Week Twelve!!

This Week

This week in class we have had time to work on our lesson plan, assessment task, and educational philosophy. These are all so important for future teachers. This is our very first lesson plan. This is really exciting, because we will have the opportunity to actually teach this lesson plan in front of our peers. This is exciting because we will need to start using the NCTCS in our actions, to be good teachers. The assessment task is all about assessing our students. This is something that is really important, because that influences learning. I personally learn the most when I have gotten feedback from the teacher and really understand what I did wrong. I want to make sure that when I am teaching  I am constantly giving feedback and really making sure that the students are really understanding the material. 

Outside Learning

This week I learned about a website called epicbooks.com.  This is a website that has a lot of textbooks and materials for teachers. These are all free books and resources. This could be such a good thing for my classroom, because I will have the ability to have all these resources at my fingertips and be able to use it in my classroom. I think this is something so influential to a classroom, and one day it could possibly be for my classroom!

My Future Classroom

In my future classroom I want to be able to really use assessment to influence my teaching. I want to make sure that I assess myself and my students to better us. This is a huge component that I want to be incorporated into my classroom. Also, I think I might be able to use websites like epicbooks.com in my future classroom. These websites will help me create lesson plans and help me teach the material. 

Week Eleven!!!

This Week!!!

This week is extremely busy. We are finalizing our philosophies and our lesson plans. Soon we will be teaching our lesson plan to the classroom. This is so exciting! I will get a real glimpse of what my future job is going to feel like. This week, we also learned about SAMR, which is substitution, augmentation, modification, and redefinition. This is key for teachers, especially since technology has been advancing and will continue to advance. This is a huge key for NCTCS, because we have to be able to use technology and be able to impact our lesson plans with technology to make them better. I really was able to retain the information a lot better than not using technology. I think this is something that is really important to remember, because I need to make sure I am giving the best education possible for my students. 

Outside Learning

This week for outside learning, I discovered an app called "PIAZZA". This app allows them to access material about the course. This can be worked for specific subjects, and be able to really understand the course objectives. One thing that is really positive about this, is that it can be accessed in the classroom or outside of the classroom. That way, the students are able to access all course materials at all times. I think this is something that could be so beneficial in my future classroom. 

My Future Classroom

It is so important in my future classroom to incorporate technology to really help impact my lesson plans. I want to make sure that I am giving every student the best possible education. Also, I want to incorporate learning on mobile devices. This could be using the app Piazza. These can be so beneficial in the classroom, especially since we are moving to a more technology society. I can not wait to teach my lesson plan soon, and be able to incorporate technology. 

Week Ten!!

This Week

It is crazy to think that it is the tenth week of class! I feel like this semester has flown by, and that I have learned so many things that I will use in my future classroom. For example, this week we learned about TPACK. This really means Technology, Content, and Pedagogical Knowledge. We have to be able to do all three of those well to achieve the TPACK. It is simply, when you blend all three of those knowledges in the classroom together. This goes hand in hand with out NCTCS. 4D states that we should, "integrate technology within instruction to maximize student learning." This is going to be used in our future classroom and something that is going to be very beneficial for us as teachers. One of the things that really stuck out to me in class was that "Technology is a tool, NOT an outcome". This emphasizes that technology is not about what they do, it is about what the students are doing with the technology. I think that is something so important to remember!

Technology

This week in class we were also introduced to a new piece of technology that we can use in our future classroom. It is a website called "smore". With this website we can create webpages that change their format when they are looked at by a computer or by a smartphone. This is really convenient, because not every website allows that to happen. One other thing this website can create is local flyers. This could be with thing locally, or could be used in the classroom. This is a really cool website that I could potentially be using in my future classroom!

Future Classroom

In my future classroom I want to make sure that I am going to be using TPACK. I want to be able to use not only technology knowledge, but also know the content and know how to teach the content. That is one interracial part of TPACK, is the ability to use all three together in the classroom and that is something I am so excited to start doing in my future classroom. I love learning all of the different things that will affect my future classroom.