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Final Reflection

Final Reflection  Overall, my blog posts have reflected ways to be innovative and creative in the classroom while exploring what that means. At the start of the course, I had felt that innovative teaching was almost impossible for me to accomplish. I felt that innovative classroom practices involved changing the school system, making flipped classes, and changing the physical space. However, throughout the course I have learned that innovative classrooms can be small changes to the traditional way school has been taught and also can be the same as how others are teaching. Another important piece of knowledge that I have acquired through the course has been expanding various types of innovative teaching. For the most part, myself included at the start of the course, innovative learning did not always include social justice aspects. By allowing for these issues to be explored and included in general classroom practice I thought it was general good practices rather than an innovative ...
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Final Glossary and Reflection

Final Glossary and Reflection  Innovation  Definition  Innovation is taking an active approach to solving a problem or evaluating a problem in a unique way. Innovation requires reflection on what issues have been affecting their practice and taking the necessary steps to facilitate the unique change to address the problem.   Justification  Innovation is an active process to address an issue in a unique way, but it also requires prior knowledge. Weiskopf (2016), addresses innovation as using knowledge from other professionals and building on that knowledge to address new issues. In education, DeLuca et al., (2024), study revealed that educators who felt that if they were doing an assessment that was similar to their peers, then it was no longer innovative. However, using prior knowledge to solve a problem in a unique way is an innovative method to address issues. For example, AI tools in the classroom have been an issue affecting critical thinking skill devel...
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Revisiting Innovation in the Classroom

  Revisiting Innovation in the Classroom  Throughout the duration of the course, my thoughts on how to be innovative in the classroom has slightly changed. When reading my first blog post, I had thought that innovation in education meant implementing new ways of teaching that were never done before. Now after completing most of the course, I feel that innovation in teaching is having the ability to recognize a problem and find a new solution to solve it. These solutions can be new to you, solutions that have been done by co workers, or have been done in research but you have not seen in a classroom. I believe this view on innovation makes innovative classrooms easier to accomplish and something that teachers can actually try to strive for. When reviewing the resources that I had reflected on, I would keep the academic article written by DeLuca et al (2024). In their research, they found that most teachers do not think of themselves as innovative educators because they have use...
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Personal Learning Network

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  Personal Learning Plan  Part One: Reflection  Currently, I learn about new developments and opportunities through our ACT (Ambassador for Curriculum Transformation) teacher. In this role, the teacher is responsible for sending out a monthly newsletter for professional training and sharing discussions that we can sign up for. I can sign up for whichever topic we find interesting, which allows for great flexibility. My district also pays for our substitute teachers so I can attend these professional development opportunities.  Furthermore, for every professional development day, we can choose from a long list of sessions to attend. There I can meet teachers with similar interests, share our concerns and challenges, and come up with solutions with facilitator support. Our local union usually sends out a survey for student needs and then plans sessions for those that we are interested in. I also have a professional development coordinator teacher at our school who shar...
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