3.1 Classroom Management & Collaborative Learning
Candidates model and facilitate effective classroom management and collaborative learning strategies to maximize teacher and student use of digital tools and resources. (PSC 3.1/ISTE 3a)
Artifact:
Engaged Learning Project
Reflection:
This artifact is the Engaged Learning Project was created in ITEC 7400. This project really helped students acquire and refine collaboration skills.
This artifact was used to model and facilitate classroom management strategies. The classroom management strategy that worked best for me during this project were quickly handling off-task behaviors, engaging students in authentic learning, and being organized. Students were engaged in the tasks that encompassed this project which helped to cut down on discipline and behavior issues. Each day I worked very hard to stay organized and to keep students organized. If I am well-organized, the students are more likely to be well-organized as well. I also used this artifact to model and facilitate effective collaborative learning strategies. I helped students learn how to work in a group collaboratively by modeling what appropriate group work looks like before beginning the project with them. Once students understood what effective collaboration was and how it looks, I broke them into groups. Choosing the groups allowed me to make the groups evenly balanced with skill, knowledge, strengths, weaknesses, and personalities. Doing this was also a classroom management strategy. Once students were in groups, I was able to facilitate the collaborative learning.
This artifact was one of the first times I had broken students into groups and taken so many factors into consideration. Overall, I feel like the groups were well balanced and fair. If I had this to do over, I would give more time for the project to be completed, and more time for students to plan with their groups. Students could have really taken another week or so and expanded their knowledge base of recycling and what it can do in the world. Students also could have achieved more if they had more time in the planning phase.
This artifact impacted student learning. It can be assessed through the students knowledge, understanding, and curiosity about recycling. Those students are have now started a recycling team at our school since the end of that project. They have moved past the requirements of the standard and put the knowledge into action.
This artifact is the Engaged Learning Project was created in ITEC 7400. This project really helped students acquire and refine collaboration skills.
This artifact was used to model and facilitate classroom management strategies. The classroom management strategy that worked best for me during this project were quickly handling off-task behaviors, engaging students in authentic learning, and being organized. Students were engaged in the tasks that encompassed this project which helped to cut down on discipline and behavior issues. Each day I worked very hard to stay organized and to keep students organized. If I am well-organized, the students are more likely to be well-organized as well. I also used this artifact to model and facilitate effective collaborative learning strategies. I helped students learn how to work in a group collaboratively by modeling what appropriate group work looks like before beginning the project with them. Once students understood what effective collaboration was and how it looks, I broke them into groups. Choosing the groups allowed me to make the groups evenly balanced with skill, knowledge, strengths, weaknesses, and personalities. Doing this was also a classroom management strategy. Once students were in groups, I was able to facilitate the collaborative learning.
This artifact was one of the first times I had broken students into groups and taken so many factors into consideration. Overall, I feel like the groups were well balanced and fair. If I had this to do over, I would give more time for the project to be completed, and more time for students to plan with their groups. Students could have really taken another week or so and expanded their knowledge base of recycling and what it can do in the world. Students also could have achieved more if they had more time in the planning phase.
This artifact impacted student learning. It can be assessed through the students knowledge, understanding, and curiosity about recycling. Those students are have now started a recycling team at our school since the end of that project. They have moved past the requirements of the standard and put the knowledge into action.