Week Six Final Reflection

I enjoyed this class very much. Besides working with a great group of people, who have wonderful ideas and are always willing to help, this class brought me up to speed on the types of lessons that I will probably be expected to teach. Hopefully I will also be able to help other teachers in my building integrate technology into their lessons and unit plans. The unit plan was a totally new concept for me. Having to create one for this class has been very eye opening. Things have changed a lot since I was in the classroom fulltime. It helped me to see how important each part of a lesson is and how important it is to think everything through carefully, so it all has a purpose and is still exciting for the students. Everyone in the class created wonderful unit plans and it was really nice hearing all of their presentations. We also had to read two articles on project–based learning or something related to what we were learning about in class. They were all very interesting and meaningful, and all of them made sense to me! Amazing!

The whole idea of LoTI was totally new for me as well. The assignment that we had to do, maybe the second week of class, was very helpful. It helped me to understand what LoTI is, and gave me a better idea of how to decide what level I am working at and what I can do to improve. I think it will be fun trying to make sure I integrate a decent level of technology and real experiences into the classes I will hopefully be teaching.

I also want to thank Dave for all his help. At the beginning of the class I was very apprehensive about the unit plan and LoTI, and it seemed like I was always asking questions. He was very patient and always had answers. I thought it was really cool when one of the people in my study group found a possible mistake in some statistics we were given, and he went and confronted the group that had made the mistake. Not many teachers will do that!!

Like some of the others in my group have mentioned, I am looking forward to being finished with these classes, and hopefully get a chance to put this stuff into practice. We have come a long way since last August, and I’m looking forward to being finished in December (at least for a little while!)