and the kids love to be able to use them. I am a little scared that I will not know what to do when I am not able to use them on a daily basis. I use the clickers at least three days a week and at times it is every day. Not all the teachers in the building use them now so that is great for me because I get to use them all the time, but when all the teachers in the building start using them then I will have to give them up. I am not looking forward to that. I love the technology that is at my finger tips. Just sometimes when there is only a limited amount available to use I think that is limits me and the things that I am capable of doing.

GAME Plan- Week 6

I am still in the same place that I was in looking over my GAME plan. I think that I have a pretty good understanding on how I am going to do my lesson plan and I think that it Is coming together pretty well. The goals that I have I think are coming together. I know that there are teachers that I teach with that are not proficient with the SMART Response clickers and I have been helping them to understand how to use and implement them into their classes. I hope that I will still be able to help those that are struggling and then also grow as an individual in my own knowledge of the technology.

GAME Plan Evaluation

My game plan so far has been effective. My first goal was to model digital-age work and learning to the students. I feel that I am doing well with this because I have been able to use the clickers in my classroom that will help the students in to gain knowledge in the ever changing world. The other goal that I have set forth is to engage in professional growth and leadership. Well I feel like this will all come into effect when I am able to talk about the clickers and how they are used in the classroom on our delayed start on Thursday. I hope that the teachers in my building will be open to the new technology that I will be presenting along with a person from the district. I have had great success in using the clickers and getting the students engaged in the lessons that I hope that I will be able to show all the possibilities there are with the clickers. They are a great way to get the students excited about learning about math and applying technology.

Progress of my GAME Plan

I am excited that I have the materials and resources that I will need to carry out my game plan. Being able to use the SMART response clickers is a great luxury that I am blessed to have. They are a great asset to my class. The tests that I have given the students on the clickers have been very successful. The clickers are awesome to use. The other goal that I have in my game plan is to be able to use the internet. The problem that I think will come up is the ability to use the computer lab at my school. It was hard in the first couple months to get into the computer lab because there was a team in there every day for two months. I think that the clickers will help with all the data that I have to collect and help with the students getting instant feedback. It breaks up the same old same old of the pencil and paper method of teaching. I think that my game plan is starting to come together with the clickers, SMART board, and internet access.

Carrying Out My "GAME" plan

Looking at my GAME plan and the goals that I have set for myself there are a couple of resources that I will need in order to carry out my plan. I will need a SMART board, a set of SMART responses, and access to the internet to get others ideas. I will need to collaborate with other teachers in my department to see what they are doing so that I can get some ideas from others.

Additional information that will be required for me to carry out this part of my plan is to acquire the knowledge that is necessary for me to convey the important topics to my students. I would also have to see how familiar the students are with the up and coming technology. If students are not that aware of the technology I would have to teach them how to use the technology.

The one step that I have been able to take at this point is being able to use the SMART response clickers in my classroom. I love being able to have the technology right at my finger tips. It is a little work getting all the assessments ready for the students to take, but it is well worth it once it is time to get the results. The students love the instant feedback that they receive when they take the assessment in the class and the students have told me that they feel that they do so much better when they are using the clickers. It is the same material that I would give them with paper and pencil. They are just able to use the technology instead of the old time paper and pencil.

GAME PLAN!!!!

When I first looked at this week’s blog post I thought about how I am the assistant varsity girls basketball coach in the district that I teach and we are just getting started with basketball. I was thinking to myself what would my game plan be before I coach a game? I was trying to think about how I would approach that type of situation and then how I would apply it to this class.

MY GAME PLAN:
G: The two areas of the NETS-T that I would like to strengthen are “model digital-age work and learning” and “engage in professional growth and leadership”. The district that I am in has moved to looking at all the data that can be collected to drive our instruction. The one performance indicator for this topic is to “model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging tools to locate, analyze, evaluate, and use information resources to support research and learning”. I am starting to implement this in my class with the SMART Response clickers that I just got to use in my classroom. This is a great way to collect, analyze, and evaluate my teaching and what the students are learning. The other area that I would like to strengthen is engaging in professional growth and development. The performance indicator that I would like to address in this is “evaluate and reflect on current research and professional practice”.

A: The first action that I am taking now is trying to get all the teachers at the building that I teach in to be able to get a set of the SMART Response clickers for data research. I think that the information and data that they are able to collect are essential for driving instruction. I would also like to be able to get the teachers the proper training so that the use of the new technology would be like second nature for the teachers to be able to use. The clickers allow for the students to get instant feedback on what they are doing well or not and I can also get instant feedback with which students understand a concept and those that are struggling without the students being put on the spot.

M: The ways that I am planning on monitoring this is by collecting all the data that is available for information and then share the results with the other teachers in the building. This would be something that would be easy to monitor because the software for the SMART Response clickers is there and I can show the students a spreadsheet that will allow them to see their own personal progress. The goal that I think will be hard to follow is going to be communicating in global communities. I am not sure where to other school that I would be able to collaborate with. I hope that I will be able to find another school that I would be able to communicate with and get other ideas.

E: The way that I would evaluate my learning would be to look at all the things that I have implemented and see if what I am doing is working and are the students grasping the concept? The other way that I will evaluate my goal is by checking to see if I have accomplished what I have wanted to with my goals. If I have then I would be really happy. If not then I would have to look to see if there was anything that I would have to reevaluate with my goals.


National Education Standards for Teachers (NETS-T) located at http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NETS/ForTeachers/2008Standards/NETS_T_Standards_Final.pdf.

EDUC 6712: Reflection

I have had a couple of revelations while teaching new literacy skills to my students. The one that is most striking is that I need to change the way that I am teaching my students the new literacy skills to help prepare them for the future. Technology is changing so fast that every year I feel that I need to teach my students how to obtain valid information from all the different resources that are out there. The other revelation that I had was there are a vast amount of skills necessary for our students to be competitive in a world-wide work force. Up until this point in our society students were only responsible for reading, writing, and remembering. In today’s society the students must be able to solve advanced problems and must have technical and self motivational skills.

The knowledge that I have gained over these past eight weeks has made me realize that I need to become more fluent in the new literacy skills. The new literacy skills were something that I had never heard of before this class so I need to become well versed in them so that I can convey those skills onto my students. The more versed that I am in the skills the more likely I will be able to convey them to my students so that they can become more technologically advanced.

Some professional goals that I have are to learn more about different technology skills and model different ways to connect with other people. The way that I plan on learning about different literacy skills is through reading up on the internet on the new technology that is out there. The way that I would like to connect with other people is by having mu students share information on a class blog. I would like to be able to find a class that is studying the same things that I am in another school that my classes would be able to communicate with. I think that the students would be able to learn more from students that are doing the same things.