NETS-T+1

//Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments.//
 * //1.Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity//**

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 * 1) promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness.
 * 2) engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources.
 * 3) promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes.
 * 4) model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments.

Description:
The pedagogy of my classroom is Project Based Learning (PBL). Student’s transition from a teacher-directed to student-directed learning, the students is accountable for decisions made. The project based learning provides the opportunities for the students to develop self-management and self-regulatory strategies. In PBL the teacher is the facilitator, I anticipate periodic interruption of learning to teach a technology and oral and written communication skills (soft skills) that students need for the successful assimilation into the work force. I have my students for two years. This allows me to develop their baselines of knowledge and build their inquiry skills. Students have an opportunity to demonstrate the skills necessary for planning, organizing, implementing and evaluating different projects.

Impact:
I adapt the pace and depth of curriculum and instruction to meet the needs of those students for students that are independently driven, and are excellent writers and editors that have the ability to work at their own pace given specific deadline to meet. The students who are more kinesthetic learners, have an opportunity to be creative and may need more teacher guided learning. I involve learners in self-assessments (examview) and reflections (examview) and goal setting through the design of rubrics that provide deadlines (Livebinders) and address the performance standard that I expect.

Intent:
I review the information and what each section means, the students collaborative work in small groups discussing time lines and individual responsibilities (dropbox and pdf's) help to ensure a common understanding. I effectively combine independent collaborate and whole class learning situations to maximize student understanding and learning by allowing the students to develop and establish the priorities in task completion, based on the rubrics design. The student becomes responsible for the pace of learning and ownership of the project through the use of technology in dropbox and adobe files.

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