Technology in Education 209

The first time that I ever heard about co-teaching was actually in my education placement (Fall 2018). I never attended a school that had co-teachers, I’ve only ever had one teacher in a class at a time. However, I knew that aide’s were common in school, but I always thought that aide’s were considered co-teachers. But once I got into my placement, I got to experience co-teachers first hand, whether that was seeing teachers interact with each other or being in a co-teachers classroom. Through my placement, I never thought that co-teaching was something that I wanted to do at first. But the more that I experienced watching and observing two teachers working together, the more I liked the idea of potentially co-teaching in my future classroom. As for co-teaching in my Technology 209 classroom, I got to experience co-teaching (on a beginning spectrum) first hand. At first, it was challenging to create a lesson that both of us found worked well for each of us. But once the lesson was pic...

2nd Twitter Blog Post Throughout this semester, it has been my task to continually check and retweet on Twitter in order to develop my professional development. On Twitter, there are a variety, almost never-ending, amount of resources from professionals and local teachers around. When I first heard about the Twitter requirement, I thought that it was a little silly because it was a social media site. Little did I know how much I would learn from being on Twitter. I really appreciate how this assignment has been all semester with minimal deadlines. I appreciate how I can go on Twitter when I can and look at educational items that I want to learn more about or implement into my classroom. Another aspect of the Twitter guidelines is to participate in a Twitter Chat. Before Technology in Education, I never knew that a Twitter Chat was a thing. I like participating in Twitter Chats when I can because local teachers implement their opinions and advice to students such as myself. Every indiv...

Flip Project While completing this part of my Technology in Education class, it was required that either individually or with a partner, we were to create a miniature lesson plan that is followed under an IPTS (Illinois Teaching Standard). After a lesson was created, it was then required that each student in the class is supposed to make a quiz following that lesson. But, let me know explain what each part of the Flip Project went and what my final thoughts are on each section. I chose to work with a partner on both the lesson and the quiz. The first part that my partner and I had to complete was finding a standard and creating a lesson out of it. Let me be completely honest in saying that is was not easy trying to find a standard that works. Some of the standards seemed really difficult in trying to create a lesson out of, especially for older students. But also keep in mind, that I am also a student and do not know all of the necessary tools to complete a successful lesson. Althou...