Final Thoughts

 My Final Thought:

Overall I enjoyed this process and really feel it benefited my teaching team and students.  Parts that felt overwhelming were getting started or not having time to do it the way I wanted.  I noticed that while going through my PoP I caught myself walking through the design process over and over again.  I think this helped me to be able to put this project together.  I was able to have the time to process and look at the goal in different ways, then come back to it and make adjustments I had thought of.  

I wish that I was able to look at all my teaching in this manner but time is too valuable.  What I will be doing is looking to see where my biggest issues are for groups or individuals and use this process to create solutions like I did with my problem of feedback with the students this year.  I really enjoyed having built a way to teach to my class’s needs.  I see and felt the value of involving them in the planning and creating of this lesson and project.  I still can’t believe that I was able to identify what the problem was, why it was happening, create a plan to fix it, and get the majority of the students to have a positive experience with it.


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