2. How to build a Culture of Error responses:
3. If a student is asked to round 246.74 to the nearest hundredth place, mistakes that a student might make could be:
4. Question that may need deep excavation: “How do you find a book by a fictional author using the Dewy Decimal System?”
Potential wrong answers:
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This week, I was supposed to begin working with one of our ELA teachers regarding the collaborative lesson task. She and I have been working together on various projects this year because she, too, is in an instructional technology master’s program in order to become a media specialist. She is also our advanced placement coordinator and a really strong and effective teacher. But, that didn’t happen. Unfortunately, she has the flu and has been out most of the week.
With my schedule a little freer, I began working with the principal and rescheduling the climate surveys that our students have to take: GA DOE school climate survey. Today, during every block, I will be administering climate surveys to the students who did not take the survey in the fall. We began this process before the Christmas break, but when one of our students was murdered, we thought it best to put the climate survey on hold for a bit. Hopefully, after today, I will have surveyed at least 75% of 1100 students, which is the required goal as mandated by the state of Georgia. Throughout this week, I was tasked with random assignments. One of the assignments was to help one of our SPED teachers with computer skills. I had no idea, when I was asked by one of our assistant principals to help this teacher, how little she actually knew about computers. I sat with her Monday and as soon as I began talking to her about any questions she may have or if there were any areas in particular she wanted to discuss, I quickly realized that she had very little understanding about basic computer knowledge. We began by plugging a mouse into her laptop then I urged her to try to become more comfortable using a mouse. For the sake of time, she is much quicker using a mouse and not the laptop keypad. We then went on to organizing her H:drive (this is the drive set up for an employee in our district) and created folders that will help her save and retrieve documents more easily than in the past. Thursday, we worked on how to scan documents using the copy machine, how to email herself the documents using the copy machine, and how to retrieve the documents in her email. We still have a long way to go, but I’m certain that this teacher will be proficient using computers by the end of February (that’s just my personal goal). November 8-10, 2017, I attended the Georgia Educational Technology Consortium in Atlanta, Georgia. This was my first time attending the conference, and with over 350 concurrent sessions, nearly 200 exhibitors, and dozens of student groups showcasing their work from which to explore, it was difficult to know where to start. I wanted to take this opportunity to immerse myself in as many learning experiences as possible and since I attended the conference by myself, I was able explore the latest gadgets, hear from featured speakers, and discover technology tips and tricks on my own schedule and at my leisure.
I am on the leadership team at my school and within the team, we are divided into 3 groups: culture, collaboration and engagement. I’m in the engagement group, so I sat in on the sessions that would help give me additional tools to take back to my teachers that would help them with engagement. I sat in as many Google sessions as I could find time for, as well as sessions on Galileo, which I was excited about because I learned new ways to use Galileo, and sessions that discussed how to implement technology training for teachers. I listened to Carl Hooker discuss using technology in education and excitedly discuss how phones have become more and more useful in a classroom setting. I attended a session about accessing and promoting ebooks in hopes that Eden Clark would give me a better insight into promoting ebooks in high school because students can access ebooks from their phones. ‘Implementing technology training for teachers: how the media specialist can help’ was interesting and very informative. Amy Harrison presented several interesting ways to use online learning tools such as swivl and kahoots. As a media specialist, it is vital that I am able to provide assistance in professional development by providing training and support on digital resources and instructional technology. Attending conferences like the GaETC helps me with being an innovator in instructional technology and I can share that knowledge with teachers and students. I learned so much by attending the conference and look forward to going back to it again next year! Chapter 1
There will be a central location for missed work and will utilize Google Classroom for this process so that the students know they have a “go to” for assignments. This cuts down on having to make handouts. When students are given assignments, they will also be given a rubric with it. That keeps grading fair and consistent on assignments.
Over the weekend, I decided that I should get an early start on my weekend. I know it may seem strange to think about such things when you should be home relaxing with your family, but as always, the media center creeps into my mind and I plan a million different things for the upcoming week. Since we have a 4 day week this week, I thought that it would be a great time to inventory the CPU's in both of our computer labs, the CPU's in the media center and the CPU's in classrooms. My goal is to have this completed by this Friday. Along with CPU's, I will also be updating laptops, meaning that my clerk and I will be plugging them into the Ethernet ports for about 30 minutes in order for them to receive the required district updates. While the laptops are updating, I will check the serial numbers on them and check them against my inventory.
Yearly inventory is typically a headache the media specialist must endure. Like the WFHS media specialist before me, I work super hard on making sure that my inventory is 100% accurate. I am fortunate that I have not only a media clerk, who can hold down the media center while I am out and about, but also a part time library media support specialist (LMSS), who can assist me with locating equipment and helping with my inventory. The pictures attached are the emails that I sent to my clerk and LMSS and to the allstaff group at Windsor Forest. I like to stay busy and I like for the media center to be considered the hub of the school. On any given day, I will have a variety of activities planned for the media center from teaching classes to having a reading session with the pre-k class at the school, or occasional Red Cross blood drives. Today is one of my blood drive days. The students show great enthusiasm for our blood drive. I feel it is very important for our students to see that the media center is more than just a place that warehouses books or a place to come to use the computers to surf the internet. It needs to be the center of activities for students, teachers, and community members. By hosting activities, such as blood drives, I am able to assert myself as one of the leaders in the school while teaching the students the importance of giving back to the community. I want the media center to be a valuable resource for the entire school. |
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