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I predict that this course will continue to provide me with new ways to keep my students engaged in remote learning. I also predict that these practices will be carried over in to in person learning and that I will find much of it helpful for remote and in person learning. I also predict that this course will help me to be more confident in remote teaching, if I were to ever have to do it again.

My goals are to gain as much knowledge about teaching as I can. I am still a new teacher who is continuing to learn about my profession and grow with it. I welcome any and all information, techniques, and knowledge I can get.

-Abby Guerra

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I predict this course might be valuable to me because it will give me plenty of opportunities to reflect on this past year and all the “teacher madness” that went along with it! I’ll review what I’ve learned about the best practices of remote/ distance learning. I’m predicting this course will help build my confidence in teaching online and help me be prepared for different types of online learning.

My goals for my learning in this course are to gain knowledge about the variety of platforms and resources that are available and effective. I feel what I’ve experienced so far is simply a “drop in the bucket” compared to what really exists out there. I intend to close the gap between what I’ve seen and what’s really out there. These are not things I can learn by myself or with just a few teacher colleagues and friends. I need a wider group of support and knowledge.

I also intend to find ways to address the social/ emotional component of learning online.

-Sally DeCost

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This course will be valuable to me in terms of learning about classroom strategies that can be used remotely or in person.  Currently I work in early intervention, and I would love to implement some of the strategies used by classroom teachers.  Also, I hope to transition back to a classroom teaching position soon and I believe that this course will give me strategies to add to my teaching toolbox.

My hope is that I will gain a better understanding of teaching our youngest learners with these valuable online tools. I intend on using what I will learn from this course as another useful tool in my teaching toolbox to help families. It is valuable to take the time to dive deep into getting to know your families and their unique needs. Not everything is shown on face value and getting to know your families will help to better know the kiddos that we serve. Above everything it is my goal to better reach families of all walks of life to empower them to see that they can help their children reach their developmental milestones.
- June Smith

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I predict that this course will help me learn some of the research behind best practices for distance/remote learning, and some strategies to use. I may have to wait to get into the really helpful and useful strategies and such until Module 4 when we can pick an area of interest, but that’s just fine. The research behind best practices will be the same, or easily adapted from general education classrooms to special education. As a special ed teacher, providing direct instruction services to my students remotely was different than my general education peers. Whether I was at the middle school level or the early elementary level (in March 2020 I was teaching middle school and at the beginning of the 2020-21 school year I transferred to K-2), I was essentially using Google Docs to create visuals and the materials I would have used face-to-face. However, at the K-2 level, my students, and their parents, did not know how to manipulate Google to find the documents if I were to share them so the students could “drive”. They would tell me the answer and I would move things. They also didn’t know how to share their screen with me so I could watch them play a skill based game on a website such as ABCya.com.

I intend to use what I learn in this course in face-to-face direct services with my students so they understand how to do everything I would need them to do in the event that we need to engage in remote learning again. My goals include being able to take what I learn and put it into practice. Even if we never go back to remote learning (which I don’t see happening), I’m hoping that I will be able to use some of what I learn in face-to-face direct instruction sessions to prepare students for learning through technology.

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I believe that this course will be valuable to me in that still don't feel very confidence in remote teaching. I did double duty with teaching and Active Duty Army at the end of the 2019-2020 school year and only taught 2 months of this last school year, so I'm hoping this course will help me return to teaching with confidence should remote learning continue at points through out the upcoming school year.

My goal for my learning in this course is to pick up as much knowledge about remote teaching as possible so I can apply new concepts to my teaching, both in person and remote, in order to facilitate greater learning for my students.

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Prediction:Though I have been successful in online learning myself, I feel I have much to learn about online teaching. I predict through this course that I will become more confident in teaching online which will greatly benefit my students. I also predict that what I learn will benefit my colleagues as I will be able to share what I have learned with them. I also know I will learn from the many experienced educators who are also taking this course. There is such a wealth of knowledge that can already be seen by the responses and feedback in this course. Lastly, I predict that I will come out of this course better prepared if/when what happened over the past 18 months should ever happen again in the future. I really appreciate what the New Hampshire Department of Education is doing to better prepare New Hampshire teachers for the future. Intentions/Goals: I have many intentions/goals for this course. The first is that I am looking forward to learning more online tools that I can use with my students in the classroom and with my colleagues. I also want to better understand the value of online learning and the plethora of online tools to better prepare my students for high school and college. I know by the time they reach high school or college, online learning will be the norm for them. I want to make sure they have the tools in their toolbelt to be successful online learners. My next goal is to have a better understanding of technology in general and to better understand how to solve the problems that arise whether on my own screen or on my students' chromebooks. I don’t want to rely on the old “turn it off then back on” way of solving tech problems though it does work more often than not : )! My final goal is to continue to learn and be a better educator through my final years of teaching. 

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Prediction:Though I have been successful in online learning myself, I feel I have much to learn about online teaching. I predict through this course that I will become more confident in teaching online which will greatly benefit my students. I also predict that what I learn will benefit my colleagues as I will be able to share what I have learned with them. I also know I will learn from the many experienced educators who are also taking this course. There is such a wealth of knowledge that can already be seen by the responses and feedback in this course. Lastly, I predict that I will come out of this course better prepared if/when what happened over the past 18 months should ever happen again in the future. I really appreciate what the New Hampshire Department of Education is doing to better prepare New Hampshire teachers for the future. Intentions/Goals: I have many intentions/goals for this course. The first is that I am looking forward to learning more online tools that I can use with my students in the classroom and with my colleagues. I also want to better understand the value of online learning and the plethora of online tools to better prepare my students for high school and college. I know by the time they reach high school or college, online learning will be the norm for them. I want to make sure they have the tools in their toolbelt to be successful online learners. My next goal is to have a better understanding of technology in general and to better understand how to solve the problems that arise whether on my own screen or on my students' chromebooks. I don’t want to rely on the old “turn it off then back on” way of solving tech problems though it does work more often than not : )! My final goal is to continue to learn and be a better educator through my final years of teaching. 

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Elyse Cookson

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Online learning was new for just about all of us and each school district approached it differently.  This course will help me learn what other teachers have done; what has worked, what hasn't, what can be done to make it better.  It appears that the NH Department of Education believes that remote learning does have a place in present day education, even when the pandemic is not a factor.  As a result, educators need to know how to do it and do it well.  Personally, I hope to improve on what I have been doing and learn about best practices in online education.  It was hard to build the plane while flying it and even harder to look around and see the planes from other districts!  :-)

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After reviewing the documents and the course overview, I feel this course will remind us of how well we did our job during this difficult time, it will remind us of the hard work we put in and reassure us we were using some great tools and teaching methods. I think it will also give us some other tools we may have not been introduced to based on our grade level, our teaching styles and grade levels, and or our make up of our school population and resources etc. Through this course, my goal is to learn as much new ideas and strategies I can from the resources but also my classmates. I hope to take stuff from this course and put it into my teaching practices and to find useful strategies from this. I hope to help others with new ideas or to think about education from a stand point of someone who works in an at risk/in risk school and the different challenges we may have been presented with.

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*There are different types of online learning.  I have taught online in two different environments that were asynchronous.   The past year, teaching remotely was different in that there was direct teaching on a regular schedule via cameras.  There is a difference in how to handle remote or online synchronous versus asynchronous teaching.  Many of the best online teaching practices can be used in face to face classes so I hope to be able to apply what I learn to those classes.  Learning how to use other applications like FlipGrid, Padlet, Nearpod, Google, Jamboard, Playposit and others should also be helpful in my face to face classes.
*My goals for this course is to use what I learn to be better prepared for online teaching in whatever form that may be and to use what I learn to be a better teacher in my face to face classes.  I want to be better prepared in case we ever have to go fully remote again.
--Jaline Mulliken

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*This course will be valuable to me as a means to reflect on best practices for remote learning. I hope to learn more about effective pedagogy through readings and fellow teachers in this course.

**My intentions/goals for this course is to walk away with a "playbook" of sorts for next year. I hope to then share these ideas and takeaways with my colleagues.
-Mary Beaudoin

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Course Prediction:  This course will be valuable to me because I need to adjust to successful integration of online education.  Although I have used it myself as a learner though my graduate studies, I have not completely figured out how to integrate it into my teaching practices.  Once we move past pandemic teaching, I still need to be able to use the online and distance tools; we are a digital society, and this is the way of the future.

Intentions/Goals:  I am open to learning how to adjust my pedagogy to include more online tools, and look forward to finding the appropriate technology to use. We have some computer related issues at my school, so I would like to be more well-informed of what we can use so I can make a case (and hopefully secure some grant money) for updating our hardware, software, and Internet needs to move our school forward.

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I am hopeful that this class will allow me to see more positive aspects of remote learning. Remote Learning, mentoring a first year teacher during remote learning, feeling like I was never doing enough even though I used every moment of my day to teach, and neglecting my family in order to be the best teacher I could be really put a sour spin on this past year.
My goals for this course is to sharpen my technology skills as most of them were self taught using youtube this year, and I impressed myself!! I would also like feedback for my work so that I can improve and become more engaging and effective in the classroom or remotely!

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My intentions/goals for learning throughout this course is to establish a comfort level with new technology tools.
I also would like to use existing activities and find a new way to deliver them to hopefully help meet students needs and or refresh some materials.
-Amy Robbins

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This course will be valuable to me, because it is an opportunity for me to have a bit of structure while I refresh some curriculum. I want to be more comfortable with technology and until we went "fully remote" I thought I had a pretty good handle on it. I believe this course will help me build on my knowledge but will be a safe space for me to explore more.
-Amy Robbins

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My intentions are to remain positive about remote learning, to learn new, invigorating ways to teach lessons online, and to apply what I learn in this course to the next school year.  My goal is to take away new ideas from this course and share them with my colleagues so that all the students in our district will benefit from it.

Mary-Beth Scanlon

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My intentions are to remain open minded to what is being presented. I hope to take what I learn in these 5 weeks and turn it into action in my classroom or use it to affirm what I already do or know. My goal is to successfully fulfill the requirements of the course within the time allowed and delegate the time and effort needed to do so. I would like to think that my participation will be a positive influence for my peers in this course.

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I predict this course will affirm some of the benefits of remote learning like better communication skills, increased technology skills for all involved, that with increased technology in our society this experience really made us all grasp that bull by the horns and create less tension with inclusion of technology in all subjects. I predict that there will be ideas and opinions that challenge some of my own and that I will learn from my peers and from the materials provided, concepts I have yet to think of. The initial quote "Resilience enables us to thrive, not just survive" really spoke to my hopes when we went into remote in early 2020.

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I believe I will learn a great deal about our shared experiences with the last year and a half. We will connect with one another on a new level, using a new format. I predict I will walk away with many new tools to help me become a better teacher and learner. This collaborative reflection is meant to empower us all and in turn, empower those we connect with every day.

Jennifer Maley

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My goal for this course is to work with other educators on building a strong knowledge base around online tools and learning management systems that will help engage our students at all levels.  I would love to find more resources, especially in math, that are project based learning focused and help my students build their knowledge without my direct teaching every day.  I'm confident that the other educators in our group are just as eager to learn new things from one another!
-Melissa Valence

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My intention is to learn as much as I can about distance learning. I want to engage with my colleagues to learn from them how they adapted to this new way of teaching/learning. I want to share experiences of what worked and what challenged us.

I want to learn about online management systems, and apps that are helpful for distance learning.

Jennifer Maley

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My intention is to focus on positive learning experiences from this past year, connect with others in the field, listen and learn from my colleagues, and grow as an educator to be the best I can be.

I also look forward to learning more about technology applications.  This is my first time using Padlet and Slack. I am interested to hear of others that I can maybe incorporate into my teaching.

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I predict that this course will help me to become more effective in teaching remote. Typically my camera is only on to welcome everyone to class and check in on them. Then I ask if there are any remaining questions from the previous lesson. Give my students a problem of the day that reviews the previous lesson, continue with the new lesson, and finish with addression any questions and concerns from the lesson. I would like to know if this is to rigid and how to incorporate a few more performance bassed lessons into my remote teaching.

My goals are to continue to improve my teaching and lesson creation to best meet the needs of my students. Perhaps become familiar with a few more on line platforms that people find useful in their classrooms,
Rachelle

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I predict this course will be helpful to me.  I am pretty confident with technology but would like to stay on top of new innovations and helpful tools for teaching.  I believe this course will allow me to work with other educators at other schools and create unique collaboration for building upon our lessons and ideas when we work with our students.
-Melissa Valence

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This course is valuable to me because it is forcing me to take time to reflect on this past year as a virtual teacher and parent.  As Elena Aguilar mentions in her article, The Resilient Educator, " ...I've experienced a great deal of insecurity about my skills, I've learned a whole lot. I know that if I give myself the time and space to truly process, and if I share these reflections with others, I'll emerge from this year stronger than I was at the start of 2020." Without this course, I would not have given myself the time I needed to reflect on what I've learned and how I have grown as an educator. Thank you for this opportunity.