Reflecting
on My GAME Plan
Reflection is the main key in
learning. John Dewey said, “We don’t
learn from experience, we learn by reflecting on it” (Marzano, 2010.
p. 295). It is this process of reflection
and self evaluation where the true learning occurs and change happens. It is through reflection that teachers grow
and develop their craft to me more efficient and effective in their jobs
(Marzano, 2010).
I look back upon my GAME plan
and I am motivated to continue working on my goals. I have learned a great deal about digital
citizenship and the amount of free resources that exist for me to use and
implement in my classroom. I have
discovered that there are many options and resources available within my school
network that will help me create and implement lessons on digital
citizenship. I also learned about many
resources I have for creating and implementing collaborative activities with colleagues and students. I will be able
to use Microsoft Office 365 and Google Documents to share files and lessons I
create with the other members of my team and even throughout the school.
I will not be making many
changes to my plan when it comes to teaching digital citizenship. I will be creating and implementing lessons
with slight modifications as I will be teaching Kindergarten instead of third grade. My second goal will need more modification as
I will not be able to blog and use email with my kindergarten students they way
I had originally planned to with my third graders. I am planning to use a class blog in which we
write the message as a class and I post it to the web. I am also hoping to use tools like Voice Thread where students could collaborate and share messages without
typing. I do not have all of the details
worked out on how I will incorporate the digital and social learning tools in
my new adventure but I will continue to work on it.
When it comes to using the
game plan with my students I plan to use it as I teach them about reflecting on
learning. It will be something that I do
on a simple and basic level as I teach young kindergarteners to make goals, and
work on the steps to achieve them. I
will be a process I will work on this year as my experience implementing
activities at this new level will be a challenge in itself. However, despite the challenge it imposes I
plan to use the GAME plan model and find a way to imbed it in our learning
process.
As for immediate impacts, I
had a lot planned. I was ready to start
the year off with a great problem based lesson, however with the grade level
change that is no longer the case. I
still plan to use the knowledge I have learned in this course to challenge the
level of student thinking and to ask open ended problems of my young
students. It will just need to take a
new level of complexity and I will have to go at a slower pace as I learn new
standards and begin a new learning situation.
I am excited for the challenge a head but, but I will proceed slowly as
I have a lot to learn this year. I do
plan to use a class webpage and class blog where we reflect on learning in our
room and collaborate with others Additionally, I have plans to send class emails with another kindergarten
class across town. Furthermore, I will
use programs like PhotoStory3 and others to create class digital stories and
post them to our website. I will being
using everything I learned to integrate and combine content and
technology. Finally, when I feel that
improve on my current GAME plan goals, I plan to set new ones.
Resources
Marzano, R. J. (Ed.). (2010). On
excellence in teaching. Bloomington, IN: Solution
Tree Press.
