I have truly enjoyed this course. I think it has opened up my eyes to how creative you can be in the classroom and how engaging you can get the students. I really struggle with incorporating technology into my teaching and I have gotten better over the last few years. This class has really encouraged me and made me more confident to include technology into everything I do.
Having conversations with others in the class too and viewing their blogs has been insightful too. Reading the other students blogs have really been helpful and neat to see what types of things and activities they do within their classroom. Allowing us to communicate openly has been great and I truly rely on different opinions of others in the class too because they are beneficial and good.
I will take away the ability to use technology within the classroom. I'm anxious to move forward this school year and create some new use of technology within my room.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Monday, July 11, 2011
Instructional Lesson
My instructional lesson is going to tie in with my service learning project. My students are going to be cleaning up a section of our playground throughout the school year for our service learning project. I wanted to tie the two projects together so we are going to then incorporate recycling and dig deep into why recycling is important. My goal for this lesson is to have the students communicate to other grade levels and talk about the importance of the environment and why we need to work together to keep it safe and clean.
Within the project we are going to research why recycling is important and how we can make a small difference throughout our school and spread the word by including our friends and family that we come in contact with everyday.
Our assessment is going to be to create a survey monkey survey to determine how successful other individuals and students are throughout the year. I want the projects I create this year to develop over time and I want the students to really understand why taking care of our environment is important and even though they are students they can make a difference.
Within the project we are going to research why recycling is important and how we can make a small difference throughout our school and spread the word by including our friends and family that we come in contact with everyday.
Our assessment is going to be to create a survey monkey survey to determine how successful other individuals and students are throughout the year. I want the projects I create this year to develop over time and I want the students to really understand why taking care of our environment is important and even though they are students they can make a difference.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Co-Teacher Plan!!
For my co-teacher plan I have partnered my sister who is an editor for a publishing company downtown. I have also partnered with a teaching partner and we are going to incorporate editing techniques provided through my sister throughout the school year to help guide the students to learn how to write, create and be independent when working on portfolio pieces and other creative needs.
Contact Information:
Heather Churchman
Communications Specialist
Convergys Corporation
201 E. 4th Street, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
p: 513-723-4940
e: heather.i.churchman@convergys.com
My sister and I have discussed including writing examples that she has created before and really looking at the beginning piece and the final piece and making a visual chart that the students can use to help guide them as they are creating and writing in their classroom. This will be a project we can work on throughout the year. I have also enlisted another teacher within my building to help me who will be teaching writing to our students. Our goal for this plan is to have the students learn things from a difference perspective. So my hope is bringing someone in from the outside world will inspire the students to see how important writing is and how much of an impact it has on a daily basis.
The technology we will be using will be email, and video chat so the kids may be able to send their writing pieces to Heather and then she can review them and then the kids can chat with her and get one on one experience and ideas. I will also use different writing checklists and visuals that the kids can keep in their writing folder for additional support.
The standards we will be addressing will be:
Writing Process: E: Use revision strategies to improve the coherence of ideas, clarity of the sentence structure and effectiveness of word choice
Writing Process: F: Edit to improve sentence fluency, grammar and usage.
Writing Applications: C: Use conventions of punctuation and capitalization in written work.
Writing Applications: D: Use grammatical structures to effectively communicate ideas in writing.
I will address the students learning through using rubistar to create rubrics based on the writing samples they pick and extend to write on. My hope is for the students to gain knowledge throughout the year of how to edit and use correct communication when writing. The rubrics will help the students have a visual to help support their ideas and guide them to use the right tools and tactics to use.
Contact Information:
Heather Churchman
Communications Specialist
Convergys Corporation
201 E. 4th Street, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
p: 513-723-4940
e: heather.i.churchman@convergys.com
My sister and I have discussed including writing examples that she has created before and really looking at the beginning piece and the final piece and making a visual chart that the students can use to help guide them as they are creating and writing in their classroom. This will be a project we can work on throughout the year. I have also enlisted another teacher within my building to help me who will be teaching writing to our students. Our goal for this plan is to have the students learn things from a difference perspective. So my hope is bringing someone in from the outside world will inspire the students to see how important writing is and how much of an impact it has on a daily basis.
The technology we will be using will be email, and video chat so the kids may be able to send their writing pieces to Heather and then she can review them and then the kids can chat with her and get one on one experience and ideas. I will also use different writing checklists and visuals that the kids can keep in their writing folder for additional support.
The standards we will be addressing will be:
Writing Process: E: Use revision strategies to improve the coherence of ideas, clarity of the sentence structure and effectiveness of word choice
Writing Process: F: Edit to improve sentence fluency, grammar and usage.
Writing Applications: C: Use conventions of punctuation and capitalization in written work.
Writing Applications: D: Use grammatical structures to effectively communicate ideas in writing.
I will address the students learning through using rubistar to create rubrics based on the writing samples they pick and extend to write on. My hope is for the students to gain knowledge throughout the year of how to edit and use correct communication when writing. The rubrics will help the students have a visual to help support their ideas and guide them to use the right tools and tactics to use.
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