Bigital Teaching anu Leaining Reflection Katie Wafeiling EB0C S26 Capstone Expeiience in Bigital Teaching anu Leaining Piofessoi: }oanne uilbieath Azusa Campus LiveBinuei 0RL: http:www.livebinueis.complayplay78S1S1 Septembei 27 th 2u14
Katie Wafeiling EB0C S26 uiowth Assessment Page 2 Azusa Campus Fall I Septembei 2u14 Intiouuction I began my jouiney in the Bigital Teaching anu Leaining piogiam in }anuaiy of 2u1S, uuiing the thiiu quaitei of my cieuentialing piogiam. I maue the uecision to puisue a masteis uegiee in euucational technology veisus the tiauitional masteis in euucation foi two ieasons; technology has always inteiesteu me anu I felt that technology woulu be the key to ieaching stuuents. Though I keep up with technological tienus anu am an Apple junkie, I wanteu to leain how to use technology in my classioom to effectively, allowing liteiaiy concepts to come alive foi my stuuents. When I began the Bigital Teaching anu Leaining piogiam, I was in the piocess of completing my single subject teaching cieuential anu stuuent teaching in a 12 th giaue English class. In auuition to being in school anu stuuent teaching, I was also woiking pait time as a Summei Camp Biiectoi at the YNCA. Neeuless to say, I was a little oveiwhelmeu, but that seems to be the theme of my life. As stateu pieviously, my main objectives foi obtaining a uegiee in Bigital Teaching anu Leaining weie to leain how to use technology effectively in my classioom anu to ieach my stuuents, who have giown up in a society satuiateu by technology. Peisonal uiowth Thiough the piocess of completing my masteis uegiee, I have leaineu quite a bit about myself. Eaily on, I iealizeu that I am an intiapeisonal anu visual leainei; I benefit fiom activities anu assignments that allow me to expiess myself thiough woius, anu I neeu to see things to fully giasp expectations. I love examples! I have also founu that I cannot, unuei any ciicumstances, stuuy, complete assignments, oi giaue at home; I will fall asleep. In oiuei to be a piouuctive stuuent oi teachei, I have to stuuy anu complete woik at a Katie Wafeiling EB0C S26 uiowth Assessment Page 3 Azusa Campus Fall I Septembei 2u14 coffee shop. Peisonally, I piefei to stuuy oi woik at eithei Staibucks oi Paneia Bieau, though I may spenu a little too much at these places. Anu when I say "I may spenu a little too much time at these place," what I mean is that, ovei the couise of the past two yeais, the baiistas at Staibucks have leaineu my name anu coffee oiuei, anu one of the cashieis at Paneia Bieau has inviteu me to hei baby showei. Beaulines aie my best fiienu anu woist enemy. I value knowing when things neeu to be uone because I live out of my plannei (papei not uigital), but I also assume I will have moie time than I uo; I tenu to unueiestimate the amount of sleep I neeu to be a functional human being. Regaiuless of this chaiactei flaw, I always get things uone on time. Theie seems to be something about the auienaline iush of being on a time ciunch that I ciave. 0vei the couise of time that I have been eniolleu in this piogiam, I have maue quite a few peisonal connections. I have met people on a similai jouiney in teaching who have become fiienus that I know I can ieach out to if I evei questions oi neeu someone to unueistanu my fiustiation with my thiiu peiiou class oi celebiate with me when my stuuents mastei a uifficult concept. Foi these fiienuships I am so some giateful. I have uefinitely giown spiiitually ovei the past yeai anu a half as well. I uon't know that I woulu attiibute this spiiitual giowth to my puisuit of a uegiee in Bigital Teaching anu Leaining, but I am suie theie aie small coiielations. The choice to complete my masteis uegiee at Azusa Pacific 0niveisity was intentional. I completeu my BA in English Liteiatuie at AP0 anu chose to continue my euucational jouiney theie because of my expeiience as an unueigiauuate stuuent was extiemely positive. Buiing the six yeais that I have been a stuuent at AP0, I have been both encouiageu anu challengeu spiiitually. Ny Katie Wafeiling EB0C S26 uiowth Assessment Page 4 Azusa Campus Fall I Septembei 2u14 unueistanuing of who }esus is has been completely tiansfoimeu anu I have gaineu a new peispective iegaiuing my iole in communicating the tiuth of the uospel. Foi me, the completion of this uegiee means a few uiffeient things. It means that I have met an expectation set foi me by my paients when I was young. I uiun't necessaiily want to complete a masteis uegiee uiiectly aftei unueigiauuate uegiee, but I knew it meant a gieat ueal to my paients, especially my uau. 0vei the couise of the past yeai, my uau's health has been failing so as I think about timing of completing this uegiee, I am thankful that my uau will be able to watch me walk acioss the stage. It means the woilu to me that he will have the oppoitunity to celebiate this achievement with me. The completion of this uegiee also means that I now have the oppoitunity to change the way that I teach. I am constantly alteiing the way that I communicate infoimation, but now that I have completeu this piogiam, I feel that I have a gieat ueal of new tools that I can begin to integiate into my instiuction. Piofessional uiowth I have giown a gieat ueal as an euucatoi since beginning my masteis piogiam. At the time I began my masteis piogiam, I was stuuent teaching anu now I am in my seconu yeai teaching in my own classioom. When I think back to my uays of stuuent teaching, I iealize that my instiuctional methous have impioveu tiemenuously. This impiovement is both ciicumstantial anu because of the infoimation that I have gaineu fiom the Bigital Teaching anu Leaining piogiam. Thiough the couise of this piogiam, I have hau the oppoitunity to uesign piojects that allow my stuuents to use technology to ieseaich content anu cieate authentic illustiations of theii leaining. Katie Wafeiling EB0C S26 uiowth Assessment Page 5 Azusa Campus Fall I Septembei 2u14 When I wiote my "So What, Who Caies" Statement a yeai anu a half ago, I stateu, "I believe the most impoitant elements of an effective euucatoi aie authentic ielationships, intentional classioom management, passionate instiuction, anu faii assessment." Now, having my classioom, I feel that these aie still the most impoitant chaiacteiistics of an effective teachei, but I woulu oiuei them uiffeiently. I caie ueeply about my stuuents, sometimes I think I caie a little too much about them on a peisonal level. Though this quality allows me to connect easily with stuuents, it uoesn't always make teaching easy, which is why I am actively woiking to builu bounuaiies in classioom. I now feel that classioom management is at the top of the list in teims of effective teaching. If a classioom is mismanageu, it almost makes it impossible to teach effectively. I woulu say passionate instiuction is seconu in teims of impoitance of an effective teachei. I think stuuents neeu to see the love theii teachei has foi a subject to uevelop a love oi toleiance of theii own. Faii assessment anu authentic ielationships woulu tie foi thiiu place in teims of impoitance at this point in my caieei. I guess the majoi shift I have hau to make ovei the past yeai anu a half is seeing the kius in my classioom as stuuents uuiing the time class is in session anu waiting until the bell iings to heai about theii weekenu oi ask them how theii game went. It is a uifficult tiansition, but I am finuing that it is a goou one anu completely necessaiy. When I began the Bigital Teaching anu Leaining piogiam, I was just beginning my stuuent teaching assignment, which was the fiist time I hau evei taught foi an extenueu peiiou of time. I completeu my stuuent teaching assignment at La Canaua Bigh School in a 12 th giaue English class. This stuuent teaching assignment enableu me to leain fiom, anu woik along siue, some tiuly amazing anu innovative English teacheis. Evei wonuei what it's like to have a Baivaiu scholai of meuieval liteiatuie obseive anu ciitique youi teaching Katie Wafeiling EB0C S26 uiowth Assessment Page 6 Azusa Campus Fall I Septembei 2u14 on a uaily basis. I can say it is about as fun anu teiiifying as it sounus. Neeuless to say, my stuuent teaching expeiience was a time of substantial giowth foi me as an euucatoi. Since that time I have begun teaching 1u th anu 12 th giaue English in my own classioom, at the piivate Chiistian high school that I attenueu. I am also the ASB Auvisoi anu Senioi Class Auvisoi. Some of the instiuctional stiategies that I have incoipoiateu into my teaching since beginning this piogiam have been the use of Piezi, scieencasting, anu uoogle Biive. I was iequiieu to use Piezi to cieate a piesentation in EB0C S12 anu I hau so much fun cieating it that I began using it as piesentation methou in my classioom. NY stuuents aie so intiigueu by the uiffeient movements of objects as I piesent infoimation. I can say that they aie uefinitely moie engageu when I use Piezi as opposeu to Poweipoint. In EB0C S1S I was iequiieu to cieate a Scieencast. I was intimiuateu about this iuea at fiist, but I founu that it is much easiei than I hau oiiginally thought. I am now able to use this stiategy in classioom as a way foi stuuents who aie absent to have an oveiview of a concept oi to cieate a ieview foi my entiie class. All Scieencasts I cieate aie available foi my stuuents on my website. uoogle Biive is a tool I encounteieu in my EB0C S12 anu S1S couises. This tool has maue collaboiation in my class so easy anu enjoyable foi my stuuents. All of my English 12 stuuents aie iequiieu to have a uoogle Biive anu they aie able to shaie uocuments with one anothei. I iegulaily have them use this tool to euit one anothei's essays anu to cieate piesentations. Each of these stiategies has playeu a iole in incieasing engagement of stuuents in my classioom. Foi my Action Reseaich Repoit, I will be focusing on the topic of "exit tickets" linkeu to uaily lessons. I feel the neeu to begin anu enu my class each uay with an intentional Katie Wafeiling EB0C S26 uiowth Assessment Page 7 Azusa Campus Fall I Septembei 2u14 activity each uay. I cuiiently have my stuuents begin class with a "Bo Now" oi anticipatoiy set, which piepaies the stuuents foi what we will be uoing in class on the given uay. As a new teachei, I have founu that I am still woiking on time management in my class on a uaily basis, anu because of this I tenu to teach up until the bell most uays. This uoes not allow my stuuents the necessaiy time to piocess oi ieflect on what they leain each uay. I envision "exit tickets" being a foim of infoimal assessment in my classioom, taking foim in shoit assignments, lasting no moie than five minutes, that iequiie stuuents to apply oi synthesize infoimation piesenteu in class on a given uay. As I implement the "exit ticket" into my class ioutine, I will be evaluating the ietention of infoimation among my stuuents, as well as aieas of low compiehension. Ny action ieseaich question will be as follows: Will implementing the "exit ticket" stiategy, at the enu of each uaily lesson, inciease stuuent ietention of content infoimation. Technical uiowth At the beginning of the Bigital Teaching anu Leaining piogiam, I know quite a bit about the using an iPau anu time saving apps, but I hau not uieameu of all the ways that technological tools coulu be implementeu in the classioom. Befoie beginning my full time teaching position, I woikeu as a Teen Piogiams Cooiuinatoi at the YNCA. Thiough this position I leaineu a gieat ueal about using the iPau in a business setting. I woulu use it on a uaily bases to keep notes oiganizeu with Notability, piesent in meetings using Keynote, anu complete iepoits anu submit them uigitally using uoogle Foims. The Bigital Teaching anu Leaining piogiam as alloweu me to expanu upon my knowleuge of technology anu use it in an euucational setting. Some of the most piactical skills I have acquiieu as a iesult of this piogiam aie using my iPau in an euucational setting anu cieating euucational viueos foi my Katie Wafeiling EB0C S26 uiowth Assessment Page 8 Azusa Campus Fall I Septembei 2u14 stuuents. In both EB0C S12 anu EB0C S1S I was iequiieu to evaluate a ceitain numbei of Apps foi the iPau anu I founu some gieat one like, Quizlet anu Class Bojo, that I use on a iegulai basis. In EB0C S14 I was iequiieu to evaluate euucational viueos, as well as cieate some euucational viueos of my own. Thiough this expeiience I was able to uiscovei the value incoipoiating TEB Talks anu Ciash Couises into my instiuction anu uevelop some shoit viueos to ieview concepts with my stuuents. Some technologies that I use on a iegulai basis as a iesult of this piogiam aie Piezi, Weebly, anu my iPau. As stateu eailiei, I use Piezi (EB0C S12) to intiouuce concepts to my stuuents. I have founu that they aie moie engageu because of the movement of the piesentation anu as a visual leainei I finu it moie appealing than othei piesentation platfoims. I was intiouuceu to Weebly foi the fiist time in EB0C S12 anu then ieintiouuceu to it in EB0C S2S. I have founu it to be the most intuitive website builuing platfoims available foi fiee. I cieateu my own classioom website using Weebly anu am able to post infoimation anu iesouices foi stuuents on a uaily basis. Ny iPau is a tool that I have useu in EB0C S12, S14, S1S, anu S22. The App that I use most iegulaily is Reflectoi, which allows me to miiioi my ipau to my computei, allowing me to walk aiounu the ioom anu use my iPau. I am then able to iun Piezis oi biowse websites with stuuents without being chaineu to the fiont of the ioom. Life Long Leaining Plan When I think about peisonal anu piofessional piepaieuness, I feel that I am piepaieu in a tempoiaiy sense, but not long teim. What I mean by this is that I am piepaieu on a uaily basis, but I know I have a lot of woik to uo to be piepaieu long teim. I uon't think I will evei be completely satisfieu with the way I teach eveiything, but I want to Katie Wafeiling EB0C S26 uiowth Assessment Page 9 Azusa Campus Fall I Septembei 2u14 come to a place wheie I feel goou about at least fifty peicent of what seems. In oiuei to achieve this, my plan is to keep putting in the woik to cieate assignments anu assessments that aie intentional. I also plan to take pait in uiffeient foims of piofessional uevelopment. I plan to attenu the C0E confeience this yeai, as well as obseive othei euucatois eveiy chance I get. Ny hope is that by watching otheis uo gieat things, I will be able to uesign my own gieat things. Buiing my time in this piogiam I become awaie of my neeu to take caie of myself anu to collaboiate with othei euucatois. I tenu to spenu so much piepping anu giauing outsiue of the classioom that I foiget that I neeu to eat, sleep, anu exeicise. I know this sounus like an exaggeiation, but I ieally uo skip a lot of meals anu loose valuable houis of sleep because of woik. Buiing the school yeai, I iaiely feel like a functional human being. I know I neeu to finu a balance between teaching anu taking caie of myself in oiuei to give moie to my stuuents on a uaily basis. I also know that benefit fiom collaboiation with othei teacheis. Because I woik at a piivate school, I am the only teachei teaching the ceitain couises. I take upon myself to ieach out to teacheis at othei schools who teach the couises that I teach because I know I neeu input on what I am uoing. I love to shaie iueas anu heait what othei people aie uoing so I can teach concepts bettei. In oiuei to stay awaie of new uevelopments in the fielu of euucation anu technology, I plan to continue taking classes anu attenuing confeiences that peitain to euucation. I have leaineu that I love leaining anu will always be a stuuent in some iegaiu. I want to continue taking classes, even when I am uone with this uegiee. I also want to attenu as many euucational confeiences as I can. I am most inteiesteu in attenuing C0E anu Naking Leaining visible. Katie Wafeiling EB0C S26 uiowth Assessment Page 10 Azusa Campus Fall I Septembei 2u14 The aiea that I want to uevelop the most in teims of instiuction is the use of the iPau in my classioom. Ny school is cuiiently in the piocess of going 1:1. Next yeai all of my stuuents will have iPaus, which is both exciting anu teiiifying at the same time. I know I still have so much to leain in iegaius to teaching with a tablet. I plan to use much of next summei ueveloping stiategies that will make tablets a meaningful aspect of my English classes. To be honest, I uon't see myself in the classioom in ten yeais. Teaching is something that I enjoy anu I am ueuicateu to giving it my all while I am involveu in it, but I know it is not something that I want to be uoing when I have a family. I have founu that teaching high school well takes a gieat ueal of time anu I uon't evei want to have to compiomise my teaching oi my paienting. I know that theie aie some fantastic teacheis who aie also amazing paients, but knowing myself, I know that one woulu always natuially come befoie the othei. So in ten yeais I am not suie what I will be uoing, but I know that whatevei it is, I will be loving it anu woiking haiu at it.
Spiing I 2u1S - - LiveBinuei LiveBinuei Piofi ci ency Piofi ci ency - - Woiul e Woiul e - - Aiti cul ati on of Aiti cul ati on of euucati onal euucati onal phi l osophy phi l osophy -I thought this couise offeieu a stiong intiouuction to the piogiam. I was able to easily complete the couisewoik while woiking on my cieuential. Katie Wafeiling EB0C S26 uiowth Assessment Page 11 Azusa Campus Fall I Septembei 2u14 RS;K I53
Instiuctional Applications Piouuctivity Softwaie
INSTR0CT0R: Naik Rounus
Fall II 2u1S -0se of vaiious piesentation applications -uoogle Biive -Cieation of Webquest -This is one of the couises that I felt I was exposeu to the most piactical infoimation in. I ieally enjoyeu having Naik as a piofessoi. Be was helpful anu iespectful of oui time as woiking piofessionals. RS;K I56
Bigital viueo in the Classioom
INSTR0CT0R: Naik Rounus
Spiing II 2u14 -iNovie -Auobe voice -viueo Euiting -0sing viueo to engage stuuents -In this couise, I was able to cieate some viueos foi my classes that I am still using. I ieally enjoyeu using iNovie anu teaching my stuuents to use it. RS;K I5I
Evolving Euucational Technologies
INSTR0CT0R: }effiey Lee
Fall II 2u1S -Cieation of Poucasts anu voucasts -Scieencast using Scieencast 0 Natic -Collaboiation using uoogle Bocuments -uoogle Biive collaboiation anu Scieencasting weie the most beneficial skills taken away fiom this couise. I use both of these technologies on a iegulai basis in my classioom. RS;K I33
Leaining in the 21st Centuiy
INSTR0CT0R: }ennifei Couiuuff
Spiing I 2u14 -Combining technology anu multiple intelligence theoiy to uevelop piojects that meet the neeus of vaiious leaining styles.
- I founu multiple intelligence theoiy to be extiemely inteiesting. I am now able to assess stuuents baseu on theii leaining styles anu I uo my best to uesign activities foi multiple leaining styles. RS;K I3T
Capstone Expeiience Bigital Teaching anu Leaining
INSTR0CT0R: }oanne uilbieath
Fall I 2u14 -Reflection of Bigital Teaching anu Leaining Piogiam -Besigning a cuiiiculai unit foi euucatois -I founu the uiowth Assessment to be beneficial as it offeieu me the oppoitunity to ieflect on my expeiience in the piogiam anu I enjoyeu the ieseaich anu aspect of the Reseaich Action Assignment.
Evaluation of the Impact of the Bigital Teaching anu Leaining Piogiam A stiategy that I have not yet useu, but plan to implement as a iesult of the Bigital Teaching anu Leaining piogiam is "flipping my classioom" oi least flipping some of my lectuies. In EB0C S2S I was iequiieu to use Novenote to cieate a flippeu classioom lesson. Katie Wafeiling EB0C S26 uiowth Assessment Page 12 Azusa Campus Fall I Septembei 2u14 Again, I founu that something that seemeu intimiuating to me was faiily easy. I was able to cieate a piesentation anu talk thiough each sliue, with a viueo of me talking on the siue. I want to implement this stiategy foi two ieasons; I teach a few kius who aie involveu in the inuustiy anu I teach seniois. Kius who aie actively acting on television seiies oi web seiies will be out of class foi months at a time, anu seniois just miss class because they feel like they can. Baving my lectuies oi a least my moie lengthy lectuies, available online foi stuuents woulu allow my stuuents a place to obtain infoimation that they woulu otheiwise not be able to get. 0nce I have the time to uo it, I plan to use Novenote so that I can iecoiu myself going thiough a lectuie anu have it on my website foi stuuents to iefeience. In the futuie I may even become biave enough to have all of my stuuents go thiough the lectuie online so we can get stiaight to woik in class the next uay. Piogiam Evaluation I have been a stuuent at AP0 foi six yeais now, anu I can honestly say that it has been one of the most positive times of my life. Ny unueigiauuate expeiience is incompaiable to anything else that I have evei expeiience because of the ielationships that I was able to foim anu the community that was facilitateu by AP0 staff. This is something that I founu tiue of the cieuentialing anu masteis piogiam as well. Buiing the past yeai anu a half, I have encounteieu so many wonueiful people in my class who I now consiuei fiienus. The piofessois who have been a pait of this expeiience have been caiing anu encouiaging, in auuition to being expeits in theii fielu. I am beyonu giateful to be known by piofessois on a peisonal level as opposeu to simply being a numbei. I am especially giateful foi the piofessois anu mentois who weie placeu in my life uuiing my cieuential piogiam, specifically my stuuent teaching expeiience. Both my AP0 mentoi anu mastei Katie Wafeiling EB0C S26 uiowth Assessment Page 13 Azusa Campus Fall I Septembei 2u14 teachei weie a gieat souice of encouiagement to me anu I know I am a bettei teachei because of theii guiuance. As a iesult of the Bigital Teaching anu Leaining piogiam, I feel that I have a aiiay tools that I am able to integiate into my instiuction to make it bettei anu to engage my stuuents. I woulu say that theie aie uefinitely moie stiengths to the cieuentialing anu masteis piogiam than weaknesses. I believe that a few stiengths of the piogiams aie the piofessois teaching the couises, the content coveieu in the couises, anu stuuent teaching placement. As stateu pieviously, I am so thankful foi each of the piofessois who I have encounteieu thioughout this jouiney. I founu each of them to be knowleugeable in theii fielu anu encouiaging towaiu theii stuuents. The content coveieu in both cieuentialing classes anu the masteis piogiam has been thoiough anu intentional. Thiough the content coveieu in each class, I have been able to uesign meaningful lessons foi my stuuents, using technology that engages them. Noie than anything else, I am giateful foi my stuuent teaching expeiience, which was both challenging anu eye opening. I feel that stuuent teaching placement is uefinitely a stiength, as I know the Euucation uepaitment woikeu haiu to get me my numbei choice of placement. I honestly cannot think of veiy many weaknesses of the piogiam. The one thing that comes to minu is that a few couises uuiing my cieuentialing piogiam seemeu to be a little moie geaieu towaiu multiple subject stuuents than single subject stuuents. I feel that when classes aie mixeu with multiple anu single subject stuuents, instiuction seems to fall moie towaiu multiple subject stuuents, which can be fiustiating when you aie not a multiple subject stuuent. 0ne weakness in teims of the Bigital Teaching Piogiam is that I was not iequiieu to use my iPau in the capacity that I hau been tolu I woulu. I can only think of one assignment out of the entiie piogiam that Katie Wafeiling EB0C S26 uiowth Assessment Page 14 Azusa Campus Fall I Septembei 2u14 absolutely iequiieu the iPau. I peisonally uiun't minu this because I hau an iPau befoie beginning the piogiam anyway anu I use it in my classioom on a iegulai basis, but I can imagine that stuuents who puichaseu an iPau specifically foi the piogiam woulu be fiustiateu by this. I have two iecommenuations foi the piogiam as a whole. 0ne woulu to incluue the iPau into moie of the couisewoik. This is something that I stateu pieviously, but I ieally feel it is impoitant foi stuuents to be using a piece of technology that is iequiieu foi the piogiam. The seconu iecommenuation woulu be to incoipoiate moie content uiiven assignments. I am uone with the piogiam anu I have gaineu so much useful infoimation anu skills, but I wish I hau moie infoimation oi expeiience integiating the technology specifically into an English class. Those aie my only two iecommenuations foi the piogiams.