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: Blog
Reflection:
For my ITEC 7460 course, “Professional Learning and Technology Innovation,” I worked with a colleague to deliver technology-based instructional coaching in the fall of 2014. This artifact is my coaching journal. It contains coaching strategies I used, the extent with which we met to implement these strategies, the skills, advancements, challenges, solutions, and reflections on this intensive process.
Standard 6.2 states that candidates “regularly evaluate and reflect on his or her professional practice and dispositions to improve and strengthen their ability effectively model and facilitate technology-enhanced learning experiences.” This artifact is demonstrative of my ability to reflect analytically and critically on my professional practice and disposition. In fact, throughout the journal I reference the Meyers-Briggs test that my colleague and I took in order to learn the best methods and disposition for working with her. Furthermore, I evaluate the effectiveness of my professional practice with regard to my colleague’s comfort and perceived success regarding the implementation of new technology tools in her classroom. This journal helped me reflect and evaluate on my effectiveness and to make critical decisions regarding improvement. I used researched methods, reflected on our conversations, evaluated the results of these meetings, and reflected constantly on how I came across, how I could improve my practice, and how I could best support my colleague’s individual needs.
This experience was one of the most valuable of my KSU experience. It allowed me to work one-on-one with someone in my building as a technology coach, a position that I have been working toward embodying for the past two years. It influenced my professional practice greatly. As seen in the artifact, this experience taught me the importance of building a partnership with my colleagues in order to help them achieve their technology-related goals. The nature of collaborating with someone is tricky, and I think the best disposition, for me, is to build solid relationships and a foundation of trust before suggesting changes in another person’s classroom. However, beyond the field experience that this learning opportunity provided, I learned a great deal about the value of reflection. This practice can improve knowledge; it can allow a self-critical and self-constructive thinking process to occur; reflecting can help with forethought and strategy; it can certainly allow for self-evaluation, as well.
If I had the opportunity to improve upon this learning experience, I would have gone beyond the requirements of the assignment to work with my colleague in areas beyond technology. I would also liked to have expanded the process to other colleagues who needed/wanted instructional technology coaching. But, in the end, I learned a valuable lesson and the school benefited. It is abundantly clear to me that reflective practices are necessary for one who wishes to improve upon their practice. Evaluating practice and reflecting on what has passed is essential to moving forward.
Reflection:
For my ITEC 7460 course, “Professional Learning and Technology Innovation,” I worked with a colleague to deliver technology-based instructional coaching in the fall of 2014. This artifact is my coaching journal. It contains coaching strategies I used, the extent with which we met to implement these strategies, the skills, advancements, challenges, solutions, and reflections on this intensive process.
Standard 6.2 states that candidates “regularly evaluate and reflect on his or her professional practice and dispositions to improve and strengthen their ability effectively model and facilitate technology-enhanced learning experiences.” This artifact is demonstrative of my ability to reflect analytically and critically on my professional practice and disposition. In fact, throughout the journal I reference the Meyers-Briggs test that my colleague and I took in order to learn the best methods and disposition for working with her. Furthermore, I evaluate the effectiveness of my professional practice with regard to my colleague’s comfort and perceived success regarding the implementation of new technology tools in her classroom. This journal helped me reflect and evaluate on my effectiveness and to make critical decisions regarding improvement. I used researched methods, reflected on our conversations, evaluated the results of these meetings, and reflected constantly on how I came across, how I could improve my practice, and how I could best support my colleague’s individual needs.
This experience was one of the most valuable of my KSU experience. It allowed me to work one-on-one with someone in my building as a technology coach, a position that I have been working toward embodying for the past two years. It influenced my professional practice greatly. As seen in the artifact, this experience taught me the importance of building a partnership with my colleagues in order to help them achieve their technology-related goals. The nature of collaborating with someone is tricky, and I think the best disposition, for me, is to build solid relationships and a foundation of trust before suggesting changes in another person’s classroom. However, beyond the field experience that this learning opportunity provided, I learned a great deal about the value of reflection. This practice can improve knowledge; it can allow a self-critical and self-constructive thinking process to occur; reflecting can help with forethought and strategy; it can certainly allow for self-evaluation, as well.
If I had the opportunity to improve upon this learning experience, I would have gone beyond the requirements of the assignment to work with my colleague in areas beyond technology. I would also liked to have expanded the process to other colleagues who needed/wanted instructional technology coaching. But, in the end, I learned a valuable lesson and the school benefited. It is abundantly clear to me that reflective practices are necessary for one who wishes to improve upon their practice. Evaluating practice and reflecting on what has passed is essential to moving forward.