What?
We are in our last week of field. Next week is spring break, and so we have wrapped up our assignments including: social studies, arts, math, and english lessons, while performing with much media in presenting our lessons.
So What?
As a teacher, this has helped me see that students of this particular generation love up-to-date ways to learn that include technology. As a student, I have learned how to teach more effectively and more organized using power point presentations, class websites, and other technology. As a colleague in the future, I'll be able to feel like a better contributor as I share lessons via email and other media methods. We are applying technology into our lessons now in order to be better prepared for using up-to-date methods of teaching. It has been good to understand how to make back up plans for when technology doesn't work how we hoped.
This can apply to me today because of all the same reasons I mentioned above. I am preparing to become a teacher. If I want to be an effective teacher with quality lesson plans, then I need to practice using technology in the classroom and understand the pros, cons, and just how children deal with it in general. Collectively, this technology that we've been learning about has been helpful in collaborating with my field work partner, has given me more options in my lesson preparation, and has been a tool in helping me prepare and organize enduring understanding in my teaching.
This can apply to me today because of all the same reasons I mentioned above. I am preparing to become a teacher. If I want to be an effective teacher with quality lesson plans, then I need to practice using technology in the classroom and understand the pros, cons, and just how children deal with it in general. Collectively, this technology that we've been learning about has been helpful in collaborating with my field work partner, has given me more options in my lesson preparation, and has been a tool in helping me prepare and organize enduring understanding in my teaching.
Now What?
To my future students, this technology means that they will have more input in their schemas for future careers, school tasks, means to learn new material, present important information, and other life tasks. This information also changes my schema and will continue to shape multiple options for presenting and teaching information to students. This information will change the type of teacher I will be in the future because I will find it easier to incorporate the curriculum into my lesson on multiple levels because of the immense organization technology can provide.
We performed an assignment that allowed the students to work inside and outside of class, but since we didn't have permission to assign homework, we just used class time to have the students develop a class website we (Charis and I) had created. The internet wasn't working, except for the plug in at the front of the class, so we just projected our computer and worked through the website links and created the page links as a class. It worked, but it would have been more fun for the students to collaborate in groups. Knowing that I had this kind of an option to create a website, opened up my options for the students to learn in a cooperative learning environment. This kind of activity idea to teach an important unit will help me become a better future teacher. I can be a better colleague by giving the websites used in my class to other teachers in my grade level so they can get ideas. As a department, it would be awesome and helpful if we had unit projects, lectures, and assignments as an entire grade level on one shared power point presentation or website that the students could look at in and outside of school. I have learned at field how important it is for same grade level teachers to collaborate so their students get to participate with all students their age in activities supervised by all different styles of teaching.
We performed an assignment that allowed the students to work inside and outside of class, but since we didn't have permission to assign homework, we just used class time to have the students develop a class website we (Charis and I) had created. The internet wasn't working, except for the plug in at the front of the class, so we just projected our computer and worked through the website links and created the page links as a class. It worked, but it would have been more fun for the students to collaborate in groups. Knowing that I had this kind of an option to create a website, opened up my options for the students to learn in a cooperative learning environment. This kind of activity idea to teach an important unit will help me become a better future teacher. I can be a better colleague by giving the websites used in my class to other teachers in my grade level so they can get ideas. As a department, it would be awesome and helpful if we had unit projects, lectures, and assignments as an entire grade level on one shared power point presentation or website that the students could look at in and outside of school. I have learned at field how important it is for same grade level teachers to collaborate so their students get to participate with all students their age in activities supervised by all different styles of teaching.
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