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.
Reflection:
At the end of my first semester while working on my masters in Instructional Technology, I wrote a reflection blog post looking back on all that I learned about how to integrate technology into lessons and how the new experiences would change my outlook on education. This artifact demonstrates mastery of the reflection element, because it shows that I think about my experiences, reflect on how the experience alters my educational viewpoint, while also explaining how my technology facilitator skills have improved through the work I accomplished my first semester.
By being required to reflect on my experiences, I learned the importance of being able to look back on what I have accomplished and how that helps me as a teacher and technology facilitator. Everyone learns as he/she accomplish particular tasks, but what most people do not do is to reflect on the task to see how the learning changed their views. If I could change something about this reflection post, I would add more reflective thoughts about how the semester was shaping my perspective on technology in the classroom. I did reflect on my thoughts on technology, but looking back now, I learned more than what I wrote. This artifact impacts student learning, because it shows that my views on technology in the classroom have changed for the better, which directly results in changes in my teaching. When my teaching style changes in a positive manner, it results in my students' learning increasing. This impact can be assessed by talking with my students before my first semester of graduate school and after, to see if the changes I feel like I made actually took place in my classroom.
At the end of my first semester while working on my masters in Instructional Technology, I wrote a reflection blog post looking back on all that I learned about how to integrate technology into lessons and how the new experiences would change my outlook on education. This artifact demonstrates mastery of the reflection element, because it shows that I think about my experiences, reflect on how the experience alters my educational viewpoint, while also explaining how my technology facilitator skills have improved through the work I accomplished my first semester.
By being required to reflect on my experiences, I learned the importance of being able to look back on what I have accomplished and how that helps me as a teacher and technology facilitator. Everyone learns as he/she accomplish particular tasks, but what most people do not do is to reflect on the task to see how the learning changed their views. If I could change something about this reflection post, I would add more reflective thoughts about how the semester was shaping my perspective on technology in the classroom. I did reflect on my thoughts on technology, but looking back now, I learned more than what I wrote. This artifact impacts student learning, because it shows that my views on technology in the classroom have changed for the better, which directly results in changes in my teaching. When my teaching style changes in a positive manner, it results in my students' learning increasing. This impact can be assessed by talking with my students before my first semester of graduate school and after, to see if the changes I feel like I made actually took place in my classroom.