6.2 Reflection
Candidates regularly evaluate and reflect on their professional practice and dispositions to improve and strengthen their ability to effectively model and facilitate technology-enhanced learning experiences. (PSC 6.2/ISTE 6c)
Artifact: Master's Candidate e-portfolio blog
Reflection:
As my artifact for Standard 6.2, I chose the blog that I have maintained as part of my e-portfolio. At the end of each semester of the Master’s program for Instructional Technology, I have reflected upon what I have learned from each of the classes and how that newfound knowledge will influence my professional practice. It has often been a struggle to put aside the time to reflect and blog about what I have learned through this program. However, knowledge without reflection and application will go away quickly. It is through conscious reflection that one is able to truly impact future actions.
This artifact allowed me to demonstrate mastery of Standard 6.2, which states that candidates “regularly evaluate and reflect on their professional practice and dispositions to improve and strengthen their ability to effectively model and facilitate technology-enhanced learning experiences.” Maintaining a blog each semester caused me to focus my thoughts on what I had learned, to evaluate how that could change my current professional practice for the better, and to model the style of reflective learning that I wish that my students would demonstrate.
One example of how I have been able to modify my professional practice is when I worked with a teacher at my school to bring her midyear assessment online. She professed herself to be "techno-incompetent" but for the sake of time, she wanted to put her exam online, using our online Learning Management System. As a teacher of highly-motivated and high-achieving seniors, she was certainly far from incompetent. Before meeting with her, I thought about all that I knew of her, and the areas in which I knew that she held great expertise. This pre-reflection allowed me to approach our meeting and help-session in a way that put her at ease and allowed her to leave feeling confident that not only would she be able to create the assessment online but also that it would save her valuable time and still accurately measure what students knew.
In the future, I hope to maintain the practice of keeping a blog and reflecting upon what I learn from the world around me. I understand now the time involved and have begun keeping a personal-professional blog outside of the ITEC program. The required time frame of once per semester has been good but unfortunately not frequent enough for me to feel that it is truly a habit. I hope to blog more frequently as time progresses, with an end goal of 2-3 reflective posts per week that allow me to consistently evaluate my professional practice and reflect upon how my disposition allows me to model and facilitate lessons that teach teachers how to integrate technology into their lessons.
As my artifact for Standard 6.2, I chose the blog that I have maintained as part of my e-portfolio. At the end of each semester of the Master’s program for Instructional Technology, I have reflected upon what I have learned from each of the classes and how that newfound knowledge will influence my professional practice. It has often been a struggle to put aside the time to reflect and blog about what I have learned through this program. However, knowledge without reflection and application will go away quickly. It is through conscious reflection that one is able to truly impact future actions.
This artifact allowed me to demonstrate mastery of Standard 6.2, which states that candidates “regularly evaluate and reflect on their professional practice and dispositions to improve and strengthen their ability to effectively model and facilitate technology-enhanced learning experiences.” Maintaining a blog each semester caused me to focus my thoughts on what I had learned, to evaluate how that could change my current professional practice for the better, and to model the style of reflective learning that I wish that my students would demonstrate.
One example of how I have been able to modify my professional practice is when I worked with a teacher at my school to bring her midyear assessment online. She professed herself to be "techno-incompetent" but for the sake of time, she wanted to put her exam online, using our online Learning Management System. As a teacher of highly-motivated and high-achieving seniors, she was certainly far from incompetent. Before meeting with her, I thought about all that I knew of her, and the areas in which I knew that she held great expertise. This pre-reflection allowed me to approach our meeting and help-session in a way that put her at ease and allowed her to leave feeling confident that not only would she be able to create the assessment online but also that it would save her valuable time and still accurately measure what students knew.
In the future, I hope to maintain the practice of keeping a blog and reflecting upon what I learn from the world around me. I understand now the time involved and have begun keeping a personal-professional blog outside of the ITEC program. The required time frame of once per semester has been good but unfortunately not frequent enough for me to feel that it is truly a habit. I hope to blog more frequently as time progresses, with an end goal of 2-3 reflective posts per week that allow me to consistently evaluate my professional practice and reflect upon how my disposition allows me to model and facilitate lessons that teach teachers how to integrate technology into their lessons.
