Monthly+Internship+Reflection+-+February+2011

February saw the continue of the technology project that I had implemented in my class to see how we could go about getting tablets and e-readers on our campus. The first week of this month focused more on the students completing their research and putting their findings together in order to build their presentations. As I monitored and gave my input to the various groups in the class, I found myself looking forward to the second week when I would get to see the finished products. As the students worked, many of them expressed how much they had enjoyed this project and how they hoped to see what they had worked on become a reality sometime in the future. The second week we conducted the presentations in front of a panel that consisted of teachers, administrators, my mentor and myself. The presentations that the students made were well made and really went beyond in some cases what I was looking for. One important detail that came out of the project and was a point that was touched on in my //Concepts of Education// class was how much we as teachers can learn from students if we allow them to show us what we know. We sometime box them into a perception that we have of them and miss the opportunity to allow them to express themselves due to unrealistic fears. The members of the panels expressed how well the students did and I felt that they left with a desire to really look into acquiring the equipment in the future. Unfortunately my time during this month was interrupted due to a family matter that I had to attend to, so after I had returned I just focused on improving my students' performance in my class and continued to help out the teachers on my campus with the various computer issues that they were having on the campus. Once such activity was helping some of my colleagues access I-Safe so that they could go through the online training that they were required to take as well as showed them the resources that they website had that they could use with their students.


 * Standards Met:** TF – I. B, TF-II.A, TF-III.D, TF-V.B, TF-VI.C, TF-VI.D, TF-VI.E, TF-VIII.E