School improvement seems to be the hot topic over the last few years in the educational world. I was one of those teachers when I first began that would roll my eyes when I would heard data and SIP plan. Eventually I was put on a school improvement committee which opened my eyes to a whole new world of information that our administrators and school board used to make sure our students and teachers needs are being met. When I started taking this class I felt like I had a good idea of what was going to be involved, but didn't realize what I was in store for. I had no clue how time and effort was spent collecting and analyzing data to make sure our school and system was working effectively. I found out a great deal of information about Moody High School in the process of taking this course. While taking this course I remained on our schools continuous school improvement team and was able to give added insight about the directions that we should take to help make our school better. I was also able to show my presentation to the committee and receive feedback about its contents. I was also able to help open their eyes to some ways that we could improve our school. Overall I found this course very informative, but also inspirational for future collection purposes. I now know who to ask and where to go to get the right information in a timely manner.
The focus of this course was for us as technology coaches to be able to implement and maintain an online learning platform for our school and system. This was very interesting because in our studies here at Kennesaw state, we are in an online learning class room. With this being said we as students in this type of classroom can only use this experience to help us in the future. I used this experience to hone my skills in the online learning classroom, and use this as a trouble shooting experience and to test the different types of platforms fro which is best suited for school and system. I feel taking online learning classes made this class and learning about the online system was easy. I feel fully functional now after taking this class to deal with the online learning platform that we have in place at Moody High School. Since taking this class we at Moody have implemented a online learning platform called My Big Campus. We as a school and system have been fortunate to purchase the ability to use this learning platform to be more effective teachers and provide our students with a 21st century technology that wil help prepare them for their futures. This is the most exciting part of the class to know that have the chance to make a huge difference in our students future.
From this class, I found out that I can actually put technology together and then create a workshop to assist my fellow teachers. I also had to put myself through some reading to figure out what type of coach I want and need to be for my school and staff. This class made it obvious to me that we as coaches have to continue to use data from our teachers and students to figure out where our needs are and how to fix these deficits to the betterment of the school and community. I think the most fun I had was working with a fellow colleague of mine to try and focus on technology in the their classroom. This put me in position of technology coach first hand. This was trying and difficult because this person was my age and I had to convey to him these new learning styles and ways to get information to students rather than lecture. I really thought this was fun though because we both were learning, me how to be a coach and him to be more effective. I enjoyed the readings for this class because I enjoyed seeing school systems across the country put into place programs in their schools and see them be successful. This is great encouragement for technology coaches and school systems who want to be successful. Overall this was a interesting and trying class, but very beneficial to me becoming a technology coach.
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January 2015
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