Standard 6.

2: Reflections
This standard focuses on the candidates ability to reflect on their
professional practice. I have chosen the reflection blog posts as my artifact
to support my attainment of this standard. As a requirement for completing
each ITEC course of the Instructional Technology Ed.S. Program, I wrote a
reflection blog after each course. I also blog frequently on
GeorgiaSTEM.com. Within these blogs, I discuss what I have learned
throughout my teaching career. Some of the blogs focus on a specific course
or a topic, others are more philosophical in nature.
Specifically, one of my most memorable experiences during the completion
of this program was attendance at 2015 GaETC conference. When I
returned, I completed several blogs reflecting on my changing technology
vision and the tools I discovered at the conference. There are so many
potential resources for student blogging, augmented reality, screencasting,
and more. Reflecting on my daily teaching and changing pedagogy helps me
become a better educator and facilitator of technology.
Each of my course reflection blogs demonstrates my ability to regularly
evaluate and reflect on my professional practice and dispositions.
Because I wrote a reflection after every ITEC course completed in this
program, I regularly evaluated how I was doing both as an educator and a
technology facilitator. The focus of each of these reflection blogs was on
my professional practice and dispositions. For instance, I am now a
frequent user of screen casting. I have decided not to flip my classroom but
I have enjoyed using a more blended model. I had initially rejected this idea
as too impersonal; however, after ITEC 7430, I realized how valuable
screencasting and providing an opportunity to view the instruction multiple
times is for our ESOL and SPED kids.
If I could change anything about these blogs, I would make them more
detailed and written more about the specific projects completed in each one.
Now, at the end of the program, it all seems to blur together and I
remember the experience more holistically. Sometimes, I forget in which
class I completed which major project.
Reflecting on practices and dispositions has a positive impact on professional
development and student learning. I have my New Crew teachers at our
school meet monthly and one of the things we have started is a time to

reflect during the session and talk about how they are changing as new
teachers and what new obstacles they are uncovering. We have also been
doing a book study and talking about goal setting and student reflection and
how to model that behavior in the classroom. This could greatly impact
student learning, if students also reflected on how they completed each task,
lesson, assessment, etc. This impact could be measured by looking at long
term achievement of goals set by students and teachers to show that
reflection on work and success is a key component.