As a cohort member in this Innovative Learning program, my expectations are that my classmates will give me honest and helpful feedback and be respectful of deadlines. After all, we are professional educators who should model the traits and behaviors we desire in our students. Our varied backgrounds, approaches, and goals will prove very helpful in looking at each others' capstone content with critical eyes in order to help improve the work and its aesthetics. Additionally, we will continue to learn from each other.
As we start the conversation and actual work toward building our capstone sites, it's important to remember that this journey has been one we've all been on together. Although our experiences and takeaways were certainly different, the assignments and the outcome hoped for were the same. I assume we have all become different teachers, looking at ourselves, our students, and our roles in education differently. One of my goals upon completing this program is to continue, whenever and however it makes sense, to incorporate digital tools into my classroom and to allow for student voice to be heard. I've seen that although mastery of standards may not always be the end result when students use digital tools and get to have input into what they study, it does cause higher interest and engagement. Perhaps, over time, the correlation between mastery of standards and engagement will be evident.
As a cohort member in this Innovative Learning program, my expectations are that my classmates will give me honest and helpful feedback and be respectful of deadlines. After all, we are professional educators who should model the traits and behaviors we desire in our students. Our varied backgrounds, approaches, and goals will prove very helpful in looking at each others' capstone content with critical eyes in order to help improve the work and its aesthetics. Additionally, we will continue to learn from each other.
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Kim
5/31/2016 02:42:19 pm
Kirstin, I totally agree with you that mastery of standards might not always be the outcome but if children are engaged and interested the learning is more successful.
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Kris
6/1/2016 08:24:52 pm
When you wrote about mastery of standards it made me think about new curriculum. It takes a while for the teacher to have mastery over curriculum and so to with this tool called technology. We, in this Master's Program, are actively seeking out and trying out so much "stuff". Mastery will take us a long time and we're actually trying. What about those that have not dedicated a year jumping into this stuff. We are leaps and bounds ahead of a lot of teachers, and as you said in a comment on my blog, we'll be there to help those who finally decide to jump down the rabbit hole with us.
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