My progress in the program

I have been afforded some very valuable opportunities from my administrators that are helping me prepare for a future position as a principal.  I have completed all of my internship hours plus some and I am just wrapping up getting all of the reflections on my internship log.  As I read back over the reflections, I realize how far I have come in my studies.  I think back to the beginning of this program and realize that I was very green.  I also realize that my learning won’t stop as I complete this program.  As we have discussed many times during classes and discussion boards, our learning is never done!  I will continue to seek opportunities that will further prepare me for a future position in leadership. 

My action research is coming along.  I spent all of last year collecting data on the effects of nightly reading and a student’s reading level.  Over the course of the summer, I have disaggregated the data and continued to gather more current articles on the subject.  I have all of the information needed to begin to compile a rough draft of the research paper.  The findings were interesting and I cannot wait to get everything complied into one paper.  

Week 5 Web conference reflections

Web Conference reflection:

As a teacher that is not afraid of technology or using it in my classroom, I have gained some valuable tools to use in my classroom.  From the collaboration in my group and the web conferences, I have been introduced to more tools to place in my ever-growing teacher toolbox.  I am especially excited about LiveBinders!  I know that as a teacher, I will use this for various units of lessons.  It makes everything accessible and in one place – no more searching through saved websites.  In addition to it being a helpful tool for me, my students will benefit from this.  As a teacher of first grade, I will be able to create a binder that has all of the kid-friendly browsers and websites that we frequent in our class.  During the web class during week 4, I also learned of some other web tools that I am looking forward to using in my class.  I have had the opportunity to explore Lucid Charts.  This tool will be useful to my classes when we are talking about the parts of a story and how the story flows.  I made a list of other websites or apps that were mentioned in the web conference that include:  storybird.com, ed canvas, vizzle, science 360, and corkboard.me.  I also learned about Speed-Geeking.  Our district began a big push on technology last year and what a better way to continue this push to share new information.  I look forward to sharing this concept with my administrators.