Feedback

How do I want to receive feedback:

- For this community I would like to receive honest, concise, concrete, and prompt feedback. I want to know when I am off base with something or if I am not making sense. I also want to people to ask me for clarification. Being the only special education teacher in our community, I would want people to ask questions or for clarification if something does not make sense.

How will I do to give meaningful feedback:

- I plan to provide honesty and positivity. I think acknowledging people is important but it is also OK to disagree. I also think raising questions in order to get another train of thought or view point is also important. We need to have open minds and be willing to provide suggestions. I plan to provide this type of feedback to the community.

Reflection Rubric Scores

For the rubric scores, please use the appropriate rubric (assignment and/or discussion) to give yourself the appropriate score(s).  Reflections could be anywhere from three to ten sentences.
Teacher Leadership
            Six Hats Activities/Discussions
                        Reflection: For this activity I feel that I did a nice job with reading the selection and responding on D2L. I was able to come up with examples and share them with the community. I also expressed my thoughts about other community member’s comments. The area that I struggled with the most was carrying out the activities within my department. I tried to implement some of the strategies but was not very successful. I am hoping to utilize some of the techniques through my SMART goals.
                        Rubric Scores: Assignment submission- 3, Demonstrate understanding- 2, Resource- 2, Participation- 2, Online Etiquette- 3, Quality of writing- 2

            District Item of Pride
                        Reflection: I feel that I did a nice job with this activity. I shared details about a few different items that are implemented in my school. I did not have an actual example of some of the ideas but thought they were all worth mentioning. I also was very excited to share how we are able to involve our students with special needs into our school environment. I was also very excited to hear about what other schools/ teachers are doing. There are many great ideas out there and I am hoping to bring some of them back to my classroom/ school.
                        Rubric Scores: Assignment- 3, Demonstrate Understanding- 3, Resources- 3, Participation- 3, Online etiquette- 3, Quality of writing- 3
           
Learning in Community
            D2L Strand input
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            True Colors, Chaos to Community article sharing
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            Classroom Video
                        Reflection: For this activity, I was able to post my video fairly early. I am not sure how well the video quality turned out but I think it was ok. I tried to adjust it but I think it was due to uploading it from the camcorder to the computer. I think I explained the layout of my classroom well and addressed the questions that the communities members had. I also made comments to other community members about their classrooms. It was very interesting to see the different layouts of every classroom.
                        Rubric Scores: Assignment- 3, Demonstrate Understanding- 3, Resources- 2, Participation- 3, Online Etiquette- 3, Quality of writing- 3

Curriculum Development and Assessment
            PDP work (SMART GOALS, Baselines, Vision Statement)
                        Reflection: I have a vision statement, SMART goals, and baselines written. I took time to think about the SMART goals and vision statement but not sure that what I have is everything that I want. I might still have to do some tweaking. I think that I have a good start with my SMART goals but I am not sure. I also am not about the length or if what I have will work very well as I will be taking 10 weeks off in the middle of the data collection. I took time to think about that and wanted to create goals around that to an extent. I may need some more guidance to make sure that I am on the right track.
                        Rubric Scores: Assignment- 3, Demonstrates Understanding- 2, Reflective- 3, Quality of grammar- 2, Overall writing- 3, APA style- 2
Educational Research
            Article posting & sharing (Month 1)
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            Power Of Questions work
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            Mini-Action Research
                        Reflection: For this project, I think that I did a nice job. I chose something that I could easily implement in my classroom. I was honest with my results and was very interested to see how it would turn out. I was interested because the research that I did shows no correlation to academic progress with doing brain gym activities. I also was able to track progress towards an IEP goal, which is of great benefit.
                        Rubric Scores: Assignment- 3, Demonstrates Understanding- 2, Reflective- 3, Quality of Grammar- 3, Overall writing- 3, APA style- 2
                       
Technology in Education
           Blogspot work
                        Reflection: I believe that I fulfilled all requirements that were asked of us with the Blogspot. However, I do feel that I could have done some more self-reflecting on this site. I also could have spent more time reflecting on other’s sites.
                        Rubric Scores:  Assignment- 2, Demonstrate Understanding- 2, Resources- 2, Participation- 1, Online Etiquette- 3, Quality of writing- 2

Democracy, Diversity and Social Justice in Education
           Alchemist work
                        Reflection: For this assignment I feel that I did a decent job of fulfilling the requirements. I responded to a lot of the online discussions that took place. I also did some self- reflecting after reading the book. I thought this was a good selection and really made us look at things in a different light.
                        Rubric Score: Assignment- 3, Demonstrates Understanding- 3, Resources- 2, Participation- 3, Online Etiquette- 3, Quality of writing- 2

Fujishin work

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Best Practice Pedagogy
             Constructivist work
                        Reflection: After completing the assignments and readings for this book, I feel that I have a good foundation to work from. I was able to look at my different teaching methods within my classroom and ways I can try to improve my techniques. I also like that I was able to self- reflect and write down ideas so I can visually see my thoughts. I also am happy to have a plan in place to reach my dream victory.
                        Rubric Scores: Assignment- 3, Demonstrates Understanding- 3, Reflective- 2, Quality of grammar- 2, Overall writing- 3, APA style- 2

Debate

I have a student that I wrote an IEP for and I think I over did it on the goals. I think when I had the meeting I was in the mode of 'saving' the world. The things that I wrote are all very appropriate but now it is finding the time to incorporate all of it into his schedule and have some consistency. I also tend to forget what I need to cover and sinse this one is so extensive I need to make sure that I try to address all the areas. (On my other IEP's most of the goals are things we do weekly so I don't have to know the IEP's by  heart so to say). My debate is that in my history class I have 3 students. I can pair 2 of them together to work on certain things but then I have the other student that I need to work with as well. I started working out of a history book that is at the 9th grade level and he has been apart of this. My struggle is- how much is he getting from this and am I wasting his time when we could be working on more functional things (address, phone number, positional words, months of the year, days of week, etc- all things listed on his IEP). I get excited when I work with him and see his progress and then feel like I am doing him a disservice when I have him join our group as I don't know that it is appropriate. However, I know that I can't give both groups the attention that they need if I keep them seperated. I think I will continue to try to do my best with keeping them together and also seperating them when appropriate. I will try to remain positive that everything will work out for everybody.

Fall Feast Reflection

The day before Thanksgiving break my students always put on a 'Feast' for parents, friends, and faculty members. This is a 1 1/2 week project. We create the menu, make invites, go shopping, and then 3 days of cooking. Day 1 we make the turkey and pies. Day 2 we peel potatoes. Day three the students are in my room and we decorate the room, cook everything else (buns, sweet potatoes, corn, reheat turkey, potatoes, etc). I am very proud of the work that the students put into this day. They sure take pride in the work that they do and love 'showing' off to everybody. Now that I have done this for 6 years, we pretty much have it down to a science as to what needs to be done and what works. The best part of the day is seeing the kids smile, having fun, and taking ownership in their work.