As the course ends, it is interesting to look back on what I learned as a result. I found this course to be interesting and very practical for the upcoming school year. I liked the process of working through the unit plan and the process that needs to be used when researching information on the Internet.
The most striking revelation that I had about teaching new literacy skills to my students is that they need even more guidance when starting a research project. I have always had trouble when conducting inquiry projects because they just do not seem to find appropriate information. I realized that I need to be more purposeful in teaching my students skills for searching and decoding the information that they find.
The knowledge and experience that I gained through my course work will definitely have an impact on my teaching this year, and in years to come. I intend to follow the lessons that I put together for my lesson plan to ensure that, by the time my students leave my classroom, they are equipped with all the skills they need to conduct an inquiry project independently.
One professional development goal that I would like to pursue that will build on my learning in this course, and develop my own information literacy/technology skills is that I would like to develop information that I can pass on to my colleagues to teach their students the necessary skills. I will have to continue reading books like the texts of this course. I will have to figure out how I can share this information with my colleagues in a way that will be “user-friendly”, especially for those who are more technologically challenged. And I will have to continue to search the Internet for valuable resources that I can use towards this. I think that this goal is attainable, and as I work to further develop my own learning, that will reinforce it for me also.
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