What factors do you perceive impacting research in the context of your
professional growth?
Social scholarship:
Being a Leader
Technology:
Motivation, incentives, and collaborative learning opportunities.
Author Daniel Pink presents a narrative suggesting all human beings are driven by these three things, purpose, a desire for autonomy, and mastery.
Edutainment and reflective teaching lead me to these questions.
What do I want my students to know?
What examples can I provide that show my content in real life application?
What activities can I find or design to challenge my students in an active student centric way? #
Communicating in a medium that students speak
The internet and use of web browsers can help students become better researcher with an trained eye to find reliable sources and sort through fake news.
Social Media templates like fakebook and tweeter motivates learners to be creative, have fun, and use technology.
My students love reviewing content materials by playing Kahoot, and it gives me immediate formative assessment feedback. #
By uploading my lesson plans, assignments, and activities to the learning management system Schoology, my students have access to materials anytime anywhere.
The use of technology creates digital literacy skills for students, better preparing them for the workforce. #
Curating (a nice way of saying Hoarding)
As a social science teacher I constantly view the world from a historical context comparing and contrasting now to another time, and compartmentalize what is going on into the 5 W's.
Keeping up with the joneses. In the spirit of collaboration, I am always curious and eager to see what tools and techniques my colleagues are using.
The research and exposure to new ideas, best practices, tools, and applications help us to prepare lessons that are UDL and accessible to all learning levels. #