6.2 Reflection
Candidates regularly evaluate and reflect on their professional practice and dispositions to improve and strengthen their ability to effectively model and facilitate technology-enhanced learning experiences. (PSC 6.2/ISTE 6c)
Artifacts: Blog Reflections
Reflection:
At the end of each ITEC Course a blog was completed as an assignment. The purpose of the blog was to reflect about our growth as technology facilitators. The blog also allowed us to reflect about all that we had learned throughout the course and how we were going to use the knowledge in the future. The reflections posted demonstrate continuous growth in my knowledge, skills, and dispositions of current and emerging technologies in education. These reflection blogs also demonstrate how I have applied what I've learned to my daily classroom instruction at Thomson-McDuffie Middle School.
Standard 6.2 Reflection Artifact establishes the expectations to regularly evaluate and reflect on my professional practice and dispositions because throughout the Instructional Technology program, I have regularly posted evaluations and reflections on my professional experiences as a graduate student. The blog also helped me to reflect about how I effectively modeled and facilitated technology enhanced learning experiences in my classroom. It is clear that through each course, discussion, textbook, articles, and more I have continuously improved my professional practice as a facilitator of technology.
By completing this blog I have learned the value of a good reflection. As I read through some of my blogs I realized the wealth of knowledge that I gained throughout this program. I see how I have used some of the experiences in my classroom and I can also relive past failures and successes with technology usage. By completing a blog it has helped me to see the importance of completing one in my own teaching. It has helped me to see the importance in regularly reflected and reevaluating. The only change I would have made was to blog throughout the class and not wait until the end. By waiting some of the experience is dulled and some of the important things forgotten.
My blog impacts faculty development because it allowed me to see my growth as a technology facilitator. My personal growth as an educator not only benefits myself, but it also has a benefit to my colleagues and my students. I can use my reflections to see what works and what did not work. I can then take this knowledge to my colleagues and students. The impact of my blog could be assessed by comparing my classroom experiences before I began to blog with my classroom experiences after I started blogging to determine how my reflections influenced my instruction.
At the end of each ITEC Course a blog was completed as an assignment. The purpose of the blog was to reflect about our growth as technology facilitators. The blog also allowed us to reflect about all that we had learned throughout the course and how we were going to use the knowledge in the future. The reflections posted demonstrate continuous growth in my knowledge, skills, and dispositions of current and emerging technologies in education. These reflection blogs also demonstrate how I have applied what I've learned to my daily classroom instruction at Thomson-McDuffie Middle School.
Standard 6.2 Reflection Artifact establishes the expectations to regularly evaluate and reflect on my professional practice and dispositions because throughout the Instructional Technology program, I have regularly posted evaluations and reflections on my professional experiences as a graduate student. The blog also helped me to reflect about how I effectively modeled and facilitated technology enhanced learning experiences in my classroom. It is clear that through each course, discussion, textbook, articles, and more I have continuously improved my professional practice as a facilitator of technology.
By completing this blog I have learned the value of a good reflection. As I read through some of my blogs I realized the wealth of knowledge that I gained throughout this program. I see how I have used some of the experiences in my classroom and I can also relive past failures and successes with technology usage. By completing a blog it has helped me to see the importance of completing one in my own teaching. It has helped me to see the importance in regularly reflected and reevaluating. The only change I would have made was to blog throughout the class and not wait until the end. By waiting some of the experience is dulled and some of the important things forgotten.
My blog impacts faculty development because it allowed me to see my growth as a technology facilitator. My personal growth as an educator not only benefits myself, but it also has a benefit to my colleagues and my students. I can use my reflections to see what works and what did not work. I can then take this knowledge to my colleagues and students. The impact of my blog could be assessed by comparing my classroom experiences before I began to blog with my classroom experiences after I started blogging to determine how my reflections influenced my instruction.