Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Evaluating My GAME Plan Progress
How effective were your actions in helping you meet your goals?
So far my actions are indeed helping me meet my goals. I took a step back on my research for creating a teacher website. I had seen so much that I needed to regroup and sketch out what I really wanted to do with mine. I am using my delicious tags to sort and organize the sites I review so I can go back to the sites and features I like.
What have you learned so far that you can apply in your instructional practice?
My review of the OH technology standards has showed me that students do need to have instruction on the technology skills. I cannot assume that when they arrive in my classroom that they have had this instruction. I will need to make some concerted effort to include time in my lesson plans to cover the technology, even when I think it is something they should already know.
What do you still have to learn? What new questions have arisen?
I need to learn how to fit it all in! Between the blog entries, the discussion board, my reading, my applications, and my GAME plan it is overlapping and overwhelming.
How will you adjust your plan to fit your current needs?
I am going to need to prioritize all of these tasks better so not one of them lags behind. I may adjust my GAME plan as the last item on my list of priorities because it is really a “future” goal and I see it as something I will be working on always and in all ways.
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Hi Carrye!
ReplyDeleteI know exactly what you mean about trying to fit it all in. I am a procrastinator, so I usually find myself up late Wednesday night trying to get the discussion and blog both posted by midnight. I have been trying to do my responses on Thursday or Friday, so that way I can concentrate on the application over the weekend. But by Sunday, I am usually rushing to get that done too. I know part of it is my fault for procrastinating so long, but it also seems that some days just don't have enough hours in them!
I agree with you that we can not assume students have the technology skills required when they enter our classrooms. This is easy to forget because so many of them seem to know so much technology. We have to be careful because there are also a lot that have virtually no technology skills and they are often embarrassed by this so they will not always ask for help. I think it is safest to teach the lesson as if none of them know the technology, because even the ones that think they know it, often don't know as much as we'd like them to.
Alison D.
Carye,
ReplyDeleteYou make an excellent point in not assuming all students know technology skills when they enter your classroom. It seems as though as teachers we tend to forget that or assume that this technology generation knows more than we do, but that is just not the case. I am glad to see you working on teaching them the neccessary skills to be successful with technology!
Katherine
Thank you for the support, ladies!
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