Rachel+Andrews

=Rachel Andrews=

My content area is Early Childhood Education and I want to teach first, second, or third grade.

1) Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity
- I would plan a lesson to take the students to the library. There I would teach them to use the computers to search for books of their interest. I would also want them to become familiar with being able to find there way around a library. I would put a project together for them to search for specific books on the computer system and complete a sheet on where in the library one could find the book.

2) Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
- It would be neat to have the class participate in a video expressing what they learned in a previous science experiment and recreate the situation. I would want them to show every step of the scientific method of the experiment on video, that way we could share the video online with their parents. - While the class was initially doing the experiment I would assign a few students to take pictures of the different steps and procedures. I would put a bulletin board together of the pictures to be a constant reminder of the experiment to the students. - For every experiment, I would rotate the students in charge of taking pictures, so everyone would get a chance and learn how to use a digital camera.

3) Model Digital-Age Work and Learning
- I would use an e-mail system to update the parents in my classroom of all the things we were to be doing for the next month, and more specifically for the next week. I want to send pictures of the projects we do in the classroom and allow parents to collaborate with one another to make the classroom seem like more of a community. I would want the parents to be able to access their child's progress report online and check their homework daily as well. Being able to check these things are extremely important for parents so they can assist their children at home. Communication between teacher and parent should be easy and accessible at all times.

4) Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility
- By using the internet, I would want to have the parents of my students to have complete access to any sources (books, magazines, websites, newspapers, etc.) I use in the classroom so they can see the source in its entirety. - If I had access to a computer lab in the school, I would want to take my students there so I could teach them about computers. Some students do not get to use computers at home, and by having them work on computers at school would better prepare them for the future. If my students were old enough, I would want them to become fluent on working on computer systems and typing.

Organizational Templates:
1) Academic Grade Book 2) Weekly Planning Guide 3) Homework Assignments 4) Weekly Progress Report 5) Weekly Flyer/Newsletter for parents

Test:
http://tinyurl.com/26p8vgl