This course has given me the
opportunity to truly understand what a group leader is and how it can help me improve
myself as an individual. Since week 1 I decided to take the risk and create the
first requirements for the class, a Google Doc and a Google Site; I was not
sure if I was doing either one correctly but with the helpful resources that
were included in our weekly assignments and the unlimited amount of how-to
online videos available I was able to successfully create both. My group was
composed of five diverse, dedicated, and knowledgeable individuals; each of us
had different teaching backgrounds from elementary to technical college level.
I believe that our unique experiences and levels of expertise were the
foundation to our group project. Since most of my teammates had more experience
working with high school level students we decided to focus our project on high
school Anatomy and Physiology. I was personally afraid of completing this task,
I did not feel well-versed in this area and I was afraid of disappointing my
team, fortunately my team mates were very understanding and helpful. I feel
that this project gave me the opportunity to see how sometimes leaders/administrators
need to give others the opportunity to teach them. I was able to play two roles
during the five week course in some occasions I was a leader guiding and
organizing my teammates through the weekly assignments and on many other occasions
I was been taught and guided by them. This course help me understand that true
leaders need to give their staff the opportunity to become mentors and leaders,
I truly believe that this can only make schools more effective. The weekly
reading and videos provided me with many useful resources to integrate into my
daily lesson; the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) site and the UDL eBooks
site are both extremely useful resources for any classroom, both are easily accessible
and anyone can use them. Teachers can develop lessons to accommodate every
learner in their classroom; they can definitely create simple and useful eBooks
for their diverse students. I felt that the UDL eBooks were so simple to create
that teachers could easily assign students to create their own unique eBooks to
assess their learning in any given subject area.
Citations:
Cast.org
(2009). Model UDL lessons. Center for Applied Special Technology.
Retrieved from http://udlselfcheck.cast.org/
Cast.org
(2009). Cast UDL book builder. Center for Applied Special Technology.
Retrieved from http://bookbuilder.cast.org
Google
Docs in Plain English, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRqUE6IHTEA
Creating
a Google site, YouTube videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwrf_koGSJk
or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1B_q_EiVHI&feature=PlayList&p=DCE07F20A6117BC0&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=6
.
Edit
a Google site or add pages, YouTube videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW3OElLssgE&feature=PlayList&p=DCE07F20A6117BC0&index=7;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKXFDdwLLgA&feature=PlayList&p=DCE07F20A6117BC0&index=8
Share
a Google site, YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDxXWf4OXzU&feature=PlayList&p=DCE07F20A6117BC0&index=9
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