This is an assignment post and a follow-up to a previous post. If I had received critical feedback on my professional goals, I would have revised them, but as it is, I did not receive that feedback this time around. My classmates were too nice!
The questions I included for feedback were:
- How do you choose to participate in your PLNs?
- What professional goals for technology did/would you have set as a new teacher?
My hope was that others’ experiences would be relevant to me and my own practice. Connecting with other teaching professionals through social media is not something I have done in the past, so I feel like at the moment I am a lurker. I wanted to aim to be more active in my PLN, and I had hoped to see how others were engaging (nobody answered the PLN question). Additionally, as an early career teacher, I don’t know what I don’t know.
With the second question, I hoped to see more experienced teachers share what they wish they had worked on early in their careers. I received one interesting reflection on that question from a fellow new teacher, around experimentation and authentic implementation. While I am certainly not perfect in these areas (who is?), I feel like experimentation and risk-taking are professional strengths of mine, and authentic implementation is something I am already actively working on improving in my practice in all areas, not just technology integration.
What worked in this assignment is that these are specific and doable for me given my current situation, and I received feedback to that effect. I kept SMART goals in mind while writing these goals. I received positive feedback on the design elements, which I can’t take too much credit for, since I used a Canva template. No sense reinventing the wheel!