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The Next 5 Years – Personal Reflection
My immediate goals include spending the summer becoming comfortable with creating assignments on Google Classroom and creating videos or finding videos or the various topics I will cover during the schoolyear so that students who miss class or do not grasp the concepts will have something to refer back to. I also plan to explore the available educational apps to determine which ones will work best with my students to promote student engagement. My final short-term goal involves researching and/or creating rich math tasks for my students to complete so that I spend more time as a facilitator in the classroom instead of the dispenser of knowledge.
I anticipate that during the next schoolyear, there will be changes in a few places. If I have a good idea of what I will be teaching next year, then I plan to research backward design a bit more and try to design my curriculum ahead of time based on the outcomes that I want. I also plan to work on strategies that will help me to better manage the classroom and create a classroom environment where learning from failures is acceptable. I will develop guidelines for group work and grading group projects as well. Since one of my coworkers will be in the 3rd cohort, I anticipate working with him on his ImagineIt project implementation so that we can hopefully spread our STEM understanding at least among the math department members at my school. Within the next 5 years, I hope to actively integrate the math department at my school into all the STEM projects that are being conducted at our STEM school.
Because of this experience this year, I see that if I had designed my curriculum for the outcomes I wanted, I would have weathered the challenges of this schoolyear without losing my creative focus. Thinking through the lessons ahead of time and purposefully planning activities devoted to your chosen outcomes is hard for me, but I am willing to forgo my usual lesson planning to try to make this new way work for me and my students. I also will not allow my fear of student misuse of technology and/or its theft to defer me from using technology to enhance my curriculum. I will endeavor to keep a positive attitude and hold my students to high expectations with safeguards built in for when they don’t live up to expectations.
In my near future, if opportunities arise at church or with other community organizations that allow me to participate in the process of bringing STEM to other places of education, I will endeavor to do my best to enhance their program and explore other educational options that might not be available at my school for the betterment of the students that they serve. Thank you so much MSU and WIPRO for affording me such a wonderful experience that has changed my life!!!
My immediate goals include spending the summer becoming comfortable with creating assignments on Google Classroom and creating videos or finding videos or the various topics I will cover during the schoolyear so that students who miss class or do not grasp the concepts will have something to refer back to. I also plan to explore the available educational apps to determine which ones will work best with my students to promote student engagement. My final short-term goal involves researching and/or creating rich math tasks for my students to complete so that I spend more time as a facilitator in the classroom instead of the dispenser of knowledge.
I anticipate that during the next schoolyear, there will be changes in a few places. If I have a good idea of what I will be teaching next year, then I plan to research backward design a bit more and try to design my curriculum ahead of time based on the outcomes that I want. I also plan to work on strategies that will help me to better manage the classroom and create a classroom environment where learning from failures is acceptable. I will develop guidelines for group work and grading group projects as well. Since one of my coworkers will be in the 3rd cohort, I anticipate working with him on his ImagineIt project implementation so that we can hopefully spread our STEM understanding at least among the math department members at my school. Within the next 5 years, I hope to actively integrate the math department at my school into all the STEM projects that are being conducted at our STEM school.
Because of this experience this year, I see that if I had designed my curriculum for the outcomes I wanted, I would have weathered the challenges of this schoolyear without losing my creative focus. Thinking through the lessons ahead of time and purposefully planning activities devoted to your chosen outcomes is hard for me, but I am willing to forgo my usual lesson planning to try to make this new way work for me and my students. I also will not allow my fear of student misuse of technology and/or its theft to defer me from using technology to enhance my curriculum. I will endeavor to keep a positive attitude and hold my students to high expectations with safeguards built in for when they don’t live up to expectations.
In my near future, if opportunities arise at church or with other community organizations that allow me to participate in the process of bringing STEM to other places of education, I will endeavor to do my best to enhance their program and explore other educational options that might not be available at my school for the betterment of the students that they serve. Thank you so much MSU and WIPRO for affording me such a wonderful experience that has changed my life!!!