Professional+Development

Professional Development Be a better teacher, everyday.

**ISTE NETS-T Standard**

Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity

**Current Abilities** - I have a degree in the field of Social Studies Education, with a minor in Psychology. For years I have fostered a love for teaching and specifically for history.

**Need** //– Why is there a need to develop in this area? As far as history in general, we are adding to history with everyday-// and there is a whole new world to learn and analyze.

**Goal** To broaden the students horizon and approach history as though it was happening right now- as if you are watching a movie for the first time and you want to remember everything about it- we want to dive into the past and find out as much as we can.

** Short Term Plan ** In this class I hope to challenge my students and myself, to first and foremost- ask questions. Understand where the information is coming from, who said it? Why did they say it? Why should we trust them? what gives them the right to tell us what happened two hundred years ago? these are the big questions and ones that I cannot wait to open up to discussion.

**Long Term Plan** When asking questions we want to explore the who, what, when, and why. In a long term plan I want to see that students can find the questions and discover the answer on their own. For this school year, we will explore the subjects at hand, while making sure we are learning about the present as it will be affecting our futures.

**Assessment** As the year progresses. I will be basing the students progress on their academic achievements within my class, and their class participation. Some students test better than others, and I plan to include this in my assessment of their abilities, and what they have learned or not learned in class.

Reflection  Through this class and the class that was created here I feel there have been credible ways in which I have covered the short term goals. As explored within this site there are numerous resources where the areas of history can be explored and researched further. There are ares in history where you really have to dig deep to see how they can apply to current situations. Even Seeing resources through the History channel could be used in the classroom to bring an air of technology to the study of history I am excited to see how these different resources can be used in a different way. The long term goals have a lot to do with application. I think through the implementation of the short term goals the long term goals would be drawing organically from that. Students can gain so much from their research capabilities, and I am really looked forward to seeing their research hearts grow. There is so much to be gained from the ability to really research things to the best possible standards. Also, I feel that when students dig deeper into the ideas of history and see where their interests take them there is a lot to be gained by how much they can learn through the appropriate channels. I have no idea what kind of a future classroom I will be blessed with. I can hope that it is a classroom with technology to use all of these techniques to the best of their ability. But when it comes down to it I am there to teacher, and part of that is an entertainment value to keep the students engaged. There is so much about teaching I cannot possibly expect to learn by simply being a student. There is such an experience factor that is included in these profession that I feel my understanding of teaching will grow exponentially during my first year. I think the best thing I can hope for is just to be as prepared as I possibly can, and realize that I need to be a student and learn from my surrounding, my students, and teachers who have gone before me.