CEP 812 WPP Final

Jing Project

My Wicked Problem Project was dealing with finding the time to re-teach fractions. After much thought and trial and error, I realized I needed to focus my problem into 3 separate re-teaching sections:

1. identifying fractions
2. adding/subtracting fractions with common denominators
3. adding/subtracting fractions without common denominators

My solution was to use Adobe Presenter to accomplish this. Adobe Presenter allows me to create individualized instructional sessions for my students. They can take a pre-test and pos-test quiz that I embed to provide me with data to see where my students started and how they finished. This also allows me to tweak my instruction with them if this did not work the first time.

This technology supports the following teaching strategies and methods:

1. visual - through pictures I can place in the program to provide students with concrete information
2. auditory - I will read questions and create some verbal instruction in the program
3. drill and practice - students will be able to practice the concepts
4. scaffolding- Students will start with adding and subtracting fractions with common denominators and move towards adding and subtracting without common denominators.
5. Chunking - this program will allow me to chunk instruction into smaller pieces for my students.

I am able to break information down, provide repeated instruction, and pinpoint the areas of deficits that my students have.

 

This process made my content more intellectually accessible because all of my students could access it. It is a tool that promotes independence. This is vital for special education students as they are often the ones that become dependent. This allows them to complete the content at their own pace. There is no fear of being wrong in a group because it is individualized. They are able to pause, rewind or fast forward at any moment if they need clarification of the content. I can also reach more levels of students with this. I could create a gifted and talented lessons as well as a general session. This would help me with workshop time as I would more effectively be able to access student's deficient areas.

 

This process utilized my pedagogical choices to make the content more accessible providing my students with additional instruction in a new way. My students are given additional visuals to support their understanding of the concept. The are able to use visual manipulatives to solve the simple addition and subtraction problems. It will scaffolds their instruction from identifying fractions to  adding and subtracting with common denominators to adding and subtracting without common denominators. It gives my students who struggle to read an opportunity to participate independently in the learning. Students will also be able to show their knowledge through assessments embedded into the assignment.

Overall, this process was very useful. It provided me with a new tool to use with my students, as well as a deeper understanding of what my students need. I am exited to utilize all of the things Adobe Presenter has to offer. The data is already starting to be used inside of my school with school improvement goals.

CEP 812: Personal Learning Plan

VoiceThread
 - I am sorry this is so quiet. I was sick at the time and unable to project my voice any louder.

This is a voicethread of my personal learning plan. In 810, my goals dealt with attending more conferences and utilizing my new technology inside of the classroom. I have been able to utilize some of it inside of the classroom. It is challenging to utilize all of it because with copyright we are only able to use certain things inside of the virtual setting. I am working to find new resources that I can utilize, but I am also learning everything that we have.

As far as attending more conferences, my company has trainings every week to introduce new technologies that we can use in our program. I attend as many as I can. Many of them are programs that students can be signed up for as an intervention to weak areas they have in reading and math. I am learning to analyze the data and provide new learning paths for them.

I am very excited to utilize all the things I learned in this class. I am especially excited to use WatchKnowLearn. It will help me with my flipped classroom. I will be bale to provide even focused assistance for my students for areas they are struggling with. This has been a great experience, and I really appreciate all the application we are expected to do in this class. It really helped me to master the content.

CEP 812: Group Leadership Project

For this PD tutorial our group used Adobe Presenter to present our findings on WatchKnowLearn. We used this program because it incorporates PowerPoint with a presentation component. Users are able to fast forward and rewind the presentation to go at their own speed. If animation is present, the program allows the narrator to record sections for each animation. This way users do not have to press a sounds button for the presentation, but instead it is all encompassing.  It is a fairly easy program to create and watch.

Through this process I learned about several technological programs. I did not know what a storyboard was or how to use it. Popplet it an awesome site to use for this purpose. I can see it as something that my students could easily manipulate and use for projects. I also loved using Google docs for our script writing. I think this is another program that I do not utilize as much as I could with my students. It is was very hard to keep this project to the 10 minute guideline. There is always so much that you can share about things you are researching and programs you are utilizing. WatchKnowLearn is one of those programs that is full of useful tools that could take hours to present.


Overall, this presentation went well. I enjoyed working with my group members. Heidi did a great job of keeping us on task, while Sam was the driving force behind the design of the presentation. I added my own zing with the new technology of Adobe Presenter. If I had to do something differently in this process I would make the script shorter. It was so hard to cram all of the information into the presentation. Otherwise, I am pleased with the final product and my group members. They were amazing and really worked to build each other up. They were a true model of a PLC.




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