Journey Summary
This session is a time to celebrate and reflect on your participation in eMINTS Professional Learning! What have you learned, how have you changed, and how will you continue your learning into the future? You will present your final “My eMINTS Journey” digital story sharing your collected teaching artifacts and student products. Your peers will also provide feedback for your presentation.
Curriculum-framing Questions
Essential Question
- What is the essence of your journey?
Unit Questions
- What did you learn from your journey?
- How might your journey impact others?
- How might sharing your story help others?
Content Questions
- What is the best way to share a learning experience with others?
- What aspects of your journey brought you the most growth?
- What is a goal you have to continue your growth as a teacher and a learner?
Introduction
Experiences in life are often thought of as unrelated events when in reality they are learning opportunities. Growth happens when we take time to reflect and make connections. Growing and learning through reflection involves gathering, processing, evaluating, and applying what we learned in one situation to other contexts. Through this reflective process, we can learn and transfer that learning to future experiences. The practice of reflection also applies to teaching. As teachers, we learn to reflect on our lesson strategies and behaviors, as we can adjust our teaching practices to be proactive and meet the needs of learners.
Theory Behind Practice
All eMINTS materials are grounded in research-based best practices in K-12 education.
Digging Deeper
Agenda
- Before: Reflection on Practice
- Opener: Our eMINTS Journey
- Our Digital Journey
- Where Our Journey Leads
- Celebrate Your Success
- Closer: Tell Me… Without Telling Me
Classroom Visit w/Students
Consider sharing your reflective presentation with your students and encourage them to reflect over their year of learning in your classroom. Ask your facilitator to assist as students prepare equipment for summer storage.
Classroom Visit w/out Students
Your facilitator might assist you in preparing equipment for summertime storage and planning for passing out equipment for the next year.
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