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Christie Swan

EDLD: 5389

Contribution to Your Learning and the Learning Community


Grade: 90
Grade Reflection
After taking EDLD 5389, I have been pushed and challenged with more real-world learning than I
ever have in my educational career. This class showed me solid, helpful tools to create effective
professional learning and how to implement it. Looking back on the class, I would self-assess my
grade as a 90 altogether due to meeting all of the needs of the key and supporting contributions.

Key and Supporting Contributions


In 5389, I made sure to connect my professional learning to relevant topics that I am passionate
about: supporting struggling learners. I also wanted to support my high school English department
with strategies to help them do this as well. Throughout this course and building my professional
learning, I learned what I can do better to help support students and my teachers, and that is making
sure that they are supported and given feedback throughout the year. I have learned this through
watching the videos, doing all of the readings and using the supporting templates and sources. The
exemplar products were a huge help so that we can see the end result. The first thing I would do is
make sure to have all of the videos and readings completed. Then, I would watch the class session.
Next, I would look at the exemplar examples. Next, I would work on my assignments and send them
to my collaboration group to get feedback. Finally, I added the revised assignments to my Eportfolio
christieswan.weebly.com. In addition, the recordings/class meetings provided organized, helpful
support so that I had a clear plan for my professional learning. My professional learning focused on
giving struggling learners a guide to comprehend reading. This is called Notice and Note Signposts. It
helps students build metacognitive skills so that they can be successful with reading comprehension.
I also made sure that there was a clear, organized plan for my English teachers to not only learn the
strategies, but I wanted to show them how to actually implement it in the classroom. High school
English teachers have it very hard right now due to difficult expectations on their end-of-course
exams, so I wanted to make sure I was not wasting their very precious time with professional learning
that did not help them.

In addition to my self-reflections, I have enjoyed contributing and receiving feedback from my


collaboration group. I have participated in the online discussions in our actual classes, joined the
Facebook group, but I have learned the most from my collaboration group. We first emailed each
other and created a Google Drive folder for our class and sent each other links to our websites in
order to receive relevant feedback. We then shared all of our documents and provided effective
feedback to each other. We also emailed each other with questions because sometimes we were
struggling with what to actually do. We have endless amounts of emails sent back and forth helping
each other answer questions. It helped tremendously, and it also gave me confidence in the
knowledge of my subject. We had a large group, but some of the key members who helped me were
Brittany Walko, Melissa Young, and Jonny Fernandez; these three people provided relevant
feedback, and they also provided encouragement and guidance when I was struggling with an
assignment. In addition, because they were so helpful with me, I made sure to provide this same
support to other classmates struggling. I took leadership by making sure my assignments were put in
our group Google Drive as soon as possible so that they could provide feedback, and I tried to
answer as many questions that each team member had so that they were not struggling. Also, I am
an English major, so I love proofreading, and I know that I can provide depth in feedback. I tried to
help with as many papers as I could so that my team can do well on their papers. I have taken
leadership responsibility in this collaboration group by sending help videos to walk them through a
part of the assignment through our email chain, and I have provided effective feedback on all
assignments. In addition to being a leader, I have also received help from peer feedback, and I would
send my assignments through our email chain, and I revised my assignments accordingly before I
posted them to my website. Anytime a college class requires collaboration, I am apprehensive, but I
love how the collaboration process happens in this course.

All in all, both EDLD 5389 provided me with real-world knowledge, real-world tools, and real-world
experience and collaboration which no other class has done before. To say it was an easy task would
be a lie. I struggled with this class; however, it has provided me with actual skills I needed to be a
successful leader in education.

Link to my Eportfolio:
christieswan.weebly.com
(All of my revised assignments are on my website under the EDLD 5389 tab. The link to every
assignment that has been revised is the christieswan.weebly.com address)

To Access All of My Assignments:


1. christieswan.weebly.com
2. Click on the EDLD 5389 tab.
3. The revised assignments are all there.
Collaborating with Groups - I have attached screenshots of our emails and our Shared Google Drive
Folder below.

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