Trying to choose a focus for my research and learning in this program has been challenging for me for several reasons. First, I am interested and passionate about many things related to education and the success of my students. I have a difficult time making decisions and especially ones as seemingly important as this one which will become the primary focus for the next year and a half, and most likely, well beyond that.
At the forefront of my thinking is the desire and need to improve student engagement and motivation. When students are motivated and engaged in their learning, that's where true growth occurs and in a collaborative classroom environment, everyone benefits. Some of the ideas I've considered over the past few weeks include ways to develop and improve the project based learning units I've created or will implement, using Whole Brain Teaching strategies to improve student engagement and maintain classroom management, improving my knowledge and implementation of AVID strategies into the PBL units and daily lessons, improving my knowledge of technology and implementing a larger variety of opportunities for my students to connect and share their thinking, becoming familiar with the Next Gen Science Standards and find ways to teach through a variety of subjects throughout the day, and finally, using a rich variety of children's literature to encourage a love of reading for all readers while building connections with the content and each other through sharing of individual thinking and connections to the literature and one another, and with an added goal of improving writing skills during that process. I am currently leaning toward choosing to focus on using children's literature to improve student engagement, connections with self and others, and improving student writing in response to the literature. First attempt at a driving question: How can a variety of rich literature be used to engage and encourage readers to make and share individual thinking and deep connections through writing? I know this is in need of quite a bit of work but it's a start... #EDUC790 #firstattemptataguidingquestion
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