6.1 Continuous Learning
Candidates demonstrate continual growth in knowledge and skills of current and emerging technologies and apply them to improve personal productivity and professional practice.
Artifact: Literature Review
Reflection:
The literature review was a comprehensive research assignment of an educational topic of my choice. I decided to conduct my literature review on teacher effectiveness and quality. I have been very interested in ways to determine teacher effectiveness in order to improve instruction. Through my research, I found that schools have to focus on keeping effective teachers in the classroom and increasing the effectiveness of current teachers. Through an increase in effective teachers, our students can increase their understanding and schools can focus on implementing more technology in the classroom.
Through this research project, I demonstrated my ability to use an online source to find scholarly articles on a topic that is very relevant to today’s schools. I have witnessed too many ineffective teachers who make it to the three-year tenure mark where it is very difficult to get rid of them. These are the teachers who are slow to change and embrace new ideas in the classroom, like the implementation of technology with students. I was hopeful that there would be research on how to identify ineffective and effective teachers in a timely manner to increase the impact that they have on students, as well as the implementation of new initiatives within a particular school. Through my work with this topic and from my research of the topic, I was asked to help mentor new teachers to increase their effectiveness.
By completing this assignment, I learned the proper way to conduct a literature review to use in research. I would like to complete another one that focuses on teacher effectiveness through the use of technology. There are quite a few barriers to introducing technology with students in a classroom and any ideas that have worked could be helpful.
The literature review was a comprehensive research assignment of an educational topic of my choice. I decided to conduct my literature review on teacher effectiveness and quality. I have been very interested in ways to determine teacher effectiveness in order to improve instruction. Through my research, I found that schools have to focus on keeping effective teachers in the classroom and increasing the effectiveness of current teachers. Through an increase in effective teachers, our students can increase their understanding and schools can focus on implementing more technology in the classroom.
Through this research project, I demonstrated my ability to use an online source to find scholarly articles on a topic that is very relevant to today’s schools. I have witnessed too many ineffective teachers who make it to the three-year tenure mark where it is very difficult to get rid of them. These are the teachers who are slow to change and embrace new ideas in the classroom, like the implementation of technology with students. I was hopeful that there would be research on how to identify ineffective and effective teachers in a timely manner to increase the impact that they have on students, as well as the implementation of new initiatives within a particular school. Through my work with this topic and from my research of the topic, I was asked to help mentor new teachers to increase their effectiveness.
By completing this assignment, I learned the proper way to conduct a literature review to use in research. I would like to complete another one that focuses on teacher effectiveness through the use of technology. There are quite a few barriers to introducing technology with students in a classroom and any ideas that have worked could be helpful.