Reflections of graduate course work

Write brief Reflections and Status Report of your technology skills and knowledge gained in this course, your progress with your Campus-Supervised Internship Activities, and your progress with your Action Research Project.

In reflection of this course, I felt as though the discussion board topics and videos were the things I gained the most new knowledge from. I had a strong prior knowledge of the majority of the activities and lessons that we completed in this course. We had been asked to study our use of technology in the classroom in many ways in many of our earlier courses. Because those courses prepared us so well, I felt as though the activities in this course could’ve gone even a step further in exploring and using technology. I enjoyed the team collaboration in this course, and found my experience to be very successful.

I have almost completed all of my campus-supervised internship activities. I have 5 remaining activities to complete, and should be able to finish those within the first six weeks of school. The internship activities have been so helpful, and I feel like I have gained so much more knowledge and insight into the world of administration. I think these experiences have definitely helped me feel more confident in my skills to become an administrator. The remaining activities and my written reflections of each activity are the only things remaining in order to complete my campus-supervised internship.

My action research project is almost complete. At the end of the school year last year, the results and final data were collected in order to assess the success of the action research. Our campus implemented the use of CoreWorks software, and had each team accomplish the four critical actions assigned by the diagnostic software. In response to these critical actions, we were looking to see if there were direct effects on raising the level of state assessment improvement for our campus. In conclusion to this action research, there was an improvement in state assessment scores for our campus, and directly for the team that I examined for action research. I have not been informed if our campus will continue to employ the CoreWorks diagnostic software again this upcoming school year.