Reflection in Action

These quotes from School Leader Internship helped me understand the importance of reflection;

" Reflection as a meaning maker: The goal of reflection is to learn what to take away from one's experiences" (p.107). "Reflection as a rigorous way of thinking: This process involves a certain amount of curiosity, which opens up the possibility of new learning" (p.107). Reflection as part of a community of learners: Reflection is not practiced in isolation; it occurs in a community of learners. Otherwise, one risks repeating the same mistakes and missing the meanings of one's experiences, instead of learning from them" (p.107). Without reflection you just wallow in your sorrow. I think it take discipline and confidence to look at what you do, find the good, and find solutions to the not so good. You implement the steps you need to take to make improvement and then you reflect on how those steps worked and how and why they didn’t work. This is a never ending cycle, that is essential for constant improvement.

Plan of Action

Action Planning Template
Goal: How can we incorporate NEO2 or other technology into faculty meetings, so that every teacher can utilize the technology and become increasingly familiar with it and become more inclined to incorporate it into daily lessons?
Action Steps(s):	Person(s) Responsible:	Timeline: Start/End	Needed Resources	Evaluation
Back to school staff development day. Use clickers to answer research questions.	principal and myself	Present of staff development day, May 2013 insure that all technology is installed onto computers in Café, and LRC	clickers, projector, software on laptop	digital pictures of teachers using the technology or teacher work printed out.
Faculty meeting use neo2 and the to know tool bar for clickers. run a power point with response questions and let teachers respond through clickers	principal presents the information and I incorporate a technology piece in conjunction to.	September Fac. Meeting.30 min.	NEO2 for each teachers, to know tools installed or LRC computer, NEO@ receiver	3 question exit ticket survey. 1. I learned something new. 2. this was stressful. 3 I will incorporate  NEO2 into my lessons.
Faculty meeting -Neo2- Teachers will write responses to writing prompts Valentine themed poems already programmed into the NEO2s and print writings from LRC printer. Scan QR code and research St. Valentine write four facts about your findings.	Me	February Faculty meeting	NEO2, Software on LRC computers, QR codes	Exit questions

meaningful and effective

Action Research

These are some idea. Through my grad work I have to do an Action Research project. I have to incorporate technology. But mostly I want it to be meaningful and effectively tie in our campus goal.

How can we incorporate NEO2 or other technology into faculty meeting, so that every teacher can utilize the technology and become increasingly familiar with it and would become more inclined to incorporate it into daily lessons?

Main objective here is to give teachers a meaningful and safe way to become more familar with the technology we have.

How can we incorporate NEO2 into our faculty meetings to better address and strengthen writing, which is our campus goal.

Could we use clickers to identify which writing TEKS are which grade levels.

Teacher would have a copy of the vertical alignment writing TEKS

A TEK would be present teacher would have 1 min. to find the corresponding grade level and click their response. Use mobi view to see which teacher submitted which answer.

Then move into creating a grading rubric per grade level per writing genre according to the expectation in grade level TEKS.

I blog, you blog, we all blog

Why blog? Who blogs?

As a" younger" teacher when I plan my lessons I hardly ever go to a filing cabinet and pull something out. In fact that is the last place I look. When I want to find a lesson I go online. I view pintrest, blogs, free lesson plans, online curriculum but mostly blogs. While searching the works of others I have often wondered why blog? I AM SO GLAD "THEY DO", BUT WHY? Through this research class I am finding out the why. One its fun!! Two its easy! Three I feel like I could be giving something back to the world of education. Four it is a great way to organize your thoughts, plans and goals.

 

As future admin. I see myself doing the same thing when it comes to leading my school. I will look to other leaders and what they have blogged about. In the Dana text she writes about Weblogs and taking time to reflect through informal writing. Just journaling your thoughts. The older I get the less I can remember. My arrogance in the past, was like , why write that little piece of information down about that students. I can remember that! HA!HA! not so. I can't hardly remember what I ate for dinner yesterday, much less what new knowledge this student has obtained due to my hard work as a teacher. Also, when you blog your frustration and then you sit back down with another frustration ,you read your past frustration and will be able to reflect on how that turned out. I feel that blogging could help you to stay grounded and see that though our progress is slow we are progressing.

Action, Action , Action, RESEARCH

What I......

 

Know	Want	Learned
·         Action research is living ·         Its beneficial for all educators to do regularly ·         it can be easily set up and incorporated into your classroom and school ·         its practical	·         how to set it up ·         how to complete one research and stay motivated to continue with another ·         how to manage time to document data	Action research is live. It is what educators do, it isn’t done to us. We collectively think of an area, formulate a question and set in place ways to improve it. As an inquirer you implement plans to make changes and the take time to reflect on the changes. Evaluate the situation, identify the strength of the changes and identify new needs and set forth another plan to better the current situation. Action research, Administrator Inquiry is a living breathing thing. It is ongoing. Its taking your school problems ( complaints from teachers) and putting into action ways to fix these problems. You look at the problem and identify step by step ways to better the situation. I like the ex. in the book that talks about not making your question ( the problem) to wordy. Cut to the chase, find the root and get busy. Its a ongoing ( through reflection) systematic approach to problem solving.