Category: Blended Learning
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Blogging
4/14/23 – This is a learning curve for the Fairy Godmother. Growth mindset is key when setting up a blog page. It took various hours of playing around with WordPress on various days to finally accomplish a successful blogging page. Now comes the work with reloading all my previous postings that didn’t post correctly as…
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Growth Mindset Discussions
3/29/23 – It was exciting to have the opportunity to engage in a Growth Mindset discussion with my teachers today during Professional Learning in Data Digs to impact instruction over the next month. I get to have this same discussion with half of the faculty over the next two weeks! I love how this motivates…
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The COVA Learning Approach
3/25/23 – The COVA learning approach has already impacted my learning as it has been in action since starting the ADL program in January. At first, the learning experience was daunting in the amount of choice, in how to express my voice, and in taking ownership of my ePortfolio that all occurred in the first…
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Influencers
3/24/23 – After reading the Influencer, I understand the need for looking at all 6 areas of influence for leveraging change in vital behaviors for my Innovation Plan (Patterson, 2013. This is even more evident after seeing in the video that the children needed at least 4 of the 6 to change behavior. Also, looking at the…
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Course Design
3/19/2023 – Fink “proposes that students’ educational experiences will be strengthened if there is a focus on building universal skills for approaching learning opportunities. These acquired competencies will help them in your course and beyond.” Since teachers are also learners in my innovation plan and having to stretch their skills in technology, I am thinking…
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The “Why”
3/11/23 – I think the “why” is the most important when it comes to learning and pursuing life goals, because as we have been reading, the heart and the head work together for motivation. Answering the why brings in this crucial piece. I am always wondering about the why behind the learning, behind people’s behavior, behind my…
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Engagement in my Learning Communities
3/3/23 – I communicate regularly with my core group in my courses sharing thoughts, ideas, feedforward on our assignments, etc. I also share my learning with my fellow instructional coaches on my campus and with my district Emergent Bilingual coaches. I had visited earlier with my principal about some of my learning and how I…
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Communication of Ideas
2/27/2023 – I would like to be an innovative educator, and I am not there, yet. That is the “power of yet” in a growth mindset – knowing that I will get there because I do want to create a learning environment where student work is meaningful and authentic to them. Not only do I need to…
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Voice in My ePortfolio
2/23/23 – I have a very loud teacher voice per say, but I’m unsure about how loud my voice will be in my ePortfolio. I tend to express my opinions gently. However, as I have grown older, I have become more outspoken in my viewpoint and more pointed in my words and tone. It will…
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Quotable Quotes
2/22/23 – Looking at quotes as I design my portfolio. I liked a few such as this one –“If I had asked the public what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.“ Henry Ford (1863 – 1947), Founder of Ford Motor Company
Wings and a Wand 