Week 5.1: Post your ONE web conference
reflection of the web conference sessions you attended to your blog link or
your Google Site and submit to your IA in course ware.
From the last web conference, I was able to hear my classmates’ knowledge and views on flipped classrooms. While I have only a
small amount of knowledge, the conference prompted me to gain more knowledge
and try to occasionally “flip” my classroom. Additionally, there was clarification given
regarding the week five assignments. We are to do one reflection of web conference,
reflect on our knowledge gained during this course, and report on our progress
with our Campus-Supervised Activities and Action Research Project. Throughout
my coursework at Lamar, web conferences have been a great resource of
information. It is a way to feel more “connected” during distance learning.
Week 5.2: Write
brief Reflections and Status Report of your technology skills and knowledge
gained in this course, your progress with your Campus-Supervised Internship
Activities, and your progress with your Action Research Project. Submit to your
Google Site, Wikispaces, or Blog and to your IA in your course ware.
Technology Skills and Knowledge
My work in this class has helped my technology skills grow
immensely. While I felt like I had a pretty strong knowledge of technology to
use in the classroom, this course opened up several new areas that I will
continue to learn about. I plan to use lessons from LiveBinders in my
classroom. One main goal of mine for this school year is to create at least one
LiveBinder for both classes I am teaching this year (Algebra 1 and 2). I will
introduce Google Docs in my class as a means of collaboration in my classroom.
I am also going to try to “flip” my classroom at least once during each grading period. I am very
excited to watch my students grow as they are introduced to new methods of
technology and learning!
Campus-Supervised Internship Activities
I have made a great deal of progress in my Campus-Supervised
activities. When I began to write my internship plan, the task of completing so
many activities seemed very daunting. After learning from my instructors and
classmates, and having conversations with my campus supervisor, I realized that
many of the activities I was doing at school counted as activities and hours
needed for my internship plan. That was a very nice surprise, and it helped me
not feel so overwhelmed. Also, in completing my activities, I have been able to
extend my width of knowledge about my school district’s administration. I have been able to shadow the school attendance
clerk, speak with the Human Resources Director, and interview our head janitor.
These are offices that I don’t always deal with in my day-to-day teaching, so it was good to
see the challenges they face in their individual and very different duties each
day. I have a few activities I still need to do, but I plan to accomplish those
during the fall semester.
Action Research Project
I am working, along with our school’s Parental Involvement
Committee, on using results from our survey to develop a plan for the future of
our Parental Involvement. We are currently in the beginning stages of
developing a mentor program for our at-risk students. This will help our
students have a positive adult role model to check on them and be a part of
their life. Many of our students are great kids, but they have very little
support at home. The PIC decided that, as part of our goals to increase parental
involvement, we wanted to create opportunities for students without active
parental figures in their lives to have a mentor to fill this gap. Also, we are
working on developing a PTO, which our school has not had in many years. This will
increase the communication and collaboration between parents and teachers, which
we all agree will be a positive thing! I completed several parts of my Action
Research Paper in EDLD 5397, but I need to finish writing the final parts. I
feel confident that I will be able to finish it this semester.
