EEND 680 Artifact 2- SAMR Professional Development

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For my second artifact for this course I chose the Professional Development workshop that I created on the SAMR model. We are not 1:1 at my school. Therefore, some teachers are overwhelmed with effective ways to incorporate technology into their classrooms so I chose to make my workshop centered around the SAMR model in order to share effective tips and tech tools. While creating this workshop, I chose to create a Google Slideshow with active links and boards that teachers could follow along with. This way they are learning with me and can go back to the slideshow at a later date if necessary. I included speaker notes on each slide with directions of what the presenter would be doing and conversation guides. I felt that it was necessary to give teachers lots of work time so that they could apply what I am teaching them to their own classrooms. Creating effective professional development is challenging as not all teachers need the same thing. By giving teachers work time, I was able to differentiate my workshop and I could circulate the room and help teachers with their individual needs. I also decided to use the lunch break to reflect on feedback from the morning in order to make necessary changes for the afternoon portion of the workshop. If the teachers are not engaged and participating, it will not be meaningful so it was very important for me to take the time to incorporate their needs. 

All of the tools and tips that I included in the slideshow are things that I plan on doing in my own classroom in the future. Therefore, this assignment gave me many ideas of how to better use technology in my classroom. I try to use it as often as possible but it really should be used in almost every lesson and I realized how easy that could be by using tools such as Google Classroom, Seesaw, or Padlet. Just as teachers need to be engaged in professional development, my students need to be engaged in my instruction and technology is such an effective way to make that happen. 

References

Google Slides (2018). Retrieved from https://www.google.com/slides/about/

Google Classroom (2018). Retrieved from https://classroom.google.com/u/0/h

Seesaw (2018). Retrieved from https://web.seesaw.me/

Padlet (2018). Retrieved from https://padlet.com/dashboard

EEND 680 Artifact 1- Learning Walk Form

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The first artifact that I chose was the walk-through form I created using Google Forms. I chose this artifact because my school district does not currently do learning walks where teachers are able to observe and learn from each other so I found it to be a very interesting concept. I wanted to create my feedback from through a Google application as my school is a google school. Therefore, I know that all teachers and admin have Google accounts so the forms could be easily shared and used among staff members. I chose to focus on the 4 c’s as I thought that evidence of the 4 c’s would be visible in every classroom and would therefore lead to meaningful conversations for teachers to have with one another. One challenge I had while creating this assignment was that I did not want my tool to come across as evaluative as that is not the intent of a learning walk. Therefore, I chose to make all of feedback available in a narrative form. I felt that not have any sort of scale or checklist would allow teachers to feel more comfortable with one another and would also allow a more meaningful conversation so that all teachers involved are able to learn and grow.

This assignment also allowed me to reflect of use of technology and the use of the 4 c’s within my own classroom. It reminded me that technology should be used to help deepen my students’ understanding and creativity. I also need to ensure that I am giving my students choice within assignments and lessons whenever possible. I feel as if teachers could video tape themselves teaching and use this form to reflect on their own lesson and determine their next steps.

References
Google Forms (2018). Retrieved from https://www.google.com/forms/about/