https://padlet.com/krraymond/6zuleuq2b5qho6fu Presented for EDU275A (SUQ22), Technology Information added for EDU180A (FQ22) en-us 2022-08-13 21:22:00 UTC 2025-10-01 15:46:58 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f469-1f3eb.png krraymond https://padlet.com/krraymond/6zuleuq2b5qho6fu/wish/2260430581 Making curriculum accessible for all means navigating a world where many students have diagnosed, as well as undiagnosed, disabilities. As a teacher, I want to provide as much support as possible for all students, whether they have the resources to pursue legal support. Appropriate accessibility standards can relate to: noticing a child is in need of additional help, providing resources to support them, and taking notice of legal accommodations listed in a student's 504 or IEP (if applicable). ]]> 2022-08-13 21:30:27 UTC https://padlet.com/krraymond/6zuleuq2b5qho6fu/wish/2260430581 krraymond https://padlet.com/krraymond/6zuleuq2b5qho6fu/wish/2260431399 All students want to be treated with respect, which includes a level of understanding that "life happens." In my classroom, I want to show empathy for my students and their extremely unique and complicated lives, which may interfere with school. I understand that doing homework may not always come first in their lives, but if we can communicate and provide compassion and empathy between me, the teacher, and the students in my classroom, we will have an advantage over apathy, or condescending sympathy. ]]> 2022-08-13 21:35:43 UTC https://padlet.com/krraymond/6zuleuq2b5qho6fu/wish/2260431399 krraymond https://padlet.com/krraymond/6zuleuq2b5qho6fu/wish/2260432470 Routine and safety go hand-in-hand, and I hope to establish both early on via classroom management strategies. I hope for my classroom to be well-decorated, I hope for my students to see our agenda made clear on the board every day, and I hope for them to feel comfort in asking questions, either one-on-one or as a full class. I do not expect my students to know all the answers, but I will expect them to accept help if they do not. Further examples of my classroom being a safe place could include: the ability to take a five minute break if a student is feeling overwhelmed, Mental Health Mondays (which is an activity my current RT uses to check-in with students about how they're feeling for the week with their stress levels), and the ability for students to check in with me during lunch about their grades if they are feeling uneasy about their success in my class. 
**as a side note, I love the Lofi beats playlist on Spotify, and I listen to it regularly when I'm trying to focus. I plan on playing it in my classroom if my students are doing a quiet activity.]]> 2022-08-13 21:43:25 UTC https://padlet.com/krraymond/6zuleuq2b5qho6fu/wish/2260432470 krraymond https://padlet.com/krraymond/6zuleuq2b5qho6fu/wish/2260433985
Using students' names, greeting everyone at the door, and correcting behavior when you notice it with non-intrusive actions can promote a positive classroom environment. The last step of this equation can be the most daunting because it is difficult to know what it "non-intrusive," and when to escalate concerns, but Kellough & Kellough provide a chart in Chapter 4 of their book that provides guidelines for when and how to intervene (118). ]]> 2022-08-13 21:52:53 UTC https://padlet.com/krraymond/6zuleuq2b5qho6fu/wish/2260433985 krraymond https://padlet.com/krraymond/6zuleuq2b5qho6fu/wish/2260434943 SEL can be grounded in any and all subjects, throughout all grade levels. It is important to have a stable role model to provide guidance on obtaining emotional stability, learning how to communicate emotional experiences, leaving anxieties at the door and focusing on learning, expressing empathy to the people around you, and letting go of what we cannot control. These are important skills to develop, and we will all become better humans if we advance our emotional intelligence skills. ]]> 2022-08-13 21:59:30 UTC https://padlet.com/krraymond/6zuleuq2b5qho6fu/wish/2260434943 krraymond https://padlet.com/krraymond/6zuleuq2b5qho6fu/wish/2260436303 An important step of classroom management is constantly providing students with something to do. This can get a bit complicated if a lesson does not go as planned, if there are not quick, seamless transitions between parts of a lessons, or if the lesson plan comes up short and there is time left in the period. Kellough & Kellough articulate that it will take time to develop the skill of transitioning a lesson plan and overall perfecting the timing, but they emphasize the importance of "rehearsing nearly every move you and the students will make," to avoid problems in classroom control (121). ]]> 2022-08-13 22:07:59 UTC https://padlet.com/krraymond/6zuleuq2b5qho6fu/wish/2260436303 krraymond https://padlet.com/krraymond/6zuleuq2b5qho6fu/wish/2263607654 I am usually pretty hard on myself, and I often accept nothing less than perfection. One thing I want to do moving forward is learn to accept when things go wrong because those moments can be great for self-reflection. Kellough and Kellough even argue, "During your beginning years of teaching, no one, including you, should expect you to be perfect" (125). If I am role modeling success and how to approach failure, I should keep an open mind that "Rome wasn't built in a day," and maintain a positive attitude even in the face of failure.  ]]> 2022-08-17 19:00:25 UTC https://padlet.com/krraymond/6zuleuq2b5qho6fu/wish/2263607654 krraymond https://padlet.com/krraymond/6zuleuq2b5qho6fu/wish/2263615870 A component of classroom management I have learned so far is that there will always be new situations you have never seen before, especially as a beginning teacher. My goal to manage a classroom, especially at the start of my career, is to model myself after the successful habits I see from other teachers, and actively seek out new strategies that have worked, either through reading up on new research, absorbing knowledge from professional development meetings, or looking back over my notes from this program. ]]> 2022-08-17 19:10:20 UTC https://padlet.com/krraymond/6zuleuq2b5qho6fu/wish/2263615870 krraymond https://padlet.com/krraymond/6zuleuq2b5qho6fu/wish/2263617589 2022-08-17 19:12:41 UTC https://padlet.com/krraymond/6zuleuq2b5qho6fu/wish/2263617589 krraymond https://padlet.com/krraymond/6zuleuq2b5qho6fu/wish/2263618166 2022-08-17 19:13:26 UTC https://padlet.com/krraymond/6zuleuq2b5qho6fu/wish/2263618166 krraymond https://padlet.com/krraymond/6zuleuq2b5qho6fu/wish/2265896345 With my major value being empathy in a classroom, I want students to feel like they can approach me either for academic or personal struggles they may be having. I hope to list on my syllabus, as well as articulate in the first week of class, that I am always available for my students for any of their concerns (while also making sure to let them know I am a mandated reporter). My current RT emphasized to everyone that she is a resource alongside every other adult on campus, and I hope to tell my students that as well; even if they don't feel comfortable talking to me, they can go to any adult and seek personal and/or academic assistance. ]]> 2022-08-19 22:24:15 UTC https://padlet.com/krraymond/6zuleuq2b5qho6fu/wish/2265896345 krraymond https://padlet.com/krraymond/6zuleuq2b5qho6fu/wish/2311835571 2022-09-24 21:08:06 UTC https://padlet.com/krraymond/6zuleuq2b5qho6fu/wish/2311835571 krraymond https://padlet.com/krraymond/6zuleuq2b5qho6fu/wish/2311837340 I have always viewed technology as essential to student learning, so, in turn, it is essential for lesson planning. For my first lesson plan I created, I wanted to use technology as a vital component, so I planned to have students add onto the google slides above as a way to informally assess their knowledge level. Without much additional thought, I assumed that technology would be a part of the classroom (at least any classroom that I taught in), but I've been learning that not all teachers think of it in the same way.]]> 2022-09-24 21:12:17 UTC https://padlet.com/krraymond/6zuleuq2b5qho6fu/wish/2311837340 krraymond https://padlet.com/krraymond/6zuleuq2b5qho6fu/wish/2311840615 My two host teachers seem to have very different views of how technology should be involved with learning in their classroom. In my high school placement, students rarely use their assigned chromebooks, often keeping them at home. At my middle school placement, students use their chromebooks almost every day, often to complete assignments on google classroom. The assigned work in these two classes reflect the bias towards or against technology: one has mainly paper assignments, one has digital assignments. I believe there is a role for both.
It seems like educators may be slow to change to involving technology more in their classroom, but I believe that the K-12 environment can be a perfect place for students to evolve in their technology knowledge, including digital literacy and technological competence (both of which are essential for college and career readiness). ]]> 2022-09-24 21:18:31 UTC https://padlet.com/krraymond/6zuleuq2b5qho6fu/wish/2311840615 krraymond https://padlet.com/krraymond/6zuleuq2b5qho6fu/wish/2311844404 Students may or may not use (or even have access to) technology outside of school hours, so how teachers approach technology use and view the role of technology can have a bigger impact on students than what is initially assumed. Technology can provide access for students to expand their knowledge, mainly because the internet seems to have "all the answers," even to questions you didn't ask. However, one component of technology use that I want to promote in my classroom is digital literacy, where students learn where to find credible information, how to distinguish between biased and unbiased sources, and how to engage in technology use that helps, instead of hurts, them. Another component of this is "technological competence," which I think of as being able to use technology in a way that will be expected of students once they graduate high school, go to college, or start a job. Students knowing how to find accurate information, how to format a google document, how to create an excel spreadsheet, these are all things that don't need to be a focus of a lesson plan, but can be taught so that students have the potential for success when technological challenges occur in the future.]]> 2022-09-24 21:25:49 UTC https://padlet.com/krraymond/6zuleuq2b5qho6fu/wish/2311844404 krraymond https://padlet.com/krraymond/6zuleuq2b5qho6fu/wish/2311849219 One thing that is essential to acknowledge in teaching nowadays is that technology is inherently a part of all students lives. That brings up the question: what strategies can teachers use to promote proper, helpful, and innovative technology use? I think an answer to this is promoting both the dangers and successes that have come with technology. Yes, we have the ability to communicate with a large quantity of people at any time, but that also means that people can communicate with us, sometimes with bad intentions (scammers and cyberbullies as two examples). One way I want to promote technology use in my classroom is by building off of the way students already use technology (a big way being texting/calling/facetiming as a way to build connections with others). This can be done through cooperative exercises, like peer feedback on a google document, a group project done on google slides, emailing your teacher to ask a question, submitting assignments on google classroom instead of wasting paper, and many other ways. I don't want to shy away from technology; rather, I want to embrace its best features, while also teaching about its disadvantages. This explicit instruction on the dangers of technology can be related to avoiding inaccurate or extremely biased information, not communicating with people you don't know, and trying to avoid the pitfalls of using technology because of boredom (which leads to mindless scrolling). ]]> 2022-09-24 21:37:16 UTC https://padlet.com/krraymond/6zuleuq2b5qho6fu/wish/2311849219 krraymond https://padlet.com/krraymond/6zuleuq2b5qho6fu/wish/2617407561 2023-06-07 18:24:04 UTC https://padlet.com/krraymond/6zuleuq2b5qho6fu/wish/2617407561 krraymond https://padlet.com/krraymond/6zuleuq2b5qho6fu/wish/2617411975 In my original views on technology in education, I was so focused on making sure that technology was integrated, that I didn't think about the long-term effects of whether or not my purpose in using the technology was clear. For example, at one point in the year I used a Jamboard during class that I thought would help them address content related questions, but one of my classes used it as a time to goof around and not take the assignment seriously. This would have been a good time to use a different technological tool that had more monitoring capabilities, or to change my purpose of the assignment to building community instead of completing pre-determined questions. Therefore emphasizing that having a clear purpose, and making sure the technology is effective at fulfilling that purpose, should always be at the forefront of technology integration.]]> 2023-06-07 18:30:07 UTC https://padlet.com/krraymond/6zuleuq2b5qho6fu/wish/2617411975 krraymond https://padlet.com/krraymond/6zuleuq2b5qho6fu/wish/2617414059 I still agree with my previous argument that technology should be somewhere in between: not all digital, but not all paper assignments either. In fact, one thing that has changed in my philosophy is that many assignments should (and can be) both! Even if you have a paper assignment in class, most of the time it is really easy to upload it onto google classroom for absent students to do, or for students that prefer to do assignments digitally. Once again, unless there is a purpose to doing something completely online or completely physically, there shouldn't be a con to doing both (especially to increase accessibility).]]> 2023-06-07 18:33:11 UTC https://padlet.com/krraymond/6zuleuq2b5qho6fu/wish/2617414059 krraymond https://padlet.com/krraymond/6zuleuq2b5qho6fu/wish/2617418444 As with my original padlet, I still agree that digital literacy is important to develop in the classroom, especially to protect kids from building up a negative reputation online, believing information that is false, or getting into trouble because technology and social media is so rampant in our society. However, in the last 6-9 months, I have been working on how to actually promote digital literacy. Although this provides a difficult series of questions to answer (How do you promote digital literacy when you aren't involved in your students' social media lives? Should you use examples to show your students how to do better with their digital footprint (or does that lead to copy cats)? What are concrete strategies on what to say to students so that they feel like better digital citizens?) Some of these questions are answered by the above article, but I would also argue that having frank conversations (when appropriate) about the context of technology getting in the way of learning and everyday life can help improve students' critical thinking and digital literacy.]]> 2023-06-07 18:39:03 UTC https://padlet.com/krraymond/6zuleuq2b5qho6fu/wish/2617418444 krraymond https://padlet.com/krraymond/6zuleuq2b5qho6fu/wish/2617421409 I mentioned in my original padlet that I wanted to help students get away from mindless scrolling, which was honestly a big problem in my classroom all throughout last school year. I have heard some recent advice from first year teachers, one of which was to allow the use of technology, but during specific times of the period. For example, the teacher would have a stoplight or some way of showing when phone use was appropriate: green means yes, phones can be out, but I trust that you're using it for educational purposes. Yellow means you have to finish a particular assignment, and then you can have your phone out. Red means no phones out under any circumstances. This helps students feel some relief knowing that they will eventually get time with their phones, and hopefully will prevent the phone battle from happening as often.]]> 2023-06-07 18:43:48 UTC https://padlet.com/krraymond/6zuleuq2b5qho6fu/wish/2617421409