My GAME plan is going to be a work in progress all school year. Since we have not begun the year yet, I have not been able to reflect and work on making my students more creative learners. However, I have begun to think of ways to incorporate new ideas into each lesson to make my classroom more inquiry based learning to spark their creativity. We have our first staff meeting in two weeks and I am going to take the time to share my GAME plan with the other teachers in my department and see if maybe they would like to work on the same plan as me. Having a colleague work on the GAME plan as well would be a great way to see where the adjustments need to be.
In regards to the professional development GAME plan I have done about as much as I can do until our first staff meeting. By coming up with an email database of the entire math teachers it has simplified the amount of time it would normally take to locate each and every math teacher in the school. I hope that the other departments in my school will like this idea and maybe do the same. I would love to get an email database of all of my students in my own classrooms this year as well so that I can send grades home electronically and reduce the amount of phone calls that are usually made before the marking period ends.
Monday, August 16, 2010
6712 Final Reflection
The most striking revelation that I have had while taking this course is that I need to take a step back sometimes and let my students develop questions to ask me instead of always giving them questions to answer. By having my students develop questions they are digging deeper into their minds and having to think a little harder about the subject. This also allows them to learn more about the subject and in a much deeper way. By creating their own questions they are setting themselves up for success and understanding the bigger picture of what is being taught to them.
I have taken a lot away from this course. By creating the unit plan for Quadrilaterals I have now given myself three new projects to try to fit in during the unit. I am very excited to pass these ideas on to my fellow Geometry teachers and to see what they think of them.
One professional development goal that I would like to pursue is to open the lines of communication with the other teachers in my department so we can talk about different assessment ideas. One way that I could do this is to bring up this topic at our next math staff meeting. I also could take it one step further and open this discussion up to the entire school at our next entire staff meeting. I always find it interesting to see how other teachers are accessing their students in comparison to me. I think that this is something that all teachers could benefit from.
Darcey Kondel
I have taken a lot away from this course. By creating the unit plan for Quadrilaterals I have now given myself three new projects to try to fit in during the unit. I am very excited to pass these ideas on to my fellow Geometry teachers and to see what they think of them.
One professional development goal that I would like to pursue is to open the lines of communication with the other teachers in my department so we can talk about different assessment ideas. One way that I could do this is to bring up this topic at our next math staff meeting. I also could take it one step further and open this discussion up to the entire school at our next entire staff meeting. I always find it interesting to see how other teachers are accessing their students in comparison to me. I think that this is something that all teachers could benefit from.
Darcey Kondel
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
GAME Plan Review
After reviewing my GAME plans this week, I have realized that I never included the ISTE NETS-S yet in them! The Digital Storytelling of this week has reenergized my ideas for the upcoming school year, but it still is hard to get into that school mode!
For my GAME plan to Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity I cover the following ISTE NETS-S: 1. Creativity and innovation, 2. Communication and collaboration, and 3. Critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making. I want my students to communicate with each other to solve problems instead of always asking me, the teacher. I feel that students need to struggle a bit in order to learn. I want them to use their imagination and creativity to inspire themselves instead of myself always having to be the cheerleader for the subject.
For my GAME plan to Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership I cover the following ISTE NETS-S: 1. Communication and collaboration, 2. Critical Thinking, problem solving, and decision making, and 3. Technology operations and concepts. I would love for all of the teachers in my school to communicate on a regular basis and make big decisions in the school together. We really need to communicate through some sort of technology because it is too hard to get together on a regular basis. This is why I believe a blog/wiki would be the best option. I really hope to get this working the first week of school to better our schools atmosphere professionally.
Darcey Kondel
For my GAME plan to Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity I cover the following ISTE NETS-S: 1. Creativity and innovation, 2. Communication and collaboration, and 3. Critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making. I want my students to communicate with each other to solve problems instead of always asking me, the teacher. I feel that students need to struggle a bit in order to learn. I want them to use their imagination and creativity to inspire themselves instead of myself always having to be the cheerleader for the subject.
For my GAME plan to Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership I cover the following ISTE NETS-S: 1. Communication and collaboration, 2. Critical Thinking, problem solving, and decision making, and 3. Technology operations and concepts. I would love for all of the teachers in my school to communicate on a regular basis and make big decisions in the school together. We really need to communicate through some sort of technology because it is too hard to get together on a regular basis. This is why I believe a blog/wiki would be the best option. I really hope to get this working the first week of school to better our schools atmosphere professionally.
Darcey Kondel
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
GAME Plan Evaluation Part 2
GAME Plan Evaluation
It has been very hard to put my GAME plan into play or even start on Facilitating and Inspiring Student Learning and Creativity since school doesn’t start for over a month. I have set up the blog but am worried now about creating log ins for all of my students and having them create passwords that they will memorize.
Engaging in Professional Growth and Leadership has not gone well this week either.
Last week I set up the email database and have not discussed this with the other Geometry teachers yet, it seems that they all took their vacations this week. I hope to be able to share this idea with them and see how they feel about it.
Darcey Kondel
It has been very hard to put my GAME plan into play or even start on Facilitating and Inspiring Student Learning and Creativity since school doesn’t start for over a month. I have set up the blog but am worried now about creating log ins for all of my students and having them create passwords that they will memorize.
Engaging in Professional Growth and Leadership has not gone well this week either.
Last week I set up the email database and have not discussed this with the other Geometry teachers yet, it seems that they all took their vacations this week. I hope to be able to share this idea with them and see how they feel about it.
Darcey Kondel
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