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I am hopeful that this course will help me feel more comfortable with technology and to learn more about tools that I can use with my students.  I still hesitate to do things because of fear of doing something wrong.
With that said my intentions and/or goals for learning is to know more and feel more at ease using technology and all it has to offer. Also, to be more efficient with my time on the computer. I feel like it takes me so much longer to do things then my amazing co-workers. I want to be as good as them.

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I have always considered myself a lifelong learner - when I saw there was an opportunity to learn alongside other NH educators, I jumped at the opportunity. I have been a certified NH Science teacher for 21 years and have spent 14 of those in an online environment. My intention for taking the course is to continue to learn how to best support my students online. While my online courses are written for me and I facilitate content - there is always SO MUCH MORE to learn, from other educators and my students. In addition, hearing how many of you "built the plane while flying it" is inspirational and makes me proud to be working alongside you. I predict I will hear and see and put into practice some new best practices for communicating with parents and students. And I look forward to learning more of these cool tools like canvas and padlet!

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I like this GIF.  We did make it!!!  Wow...what a crazy year!  Now, what do we do with what we learned?  What did we gain?

I was excited to see this course because I want to reflect on this past year with all of you.  I want to pick your brains to find out what worked and what just did not.  I predict that I will collaborate with some amazing teachers, which will assist me in building my technology teaching toolbox.

I do have several intentions and goals with this course.  I want to be introduced to other programs that teachers found successful in their remote teaching experiences.  We all had to throw it together pretty quickly to jumpstart this past year.  This didn't leave much time to research and implement a lot of new programs.  I look forward to connecting with this group and collaborating into the future.  I'd like to build relationships with other district educators to continue to share the "Hey, this is awesome in the classroom!" and "Oh, I just fell of the cliff with this one!" experiences gained from new ideas.

I'm looking forward to the "We Made It!!!" but "How???" from you all :)

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I predict this course will teach me two things. First, there are some good things to be taken from my remote teaching experience. Second, there are beneficial aspects of distance learning that will improve my teaching. I struggled with adjusting to the remote setting. I had a really hard time staying organized and establishing a routine, and I felt that several of my lessons were not as effective as I'd hoped. Because of this, I developed a negative fixed mindset about remote teaching.

This leads me to my goal, which is to learn new strategies and resources that I have overlooked or did not approach during the period of remote teaching. These first few assignments have already challenged me to think positively about the past year to find what did go well. I appreciate having the opportunity to share my experience and learn from others' experiences in return.

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Predictions:
I predict this course will be valuable to reflect and discuss with other teachers about the last year and a half to find what worked and what didn't when it comes to distance learning. I predict we will share experiences and observations in order to improve our practice for the coming year.

Goals:
My main goal for this course is to learn best practice when it comes to distance learning and get new ideas through the readings and others' experiences. I hope to plan how I can incorporate and merge distance learning methods into my in-person classroom.

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My goals for this course is to reflect on what I experienced during remote/hybrid learning over the past 18 months. What did I do well? What areas could I improve upon? There will be times that we will be remote (are snow days a thing of the past?) and online learning is better for some students. I hope to add to my teacher toolbox to give me flexibility in how I design lessons, communicate, collaborate and support students, regardless of where the learning takes place.

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Life is a learning process always!  As teachers, we embody the love of learning for the sake of learning!  I feel I can always get better/stronger as a learning facilitator by continuing my personal professional growth.  I meet new people, read new ideas, learn a new tool/trick for my own teaching tool box.  I predict that I will learn from all of you, take your comments, feedback, and posts and reflect on them, and integrate them into practice, where appropriate.

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I predict that this course will be valuable to me as a F2F second grade teacher in several ways. The pandemic has allowed my district to go 1:1 with Chromebooks for students. Even though we have been back in school for the majority of this year, we are still encouraged to use the Chromebooks in our daily instruction. I think that this course will help me understand how to use the Chromebooks better as a learning tool as opposed to using them for early finishers. I also think that this course will help me feel more confident in exploring new applications that I have been previously unfamiliar with.

My main goals for this course are to become more comfortable using technology with my students and being able to create more meaningful and engaging lessons and activities. I believe that we will continue to have remote learning here and there to replace blizzard bag days, possibly during COVID or flu outbreaks, etc. I want those learning days to be just as purposeful as our in-person learning experiences.

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I believe this course will allow me to connect and debrief with other educators and reflect on our year.  We aren't focusing on what didn't work but what DID and how we can use these tools to move education forward and really reach ALL students.  I am looking forward to being on the student end of an online/asynchronous class and maybe can get some ideas to transfer for the coming years.
Intentions are to continue to connect with other educators and grow!  As I just mentioned the fact that we are learning about online in an online only environment is MUCH more effective than if we were sitting and listening about how it works.  We are now living it ourselves!   I'm looking forward to learning more and creating our online lesson based on what we learn in the next few weeks!

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I am looking forward to learning new strategies for incorporating various technologies and engaging students of various ages in an online learning environment through discussions with other teachers sharing their real experiences. I don’t have a clear goal in this course.  I expect to find gems of information and seeds of new ideas that I can apply in my practice.  I also know that the personal reflection I engage in throughout the course will make me a better teacher and mentor.

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I predict that his course will be valuable for me as I transition in to the public-school world. If remote-learning is something that we will continue to use, I want to ensure that I understand and am able to successfully implement the best practices.

I always love learning new technologies to bring in to the classroom, so I am looking forward to learning new tools to use remotely. I am also excited to learn from my peers who have already gone through a whole school year remotely.

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I predict that this course will help me find more tools to help students be more successful in the future. Our district is going to continue with remote learning for credit recovery for some students next year. As part of my job I will be monitoring the students and sharing stratagies with them to assist in making it a positive experience. I also want to be more prepared for any future remote learning.

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Because I work online with students on a regular basis, I hope to learn about additional technology that I can use to improve my instructional skills. I would also like to learn more about best practices in instructional design and delivery of online content.

I was really happy to see that this course has a very practical aspect to it. I hope to create a lesson that helps students with executive functioning and learning challenges improve their planning and organizational skills. I am looking forward to seeing how platforms such as padlet can be used in an instructional environment to increase student motivation and involvement.

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I predict that this course will help me see things that worked well can be continued in a f2f classroom. As well as help me to better support students who miss school for a variety of reasons (vacation, illness, etc) to still feel connected to the class even when they are not in the room.

I intend to take this "crisis teaching" experience and weave the best parts of it into my f2f class. By taking the best from both modes of teaching (f2f and distance) and create a better experience for all my students. For example, allowing students to participate in a discussion without verbalizing their thoughts can be very empowering for students.

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I'm glad that one of the first things that I read about this course talked about reflecting on what we experienced and what we learned over the past sixteen months. It's been a wild ride, and I'm looking forward to working with others who experienced the same things so we can process together.
My goals for the course include learning from my peers and developing more ways to encourage active learning out of the classroom setting.

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I predict this course will teach me new technology and best practices for application in the classroom as well as online instruction.
My goal is to learn how to help all my students feel connected, invested and able to fully participate whether in person or online.

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-Molly Healy

I predict this course will expose me to new programs and applications that I may not have gotten around to yet. Padlet, for example, is one that I have heard of often and even used in some PDs, but never applied to my own classroom. Practice with these programs will increase my confidence to apply them in my own teaching in the future. I also hope that this class generates ideas and puts into motion some plans for leveraging technology and the best of remote learning in my F2F classroom.
One goal I have for this course is to foster a new, like-minded PLC with the educators in this group. My hope is that we can each learn form one another and the different ways we all faced the last school year. Coming back to NH in the middle of a pandemic to accept a fully remote teaching position in a brand new city has been a real adventure, and learning from and alongside other NH educators is an opportunity I couldn't pass up with this course. Finally, I hope the existence of this course being offered by the state, and the fact that several colleagues I know are taking it, will shed a light in our districts about the importance of reflecting on this past year, taking the good along with us, and redesigning what school is. Now is not the time to "go back to normal," when we have so clearly seen that teachers, students, and families, are ready and willing for school to be so much better than "normal."

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I predict that I will learn from the coursework and colleagues best practices and innovative strategies to foster student engagement and learning in a remote setting. My goal is to feel confident in creating excellent online classes - by tweaking lessons/strategies I've already developed and developing new units to best support my EL students.

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I predict that this course will be valuable to me as a F2F middle school science educator because I would like to be able to take what we have learned over the course of the last 16 months, and apply it to my classrooms moving forward.  I'm always looking for ways to switch things up or looking to try new things, so I thought this would be a great place to learn what worked for other educators while teaching during the pandemic.  I struggled with trying to have my remote students conduct labs because I wasn't sure what type of materials they had at home.  While some of the students were able to come to the school and collect the materials left for them in the outside bins, not all students were.  I wonder how to better engage remote students in hands-on science activities.  Being able to network and share ideas with other teachers, not necessarily science teachers, will create such a sense of community in what was an otherwise isolating year.
I intend to learn about as many different platforms as I can. I also hope to be able to use these to connect with my students, even if they are F2F. My goal for next year will be to try and keep an open dialogue going with my homeroom students, to really be able to spend time with the whole students and focus on SEL and EF skills. Some students are much more vocal and chatty, but I'm hoping to message and have more success reaching out and emailing with students who otherwise may be less engaged with just the regular chatter.

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As much as I wanted to be done with the 20-21 school year, it's important to really take the time to reflect and "find the learnings" as noted by the Aguilar article. I think this course will help me to more clearly see what really did work. Just because we were doing things differently than we had before doesn't mean there weren't things that were successful (for both us teachers and the students). I'm also hoping to learn some new strategies I can share with the teachers in my building.

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F2F, VLACS, Mentor and differentiation   

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F2F, VLACS, Mentor and differentiation   

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I predict that this course will be valuable to me for my F2F work at NSD 42 and for my work as an adjunct instructor at VLACS.  I started teaching MS science at VLACS last August when they needed instructors and I found myself with ten free hours a week from not commuting.  VLACS is a perfect match for my type A personality (I am often called a “clipboard” by my colleagues).  I love the VLACS philosophy, systems, and technology.  Initially, I found myself constantly comparing NSD 42 to VLACS, thinking if only they had this application or that procedure.  Until I realized that they are not AT ALL the same!  What I ended up doing was to take what worked for one teaching situation and apply it to the other as best I could.  I think that this course will help me with both types of teaching and learning environments.  I am also one of the building mentors at my school so I always have our new teachers and new hires in mind.  Anything that I can learn and share with our new colleagues will be so valuable.  (Can you imagine student teaching in the pandemic?  Or being a first year teacher?  Or even starting at a new building?  I know some of you can and DID - but to this same class-same team-same room for twenty years teacher, that seems like A LOT!  Maybe they were better off because they had nothing to compare it to?)

My goal is to learn how to differentiate instruction better in virtual learning.  This was particularly tricky for me this past year as my district uses Amplify as a science resource at the middle level, which involves a lot of whole class instruction.  When we went back to hybrid, our school had mixed ability groups for the first time ever.  On top of that, I will be teaching four new units next year (like new I never even took rock transformations as a student)!  I am going to need some help figuring out what that looks like - F2F and virtual.  I want to heed what Elena Aguilar (2021) suggests in her article “The Resilient Educator/Emerging Stronger”.  I don’t want to simply move on from last year and never look back.  I don’t want to just survive, but to thrive!