What theory, discussion and/or application from this course most impacts your ongoing action research project?
After much thought, I feel that the most important concept taught from this course that most impacts my ongoing action research project is the integration of Backwards Design and establishing Essential Questions. Each of these concepts has helped me to further understand the lesson planning process, while also effectively implementing lessons.
Backwards Design is a lesson planning concept in which you design the lesson from the end. You focus on the end result or target of your lesson, and create your lesson(s) around that focus. Most of these "end results" are formed by the State Content Standards. I used the Backwards Design motif with the creation of my technology club. I created my technology club around the idea that students would learn new technological equipment and using it will create a brochure and video highlighting the important places for kids in our valley. Each lesson was then designed around achieving the big goal of the brochure and video.
Establishing Essential Questions was another one of the targets for my technology club! An essential question is a question that "lies at the heart of a subject or a curriculum, and promotes inquiry of a subject" (Wiggins & McTighe, 342). Each of my lessons is developed around an essential question in which the students partake in learning adventures to solve. They use all of the available technologies to them to complete each mission.
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