First Journal Entry: Goals

Personal Learning Goals:

1. Planning for learning: Analyze and curate resources (e.g. programs of study, teaching materials, textbooks) to select appropriate teaching strategies and design relevant learning experiences (P4)

I want to gain more experience with designing relevant and engaging learning experiences for students through the use of different resources such as textbooks, the program of studies, and other teaching materials. 

2. Facilitating Learning: Incorporate the appropriate use of digital technologies (F3)

This practicum, I would like to attempt to incorporate technology in some of my lessons.

3. Assessment: Provide specific, timely, constructive feedback to help students monitor  

their own learning (A5)

My goal is to have the relevant and appropriate assessment method for each task that is
            assigned; this includes formative and summative assessment. I want to make sure that 

students are clear on what they are being assessed on. 

4. Classroom Environment: Create a respectful and ethical learning community that 

encourages learners to take risks, build trust, embrace diversity, and increase 

self-confidence (C4)

Every student deserves to feel like they belong in the classroom and the responsibility of 
            facilitating this feeling of belonging lands on the teacher. It is my job as an educator to 

allow opportunities where students are able to take risks, build trust, and work with a 

diverse number of students. It is also the educator’s responsibility to facilitate 

opportunities that allow students to feel confident.

5. Professional Responsibilities:  Establish professional and ethical relationships (PR7)

I want to establish professional and ethical relationships not only with other teachers, but also with parents, staff, and the students themselves. Building these relationships not only prosper my own education and learning, but also will prosper the education and learning of the students I teach. 


Previous Experience and Burning Question

Besides displaying YouTube videos for the class, I don’t have much educational technology experience. The burning question that I have for the use of digital technologies in K to 6 education is the following: Why is technology not an entirely separate course in our curriculum? From my understanding CBE, for example, has a certain amount of hours allocated for each subject. Most these hours must be for subjects such as math, science, LA, and social.However, it astonishes me that technology is not with courses like math, science, social, and LA. I personally think that technology should be one of the core subjects for students in schools because of the progression of technology in today's society. I personally believe that a lot of careers in the future will be dependant on technology and students should, therefore, start exploring from a very young age.