3.1 Classroom Management & Collaborative Learning
Candidates model and facilitate effective classroom management and collaborative learning strategies to maximize teacher and student use of digital tools and resources. (PSC 3.1/ISTE 3a)
Artifact: Engaged Learning Project
Reflection:
The Engaged Learning Project was completed during course 7400, 21st Century Teaching and Learning. For this project we were asked to create technology-supported learning experiences that promote student engagement, deep understanding, higher-order thinking, and transfer of knowledge. As this was completed during the summer semester, I completed the project alone. However, the project does include collaboration between my classes at both the middle and high school level, as I am the choral director for both schools.
Standard 3.1, Classroom Management and Collaborative Learning asks that candidates model and facilitate effective classroom management and collaborative learning strategies to maximize teacher and student use of digital tools and resources. Throughout this project I was able to model and facilitate the use of several digital tools and resources such as a wiki, YouTube, Edmodo, and the J.W. Pepper online music catalogue. For this artifact, students took on the role of a choral director and were engaged in the authentic learning experience of choosing choral repertoire. Throughout this project students worked collaboratively to research and share the history of various patriotic songs, choose songs suitable for a Veterans Day program, find arrangements of their chosen songs, complete a purchase order, and decide on the order in which the songs should be performed. Also, the students used Edmodo to work collaboratively with the singers who would later perform the program they created.
Completing this artifact pushed me to create a truly authentic learning experience for my students. The ability to work together is fundamental to my class. This project inspired many great conversations and helped the students learn to listen to one another as they made important decisions about their final product. One thing I would change about the creation of this artifact is that I would like to have some type of collaboration with an expert outside of my classroom. I think that the students would gain deeper understanding of the process if they talked to another choral director or a conductor from one of the state-wide choral festivals to ask them about their selection of repertoire.
The work that went into this project will impact student learning, not just in the context of my class, but throughout the school. As students learn to use various digital tools and resources like the ones used in this project, they will be able to transfer their skills to other classes and other tools. This will help improve student engagement throughout the school. Also, the ability to work with others is a skill that will carry over into other classes as well as real-world situations.
The Engaged Learning Project was completed during course 7400, 21st Century Teaching and Learning. For this project we were asked to create technology-supported learning experiences that promote student engagement, deep understanding, higher-order thinking, and transfer of knowledge. As this was completed during the summer semester, I completed the project alone. However, the project does include collaboration between my classes at both the middle and high school level, as I am the choral director for both schools.
Standard 3.1, Classroom Management and Collaborative Learning asks that candidates model and facilitate effective classroom management and collaborative learning strategies to maximize teacher and student use of digital tools and resources. Throughout this project I was able to model and facilitate the use of several digital tools and resources such as a wiki, YouTube, Edmodo, and the J.W. Pepper online music catalogue. For this artifact, students took on the role of a choral director and were engaged in the authentic learning experience of choosing choral repertoire. Throughout this project students worked collaboratively to research and share the history of various patriotic songs, choose songs suitable for a Veterans Day program, find arrangements of their chosen songs, complete a purchase order, and decide on the order in which the songs should be performed. Also, the students used Edmodo to work collaboratively with the singers who would later perform the program they created.
Completing this artifact pushed me to create a truly authentic learning experience for my students. The ability to work together is fundamental to my class. This project inspired many great conversations and helped the students learn to listen to one another as they made important decisions about their final product. One thing I would change about the creation of this artifact is that I would like to have some type of collaboration with an expert outside of my classroom. I think that the students would gain deeper understanding of the process if they talked to another choral director or a conductor from one of the state-wide choral festivals to ask them about their selection of repertoire.
The work that went into this project will impact student learning, not just in the context of my class, but throughout the school. As students learn to use various digital tools and resources like the ones used in this project, they will be able to transfer their skills to other classes and other tools. This will help improve student engagement throughout the school. Also, the ability to work with others is a skill that will carry over into other classes as well as real-world situations.