Artifact #2 for 21st Century Ed Leadership
One of the most important projects we did in this class was the classroom walk through. I created a google form to help the walk through that I did for two separate teachers. Some interesting pieces that I took away from them was the fact that sometimes technology does not go as you plan.
One of the teachers I observed is of a colleague of mine using a new pear deck that he had created using an old polleverywhere that we had been sharing. The topic was abortion and we have been using polleverywhere for years but he decided to try pear deck after hearing some great things about it. Because the google slide presentation (unit) that we share is rather lengthy he did a lot of copying and pasting within pear deck since all of the options for the questions were the same. Little did he know that this would actually negate those particular slides from working. So on the fly he had to go back to the polleverywhere for this class as I opened the google slide presentation and redid all of the questions. Overall the observation was that technology was an added bonus if not necessary for this particular lesson. It gives students a voice on a tough topic without having to raise their hand. We have had some classes split on this topic down the middle and some classes have only a few people who are on the far end of the pro-life side. This allows for those students to feel a little more at ease since their answers are mixed in with the others.
Comparing the two teachers and classes is more challenging to do considering the makeup of each class. The PE class is a mandated class that students HAVE to be in as part of a graduation requirement. The advanced health class is an elective that they have chosen to be in. Both went into the lesson expecting to use technology but it didn’t go as smoothly as they had hoped. In the PE class, she did not use technology which I agreed with...I think that it would have not added to the lesson but merely made it worse, keeping in mind the dynamics of the crew she was teaching. They were more engaged based on the physical activity that they were competing against each other with. For the advanced health class, all of the students were engaged but it did not go as smoothly as he had hoped. That class was about 15 minutes behind the other class because of the switch to polleverywhere. I did stay for his next class to make sure that the fixes I created worked for him and they did.
One of the teachers I observed is of a colleague of mine using a new pear deck that he had created using an old polleverywhere that we had been sharing. The topic was abortion and we have been using polleverywhere for years but he decided to try pear deck after hearing some great things about it. Because the google slide presentation (unit) that we share is rather lengthy he did a lot of copying and pasting within pear deck since all of the options for the questions were the same. Little did he know that this would actually negate those particular slides from working. So on the fly he had to go back to the polleverywhere for this class as I opened the google slide presentation and redid all of the questions. Overall the observation was that technology was an added bonus if not necessary for this particular lesson. It gives students a voice on a tough topic without having to raise their hand. We have had some classes split on this topic down the middle and some classes have only a few people who are on the far end of the pro-life side. This allows for those students to feel a little more at ease since their answers are mixed in with the others.
Comparing the two teachers and classes is more challenging to do considering the makeup of each class. The PE class is a mandated class that students HAVE to be in as part of a graduation requirement. The advanced health class is an elective that they have chosen to be in. Both went into the lesson expecting to use technology but it didn’t go as smoothly as they had hoped. In the PE class, she did not use technology which I agreed with...I think that it would have not added to the lesson but merely made it worse, keeping in mind the dynamics of the crew she was teaching. They were more engaged based on the physical activity that they were competing against each other with. For the advanced health class, all of the students were engaged but it did not go as smoothly as he had hoped. That class was about 15 minutes behind the other class because of the switch to polleverywhere. I did stay for his next class to make sure that the fixes I created worked for him and they did.
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