Reflection

Creating Project A was a struggle but yet so rewarding. Before this. class, I had never designed an instructional program from start to finish. Being that I am one of the youngest teachers on staff, it’s nerve-wrecking to think that I would be instructing the same teachers that once taught me. I think one factor that played a role in easing my anxiety, was being in constant communication with my client. I kept in mind that she was the appraiser and I needed to please her. The goal of the training program was expose the Career & Technical Education teachers to more instructional web tools so that they can integrate the technology into their class and in my opinion, we were successful.

Being that we are still shut down as a school district, collaboration and communication is hindered. My client, Mrs. Gonzalez had suggested, after reviewing my project proposal that we consider having an open zoom conference. We went ahead and opened the zoom conference to the teachers where they were able to log on during campus wide planning. Not all teachers logged on consistently but a solid 40% of the staff was on, on a regular basis. When facilitating, teachers were asking each other about about lesson ideas and weren’t afraid to call for help. This was a big help for myself as the facilitator and also the teachers.

Teachers were able to complete their modules successfully and showed great responsibility. One area of concern were teachers who were more tech savvy were finishing in or two days. In situations like that it was hard for those teachers to accept the feed back since they were technically done. A number of teachers enjoyed how it was asynchronous and were able to work on the modules at their own pace. After reviewing the end of course surveys I was alarmed in how many wanted to continue on with weekly modules. I thought to myself….well there is always Project B!

For my next project, one of the main goals is to ensure that all teachers are working on the same module at the same or at least working together as a whole so that some teachers aren’t finishing in a matter of minutes. I’m hoping we can use this experience to grow from and improve and implement some of the reflections in Project B.