Nicole's Tech Blog

     Since I want to be a Kindergarten teacher, I probably won't use data collection (surveys) with my students. However, I will probably have the parents of my students fill out a teacher evaluation survey every quarter so that I can see how I am doing. This will give parents a chance to let me know how satisfied they are with my instruction and give me feedback as to how I can improve myself as a teacher. I think this will be especially helpful during my first few years as a teacher. After having the surveys completed, I could put the data into a recording tool such as Excel. This would allow me to organize the responses in a way that would be easy to read and understand. I could then interpret the data and improve myself as a teacher.      For EME 2040, we were required to write blogs on specific topics each week. Since all students had the blog prompt each week, it was interesting to read other students' blogs and see their perspective. For instance...

   The term "The Flipped Classroom" refers to an innovative blended delivery model that is currently very popular in education. It uses online videos in order for students to learn. Originally, these began as a way to allow absent students to gain access to lectures. However, they now have evolved the way that students and teachers spend time in the classroom. In this model, students listen to the lectures prior to attending class in order to be able to use class time more efficiently. I think this a very smart idea. While doing this assignment, I realized that we currently have this system in place in EME 2040. Each week, we are expected to listen to a podcast prior to attending class. Although the podcasts aren't lectures, they deliver information on the concepts that we are learning weekly. I really like that we do this as it prepares us for class. This prepares us to dive right into discussion on these topics as soon as class begins. An awesome example of a source of ...