6.2 Reflection
6.2 Reflection
Candidates regularly evaluate and reflect on their professional practice and dispositions to improve and strengthen their ability to effectively model and facilitate technology-enhanced learning experiences. (PSC 6.2/ISTE 6c)
Candidates regularly evaluate and reflect on their professional practice and dispositions to improve and strengthen their ability to effectively model and facilitate technology-enhanced learning experiences. (PSC 6.2/ISTE 6c)
Artifact: Blog attached to my electronic portfolio (linked below)
Electronic Portfolio Blog
Reflection: For standard 6.2, the focus is on reflection about professional practice and the dispositions that are involved in and required to earn the educational specialist degree in instructional technology. To that end, I chose my blog that is attached to my electronic portfolio and which I have updated after each course ends and often during a course with the experiences that I have taken away from each course. In creating and updating the blog, I have shared my thoughts about the coursework as well as about my growth as an educator and my new skills.
When I first began working on the blog for my portfolio, I saw it as another hoop that I had to jump through to finish the class each semester. However, as I continued to write my reflection posts at the end of each course, I began to see the blog as a way for me to gather my thoughts at the end of each course. Through the process of writing my reflection blog post for each course in the specialist program, I was able to remember the skills and concepts that had been covered in each class. Being able to recall the subject matter of the course and reflect on it also made it more usable to me in my classroom. Because of the reflection blog posts, I have recalled many facts and techniques that I would have otherwise forgotten, and I have been able to improve my teaching because of the reflection.
The opportunity to reflect on my practice has grown on me so much that I plan to continue blogging after I have completed my coursework to reflect on the activities that I install in my classroom. I intend to use my new blog to share what my students and I do in the classroom with my peers around the world. I also hope to utilize the blog to begin a two-way dialogue with my peers so that I can find ways to improve my lessons.
Through the process of creating the blog that I’ve chosen for this artifact, I have learned a lot about my own skills and dispositions, and I have gained a newfound respect and understanding of the process of reflecting on one’s work. The blog has allowed me to celebrate my successes in my coursework and also pinpoint areas in which I can seek to make improvements in the future. Speaking of improvements, in the future, and with my planned outside blog, I will be careful to create blog posts with more regularity. Writing a regular blog post will allow me to better organize my thoughts and to take even more advantage of having time to reflect on my practice.
The impact of this artifact was almost solely on my own practice within my classroom since the creation of the blog was based on my learning through my EdS coursework. Reflecting on my activities, celebrating my successes, and looking for ways to improve all helped me to ensure that I was able to incorporate my new skills and dispositions into my classroom practice. A secondary impact from this artifact was on the classroom experience of my students. My reflection influences me to implement a long-term blogging project for my students in which they are afforded the opportunity to reflect on their own achievements in class. In addition, my own constant reflection allowed me to remember to include new time management, technology integration, and instructional strategies into my lessons.
Electronic Portfolio Blog
Reflection: For standard 6.2, the focus is on reflection about professional practice and the dispositions that are involved in and required to earn the educational specialist degree in instructional technology. To that end, I chose my blog that is attached to my electronic portfolio and which I have updated after each course ends and often during a course with the experiences that I have taken away from each course. In creating and updating the blog, I have shared my thoughts about the coursework as well as about my growth as an educator and my new skills.
When I first began working on the blog for my portfolio, I saw it as another hoop that I had to jump through to finish the class each semester. However, as I continued to write my reflection posts at the end of each course, I began to see the blog as a way for me to gather my thoughts at the end of each course. Through the process of writing my reflection blog post for each course in the specialist program, I was able to remember the skills and concepts that had been covered in each class. Being able to recall the subject matter of the course and reflect on it also made it more usable to me in my classroom. Because of the reflection blog posts, I have recalled many facts and techniques that I would have otherwise forgotten, and I have been able to improve my teaching because of the reflection.
The opportunity to reflect on my practice has grown on me so much that I plan to continue blogging after I have completed my coursework to reflect on the activities that I install in my classroom. I intend to use my new blog to share what my students and I do in the classroom with my peers around the world. I also hope to utilize the blog to begin a two-way dialogue with my peers so that I can find ways to improve my lessons.
Through the process of creating the blog that I’ve chosen for this artifact, I have learned a lot about my own skills and dispositions, and I have gained a newfound respect and understanding of the process of reflecting on one’s work. The blog has allowed me to celebrate my successes in my coursework and also pinpoint areas in which I can seek to make improvements in the future. Speaking of improvements, in the future, and with my planned outside blog, I will be careful to create blog posts with more regularity. Writing a regular blog post will allow me to better organize my thoughts and to take even more advantage of having time to reflect on my practice.
The impact of this artifact was almost solely on my own practice within my classroom since the creation of the blog was based on my learning through my EdS coursework. Reflecting on my activities, celebrating my successes, and looking for ways to improve all helped me to ensure that I was able to incorporate my new skills and dispositions into my classroom practice. A secondary impact from this artifact was on the classroom experience of my students. My reflection influences me to implement a long-term blogging project for my students in which they are afforded the opportunity to reflect on their own achievements in class. In addition, my own constant reflection allowed me to remember to include new time management, technology integration, and instructional strategies into my lessons.