Over the past several weeks I have been incorporating the GAME plan model into my weekly schedule of events. As noted before, the GAME plan focuses on setting a goal, taking action, monitoring the goal and process and evaluating for success. My personal GAME plan focused on creating a classroom website and utilizing blogs and wikis whenever possible in my classroom. After changes made by my district, I was forced to make some changes with my plan but so far, things are still progressing toward my goal.
After reading over the NETS-T and the NETS-S I soon became familiar with the similarities that exist for both teachers and students in the area of digital expectations and overall technology use and examination. I feel that students need to understand where they are in terms of understanding their own knowledge of technology including strengths and areas of improvement. I know that my students complete a technology survey but in the future I would like to meet with our technology teacher and design the survey around the NETS-S . By doing this, I could gain a more accurate response as to where my students are in terms of their technology use, understanding and digital citizenship.
I think that the GAME Plan is an excellent model to use in the classroom with my students. Even at the elementary level, students must understand what it means to set realistic goals, take proper action, monitor progress and evaluate the overall process. Students can apply this process to just about any content area when working on a long term project or research assignment. The GAME Plan provides students with a clear understanding in terms of their own personal ideas and allows them to progress toward their goal in a constructive manner. I plan on using this method in the future with my students to demonstrate organization, management and an overall simplistic way to accomplish a task.
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Rachael,
ReplyDeleteYou make a very good point when you say it's important for our students to understand what it means to set realistic goals. So many of our students don't know how to do this. If we teach them to follow the GAME plan when they are creating projects, completing assignmments or doing research, they will a better understand of the concept being taught.
I like the idea of using the plan to help with organization and magagement. That seems to be an area where most students struggle. In fifth grade we work extremely hard to get our students organized so that when they move on to middle school they will be prepared.
Gayla,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you. Our fifth graders lack so many skills involved with organization. I worry that when they go to middle school and even high school that they will get lost in the shuffle and there will be no one to help dig them out. I do my best to instill organizational strategies in my students and teach them the value of taking ownership over their projects and ideas as well. I plan on using the GAME plan in several of my upcoming projects to see if it helps my students perform better and gain a better understanding of the objective.