Week 8: Reflection


This class has taught me a lot of information that will be helpful in my future years of teaching. My personal theory remains the same somewhat. I plan to incorporate social learning into my theory. My students will enjoy learning from each other than me all the time. This will teach them how to get along with others and work together to accomplish a goal. I know it will be hard at first with my preschoolers but with a lot of modeling I know my students will catch on and be successful at it.
My plans are to incorporate more technology into my classroom to give my students more hands on learning experiences. Two technology tools that I plan to use in my classroom are blogs and Voice Thread. I am going to setup a classroom blog to display students' work, weekly newsletters, and a way for parents to keep in touch with me about anything they need assistance with. With Voice Thread, I am going to have students retell stories, discuss what they drew in their journals, and other fun activities. I will download the Voice Threads to our classroom blog site for parents to hear. What a great way to keep parents inform on what we are doing in the classroom.
My two long term goals are to use virtual field trips to save my parents money and continue to expose my children to technology to have them ready for the real world. Students love to go on field trips. What a great way to bring the field trip to our classroom. Students will still get the expose but in an environment that they already feel safe in. We as teachers are competing against technology so I am going to incorporate technology into my lessons to make learning familiar and fun for them.