to My Message at a Conference: Try; Don't be afraid to try or learn something new! Brake down the walls and move beyond your comfort zone when it comes to technological skills.
Evolution through Innovative Education: Struggling Readers Find it hard to focus on learning and comprehension Mindfulness for focus Technology Games make learning fun Motivation using technology and content to encourage learners to strive Struggles in Implementation: I think that one of the struggles in implementing anything new is that it is an experiment and trying anything new can have unexpected turns as to how it might play out. Before I was afraid to try because it might not work out. I was afraid of becoming frustrated and being a waste of time. Now, I research my best, ask peers and then give it a shot. Sometimes the kids teach me and I love that! Trying out a new technology tool can really work out well and can go flawlessly and other times it bombs. My only advice is set a positive example for your students and even when it doesn't go as planned talk about it being unexpected, but have a positive growth mindset and tell them that to FAIL is a First Attempt in Learning and to persevere is to find a solution for the next attempt. I always tried to have a peer teacher that knew more about technology be my mentor in case I had to check in with her at break to problem solve a challenge. That seemed to really help even if the lesson went bad because she could warn me about the potential traps in the program or tool that kids could manipulate. TPACK Evolution, Then and Now: Technology: My technology when I started this program was sending and receiving e-mail and making a Word Doc or Google Doc. It sounds even more sad as I write out what I was capable of last July 2018. With a lot of guidance, technology trainings, peer support and mandatory school projects, I have been able to push through and persevere in the area of technology and beyond what I would have ever thought that I was capable of. I have implemented Technology Tuesdays for my 4th and 5th grade students and tried many of the tools that I have learned through this program. They have grown to love it so much that I never hear the end of it if I am out on a Tuesday for training or something and I owe them an extra day. You know they love it when my most challenging behavior problems thing that Be Internet Awesome is better than Fortnight. I have also grouped together some like minded colleagues that are interested in learning and had CIP meetings to share ideas and strategies when it comes to implementing the tools with Digital Citizenship and Literacy to my schools Leadership and BEST team and start an implementation for the following school year. I have passed on the ISTE guidelines and technology learning games for vocabulary and recalling important information to various teachers around my campus and I feel as though I am inspiring others to try new things to be more innovative and more interesting teachers. I have created and given Google Forms to 3rd graders through Google Classroom and am coordinating with district personnel to transfer Mindfulness surveys into Google Forms for more ready and easy to read data to access overall needs for classrooms. I also plan on creating pencil and paper Forced Choices forms and turning them into Google Forms to more closely monitor and motivate my students that are more challenging to inspire. Technology can be a huge motivator for student drive and participation for what inspires their learning. And in two weeks I will be teaching the two 5th grade classes how to use Adobe Spark for an AVID college presentation for their Open House. Pedagogy: How I teach and implement lessons is very much changed to a more varied and more student driven approach. I use more small group discussions, modeling, sentence starters, graphic organizers, Socratic seminars and inquiry based lessons. I am meeting students academic needs in a very different way this year than I was last year using TPACK as unified group of strategies that work together to motivate student learning and growth. & Content Knowledge: Teaching three grade levels of Language Arts that is my content area and I have grown in mastering the content a little more in the multiple grade levels this year. I can't wait to plan out next year using this TPACK model in a more complete and effective way all year long in multiple curriculum areas more cohesively.
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