Reflections for 5352

Campus-Supervised Internship Activities

I am almost 100% complete in completing all of the activities on my internship report. I just have a few of the activities to finalize and a few more that I will be completing at the e beginning of this school year.  One in particular that I will be completing during the first weeks of school is the one pertaining to the Cafeteria Manager and learning what all goes in to her position. I also need to meet with my Assistant Principal to discuss our Master Schedule for this year as many changes have been made from last year. I also need to tweak my activity for Domain II, Competency 08 dealing with technology.  Over the summer I was trained as a co-webmaster for our campus website which has been completely changed.  I will work with our Technology Liaison to implement the new website and train teachers. The Internship Plan and all the activities included in it has been one of my favorite components of this program.  It has enabled me to get invaluable real- world, hands- on knowledge of what I am learning.  I have also been blessed my super supportive site- supervisors that have bent over backwards to allow my to have as many experiences as I wanted.

Action Research Report

I can never say that my Action Research Report will ever fully be completed.  It is definitely an ongoing and ever-changing project that could continue well into the future. It deals directly with my campus’ RTI process and implementation which in itself is ever-changing in nature.  It has definitely allowed us to make some significant improvements and changes that are just the beginning of bigger and better things to come as more and more people get on board.  At the beginning of the school year I will meet with my IAT team to look at the progress we have made and close up my original project.  This project has spilled over into many other projects currently taking place on my campus, specifically the utilization of PLCs both at the team and vertical levels.  It has been exciting for me to see the widespread impact of what started out as a little idea.

Technology Skills/ Knowledge Gained

This course has allowed me to significantly increase my technological knowledge and has equipped me with many new ideas that I can implement on my campus.  The use of group work throughout this course has even increased that learning all the more.  I really enjoyed learning alongside my team members and share all of our new ideas and findings. Some of the Web 2.o tools and trends I look forward to doing more research on, introducing them to the teachers on my campus, and improving on our current use of some of the tools.

Overall Course/Web Conference Reflection 5352

This course has allowed me to get in touch with the latest and greatest technology ideas and how to utilize them in an online community.  I really enjoyed becoming a member of a group to complete activities throughout this class.  It was helpful to see the ideas and information of others in similar circumstances as my own and increased my knowledge to not only the information that I was learning, but also that of others.  I learned many new methods and technology trends that I plan to pass on to the teachers on my campus.  Some of the Web tools we are already using, but I was able to get fresh takes on new uses to implement and present to my teachers.  The Flipped Classroom was one of the ideas that I was particularly interested and I look forward to doing future research and learning on how to implement in an Elementary setting. The idea of freeing teachers of the time it takes to introduce new information, and allow them to utilize that time providing more individualized instruction to small groups of students and even one on one could have a dramatic impact on the increase of student success and achievement.  Project Based Learning was another trend that I enjoyed learning about.  I hope to support my teachers with the use of PBL in their classrooms throughout the upcoming year. The Web 2.o tool project with my group allowed me to gain a bank of awesome tools and ideas to try with my teachers.  I plan to collaborate with our technology liaison in order to train and provide support for teachers as they begin to implement these ideas in their classrooms. Overall I thoroughly enjoyed this class and came away with lots of useful information and ideas that I can put into practice immediately.