Alexis Stepney
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My Message/Learning

7/8/2019

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     One of the many take aways so far had been on the best strategies on how to present to an audience. Because I now know more than 80% of people are visual learners, images done correctly are the best way to make a lasting impression. My focus has primarily been about behavior and it's effects due to student motivation and engagement so to get my message across I would use images that displayed classrooms that were heavy on collaboration, teachers coaching small groups of students, different students working on different things. More of an "organized chaos" rather than traditional setting in rows with teacher standing in front of room.
​    I went from my essential question based on what to do with early finishers/advanced students and how to manage a classroom that was heavy on differentiation and academic grouping so that a handful weren't so distracting to the rest of the learning environment(or annoying me) to how can I change my teaching practice so that all learners are included and start and finish assignments at the same time and still get what they need to out of it.
        I think the most difficult part is coming up with innovative ways for your students to learn. Because getting out of substitution and augmentation teaching with technology is a process for educators to move out of in itself, changing our brains to "think outside the box" is a struggle. As more educators transform into redefinition we can hopefully become a resource to each other so that the wheel doesn't have to be reinvented.
        TPACK has really guided my thought process when it comes to my lesson planning. I definitely always consider or have in the back of my mind how to tie in "the sweet spot", even if it doesn't always work out for every single lesson or activity it remains a goal in my teaching practice.
          
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Karling Skoglund
7/8/2019 05:35:52 pm

Alexis,

The transformation of your essential question is pretty significant and really important to all grades/content classes so I think your research and data will provide important insight and hopefully help a lot of teachers when it comes to including all students. Differentiation is a big bite to chew and something that I really struggled with in my 6th grade classroom so I am excited to see if there are some strategies or concepts that can transfer to my older kids.
Also think your "sweet spot" label for the TPACK is great! Just the fact that we are looking at getting to that spot is something to be proud of!

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Lisa Marie Smith
7/8/2019 06:46:24 pm

Alexis,

I like how you recognize the the importance of your essential questions and your honestly in the challenges. I believe that your esstential question, action research project and experiences will have provide other teachers valuable information and stratifies for improving the behaviors that other teachers may be experiencing in their classrooms. I wonder if there is other blog type sties to share your project and ideas? Keep up the good work.

Warm Regards,

Lisa Marie Smith

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Golden Williams
7/23/2019 07:57:03 pm

This week we learned a lot about prestation . There are a lot of tools and tips can help us become better presentations. It’s crazy to learn that 80% of people are visual learns, I always thought it was spilt between the 3 learning styles. Using the right prestation goes a long way specially for students engagement and also helps students get the most from your prestation.

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