Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Monitoring Your GAME Plan Progress
As part of my journey as a teacher, I am working through the process of developing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating my personal GAME plan. I have made great strides at reaching my goal in the last week. Time flies! In the last 2 weeks I have made time to sit down and talk with other coworkers about integrating technology into my lessons and theirs. Collaboration is key. So many times just thinking out loud and bouncing ideas off another teacher gives me the answers I am looking for. In the past week I have also utilized the SMART board much more in project upgrade classes I teach. Tech integration takes time but I think the last week has been a real success. I have been doing a lot of research on using manipulatives in math and found the National Library of Virtual Manipulatives at http://nlvm.usu.edu encourages students to use their content knowledge of math principals to solve problems. Each manipulative lesson is related to a national math standard and can easily be applied to my own NJ standards.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Game Plan
New Year - New GOALS!
I'm exploring strategies for seamlessly integrating technology into my classes. There are numerous ways to motivate students to learn and fortunately technolgy offers some of the most powerful tools available. (2009) I need to teach students how to be self directed learners, so that they can adapt to any job they would like to do in the future. My personal journey is to develop, implement, monitor, and evaluate my own personal GAME plan.
What is a GAME plan?
GAME plan is an acronym for setting your own learning Goals, taking Action to meet those goals, Monitoring your progress toward reaching those goals, reflect or Evaluate the Effectiveness of your learning process. (Cennamo, Ross, & Ertmer, 2009, pg 30)
The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) is an organiztion for educators engaged in improving learning and teaching by advancing the effective use of technology in PK-12 and teacher education. They help set goals for what students, teachers, and administrators should know and be able to do with technology in education. http://www.iste.org
There are two indicators in the NETS-T that I will set goals for strengethening my confidence and proficiency.
Goal
1 - Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
Teachers design, develop, and evaluate authentic learning experiences and assessment incorporating contemporary tools and resources to maximize content learning in context and to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes identified in the NETS•S.
Actions I will take to achieve those goals are:
Develop technology-enriched learning environments that let all students pursue their individual curiosities and become active participants with the aide of technology. "Authentic instruction provides for, and builds on, learner autonomy."(2009) Lessons that are relevant and interesting will motivate students. My goal is to learn more about Windows Movie Maker. The current action I am taking is working with another teacher to learn all the features of Movie Maker in order to have 8th grade students develope a storyline and a storyboard to create an organized script for a 5-10 minute movie in our history class covering trench warfare in WWI. Students will be able to have their skits saved in their digital portfolios as well as on our class website to share with a wide audience. I am monitoring my progress through making one video as an example for my class with the aide of a tech teacher. As each class works on their projects I am reflecting on how each class period does and adjusting the lesson as I go.
2 - Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership
Teachers continuously improve their professional practice, model lifelong learning, and exhibit leadership in their school and professional community by promoting and demonstrating the effective use of digital tools and resources.
Continue with perfessional growth and development classes in technology.
Monitor my progress in implementing authentic instruction and how many professional development and master degree level classes I take per school year.
Evaluate how I am doing with exit slips from class - where students would respond to the lessons/projects we are completing. Ask myself the questions - did my lessons or unti plan work - can it be improved? What would I do differently in the future.
Reflect on current educational research about technology.
I'm exploring strategies for seamlessly integrating technology into my classes. There are numerous ways to motivate students to learn and fortunately technolgy offers some of the most powerful tools available. (2009) I need to teach students how to be self directed learners, so that they can adapt to any job they would like to do in the future. My personal journey is to develop, implement, monitor, and evaluate my own personal GAME plan.
What is a GAME plan?
GAME plan is an acronym for setting your own learning Goals, taking Action to meet those goals, Monitoring your progress toward reaching those goals, reflect or Evaluate the Effectiveness of your learning process. (Cennamo, Ross, & Ertmer, 2009, pg 30)
The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) is an organiztion for educators engaged in improving learning and teaching by advancing the effective use of technology in PK-12 and teacher education. They help set goals for what students, teachers, and administrators should know and be able to do with technology in education. http://www.iste.org
There are two indicators in the NETS-T that I will set goals for strengethening my confidence and proficiency.
Goal
1 - Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
Teachers design, develop, and evaluate authentic learning experiences and assessment incorporating contemporary tools and resources to maximize content learning in context and to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes identified in the NETS•S.
Actions I will take to achieve those goals are:
Develop technology-enriched learning environments that let all students pursue their individual curiosities and become active participants with the aide of technology. "Authentic instruction provides for, and builds on, learner autonomy."(2009) Lessons that are relevant and interesting will motivate students. My goal is to learn more about Windows Movie Maker. The current action I am taking is working with another teacher to learn all the features of Movie Maker in order to have 8th grade students develope a storyline and a storyboard to create an organized script for a 5-10 minute movie in our history class covering trench warfare in WWI. Students will be able to have their skits saved in their digital portfolios as well as on our class website to share with a wide audience. I am monitoring my progress through making one video as an example for my class with the aide of a tech teacher. As each class works on their projects I am reflecting on how each class period does and adjusting the lesson as I go.
2 - Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership
Teachers continuously improve their professional practice, model lifelong learning, and exhibit leadership in their school and professional community by promoting and demonstrating the effective use of digital tools and resources.
Continue with perfessional growth and development classes in technology.
Monitor my progress in implementing authentic instruction and how many professional development and master degree level classes I take per school year.
Evaluate how I am doing with exit slips from class - where students would respond to the lessons/projects we are completing. Ask myself the questions - did my lessons or unti plan work - can it be improved? What would I do differently in the future.
Reflect on current educational research about technology.
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