This class has helped me to make my research and ideas more applicable in my classroom, to my capstone project, and to a global community of teachers. I now have an audience in mind for my research and the projects I have been working on. I feel that my work now has more meaning and purpose beyond just myself and my classroom. I now feel empowered to share my ideas with my coworkers and other teachers around the world. I also feel equipped with more tools for sharing my ideas with teachers. Focusing on goal setting has helped my students over the past few years, and through this class I feel that it has become even more effective as I was able to make it more technology based, and the students are engaged and enjoying the process a lot more than they had been before.
The challenges I had throughout this course were actually with making sense of information, especially with the more dense or abstract readings such as Dervin and Clark. The readings I enjoyed most were the articles, and even more the videos. Reading Baggio was very eye opening and helped me to understand a lot of why certain things we did in class did or did not make sense to me. It helped me to understand why I like getting information from videos, as I found out auditory is one of the ways I learned best, along with visual. Also reading November for my book review and having an interactive project to create helped me to really process the information- and in the spirit of the book- own my learning in regard to the information presented in the book. At the end of this semester, I am feeling more confident about my capstone project- but still a bit nervous about how much work it is going to be to accomplish it. I am hoping that a lot of what we have already done in this semester and the previous, it will just fall into place. I’m excited to have that ready to share with coworkers, friends and family to highlight the work I’ve been doing throughout this program.I also hope that I can take my work further and share it globally. I’d love to see goal setting integrated into more K-12 classrooms to give students agency and lifelong learning skills.
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Rian
4/30/2018 08:03:44 pm
I appreciate your approach to breaking down the subtler nuances of your learning this semester. I am, as always, intrigued to see what awesome things you are doing in your classroom! I agree that some of the reading was very dense, but the Baggio read, although important, was much easier to absorb
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Heather Feinberg
4/30/2018 09:47:30 pm
I loved all the new tools we learned about and have been trying them out with my students. I agree that that some of the readings were hard to make sense of and the visuals were very helpful in the understanding of the dense information!
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Kayla, watching everything fall into place and feeling empowered to share new ideas with your colleagues is all you need to know that you have learned and have that potential to create change. I am so happy for you. Making sense of the content for Dervin and Clark was also very difficult for me, but once we were able to discuss and see it from many angles helped bridge our understanding gap. I am positive you will bring goal setting to all the grades next year, Si se puede!
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AuthorKayla Bryant is an elementary school teacher in Napa, CA. This year she teaches a 2/3 combo class. She keeps a journal with funny quotes from her students, and enjoys learning and laughing alongside them. Some of her main educational interests are related to goal setting, growth mindset, and creativity. Archives
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