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ReGina Chavez: Course Value & Goals/ Intentions

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ReGina Chavez: Course Value & Goals/ Intentions

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I believe this course will be valuable to me in planning, preparing, and responding to technology's growing importance in the field of education.  I don't like reacting to situations I like to prepare my environment whether that's the physical classroom or the virtual classroom. I'm looking forward to being more prepared and having some new tools and information.

My Goals and intentions are to continue to provide excellent educational experiences in the physical classroom as well as learning how to also utilize technology, apps, platforms and games for online learners.  I'm curious as to what hybrid models there are as well as how to create dynamic and engaging experiences for our youngest learners

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Joanne Hohman   This course's value and my intentions/goals for what I'm learning.

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Joanne Hohman   This course's value and my intentions/goals for what I'm learning.

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So far, everything I've read, both the textbook and the comments from "my fellow wizards" as we hobnob and discuss the topics set for us, has been time well spent.  I've been expanding my tech horizons; what and how I teach, thinking outside the box, more fun and challenging for all, and incorporating that technology and new ideas into my ensemble rehearsals and lessons.  Reading about the successes and misses from teachers in other disciplines has also stirred my creative juices.

My goals for this learning are to elevate my standing with my students from "old fogie" to a title more "hip" (I probably need a new word for that, too), increase the number of students in my band and choir, help my students become self-motivated sooner, increase my own and my student's satisfaction levels in personal and ensemble performance, make the students more active and feel more welcomed to the school music community and extend our music community to include our town.

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Heidi Orestis How will this course be valuable to me?

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Heidi Orestis How will this course be valuable to me?

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I want my classroom to be self paced so even if we are in person, I will be making videos and allowing students to communicate with me and each other through Padlet, Slack and other ways.  It's also always great to connect with other teachers.  Who knows if we will have to go virtual again.  I'm also interested in working remotely but not sure what types of opportunities are out there.

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I have been working online, in the remote setting for four years, and then some prior to that. My courses that I taught were mostly in higher education, but I have recently starting teaching K-12 students again part-time. I think perhaps the most beneficial thing that this course will provide me is time to think, reflect on my practice, connect with others, and hopefully spur more innovative practices when developing professional development for the faculty I serve/support.

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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 met 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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How do you predict this course might be valuable to you?

This course will allow me the much needed time to reflect upon the remote learning experience from last year, and introduce me to new ideas and insights so I may incorporate this upcoming school year. I appreciate the opportunity to share these reflections and read other peer reflections.

What are your intentions/goals for your learning in this course?

My intention for this course is to learn new methods, best practices, and strategies to apply in my classroom.

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1. How do you predict this course might be valuable to you?

As we were all faced with a new way of teaching, I found my self frantically searching for new best practices.  I am looking forward to learning from other educators  in the state and learning new methods of teaching. Reading others posts and responses has already been of value to me so I am looking forward to the next few weeks.

1. What are your intentions/goals for your learning in this course?

Virtual learning and technology are not going away. I want to learn from others in the field what is working well for them. I look forward to learning online pedagogy so I can apply new strategies in my classroom.

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Valuable?
I love reading about what other educators faced during more favorable and also difficult times of teaching and using those ideas in the classroom I currently work in. I am also looking forward to learning more ways of teaching special education students via zoom and keeping them engaged.
Intentions or goals- Figure out new ways to put technology to good use to better engage my students when having to learn virtually. I hope to use what I have learned to help me in my everyday life to be better than I was yesterday!

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Valuable?
I love finding gold nuggets or the sparks to keep me going. After 30 years of teaching, the value of staying current is a necessity that I love. I find inspiration and ideas everywhere. Taking classes like this keeps me in my student’s shoes and current. I have already taken alway numerous notes, ideas and suggestions for my own reflection and pedagogy. The use of technology is not going away and I hope to find better ways to integrate it into my classroom, and possible leadership and later administrative roles. Collaboration, communication and compassion are so important to me and I can see that happening here already so I am grateful to participate, share and learn to reflect, explore and take away gold nuggets = Value! ; )
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Figure out how to use these lessons, the information and interactions to support my students, to create a better safe place in my classroom and the world. I hope to use these experiences will make me a better teacher, friend and colleague.

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How do you predict this course might be valuable to you?  What are your intentions/goals for your learning in this course?

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How do you predict this course might be valuable to you?  What are your intentions/goals for your learning in this course?

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1. Both the content of the course as well as the interactions with other educators will be extremely valuable to me.  As I was not in a classroom last year, my experience of online education, is only through my current work on Zoom as well as well as whatever tools/methods used with my children's online education.  I am interested in hearing what worked and didn't for educators who were online teaching for the last year and a half.

2. As I work to renew my teaching certification, I couldn't imagine entering a classroom without some sort of online training.   I think online/virtual learning will be used for a variety of reasons, not just COVID-19.  Virtual learning doesn't have to be an all or nothing affair.  Some of the tools being utilized may prove to be used in the classroom as well as remotely.  i am excited to learn more!

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1. How do you predict this course might be valuable to you?

I believe this course will help me gather more insight into best methods for virtual learning/teaching.  I hope to be able to utilize these skills within

the regular classroom as a way of integrating more technology into lessons without using the same few platforms.

2.What are your intentions/goals for your learning in this course?

I believe that virtual learning is going to be a big part of the future.  Being prepared and more comfortable with the process can only be helpful in the times to come.

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I was very happy to see in the course description much time allowed for participants collaboration in form of reflections on the past year, sharing experience, and commenting on each other work. Teaching in general is paradoxically a lonely profession meaning that while teachers spend a lot of time among our students,  finding time to work with one's colleagues is always a challenge. This past year it was even more evident. As the year was very precisely called "crisis teaching" we all had to find our own way to adjust to ever-changing situation and to reinvent our teaching. I hope that in this course we will have plenty of time to "talk" among colleagues and to learn from common experience.
I think I have 2 goals for this course:
1. To reflect on my own work form last year to figure out what worked and what could be done better.
2. To learn from my peers approaches, methods, and techniques that worked for them, and to be able to use this new ways in my own teaching.

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I think this course will be valuable to me because it is important to learn from other educators to help me gain new insights/ideas/best practices.

My intention/goal for my learning in this course is to become more familiar with other online learning platforms as well as gain new best practices.

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1.  I predict this course will be valuable to me in my professional development goal of learning how to teach effectively in an online platform.  I predict that I will learn the dialect of online teaching and learning in way that will help me serve the needs of all students regardless of their background.

2. My goal is to learn best practices for high quality online teaching and learning. I also hope to gain more familiarity with the nuts and bolts of online programs and platforms used in online learning.

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I am hoping this course has me ready for the classroom after almost 18 years of maternity leave 😊  I really enjoyed being home, but educational practices have changed a lot over the years, and it seemed that the technology aspect used to be an outlier teaching tool, now it is a necessity.  My hope is that I can interact with students using skills gained here in a way that is helpful and insightful.

My goal is to be able to set up and teach a lesson and have a follow through that is thoughtful and interactive.  I hope to overcome my hesitation of learning new technology and become proficient in these platforms.

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I believe that the collaboration aspect of this course will be very valuable to me. Learning from other like-minded educators, receiving feedback and discussing best practices in virtual teaching are all things I'm looking forward to.

One specific goal that I have upon completing this course is to become familiar with technological platforms that I haven't interacted with yet. I am always looking for new and exciting ways to utilize technology to enhance my instruction.

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1. How do I predict that this course may be valuable to me?
As a teacher, I like feeling in control.  Here, I am a learner.  I can't predict and that is a little scary for me.  HOWEVER, it's at this place that I've found that I always learn/learned the most.

2. What are your intentions/goals for this course?
I want to stay 'in the loop' with what is happening in the states to see how that can fuse with my practice here in England.  The only thing that matters to me is being able to provide my pupils with the best possible opportunities, especially after all that they've been through.

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Rochester School District

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My Action Research for my CAGS in Ed Leadership was based on best practices in remote learning because I was living that reality day-to-day. I learned so much about ways to support teachers as they developed virtual classrooms to support students, but I wasn't able to try out as many tech apps and gadgets as I wanted. I'm hopeful that by utilizing the tools that are embedded in this course (Flipgrid, Nearpod, Jamboard, Playposit, etc.), I'll be able to apply what I've learned to my teaching practice so that I can create a virtual classroom that will benefit my Gifted & Talented students whether we're remote or in-person.

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I'm hoping that this course will help me learn to use more advanced technology to include in my teaching. I would also like my students to become more active learners. Some students hardly every said a word and I would like to get them more involved with their learning.
My goals for my learning in this course are pretty much the same as how this course might be valuable to me. I want to learn as much as I can about remote teaching so that I can use it to become more effective as a remote teacher.

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My prediction: I love learning from other teachers and how they use technology to enhance instruction and student learning. My intentions/goals: I hope to have a tool box of tech. tools and instructional techniques for the beginning of the school year that will allow my French students to show their learning in the three competencies of Interpersonal, Presentational, and Interpretive Communication.