As a teacher, I have been to a lot of wasteful professional development days. Wasteful for a variety of reasons, but wasteful nonetheless.
In all honesty, I wasn't sure what I was going to get out of starting my masters either. Just like everyone seems to have a bad professional development experience, I have spoken to a few colleagues who seem to have a bad masters experience as well. Be it a lousy professor or a class full of information they couldn't use, it left me feeling a bit uneasy as I began this journey. As I said in my last post, I have a family, so I spent a lot of time choosing the right program at the right school. Knowing this would be a lot of time away from them, I needed to make sure that it was going to be a program that inspired me and made me a better educator.
Well, I'm three classes in, and I already have a ton of ideas in the bank. When I signed up to begin my masters, it was a language arts teacher who thought a technology position was at least five years away. Then things changed, and I begin my journey as Technology Integration Specialist next school year.
I am beyond relieved to have so many great ideas in my back pocket, some to use for myself and plenty to share with colleagues. Many ideas have come from the work that's been assigned, and many have come from the discussion boards with fellow educators. (Not that I'm surprised - I get a ton of ideas... from Twitter.)
Some of my favorite ideas so far -
- Podcasting in the classroom
- Having students create a WIKI as a study guide or project
- Setting up blogs for students to use to reflect before, during, and after a project
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