Evaluating My GAME Plan Cont'd

Below I have listed my original GAME Plan that was submitted at the beginning of this course.

Design & Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences & Assessments:

b) develop technology-enriched learning environments that enable all students to pursue their individual curiosities and become active participants in setting their own educational goals, managing their own learning, and assessing their own progress.

d) provide students with multiple and varied formative and summative assessments aligned with content and technology standards and use resulting data to inform learning and teaching.

Engage in Professional Growth & Leadership:

c) evaluate and reflect on current research and professional practice on a regular basis to make effective use of existing and emerging digital tools and resources in support of student learning.

Goals:

1. To engage students in more self directed activities with a student-centered approach, while enhancing their learning through the use of technology.

2. To provide students with a variety of assessments that align with technology standards that can later help to enhance my ability to teach.

3. To consitantly reflect and adapt with the everchanging digital tools and resources that support student learning so that my students and I can benefit from those technology tools.



In my last blog, I explained how I'm currently trying to make the activities I teach more self-directed and I have continued to do that throughout my dance and rhythms unit with the Jigsaw Dance Approach. Because I only see my students twice a week and this dance approach takes a little longer to complete, I haven't finished teaching it. As far as providing students with a variety of assessments is concerned, I haven't fully developed this part of my plan. While I do have plenty of ideas, I will need to spring into action with them in the coming months. I do, however, feel that I'm spending more time searching for new ideas and activities for use in the classroom. I've recently become fond of a site called http://www.peuniverse.com/ and I've enjoyed it so much that I have started to post comments on discussion boards and blogs.

As I look ahead to future units I know that I can easily implement a more student-centered and technology driven approach to learning as our fitnessgram fitness testing approaches. Since this is the second time my students will have done this unit in the school year, I'd like for them to be able to take a look back at their goals that they set at the beginning of the year and look at their fall scores so that they can try and beat those scores. Then we can enter their scores into the computer and analyze their scores and try to explain why some scores declined or improved. I have many other ideas that I can try to implement this year too.

I am a firm believer of being a lifelong learner, so I know that there is always something that I can learn. One thing that I can learn for the near future is how to create a movie through imovie so that I can create a beginning of the year video for my students on classroom procedures, rules, and safety. I think that I've created a plan that is flexible, however, I think I need to focus in on one project and follow through with it before getting ahead of myself and trying to move onto the next project. I really need to set aside a time where I can reflect on the effectiveness of the activities I'm doing in my classroom. I'm thinking that I might even need a journal to keep all of my ideas organized until I can put them into action.


Reference:

International Society for Technology in Education. (2008). National Education Standards for Teachers (NETS-T). Retrieved from http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NETS/ForTeachers/2008Standards/NETS_T_Standards_Final.pdf.