Surveys in the Classroom, Blog Inspiration, and New Skills!

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 Hi everyone!! Welcome back to my blog!!

    This week's new concept was data collection through surveys! I think this is a super important part of teacher, as you constantly need feedback to know how to improve yourself to become the best version you can possibly be. Surveys in the classroom can be used to gain feedback from your students, or to even have class polls and votes on what the majority would like to do (for example: no homework Fridays!! Or which day should we have the test?) I will definitely be using surveys in my future classroom with my elementary school kids. I think I would like to teach second grade, so in this instance I would use surveys to have votes on what fun activities we can do on Fridays and what review games we can play to study for tests! I would definitely try my best to make it as fun as possible so everyone feels inclined to vote!

    I have looked around a lot at other people's blogs and I absolutely love what everyone has done! I have seen so much creativity and lots of beautiful aesthetics, so much so that some people inspired me to change some aspects about my own blog and how it looks back in the beginning of the semester. I have definitely learned quite a few things from other people, such as many new PLNs that I had never heard of, as well as OERs. I loved reading about other people's findings on these topics!

    I think a new skill I would like to learn now is maybe how to create fun lessons! I would like to learn how to format lesson plans so they are fun to look at and easily shareable. I would also like to learn how to properly create tests and quizzes; specifically adequate spacing so nothing is all too crammed! There's so many aspects to teaching that use lots of creativity and skill, of which I hope to learn more of throughout the years!!

I'm so sad that this is my last blog post for this class, but I loved posting on here this whole semester! Until my next blog, when I'm an official teacher, I must say a bittersweet farewell! Thank you for reading all my blogs!! <3

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  1. OmerMarch 28, 2021 at 9:42 AM

    I liked the idea of using surveys for crowdsourcing purposes. Getting some ideas from the students would be awesome to design some of the classroom activities. I also learned a lot from following others blogs and started to follow many resources on Twitter. I agree that there's so many aspects to teaching and you're already doing a great job with that.

    Thank you so much for sharing lots of interesting perspectives and experiences along the way (I'm still curious about how teachers integrate game based learning - Minecraft into learning processes though). :)

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