Reflection on the GAME
Plan and Technology
Incorporating the GAME plan helped me to focus on exactly
what the focus of my lesson is. It can a be a planning tool I use for personal
goals and for teaching specific lessons to my students. Setting goals, taking action, monitoring, and evaluating are specific things I can do
to stay on track. I will be using the GAME
plan as I develop my daily lesson plans this school year. Planning lesson plans
that start with the goal will be the first thing I do. What is it that I want
my students to know once the lesson is complete? Although I always made solid
lesson plans, I took the approach getting through content standards and not
thinking specifically why I was teaching the standard. Now I will go through
each step of the GAME plan.
After completing this course on integrating technology in my
content area, I am more convinced that using classroom blogs is the way to go.
Classroom discussions leave out many students. Those who do not like to speak
in front of the entire room can respond to a blog more confidently without
worrying about the others’ reaction. I used blogging a few times last school
year but I plan to make it a regular part of my ELA class.
I will also continue to use digital storytelling. In the
video from week seven, I was pleased to keep the list Dr. Arnie Abrams gave us
to guide students in making their digital stories. Although I learned most of
what he gave us during my first experience last year, I think giving my
students a list of the steps would be beneficial to both them and me. I worked
through the steps but the only thing my students knew was what the final
product should look like, but if students see the path they must take, I think
it will take much of the anxiety away.
Using the GAME
plan and digital storytelling in my classroom will strengthen my instructional
practices in ELA.
Reference
Laureate
Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2009). Integrating technology
across the content areas. Baltimore, MD: Author.
