Reflect on the GAME plan

While setting up my Game Plan I came to realizes how important it is for teachers to be open to change and that if we listen more to one another while trying new ideas we can only get better at what we do. I was apprehensive about asking other teachers to help me reach my goal. I feel like teachers have so much to do already especially as we get to the end of the term and winter break. The teachers I dealt with in the English department were very helpful and willing to help me with my plan of a Technology group at our school and my principal was very interested in trying new things. I also received great ideas from my group members Game Plans and I was very pleased with their input to my own. It has been so easy to add NETS-S to my lesson plans that I wish I had started doing it earlier. Adding the standards has revived and refreshed some of my projects that I was not sure about anymore.

I will continue to use the NETS-S to make my lessons and add technology where applicable. I hope to expand my technology group to include more people and have short reviews of what we are doing and discussing at faculty meetings. Technology is changing so rapidly that I think it needs to be changed up often or it will go stagnate

I enjoyed this project much more than I planned and I appreciate all the feedback and comments from my group.
Thank you,
Mary

Happy Holidays!

Using the GAME Plan Process with Students

When I reviewed my Game plan to include NETS –S in my daily lesson plans and to start a technology group that will educate other teachers at my school on how to incorporate technology in their lesson plans without too much chaos, I was happy to see that I am on my way to achieving these goals. I have posted the NETS-S in my lesson plan book and try to make sure I am doing something everyday to help my students gain proficiency in technology. I think by getting my Masters degree and by starting a dialogue at my school about technology and how to add elements of NETS-S to already intact plans without too much chaos I am also helping my school environment. I can definitely see how the teacher and studnet standards are connected.I think it will be easy to do add both to daily lessons and I look forward to the results.

1.Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity-
I will facilitate and inspire my students by trying new ideas involving technology. I will not be afraid of failing while doing so and I will take notes so the next time each lesson will improve.

2.Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments I will ask my peers for help and guidance when using new technology like Digital Storytelling. I am very excited about D.S. it seems to really enhance learning and I have several ideas for the spring.

3.Model Digital-Age Work and Learning- I will use technology in my classroom and in my daily life to communicate with my peers, students and parents by using a blog with information about what we are doing in class.

4.Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility I will promote and model digital etiquette and responsible social with my students and help develop cultural awareness with my students by doing projects that engage students from other countries.

5.Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership
I will finish my Masters in Technology and I will continue to help other interested teachers add technology to their lessons while I try to persuade our principal to try to get everyone to increase the technology they use in their classrooms.

Revising Your GAME Plan

• What have you learned so far that you can apply in your instructional practice?
What goals are you still working toward?
I have learned that lesson plans are works in progress and are never complete. I think I need to spend more time making sure I am achieving my intended results.

•Based on the NETS-T, what new learning goals will you set for yourself?
My goal is to add new NETS-T to my plans and always be prepared to update or change what I have.
If you are not ready to set new learning goals, how will you extend what you have learned so far?
I am always ready to set new learning goals, and I hope that next year I have not only retained what I have learned but I am sharing my knowledge with other teachers in my county.
• What learning approaches will you try next time to improve your learning?
I will try to use everything I learn so that it helps me remember what I have learned

Evaluating Your GAME Plan Progress

When I looked at the progress of my GAME PLAN, the first thing I thought is that I seem to be veering off topic a little.
My two goals were 1) to include the previous standards in my daily lesson plans and 2) to set up a technology group at my school that works to add new technology to all classrooms. I am definitely finding the first one easier, probably because I have to rely on only myself and I have a hard time asking other teachers, whom I know spend too much time at school as it is. In addition, it seems like everyone, including me, has the flu.
• How effective were your actions in helping you meet your goals?
I feel like I have been successful in my first goal and not doing that well in my second.
• What have you learned so far that you can apply in your instructional practice?
I have learned that I work best alone and teachers want to be helpful and are used to doing many things.
• What do you still have to learn? What new questions have arisen?
I spoke with my team leader and a few English and Reading teachers, I decided that at our next department meeting I am going to demonstrate some of the technology ideas I have learned while taking classes at Walden. Then I am going to get feedback from them and use that information to do a larger demonstration at our teachers and staff meeting in January, I received permission from my principal to do this whenever I am ready. I was a little weary of speaking to him about it, but he seemed very interested.
• How will you adjust your plan to fit your current needs?
I think I am going to change my second goal a little. I think I will find it easier to start small and have my technology group grow next year, when I can start at the beginning of the year