Miss Krause's Personal Learning Goals
To teach is to learn twice.
Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert
About Me
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Earn professional development certification in SymbalooEDUDate achieved: October 28, 2015
After learning about SymbalooEdu at the TCEA 2015 conference, I completed the modules to earn user certification in summer 2015. I used the tool to visually curate various education sites and tools, as well as to organize a few unit resources. When I received the email for the opportunity to earn free PD certification in October 2015, I completed course right away. Unfortunately, I felt like the higher certification was not extremely different from the original modules. Regardless, I had the opportunity to curate my Edgar Allan Poe resources into an organized webmix, and I then used my mastery of Symbaloo to create a webmix to share in my presentation on formative assessment. I also led a small group of POPCS teachers during our February 2016 professional development session in how to use and implement Symbaloo professionally and personally. |
Create and share knowledge and work with other teachers internally, locally, and nationally.Date achieved: November 23-24, 2015
The most significant way I reached this goal was presenting on formative assessment at the Texas Lutheran Educators conference in November 2015. I utilized the above Symbaloo webmix to showcase various useful tools for formative assessment in two sessions of more than a hundred seasoned and rookie educators in total. The large number of attendees and the feedback I received from some of them helped me to see that I have knowledge that is useful to others, as long as I take the time to share and remember to be confident in the gifts and abilities God has given me. Though I did not share any work extensively on the national level, I exchanged several ideas with other English teachers throughout Texas, I presented to a section of the POPCS faculty on Symbaloo for professional development, and shared a few helpful webtools to POPCS and Dallas Lutheran faculty at EdCamp 2016. From my experiences, I have learned that I love presenting and sharing with others, and I would like to format some of my lessons better to potentially showcase them on Edmodo or Teachers Pay Teachers in the future. |
Connect and share ideas and student work with other educators via Twitter and Instagram.Date achieved: November 2015-April 2016
I have enjoyed participating in various Twitter chats and tweeting about various education conferences and events this academic year. This was not my biggest learning goal, as I am already an avid social "networker," but it was enlightening to hear from other Lutheran educators using #LuthEd and to learn how they function in ways both similar to and different from POPCS. Because of the opportunities we have to try and learn new things at our campus, it is often easy to jump into some of the conversations with insights to share with others. I also enjoyed particpating in the #LEAlead chat moderated by Dr. Tim Elmore. Because I use Habitudes in my classroom, it was great to share some of my experiences with the group. I also enjoy sharing the creative ways my students taught our classroom Habitudes on Twitter. I would say that this goal did not lead me to any life-changing revelations about education, but they allowed me "rest" and understanding amongst other Lutheran educators, and that is just as necessary as learning. Additionally, I utilized Instagram more this year for interacting with students based on classroom studies and showcasing student work. I hope to continue this with our devotions projects and various units of study in the future academic years. |
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Facilitate collaboration and faith sharing in 8th grade by developing a year-long devotional project.Date Achieved: May 2016
This year was the first year I challenged my 8th graders to create devotions the first three quarters of the year with the goal of giving them each a copy of an 8th grade devotion book at the end of the year. With the help of the devotion committee formed from members of the 8th grade leadership team, the devotions were edited, covers and dividers were designed, and and final products were published. We cut it close to the end of the school year, but we printed and bound the books, which we distributed to every 8th grader at graduation! I think this was, overall, a successful endeavor, but there are several things I learned and will need to adjust in order to continue this project. First and foremost, I learned that I need to be more organized in Google Drive from the start to make sure I have all of the devotions together and at least somewhat similarly formatted. Needing the devotion committee to do so much formatting and editing was a huge time challenge, and having more specific expectations for students to use Google from the beginning will help save a lot of time. I also learned that I will need to give more examples to the students to help them better understand the important elements of a devotion. Some kids "got it" right away, while others still struggled with the concept of what a devotion looks or sounds like, so I will need to be more descriptive and repetitive about expectations next year. I also let the kids choose their groups every quarter, and I think it would be beneficial for them to work in different groups at least once next year. Regardless, I look forward to trying out this project again next year! |
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Research Master's Degree programs and determine programs to apply to in Spring 2016.Date achieved: June 2016
This is the learning goal I was most nervous about seeking to accomplish, but I am now most excited to have achieved it! After a few months of nonchalant research with only indifferent reactions to a few Master's Degree programs, I encountered the Texas A&M University booth at the TCEA conference. I learned in February that TAMU has online graduate programs, including several Master of Education and Education Psychology programs. As I continued looking into the new programs, I discovered one of interest and relevance to me: Master of Education Pscyhology in Cognition and Creativity. The program will allow me to explore and study how the brain works and how to create innovative learning opportunities in the classroom. The educational technology and children's literature electives are also topics I am passionate about, so I look forward to taking those classes. I applied to TAMU in June, received acceptance in July, and I began the online program for a Masters in Cognition and Creativity this Fall 2016. |