Friday, July 2, 2010
Monday, June 14, 2010
Monday, May 31, 2010
CEP 800 Podcast
I had a difficult time coming up with a topic to do for my interview. I kept debating on my topic. Finally I wanted to look at the differences from my students compared to an educator and a parent. There is such a push for MEAP testing and successfully MEAP testing due to AYP, I wanted to look at how much people really know about Michigan's History. I randomly chose one of my students to interview. She was fairly successful with her answering of my questions. She summarized to the best of her ability. When it comes time for her to take the 6th grade Social Studies MEAP test I'm still not sure how successful she will be.
My students will move onto the fourth grade and begin their social studies learning where the third grade teachers left off. There will be a little recalling, but not much due to the fact that those fourth grade teachers need to move forward to make sure that they finish their own standards. After fourth they move onto fifth grade and the process is still the same...a little recall and then moving on.
The students enter sixth grade and they are expected to take the Social Studies MEAP test and be able to recall that information that they learned from 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade. Questions are on the test dealing with important events that happened in early Michigan's History.
I interviewed a educator, one who has a history background. This failed miserably. Even though she had a history minor I had forgotten that she was from another state. She wasn't able to give me very much information and it wasn't as successful as I had thought that it had been.
My last interview was of a man that has lived in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and who is older. Based on the information that he had remember I doubt that he would be successful on the MEAP test. After the interview we talked for a very long time about Michigan's History. He didn't remember most of the information that I had told him about and he was a little surprised by that.
It makes me wonder how successful standardized tests are when the information that the students are learning is so spread out. If they miss one little piece of information then that could affect a lot of the answers to the MEAP questions. It also makes me wonder if the strategies that the teachers of Michigan are as successful as we all think they are. I definitely use operant conditioning in my classroom, I use fake money as positive reinforcements. My school is having problems with the success of the 6th grade students in the Social Studies aspect of the MEAP. In fact, we are making up a special class in the Kindergarten through 5th grade that is all about Social Studies to help shrink that failure rate in 6th grade.
I guess the question I was hoping to have answered was, "Is what students learn in social studies in 3rd grade vital for them to become functioning members of society?"
My students will move onto the fourth grade and begin their social studies learning where the third grade teachers left off. There will be a little recalling, but not much due to the fact that those fourth grade teachers need to move forward to make sure that they finish their own standards. After fourth they move onto fifth grade and the process is still the same...a little recall and then moving on.
The students enter sixth grade and they are expected to take the Social Studies MEAP test and be able to recall that information that they learned from 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade. Questions are on the test dealing with important events that happened in early Michigan's History.
I interviewed a educator, one who has a history background. This failed miserably. Even though she had a history minor I had forgotten that she was from another state. She wasn't able to give me very much information and it wasn't as successful as I had thought that it had been.
My last interview was of a man that has lived in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and who is older. Based on the information that he had remember I doubt that he would be successful on the MEAP test. After the interview we talked for a very long time about Michigan's History. He didn't remember most of the information that I had told him about and he was a little surprised by that.
It makes me wonder how successful standardized tests are when the information that the students are learning is so spread out. If they miss one little piece of information then that could affect a lot of the answers to the MEAP questions. It also makes me wonder if the strategies that the teachers of Michigan are as successful as we all think they are. I definitely use operant conditioning in my classroom, I use fake money as positive reinforcements. My school is having problems with the success of the 6th grade students in the Social Studies aspect of the MEAP. In fact, we are making up a special class in the Kindergarten through 5th grade that is all about Social Studies to help shrink that failure rate in 6th grade.
I guess the question I was hoping to have answered was, "Is what students learn in social studies in 3rd grade vital for them to become functioning members of society?"
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Reflection- CEP 812
I believe that one of the most important concepts that I have learned in this class as well as 810 and 811 is to have a purpose of using technology, not to just use it for the sake of using it. I believe that this idea is why some older teachers can't wrap their heads around the idea of using technology. They can't think of problems within their room where technology can help. They have used all of their other tricks to help in these problem areas in the past. Why would they need to learn about technology when they have been successful with their jobs in the years that they have been teaching?
It's important for me to remember that there is so much technology out there, all I have to do is search for it. Having easy access is one positive for technology, but making sure that it is cohesive to the students learning is an area to be concerned about. It's important for a teacher to make sure that sites that they have found are school appropriate, age appropriate, and will benefit their student's learning rather than becoming a hindrance. "The new technologies provide opportunities for creating learning environments that extend the possibilities of "old". (Bransford Article) Technology makes it possible for students to learn by doing, build upon previous knowledge, refine their understand, and receive feedback, these ideas all build upon their education and help them to become better learners (Bransford Article).
My personal goals were simple...learn more about technology and how I could integrate it into the classroom to provide my students with a great learning environment where they would be successful. I believe that I have met that goal. This was my first year of teaching where I had taken CEP classes and was able to take those ideas that I have learned and incorporate them into my students environment.
I still have a personal goal of creating a website where my students would participate in a reading challenge. This technology would allow students to take tests on books that they had read as well as tally their points earned from their books and add their points to their team points. This website would have my students in groups that would be racing towards a goal, which team would get there the fastest. Reading becomes a mundane subject in school and I think that a website like this would encourage my students as well as give them some pride on what their groups were accomplishing. Of course the winners would be rewarded with something little and once the goal was met the groups would be redefined. This is a long term goal that I eventually hope to reach.
It's important for me to remember that there is so much technology out there, all I have to do is search for it. Having easy access is one positive for technology, but making sure that it is cohesive to the students learning is an area to be concerned about. It's important for a teacher to make sure that sites that they have found are school appropriate, age appropriate, and will benefit their student's learning rather than becoming a hindrance. "The new technologies provide opportunities for creating learning environments that extend the possibilities of "old". (Bransford Article) Technology makes it possible for students to learn by doing, build upon previous knowledge, refine their understand, and receive feedback, these ideas all build upon their education and help them to become better learners (Bransford Article).
My personal goals were simple...learn more about technology and how I could integrate it into the classroom to provide my students with a great learning environment where they would be successful. I believe that I have met that goal. This was my first year of teaching where I had taken CEP classes and was able to take those ideas that I have learned and incorporate them into my students environment.
I still have a personal goal of creating a website where my students would participate in a reading challenge. This technology would allow students to take tests on books that they had read as well as tally their points earned from their books and add their points to their team points. This website would have my students in groups that would be racing towards a goal, which team would get there the fastest. Reading becomes a mundane subject in school and I think that a website like this would encourage my students as well as give them some pride on what their groups were accomplishing. Of course the winners would be rewarded with something little and once the goal was met the groups would be redefined. This is a long term goal that I eventually hope to reach.
TechQuest Project Evaluation
With the year winding down my TechQuest project will also be coming to an end soon. The kids in North Carolina take their version of the MEAP at the end of the year. In speaking with my colleague I know that she wants to end the blogging earlier than the school year ending so that she has time to work on her end of the year test.
I believe that this activity went really well for myself as well as my students. We were able to use the N.C. student's blog to evaluate their use of the writing process as well as learn new information from those students that we may not have had a chance to learn. For example, my students know now what the natural resources are in North Carolina.
Going into this project I thought that I would assign the blogging topics to my students, but as we were working on the blogs it seemed more natural for them to come up with topics themselves. They work collaboratively every Thursday morning and create a list of about 7 topics that they would like to blog about that day. They don't have to use everything from the list but I do want them to use the list as a guide.
I also started to, randomly, assign a topic that was mandatory. It's an easy assessment for them to accomplish within their blogs. If they don't remember the topic then they take out their books and they re-read on that topic. That has turned out to be a great research and learning opportunity for my students. As I reflect on my blogging experiment, I realized that there aren't many areas that I would change within my project. This is due to the fact that I changed them already while we were working on the project. One area that I would change is how I choose the students who get to blog. I don't like the idea that only one gets to blog at a time. I worry with the classes that will be coming into my room, would that choice work for the next class? I don't think that it will always work the way it did this year.
I think the most important lesson I learned in this experiment was to have the students as involved as possible. They get so excited about having ownership over their blogs. They like the fact that they get to pick their topics and it's never a fight to get them to challenge themselves in writing more paragraphs. I believe this is due to fact that they are involved in the topic process. It's also important for others to understand that my students got so excited when it was time to blog. They liked the process of it and they liked to be learners of the N.C. students and be teachers to them as well.
I will be putting blogging into my classroom for next year. I will be keeping in contact with my friend in North Carolina and I will be branching out and finding another teacher whom we can start another blog with. I am hoping to add a blog a year until I have about four blogs so that my students can be put into groups to blog. This is a little scary for me to think about and it's exciting at the same time. I really feel that my students improved their writing skills this year as well as learning how to add more detail into their writing. I hope that they can retain that information to help them on their 4th grade writing MEAP.
I believe that this activity went really well for myself as well as my students. We were able to use the N.C. student's blog to evaluate their use of the writing process as well as learn new information from those students that we may not have had a chance to learn. For example, my students know now what the natural resources are in North Carolina.
Going into this project I thought that I would assign the blogging topics to my students, but as we were working on the blogs it seemed more natural for them to come up with topics themselves. They work collaboratively every Thursday morning and create a list of about 7 topics that they would like to blog about that day. They don't have to use everything from the list but I do want them to use the list as a guide.
I also started to, randomly, assign a topic that was mandatory. It's an easy assessment for them to accomplish within their blogs. If they don't remember the topic then they take out their books and they re-read on that topic. That has turned out to be a great research and learning opportunity for my students. As I reflect on my blogging experiment, I realized that there aren't many areas that I would change within my project. This is due to the fact that I changed them already while we were working on the project. One area that I would change is how I choose the students who get to blog. I don't like the idea that only one gets to blog at a time. I worry with the classes that will be coming into my room, would that choice work for the next class? I don't think that it will always work the way it did this year.
I think the most important lesson I learned in this experiment was to have the students as involved as possible. They get so excited about having ownership over their blogs. They like the fact that they get to pick their topics and it's never a fight to get them to challenge themselves in writing more paragraphs. I believe this is due to fact that they are involved in the topic process. It's also important for others to understand that my students got so excited when it was time to blog. They liked the process of it and they liked to be learners of the N.C. students and be teachers to them as well.
I will be putting blogging into my classroom for next year. I will be keeping in contact with my friend in North Carolina and I will be branching out and finding another teacher whom we can start another blog with. I am hoping to add a blog a year until I have about four blogs so that my students can be put into groups to blog. This is a little scary for me to think about and it's exciting at the same time. I really feel that my students improved their writing skills this year as well as learning how to add more detail into their writing. I hope that they can retain that information to help them on their 4th grade writing MEAP.
Monday, April 19, 2010
TechQuest Implementation
Podcast of my the implementation of my TechQuest: Blogging for the writing process
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Internet Research for TechQuest Project
It was surprisingly easy to find Internet research to support my TechQuest idea. 1. Teaching Technology Today http://www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday/educationupclose.phtml/47 is a helpful website because it explains what a blog is for those that do not know. It also explains some of the 'blogging' terminology. It explains some educational benefits for using blogs within the classroom i.e. Highly motivating to students. It explains that a blog can be used as an educational tool and that blogs can serve four basic functions: Class Management, Collaboration, Discussions, and Student Portfolios. This article was written by an educator that had 22 years experience within the classroom.
2. Why let our students blog? Rachel Boyd, New Zealand. This is a YouTube video that is just over 2 minutes long and gives short snippets of why we as educators should let our students blog.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whm3pxqkvB8 This is a video that shows photographs of young children using the computer and has words come up explaining why it is important to let our students blog, words like; communication, literacy, sharing, ownership and engagement.
3. The Edublogger http://theedublogger.com/about/getting-started-with-edublogs is a great website for those teachers that are interested in blogging but they are not quite sure of how or where to get started. It shows how to get started and what to do if you are in need of help. As well as supplying sites about using blogs with students.
4. Blogging? It's Elementary, My Dear Watson http://www.nea.org/tools/EW-Blogging-Its-Elementary-My%20Dear-Watson.html is an article through the NEA, National Education Association. This article is not just for blogging but for elementary blogging. It gives safety tips on elementary students using a blog through their school.
There are a few ideas that are prevalent throughout these sites that I found on blogs. Blogs help students, especially elementary students, hone their writing skills. It makes writing exciting and different. The students get a change of pace with their audience and this idea gets them motivated and engaged.
I used Yahoo as my search engine. I searched more than once and used different terminology each time I searched. I think that it would be very easy for a teacher interested in blogging to find websites that would be beneficial to them. Blogging is a very hot topic right now. I would like to use some of the websites that I read about in the Valenza article to expand my search.
A good portion of the websites I found were of people's personal experiences as well as ideas of how to blog, these are helpful to those teachers looking to blog for the first time.
I did find that the sites I found solidified my thoughts on blogs as well as what I learned about blogs in CEP 811. Blogs are helpful to students of all ages as long as they are used to expand on education and not used just for the purpose of using technology.
2. Why let our students blog? Rachel Boyd, New Zealand. This is a YouTube video that is just over 2 minutes long and gives short snippets of why we as educators should let our students blog.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whm3pxqkvB8 This is a video that shows photographs of young children using the computer and has words come up explaining why it is important to let our students blog, words like; communication, literacy, sharing, ownership and engagement.
3. The Edublogger http://theedublogger.com/about/getting-started-with-edublogs is a great website for those teachers that are interested in blogging but they are not quite sure of how or where to get started. It shows how to get started and what to do if you are in need of help. As well as supplying sites about using blogs with students.
4. Blogging? It's Elementary, My Dear Watson http://www.nea.org/tools/EW-Blogging-Its-Elementary-My%20Dear-Watson.html is an article through the NEA, National Education Association. This article is not just for blogging but for elementary blogging. It gives safety tips on elementary students using a blog through their school.
There are a few ideas that are prevalent throughout these sites that I found on blogs. Blogs help students, especially elementary students, hone their writing skills. It makes writing exciting and different. The students get a change of pace with their audience and this idea gets them motivated and engaged.
I used Yahoo as my search engine. I searched more than once and used different terminology each time I searched. I think that it would be very easy for a teacher interested in blogging to find websites that would be beneficial to them. Blogging is a very hot topic right now. I would like to use some of the websites that I read about in the Valenza article to expand my search.
A good portion of the websites I found were of people's personal experiences as well as ideas of how to blog, these are helpful to those teachers looking to blog for the first time.
I did find that the sites I found solidified my thoughts on blogs as well as what I learned about blogs in CEP 811. Blogs are helpful to students of all ages as long as they are used to expand on education and not used just for the purpose of using technology.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
TechQuest Draft 1
Stiverson-Project Description 4/7/10
There is such a push for success that is associated with the MEAP, we bar our percentage of success on the MEAP dealing with No Child Left Behind. Our third graders are expected to come in get associated with their teacher, their teacher's rules, the classroom, and how the teacher runs the classroom, and to get started with the first steps to working toward the MEAP all within the first few weeks.When I started teaching third grade, three years ago, I had to prepare my students to take the writing section. I was very concerned with their success, I couldn't help them answer any questions and I couldn't use my coin phrases on them; "Did you check your work? Did you make sure you used complete sentences? Did you answer the question?" Those third graders did the best they could with what skills they were taught.The second year I taught third grade we didn't have to complete the writing selection that was saved for fourth grade. I was very concerned with my students from that year, did I teach them well enough to have them be able to complete that writing selections. Did I "allocate most of the available time to activities designed to accomplish instructional goals" (Brophy article). Were they going to success?My school uses "America's Choice" as our writing curriculum. I have found that there are holes within this curriculum, but I have yet to find the time where I would be able to fill those holes with appropriate supplementation for my students. My main concern was their ability to take one of their writing pieces through the writing process in a timely manner. We work on a writing piece, i.e. narrative, memoir, report (informational), and poetry for weeks to get it polished enough to become a final draft. My students are working on their piece for weeks; during that time I am teaching them lessons on strategies to add to their piece, we are having peer conferences, as well as teacher conferences. To be honest by the time the piece is read y for the final draft I am tired of listening to it because I have listened to it for so long and my students are tired of working on it because it takes so long. Keeping this in mind I wanted to come up with an idea of how I could keep my students interested in their writing piece to take it quickly through the writing process. I wanted them to use the writing process on the MEAP.This past summer I took CEP 811 where I learned about blogging. I decided that I would love to be able to use a blog to help my students learn to take a piece through the writing process, conference using other students' pieces, and to make sure that when they are writing they add enough detail to make the reader understand and be able to picture what they are talking about. I have a college friend that ended up going to North Carolina to teach, she teaches third grade. I spoke with her about the idea of blogging; I had to talk her into it. We experimented with blogging between us and we decided what day we would work on it and we each set it up so it was tailed to our individual classroom.My students blog every Thursday. "Practice is one of the most important yet least appreciated aspects of learning in classrooms. Little or no practice may be needed for simple behaviors such as pronouncing words, but practice becomes more important as learning becomes complex. Successful practice involves polishing skills that are already established at rudimentary levels in order to make them smoother, more efficient and more automatic, and not trying to establish such skills through trial and error." (Brophy article) This was what I was concerned about with my students. We work on the writing process starting in Kindergarten and yet they never were given opportunities to up the anti with the process.
Below are three research sites that I found on-line to support the benefit of using blogging within the classroom. The information under each site is a snippet of information from the article.
Research:-Education World http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech217.shtml “Blogs, because of their ease of use, and because of the context of news and editorial column writing, have become a highly effective way to help students to become better writers. Research has long shown that students write more, write in greater detail, and take greater care with spelling, grammar, and punctuation, when they are writing to an authentic audience over the Internet.”
-Love to Know-Social Networking http://socialnetworking.lovetoknow.com/Educational_Blogs_for_Elementary_Students “Blogging can help students improve their writing skills, and can help them understand why learning to write is so important. While educational blogging is still in its early stages, some evidence suggests an increased interest on the part of participating students in the quality of their writing. This is attributed to the fact that the students' work will be published online and viewed by more people than just their teacher.”
-Teaching Today http://www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday/educationupclose.phtml/47 “In addition to providing teachers with an excellent tool for communicating with students, there are numerous educational benefits of blogs. Blogs are:
Highly motivating to students, especially those who otherwise might not become participants in classrooms.
Excellent opportunities for students to read and write.
Effective forums for collaboration and discussion.
Powerful tools to enable scaffold learning or mentoring to occur”
4 common places of education:
Someone teaching-I will continue to teach my students about the writing process and all the steps that go with the writing process
Someone learning-My students will be learning about the writing process, learning how to write letters, write paragraphs, as well as learn to type in a blog with their final drafts.
Some subject matter-The blog will be used as an extension of the writing process. I want to use it as something that encourages them to use the writing process quicker and more realistically than just using our writing program.
In some setting-This idea will be incorporated into my students “off” day. This is a day where we get an extra special and go to the library. Our time in our classroom is less than a normal day. We will use this day to do our blogging. The students will get come up with their blogging topics in the beginning of the day and will use the first half hour to, hopefully, get their first draft completed. The next section of the day will be used to work on revision, peer revision conferences, editing, and peer editing conferences. This will lead them into the final drafts of their blogs. Every student will be expected to take their blog to the final draft stage.
This project was implemented after the first two semesters of school. This gave me time to work on MEAP prep and MEAPs and it gave me time to establish my classroom rules and routines. It also gave me time to talk my friend into the idea of blogging and give us time to blog to each other so that she felt a little bit more comfortable with the blogging concept.
This TechQuest will be evaluated at the end of the year to see if it was truly a benefit to my students. I’m also going to speak with the fourth grade teachers next year and see if there is a difference between my students work that year and previous years. If this project was a success I would like to continue using it in years to come. I would continue to use it to improve my students’ writing process skills.
There is such a push for success that is associated with the MEAP, we bar our percentage of success on the MEAP dealing with No Child Left Behind. Our third graders are expected to come in get associated with their teacher, their teacher's rules, the classroom, and how the teacher runs the classroom, and to get started with the first steps to working toward the MEAP all within the first few weeks.When I started teaching third grade, three years ago, I had to prepare my students to take the writing section. I was very concerned with their success, I couldn't help them answer any questions and I couldn't use my coin phrases on them; "Did you check your work? Did you make sure you used complete sentences? Did you answer the question?" Those third graders did the best they could with what skills they were taught.The second year I taught third grade we didn't have to complete the writing selection that was saved for fourth grade. I was very concerned with my students from that year, did I teach them well enough to have them be able to complete that writing selections. Did I "allocate most of the available time to activities designed to accomplish instructional goals" (Brophy article). Were they going to success?My school uses "America's Choice" as our writing curriculum. I have found that there are holes within this curriculum, but I have yet to find the time where I would be able to fill those holes with appropriate supplementation for my students. My main concern was their ability to take one of their writing pieces through the writing process in a timely manner. We work on a writing piece, i.e. narrative, memoir, report (informational), and poetry for weeks to get it polished enough to become a final draft. My students are working on their piece for weeks; during that time I am teaching them lessons on strategies to add to their piece, we are having peer conferences, as well as teacher conferences. To be honest by the time the piece is read y for the final draft I am tired of listening to it because I have listened to it for so long and my students are tired of working on it because it takes so long. Keeping this in mind I wanted to come up with an idea of how I could keep my students interested in their writing piece to take it quickly through the writing process. I wanted them to use the writing process on the MEAP.This past summer I took CEP 811 where I learned about blogging. I decided that I would love to be able to use a blog to help my students learn to take a piece through the writing process, conference using other students' pieces, and to make sure that when they are writing they add enough detail to make the reader understand and be able to picture what they are talking about. I have a college friend that ended up going to North Carolina to teach, she teaches third grade. I spoke with her about the idea of blogging; I had to talk her into it. We experimented with blogging between us and we decided what day we would work on it and we each set it up so it was tailed to our individual classroom.My students blog every Thursday. "Practice is one of the most important yet least appreciated aspects of learning in classrooms. Little or no practice may be needed for simple behaviors such as pronouncing words, but practice becomes more important as learning becomes complex. Successful practice involves polishing skills that are already established at rudimentary levels in order to make them smoother, more efficient and more automatic, and not trying to establish such skills through trial and error." (Brophy article) This was what I was concerned about with my students. We work on the writing process starting in Kindergarten and yet they never were given opportunities to up the anti with the process.
Below are three research sites that I found on-line to support the benefit of using blogging within the classroom. The information under each site is a snippet of information from the article.
Research:-Education World http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech217.shtml “Blogs, because of their ease of use, and because of the context of news and editorial column writing, have become a highly effective way to help students to become better writers. Research has long shown that students write more, write in greater detail, and take greater care with spelling, grammar, and punctuation, when they are writing to an authentic audience over the Internet.”
-Love to Know-Social Networking http://socialnetworking.lovetoknow.com/Educational_Blogs_for_Elementary_Students “Blogging can help students improve their writing skills, and can help them understand why learning to write is so important. While educational blogging is still in its early stages, some evidence suggests an increased interest on the part of participating students in the quality of their writing. This is attributed to the fact that the students' work will be published online and viewed by more people than just their teacher.”
-Teaching Today http://www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday/educationupclose.phtml/47 “In addition to providing teachers with an excellent tool for communicating with students, there are numerous educational benefits of blogs. Blogs are:
Highly motivating to students, especially those who otherwise might not become participants in classrooms.
Excellent opportunities for students to read and write.
Effective forums for collaboration and discussion.
Powerful tools to enable scaffold learning or mentoring to occur”
4 common places of education:
Someone teaching-I will continue to teach my students about the writing process and all the steps that go with the writing process
Someone learning-My students will be learning about the writing process, learning how to write letters, write paragraphs, as well as learn to type in a blog with their final drafts.
Some subject matter-The blog will be used as an extension of the writing process. I want to use it as something that encourages them to use the writing process quicker and more realistically than just using our writing program.
In some setting-This idea will be incorporated into my students “off” day. This is a day where we get an extra special and go to the library. Our time in our classroom is less than a normal day. We will use this day to do our blogging. The students will get come up with their blogging topics in the beginning of the day and will use the first half hour to, hopefully, get their first draft completed. The next section of the day will be used to work on revision, peer revision conferences, editing, and peer editing conferences. This will lead them into the final drafts of their blogs. Every student will be expected to take their blog to the final draft stage.
This project was implemented after the first two semesters of school. This gave me time to work on MEAP prep and MEAPs and it gave me time to establish my classroom rules and routines. It also gave me time to talk my friend into the idea of blogging and give us time to blog to each other so that she felt a little bit more comfortable with the blogging concept.
This TechQuest will be evaluated at the end of the year to see if it was truly a benefit to my students. I’m also going to speak with the fourth grade teachers next year and see if there is a difference between my students work that year and previous years. If this project was a success I would like to continue using it in years to come. I would continue to use it to improve my students’ writing process skills.
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