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There is value in learning for the sake of learning and I take great joy in that. However, having a community that I can learn from and revel in their collective wisdom is of even greater value.
My goal is a simple yet difficult one... to be prepared for more remote learning. I would love to incorporate the things that I learn into my in-person learning, but I am trying to get a leg up on preparing for the worst. I want to have some kind of plan already in place so I am not scrambling the night before if I am called on a Tuesday to be told that my class will be remote for the next 10 days. I want to be able to provide my students a quality education for those days when being in school just isn't possible. It is the beginning of the year and there is so much to do already, but I want to have those plans tucked away so I at least have a jumping off point and can say okay we are going to work on this and this during the ten days and we are going to be using these programs.

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I signed up for this course to learn new teaching strategies and to collaborate with teachers across NH. I am excited to learn! I am hoping to learn new tools for delivering online instruction and how to engage students when they are not in the classroom. I am hoping to able to learn some techniques to use with my own children who may or may not be learning remotely in the future, too.

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I signed up for this course to learn new teaching strategies and to collaborate with teachers across NH. I am excited to learn! I am hoping to learn new tools for delivering online instruction and how to engage students when they are not in the classroom. I am hoping to be able to learn some techniques to use with my own children who may or may not be learning remotely in the future, too.

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Value
I imagine this course being of value to me by collaborating and sharing experiences with teachers from different schools. I know that once I found something that worked, I stuck with that and made it through the year with the tools I had. I would like to change my mindset now from survival to moving forward. I see this course as the push I need to go outside of my comfort zone a bit and explore ideas I didn’t try out with my students last year because I was scared of it being a waste of time, failing, or being something that wouldn’t be used past one lesson. Through the readings in the first week alone I feel that I am “heard” as a teacher that survived the chaos of last year, but I am comforted by the understanding of “you can only go up from here”. We will move forward.
Goals
My goal in this course is to be a more efficient and effective teacher. I want to use these past experiences and the experiences I will gain from this course to develop technology driven lessons that do not overwhelm the students. I mean I don’t want them to have flashbacks of last year (in a bad way, at least). I want to be able to share with them that we can acknowledge that last year happened and the “bad” things that came along with it, but lets talk about the good and use that to conquer the year. I do want to get even more comfortable with the resources I have learned or heard about, too. I found that if I learned of something that took more that 10 minutes to learn about, then I felt my students wouldn’t like or understand the platform either. This biggest goal is to just be open minded to the potential use of any app, program, or tool that I learn about.

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Collaborating with everyone in this course has recharged me after the challenges of the last two years of teaching. I am fortunate to work in a wonderful school district with colleagues I respect, admire and learn from. However, I am someone who loves to have her head above the clouds to see what is happening on a larger scale. Reading about all of your experiences, successes and challenges, and how you all have risen above them with true grit, creativity, and compassion has been inspiring. I hope to learn as much from all of you, as you do from this course. Thank you!

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Value
This course will be invaluable to me if it enables me to improve my overall teaching practices. I am looking to improve student engagement, create active and engaging lessons, and gain knowledge, ideas, resources, and online tools that will help me continue to support and further my students' knowledge and understanding.

Goals
My goals are to learn new teaching strategies and tools/resources for online learning that will help to keep students engaged. I am looking forward to learning some new online tools and applications such as Jamboard, Padlet, and Peardeck. I am also excited to collaborate with other educators.

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I've worked a lot with my students this year on having a "growth mindset" and have tried to instill upon them the drive to always continue pushing themselves to be better. This course seemed like the ideal way for me to practice what I teach. I hope to develop a better understanding of virtual learning in order to create what I believe to be the best practice (although I know it will always be shifting and changing with new technology and different types of learners.) I feel like my values align with my goal of building my "toolbox" and learning new strategies to best work with and connect with students in a virtual or in person setting.

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Ultimately I signed up for this course with the hopes that I could get some practice and introduction into new tools to engage students in the classroom and add variety to my instruction despite the limitations of virtual learning. This course seemed like an ideal way to encourage growth in these areas as we prepare to enter a third year where digital learning is going to heavily influence the instruction and execution a successful course.

Learning Goals
Last year I focused on google classroom and learning the ins and outs of that virtual classroom to be a more reliable communicator and more organized with the virtual component of my course so students could reliably access material and get the support they needed via posted videos and notes w/ commentary. This year, I want to add 2 or 3 more digital based components which can help me to add variety to the way students engage with material. Additionally, the opportunities for collaboration between students seemed lacking last year so I am hoping I can find a way to engage students and give them an opportunity to interact and learn together despite the challenges of social distancing.

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Course Value: I feel very pleased that right at the start of the introduction, and throughout the early modules I read, the information provided was based upon quantifiable data. I have plenty of opinions, as do all of my colleagues. I am looking ofrward to immersing in the data and learning the realities if virtual learning, whether in crisis mode or as a norm.

Learning goals: I want to be able to use this data to be a more efficient leader in my district. I teach students, but also faculty, staff and admin in my role as media specialist. I want to fosuc on efffective strategies and I believe this course will be a great start.

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One area where I think this class will be the most valuable is to be the student. It has been a while since I was in college, and at that point online learning wasn't very prevalent. I think to have some experience that may mimic the students in at least some way makes relating to them a little easier.

Learning Goals:
I think there is always room for growth and learning opportunities. I would like to learn some new programs/apps or practices that would give me some additional variety in my lessons. I also look forward to hearing about other's experiences and learning from that. I think others are our best opportunity for learning right now since we are essentially writing the book as we go along. I have taught in private, public, advanced math/science high schools, remedial high schools, middle schools, single gender, coed, elementary schools and in different states. Throughout these locations, I have learned new invaluable information from the experiences of my coworkers. Seeing through the different lenses of each person helps to shape each experience. I look forward to adding this and everyone's experience to my tool box.

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Laura Beaudoin: Value of Course/Learning Goals

While I am not currently in the 7-12 English classroom, I am an online adjunct instructor at SNHU. I am always looking for ways to stay current with teaching methodology and resources. I continue to maintain my EEL with English endorsement and this course provides some professional development hours to meet my individual professional development plan.

I would love to walk away with some new tools and strategies to bring into my SNHU-107 introduction to online education course. I also am looking forward to reflecting and supporting fellow educators. This is an opportunity to continue with my goal of being a lifelong learner.

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Kristi Damboise- Course Value and Learning Goals

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Kristi Damboise- Course Value and Learning Goals

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Course Value- I love how this course is already forcing me to reflect on everything that has happened in the last 18 months. It seems like everything has been going a million miles per hour and no time to figure out what really happened. Our district is looking into making online learning something more permanent and I see how education is moving in that direction. I want to be apart of that movement. I believe that this course is the start to better understanding how to best integrate technology into my classroom and maintain best educational practices for student success.

Learning Goals- I would like to expand my best practices to help students unlock the possibilities using technology. I found that I wasn’t as comfortable with some of the technology as I thought I would be. I want to be better than just okay. I want to experiment to see how I can challenge my students to use technologies responsibly and show learning. Then I want to help other teachers incorporate these ideas into their classrooms.

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Martha Mullen:  Course Value and Learning Goal

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Martha Mullen:  Course Value and Learning Goal

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I will paste my results shortly.Values: Stardust

“Lost causes are the only things worth fighting for!” (Winston Churchill) because of the pandemic many students and teachers felt lost as to how to proceed toward achievement in such cold lock down conditions. “Teachers led the revolution.” (Kraft,Simon,Lyon,2020)

The harsh reality as to the benefits or disadvantages to these almost two years of remote learning are still precarious. The data and the science are still so new, that we may not ascertain conclusions until the future discerns what quality on line elements were sustained toward 21st century long term student achievement. A past generation of learners, remotely loved the way Mr. Rogers and Sesame Street characters, climbed through the screens and touched the souls of future readers and mathematicians, scientists, and environmentalists-----they had such a presence, that they made us feel we were the only ones there. Statisticians, Scientists, Family and Consumer Scientists, Historians, were born out of this eclectic instructional delivery of these clever one to one tutors provided by public broadcasting systems. There is an enduring emphasis in “the importance of scaling one to one tutoring” (Kraft and Falken, 2020) and it is still the Secret Garden value of offerings provided by enthusiastic teachers who use a cache of learning websites/digital tools to forward achievement.

Even in our cliched new normal,the most important reason for stepping it up a notch is to forward student centered achievement, based around diverse learning styles. Students display an array of learning modalities in every academic core area, some still like auditory learning and may glean more from hearing the lesson from merely seeing a diagram online. Other students who are visual spatial concrete learners love seeing the picture of the lego tronic and immediately begin to construct angles and geometry in their minds, without any oral interruptions. Mathematical learners love unobtrusive, digital tools that display maps, charts,outlines, time lines,sequences,and data gatherings. The interpersonal learners love coaching, communicating opinions in essay formats, Book Buddies, projects and interviewing. Moreover the intrapersonal learner achieves mostly by intuitions, autobiographies, poetical analysis, reflections and self study reports. The intellect of a naturalistic learner (Gardner, 2020) loves the outdoor flora and fauna of the world around them and learns best by connections to people, plants and animals and aquatic life. The ever magical, perpetual motion, kinesthetic learner loves dramatic performances, plays, charades to explain curriculum concepts and recess! As teachers, we must value reaching all of them, not just some of them and not just the ones who can afford to order the applications, and not just the ones who appeal most to our own learning styles, because all of their learning styles are normal--we value honoring all of the “Genius” (McLaughlin,2021) in them!

Martha Mullen

Franciscan University

Goals; Starburst

We must use fresh data and science to pull achievement forward, not  just in politically engendered test scores out of Washington D.C. to Race to the Top for early autumn grant money, or Leave No Child With a Behind, but digital tools that reach all the children on all the virtual playgrounds--even the ones healing in the hospital. Patterning of successful digital tools allow diverse learners to shine in portfolios that burst with verbal /written competency, time lined data efficiency, collages of visual spatial mastery, kinesthetic displays/dramas of English/Irish literature/History, intrapersonal displays of cultural identity, interpersonal portfolio results of surveys and polling, and kinesthetic/athletic displays of sportsmanship. This is no mean feat for educators, but necessary to make all children sustain isolation with collaboration. There is a passage of star dust to the persevering and resilient craft of teaching, and all students should be reassured that “the second star to the right,” at twilight is calling to them, one on one, personally to the Neverland of learning. (Barrie,Peter Pan)

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Valuable:

This course will be valuable to me to improve my teaching craft. First and foremost, I want to understand the best practices to present an online curriculum to young students. I wish to be able to make interactive and engaging lessons online that enable students to master the standards. Finally, the collaboration among my peers, to share ideas, successes and failures, while learning together, is invaluable.

Goals:

I want to become more efficient with my online tools and feel more comfortable with remote teaching. I am especially interested in ways to engage young learners during whole group online lessons and different opportunities to gauge their success with the standards. As my confidence grows, I hope to extend my personal knowledge of how to integrate student choice and collaborative work during online teaching.

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This course will be valuable to me as it provides the opportunity to learn through various discussions, assignments, and technology which will boost my knowledge and confidence as an educator.  Additionally, having the chance to learn collaboratively with those who have been through a very challenging time allows us all to know that we can learn from each other in a supportive environment, while challenging ourselves to be the best teachers we can be for our students.  My goal is to dive into the technology presented so that I can be more comfortable utilizing these tools in the classroom, while increasing student engagement and resources.

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1.  This course will be invaluable to my craft if it enables me to: improve my success rate regarding student engagement and student understanding of lesson objectives; be introduced to additional resources.
2. My learning goals are: to diversify my remote teaching practices and instructional approaches; to be exposed to student motivational techniques to develop and maintain a students drive to learn remotely and to confidently step out of the role of student and to suggest steps to drive their instruction in small groups; to improve student participation in whole group instructional class time; and also to hear suggestions on how to fill instructional gaps in a class with a wide range of instructional capabilities.

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The very first benefit from the course is that I am going to further my technology skills! Padlet? What what? I just hope I can keep up with the different types of assignment formats! But, I welcome the technology education.

Additionally, it will be beneficial to interact with others who have been in the same position the past year and half.  Team collaboration and learning new practices are key to helping students grow and progress.
My goal is to receive a number of take-aways I can immediately incorporate as well as to reflect on current practices and judge their effectiveness.

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Name: Jeanne Akpan Reflections: Value and learning goals

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Name: Jeanne Akpan Reflections: Value and learning goals

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1. This course will be valuable to me to take the time through thoughtful prompts and discussions to truly reflect on this past year to determine the highs and lows of teaching during a pandemic. I hope this course will also provide more information about solid teaching practices as we begin a new year not knowing what the school year looks like.
2. My goals are to learn as much as I can while also reflecting on the past year to determine areas I can improve and what I should continue to do.

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1. This course will be valuable to me in order to apply strategies using an online environment focused on teaching Spanish to my students; it will give me a better insight for individual learning through different practices from other educators.

2.  My goals for this course are: learn about online pedagogy; learn how to design more engaging activities for my students; and, how to evaluate using a variety of online tools. Discover amazing practices from other educators.

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Valuable: Trying out some new applications, such as Padlet.

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Valuable: Trying out some new applications, such as Padlet.

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Intentions/Goals- to find ways to make learning more engaging for elementary school students.
Kristen True