Week One Blog

     

     

       Hello, 

    My name is Erica Shippey. I'm a wife, mom, Christian, and first-grade teacher. I have two kids. I enjoy reading. I have a bachelor’s degree in educational studies. I am currently in my last semester of the graduate program at Southeastern Oklahoma State University and will be graduating in December. I just started my third year of teaching First Grade. My future professional goals are to continue teaching as well as be an instructional coach.

    Computer Science is a new group of standards that I have taken a recent interest in as I will be teaching them in my classroom this year. While we have always had technology in my classroom, I am excited to add new aspects such as coding and programming. I am excited to work with my students as a team to collaborate on ways to build robots and use graphic visualizations.

          Empowered Learner indicator 1a states articulate and set learning goals, develop strategies leveraging technology to achieve them, and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning outcomes. Students in my first-grade classroom will address the ISTE standard as well as state standards by using programs such as GetEpic, Amira, and 99math to develop their learning goals for each month. Students will use the programs to track and monitor their progress throughout the month. Students can work together to help each other reach their goals through collaborative efforts. Each month students will use the programs to print their visual graphs of progress to monitor their own progress throughout the school year.

          Using the Triple E Framework, I would use the lesson to first engage with students by modeling navigation of the software. I would demonstrate how we will create the goals as well as monitor the progress using the program. I would encourage students to work together to create goals that can be achieved during the set time. To enhance the lesson, I would encourage students to be active listeners, ask questions, and print their progress to collect in a data folder. I will work with students to ensure that they have developed a clear understanding of the content, specifically the vocabulary. Lastly, I would extend the lesson by encouraging students to track their own personal goals in their everyday life through other software such as read-a-thons or software that can track their exercise. I would use the technology to demonstrate that we can extend the knowledge of what was learned outside of the classroom.


References

ISTE. 2024. ISTE Standards for Students. Retrieved from https://iste.org/standards/students

Triple E Framework. 2020. Triple E Framework. Retrieved from https://www.tripleeframework.com


Comments

  1. Taryn CueAugust 25, 2024 at 1:59 PM

    Erica, as a teacher who also teaches young students, I think you had some great ideas. I love the idea of students tracking their own progress and seeing themselves if they are getting better at what they do. I think it is so beneficial for them, instead of scores. Some students do not know what grades even mean and understand better if they are going up or down in what they are doing. I am currently having make personal goals, I am just having problems with them finding ways to track their goals. I try to track their goals, but I would love for them to track their own, just like you stated.

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