Goals to strengthen confidence
- In the area of promoting and modeling citizenship and responsibility I would like strengthen my skills in meeting the needs of all learners in the classroom. More specifically, I would like to increase my confidence in providing students with equal opportunities to use digital tools and resources.
- The second area I would like to strengthen my skills in the classroom deals with collaborating with parents, peers, and students to use the digital tools and resources to support student thinking and learning.
- Locate a variety of resources: examples include articles, conferences, search engines, information technology resources in the building.
- Ask parents to help and become educated on the resources available
- Provide students with opportunities to share resources they have found.
- Ask other teachers for help.
- Search, search, search
- Keep a journal of the resources found whether through searches, colleagues, parents, or students
- Ask for student and parent input
- Reflections of the technologies used and how effective they were
- Parent and student input
- Attend workshops that introduce and teach about new resources
- Stay connected with teachers that use technology and share resources
Your focus on modeling citizenship and responsibility could also be enhanced by creating opportunties for the students to do some type of community service. Depending on the age of your students, they might help clean a park or rake leaves for the elderly, or if younger, they may be able to plant flowers at a community center or their own school. An incentive might also be to award a Citizenship Award, something that use to be given out years ago when I was in school.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like you are on the right track with your goals. Nice posting.