Public Learning Community (PLC)

BFF's in Broadfield

Our group attempted to put together a rough format which showed specifically how technological resources could be utilzed by teachers overall. We created a theoretically classroom and showed how the technologies could be utilzed together. This was the intent anyway...

From this project, I contemplated a great deal about the technologies which I will undoubtedly utilze in an attempt to engages students both in and out of class, as well as their parents/guardians. I envision a classroom setting which emphasizes students exploring content and asking questions of one another and myself. It is my intent to only lecture when absolutely necessary, such as early on and at the end of a lesson. I intend on fostering student learning through group and individual work as well as a variety of projects. Furthermore, I will also incorporate student presentations into lessons, thus engaging students with each other's learning.

I also intend to engage students with material outside of the classroom as often as possible. I am hopeful students will have access to computers and internet. If not, I will have to adjust fire and attempt to format outside work to be fairly simple and allow for utilization of the computer resources at school.

I also intend to get parents/guardians as involved with students learning as possible. I will do this by creating an online source of some sort through which parents are able to access class assignments, grades, and updates related to class activities. Furthermore, I will develop assessments which challenge students to share thier understanding of material with thier parents/guardians/elders, etc.

In all honestly, I feel my effort in fostering this PLC was very minimal. This is not to say I did very little though. It was my idea to develop a connection between the topics (edmoto, edublog, and John John's rap) to encompass a potential class format and structure. Also, during our discussions about the topic(s), I contributed a fair number of ideas which were incorporated by group members. I don't know if they were already thinking those same ideas, but I did notice my ideas being stated.

In completing this task and presenting our information to class, there are many benefits hidden within the assessment. For me, I believe the most important are cooperation and group work, public speaking (epic fail for me again), and the reflection which occurs afterwards. My thinking about the future teacher I will become has been greatly influenced by my experiences in these classes.