After examining the National Education Standards for Students (NETS-S) I can see how important my job is to help guide students into finding topics to research and projects that are meaningful to students. I think once this is accomplished students will have a more vested interest in their learning and will be more likely to accomplish the goals outlined in these standards.
Much like the way I approached the National Education Standards for Teachers (NETS-T), I will teach my students to develop a GAME plan to help them accomplish their goals. Students will begin by focusing on a few key goals and develop ways in which they plan to reach them. As they work through their goals they will have to make adjustments and changes to help them meet the final goals. In the end, students will have to reflect on what they have accomplished and decide how it helped them become better students. They will also look ahead to the future and assess how it will help them be more successful in the real world.
Students and teachers use the GAME plan every day whether that is what they call it or not. I think pointing out to students the steps that they can use will help them reach all kinds of goals, including those that involve technology.
Giving your students more responsibility for their learning does aid in the amount of material they master. It also helps with motivation. Getting your students to reflect upon their work - what went well, what did not - is also productive.
ReplyDeleteI have also learned how important it is for us to teach our students the NETS-S standards. Modeling for them how to make their own game plan is a wonderful idea and something I'm sure they will find to be very helpful!
ReplyDeleteYou are right. We all use the GAME plan mostly likely every day in some aspect. Once we point this out to students, and they become aware, they will become more productive students!
ReplyDeleteI have found one of the most difficult (or frustrating) parts of the GAME plan process is that, as you mentioned, we already do this on a daily basis. It seems that there are so many different names for the same things that we sometimes confuse ourselves and even our students. The important thing is that we challenge our students to set goals and make a plan to reach those goals as you described.
ReplyDeleteYour exactly right, as teachers we do majority of things already and we really do not realize but we are doing some parts. We just have to continue to challenge or students day in and day out. Pointing it out to our kids will show them wow, we really already do much of this already.
ReplyDeleteHi Carrie,
ReplyDeleteI think that is so true. The GAME plan is grounded in problem solving--the approaches in the GAME plan parallel effective strategy making for problems and goals. Having a GAME Plan is place just articulates the steps that will most likely lead to the outcome we wish to see.
Thanks for sharing.
Susan