As an educator, I strive to provide a nurturing, challenging, invigorating, and productive learning environment. I keep current on best practice to provide my students with the optimum education to meet their varying needs. I believe that every student learns through personal experience and strive to individualize learning using guided exploration methods. I enrich 21st Century learners by facilitating learning experiences that increase their depth of content knowledge and provide students with opportunities to think critically as problem solvers. As an innovative leader, I utilize 21st Century learning strategies and tools to engage, inspire, and spark creativity in students. I facilitate higher-order thinking and learning and seek to provide the stimulation and challenges that my students need to be successful members of society. These techniques help me succeed as an educator in a traditional face to face setting, but can also easily transfer over to an online setting. Nothing should change, other than the method in which the teacher communicates with students.
I strive to impact students by giving them the knowledge, skills, abilities and attitudes necessary to reach their fullest potential as independent, productive, and responsible citizens. I am not sure that it is as easy to follow through with these actions in an online setting due to the fact that interpersonal communication is minimal. With students in primary grades, it is important to have a positive rapport with students, gaining their trust and structuring their education. I believe that this is very difficult to do in an online setting. Classroom management would look very different and identifying and assisting in areas of need would need to shift. Time dedicated to teaching would be very different, for anticipating possible issues within a designed course. Putting all information in a particular module, from top to bottom, would also look very different then my current practice in the classroom. All avenues would need to be presented in the online format, and students would need to be actively seeking out information. In my particular case, students need a lot of scaffolding and guidance, which would be difficult in this format. I think in a blended classroom, these practices would be a lot easier, but with students in a non-primary setting.
I strive to impact students by giving them the knowledge, skills, abilities and attitudes necessary to reach their fullest potential as independent, productive, and responsible citizens. I am not sure that it is as easy to follow through with these actions in an online setting due to the fact that interpersonal communication is minimal. With students in primary grades, it is important to have a positive rapport with students, gaining their trust and structuring their education. I believe that this is very difficult to do in an online setting. Classroom management would look very different and identifying and assisting in areas of need would need to shift. Time dedicated to teaching would be very different, for anticipating possible issues within a designed course. Putting all information in a particular module, from top to bottom, would also look very different then my current practice in the classroom. All avenues would need to be presented in the online format, and students would need to be actively seeking out information. In my particular case, students need a lot of scaffolding and guidance, which would be difficult in this format. I think in a blended classroom, these practices would be a lot easier, but with students in a non-primary setting.