So, it comes down to this. I am truly excited, for one of the first times in my teaching career, to facilitate a lesson. Now, I have been excited about lessons in the past, but I used a key word in the previous sentence...facilitate. The crafting of the lesson was inspired by Ms. Amanda Dykes, Mr. Alan November, and the Manor High School Step by Step Guide to the Best Projects. Ms. Dykes, by writing a great piece about failure and NASA, and Mr. November by (hopefully) teaching us all about student engagement.
Basically, I am going to introduce some basic computer concepts with one of my lab classrooms (I have several teachers who have been gracious enough to allow me to experiment with them and their classes), how to email, use our Academic Intranet, posting links, etc. I made an entry point video and a list of their tasks...we shall see how it goes!
And we´re back. It is 1:51 p.m. CST. Well, the lesson went well. I was very pleased with how it turned out as a whole. The kids appreciated working for themselves, having as little interaction as possible with the teacher, as well as the ¨method¨ of the instruction. Now, they were there for 90 minutes, and it took that long for some of them to send an email (and we are talking about 11 year olds), but they were on task, they worked together, and they held strong without help from the teacher. I felt it was a huge success, and a wonderful first step!
Now, we´ll see how it goes on Friday.
The journey of a first year Technology Integration Specialist trying to encourage a paradigm shift in education. My views do not necessarily reflect those views of my employer.
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