GAME Plan Evaluation

GAME Plan Progress Evaluation

For my GAME plan to Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity I really have not had any progress since we are in the summer months and there is no school right now. However, I have found myself thinking of lessons that I use in class to change in order to have them use a class blog or wiki page. I have also talked to other teachers in my department and they seem very excited about using a wiki or blog in their classes as well.

For my GAME plan to Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership I think that I have done a great job getting a hold of my coworkers and discussing ideas with them on how we can use the wiki or blog page together in our classes. I have also set up an email database of the teachers in my department so instead of typing each email address out I can just click on “Geometry Teachers” and an email is sent to all Geometry teachers.

I’m very excited about my GAME plan and to see how it plays out this upcoming school year!

Darcey Kondel

GAME Plan Progress-Week 4 Post

For my first GAME plan to Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity I am finding a lot of great information. I have talked to other math teachers and have found many ways for my students to find the information that they will need to complete the project. I wonder if my students will be able to use Google Docs outside of school since we will not have that much time to work on their journaling in class. I hope that it will not take much time to teach them about it and set up the account. I do not feel that I need to change this GAME plan yet, but it may need to be tweaked down the road after I talk to more of my colleagues.

For my second GAME plan to Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership I have heard of a few different ways to set up the network of discussion. We may use a blog or wiki, but we are not sure at this time which will work the best. The only problem I am having at this time is not having the teachers around right now to really see their faces when talking to them about this network. Although through email they seem excited, but I do not know if this is just an email or if they are truly excited about the idea. I hope that the beginning of the school year will give me more insight.

GAME Plan Resources

For my first GAME plan to Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity my students will need a few different resources. The first resource they will need is a computer with internet. If they do not have access I will provide them with time during school hours. My students will also need a journal to keep track of how the learning is going for them. I may need to set up a Google Doc for them to use as it may be easier for myself to grade if I can access it from anywhere. I have not been able to take any steps yet since I am out of school for the summer. I hope to make this a regular classroom activity once the school year begins. I feel that if I start the year off this way, students will be more likely to catch on and be excited about it as the year progresses.

For my second GAME pan to Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership I will need just as many resources. I will need a computer with internet in order to set up the blog or wiki and each teacher will need access as well. At school we all have access so I think that staying a few minutes after school would be the easiest way to post to the site. I really do not need any additional information since we will be posting to the same site. I may need my colleagues home email addresses for the summer months if we choose to work on school material then, but other than that I do not think we will need anything else. The steps that I have started are talking to my coworkers about what they thought about creating a blog to use as a sounding board for the department. Everyone thinks that it’s a great idea so I will start putting it together as the school year gets closer.

My GAME Plan

My GAME plan to Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity:

G: The goals that I want from my students are to be creative learners. I want my students to be able to learn on their own in their own home on a project that we are doing in and outside of class that they must use the internet for.
A: I want to provide my students with websites that can help inspire their learning. I want them to go home and be even more excited about learning there than in the classroom.
M: I will have journals that my students write in. I will collect them to see if this is really working for them. I will be interested to see how often they are actually working outside of the classroom.
E: I will give students a participation grade as to how they performed in and outside of the classroom on this specific assignment. I hope to see many students working outside of the classroom with others and without the help of the teacher.

My GAME plan to Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership:

G: My goal is to set up a network of teachers in the math department to help each other learn from one another how to teach different lessons.
A: I plan to create a wiki or blog page for all of us to post on to reflect on different lessons that we have taught. I hope that everyone will participate so as to get the most out of the action portion of this GAME plan.
M: I will monitor by reminding everyone to post via email or in person. I will also monitor using the wiki or blog page and combining those pages that may have been duplicates.
E: We will evaluate by trying each other’s ideas the following year and seeing if they worked in our own classroom. By leaving the pages available they will give all teachers a different idea of how to introduce a subject on a level that they may not have thought of.