What I have come to realize when evaluating the effectiveness of my GAME plan progress is that this is not a task fully achievable in a mere number of weeks. Having goals such as incorporating digital tools and resources to promote student learning, as well as, improving students’ online literacy skills to aid in the progress of them becoming self-sufficient citizens are tasks which take time. These goals are tasks which should be incorporated in a year long progression plan. But, we have been able to take baby steps.
The effectiveness of my actions for promoting these skills has produced some valuable skills and data. My students are now able to utilize two additional technology tools and are more familiar with searching and reading resourceful web material. We have also explored some bogus information. It is important for them to be aware of the misleading information that is out there as well. My life skills students now are able to search for employment, transportation, living quarters, and survive on budget.
Taking into consideration what I have learned from implementing my GAME plan and applying them to my instructional practice, is time management. Many of the tasks I had planned took double the time to accomplish. Other factors which have affected my instructional practice are not assuming students know certain things and to always have a back-up plan if the technology fails you.
I believe as I continue to teach these skills new questions and problems will arise. And with the rapid progress of technology, I am going to try to always be a step ahead and learn a little faster then my students. I am very open to them teaching me certain skills and having my classroom be a collaborative learning environment for us all.
At this time the only adjustment to achieving my GAME plan is lengthening the time of progress towards meeting the goals I have established for myself and my class. It is a task which is going to take me the remainder of the year.
Stephanie Coultrip
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Hi Stephanie,
ReplyDeleteI agree completely with your comment about not being able to achieve our goals in a matter or mere weeks, and that we have just taken some baby steps. As I read some of our other group members' posts, they mentioned that some of the actions they chose to use are not our our time table. Professional conferences and classes can only be attended when they are scheduled so we cannot report progress until the class or conference happens. For me, incorporating the digital citizenship piece will have to happen later in the school year because I am currently off track and when I return, my classes and I will be preparing for our spring concerts. After the concerts, we will move into our research units.
I concur that it is important to realize that implementing the NETS for teachers and students take a significant amount of time. We need to include the extra time in our plans. Congratulations on successfully implementing your GAME Plan.
Gwen
Stephanie,
ReplyDeleteI agree that it is hard to properly evaluate your progress in just this short time but I like that you acknowledged your baby steps. Iy sounds like to me, you students have some some pretty huge advances. Congratulations!
I think whenever we try something new, we will run into bumps like time management and incorrect assumptions. I am experiencing that with my second graders as we create our first Powerpoint. I thin the GAME plan is great because it makes us acknowledge those "bumps" and forces us to alter our plans for the next time we implement the lessons.
Good job!
-Ashley
Sthefanie,
ReplyDeleteYour goals may not be attainable in just a couple of weeks but you are on the right track to achieve them. You have made already some progress with your students, you have identified areas in with you need to grow professionally, and more importantly you have learned to develop, monitor, and evaluate your self-directed learning.
Michel