EDTC 6010 question: What setting or settings are you interested in working in when you receive your respective degree in Instructional Technology? Explain how you will fit in this particular setting. What questions (if any) do you have about working in this particular work setting?
The setting that I can see myself in after I receive my degree would have to be an educational one. For the last 19 years I have worked in this setting and enjoy the interaction I have with students and parents. Although I understand that if I would move into an IT position, the type of interaction would be different. However, the ultimate goal of improving learning and performance would still be the same. For me to be in any other setting, such as in business or industry would leave me feeling like a fish out of water. Although a majority of instructional design opportunities are in the business and industry setting, I don't think that would be for me. If I wasn't sure of that before, it certainly was made clearer to me after reading my business classmates blogs and discussion posts.
Since I have experience being on the SIT (School Improvement Team) committee at my school, I was able to make connections between it and the Strategic Leadership Team (SLT) mentioned in Chapter 21. It is just the next circle out in the big picture, which I see with the small circle being the individual child, then the individual classroom, then the individual school and then the school district, and eventually extending out to the state level and then ending at the national level. I can see myself being a teacher representative on the SLT team initiating and implementing the Step-Up-To-Excellence process to create and sustain whole-district improvement. I think I have a good amount of insight from being a classroom teacher in various private, public and government classrooms and would be able to add valuable understanding to the process. I have watched many administrators try to piecemeal change, and have not found it to be very effective.
One question that I have about working in this setting would be about how to get on the SLT team. In chapter 21, it stated that principals and teachers are appointed by their peers. I thought this to be a very interesting way to become a team member. I have noticed all too often that from a very young age on, any group that is appointed or elected by their peers becomes a popularity contest. This will not necessarily put the best applicants on the team. However, when I tried to come up with a better way to select candidates, I was unable to think of one.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Sunday, November 2, 2008
M & M's Media and Methods
Based upon your own teaching experiences (if any) and the contents of this lesson, what instructional media formats interest you? What instructional methods do you currently use this instructional media within an instructional setting? How do you anticipate using this instructional media within an instructional setting in the future? Make sure that you describe specific instructional methods.
One instructional media device that I would love to give my students the opportunity to work with is a Smartboard. I was lucky enough to have one at my old school and I really enjoyed using it during large group instruction. Unfortunately, we don’t have even ONE at the school where I currently teach, although the rumor is that we are supposed to be getting one for the whole school to share soon.
So for the time being, I use the 6 computers that I have in my classroom and the computer lab to enhance my lessons. I would have to say that I use the World Wide Web frequently when addressing the standards that I am teaching. Whether it is in social studies and the students are logging on in small groups or individually to become the historian and see how the First Thanksgiving went http://www.plimoth.org/education/olc/index_js2.html or using virtual manipulatives at http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_322_g_2_t_1.html to get a better understanding of the math concept that they might happen to be studying. The instructional methods that I use when doing this could be individual inquiry, peer-buddy learning, small group assistance or whole group lecture. I really try to vary my methods, based on what the students might need at the time, depending on the subject or the difficulty level.
Another media that you might see used in my classroom if you would happen to stop by would be videos. Whether it is a video that is being played via the telecenter or a clip that I pulled up on Discovery Education, it is just another way to get the information across to students. If students have read about an event in history, and then watch a video clip about it, and then act it out in class, you certainly have a better chance of remembering that event. I would have to admit that these are used in conjunction with a class lecture, for the most part.
One media that I hope to start using more in the future is Gaggle blogs. The students in my class all have gaggle accounts in which I can email them information and they can email me assignments and keep in touch with their classmates. For the last two years I have noticed that students can also have a blog connected with that account. Since I have never had time to get a good understanding of what blogs are and what I can do with them in the classroom, I just always keep that component of the program turned off. Now that I am maintaining a blog for this class, I can see how I can use it in my classroom as well. I think that explicit teaching would be the method that I would use to introduce the concepts of blogs to the students.
By taking the class Introduction to Instructional Technology 6010, I hope to become familiar with other medias and become comfortable enough with them to use them in my classroom, using a variety of methods.
One instructional media device that I would love to give my students the opportunity to work with is a Smartboard. I was lucky enough to have one at my old school and I really enjoyed using it during large group instruction. Unfortunately, we don’t have even ONE at the school where I currently teach, although the rumor is that we are supposed to be getting one for the whole school to share soon.
So for the time being, I use the 6 computers that I have in my classroom and the computer lab to enhance my lessons. I would have to say that I use the World Wide Web frequently when addressing the standards that I am teaching. Whether it is in social studies and the students are logging on in small groups or individually to become the historian and see how the First Thanksgiving went http://www.plimoth.org/education/olc/index_js2.html or using virtual manipulatives at http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_322_g_2_t_1.html to get a better understanding of the math concept that they might happen to be studying. The instructional methods that I use when doing this could be individual inquiry, peer-buddy learning, small group assistance or whole group lecture. I really try to vary my methods, based on what the students might need at the time, depending on the subject or the difficulty level.
Another media that you might see used in my classroom if you would happen to stop by would be videos. Whether it is a video that is being played via the telecenter or a clip that I pulled up on Discovery Education, it is just another way to get the information across to students. If students have read about an event in history, and then watch a video clip about it, and then act it out in class, you certainly have a better chance of remembering that event. I would have to admit that these are used in conjunction with a class lecture, for the most part.
One media that I hope to start using more in the future is Gaggle blogs. The students in my class all have gaggle accounts in which I can email them information and they can email me assignments and keep in touch with their classmates. For the last two years I have noticed that students can also have a blog connected with that account. Since I have never had time to get a good understanding of what blogs are and what I can do with them in the classroom, I just always keep that component of the program turned off. Now that I am maintaining a blog for this class, I can see how I can use it in my classroom as well. I think that explicit teaching would be the method that I would use to introduce the concepts of blogs to the students.
By taking the class Introduction to Instructional Technology 6010, I hope to become familiar with other medias and become comfortable enough with them to use them in my classroom, using a variety of methods.
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