Final+Reflection

=Final Reflection= 

 At first, I misunderstood this course. I originally thought of this course as a way to design a regular unit lesson plan for an educator. There are some similarities between designing a unit lesson plan and ID, which confused me at first. It was when I returned to school and had a meeting with my Curriculum and Instruction personnel that I began to get a better understanding of ID. We had a meeting on data analysis involving our PSSA scores. I was able to see how data can drive the need for new instruction. It wasn’t good that I waited so long to get a meeting with Curriculum and Instruction personnel because I had to look up a lot of the material again. If I knew what the course was going to be like beforehand, I would have like to take this course weekly instead of 6 full days. It seemed like a lot of information at once each class period. Usually I can handle those types of classes, but this one got the best of me. It was hard to recover from my plane incident. That day I felt that I missed out on a large amount of information due to my unexpected lack of sleep.

This is beneficial class for me. I have been asked over the last few years at Halifax to present summer technology clinics. They are a way for teachers to earn two extra personal days to be used within that school year. At first, I thought I was too young/inexperienced to lead one of these clinics. After attending a few, I felt more that I would not be able to plan a clinic because I did not know all that went into building the clinic. After taking this class, I feel like I could provide the district with a quality clinic. Most times, teachers go to these clinics and do not participate because they are not interested in the topic. There are just there to get the extra days. The school doesn’t send out a survey to see what most teachers would be interested in. They just ask teachers or presenters what they are willing to present. I also am not set on teaching Mathematics for the rest of my career. I keep throwing around the idea of becoming involved in the technology education field maybe in a school or another venue.

Considering the fact that I knew extremely little (as I found out throughout this course), I do feel more comfortable with the ID process. I know that I am nowhere near proficient right now, but I feel like I could create a clinic using the ID process with a little mentoring from a more experienced teacher. The more that I would use the process, the more proficient and comfortable I think I would become.