Describe/discuss how your PLC meetings and your learning, influenced your practice? Please provide specific examples related to what you learned when you presented your own practice, as well as what you learned when your colleagues shared their practice.
Our PLC group has influenced my practice by making me aware of the focus areas to improve my practice. As I compiled my information, I realized I should have varied my assignments and given the self-check part of the assignment to the inclusion class only. The other students felt it was not challenging for them. When I am being videotaped, I feel uncomfortable and I have a hard time remembering. I also tend to say “so” when I am being taped; my goal is to decrease this. Therefore, I have been videotaping more often, so I can become more at ease, as well as the students. I had a terrible time transferring my videos from my iPad and had to video the iPad with my …show more content…
The dialogue assignment forced my students to have a productive conversation with each other. The second class seemed to enjoy the discussion after a few minutes. They had several discussion points while trying to decipher the information; this increased the student’s thinking, engagement, and interactions. Since this assignement I have had similar dialogue with the students and learned to start the conversation and step back to permit the students to fully engage in the discussion. The analyzing of the student work primarily gave me ways to change. The outcome would be providing higher quality assignments to the general education classes and only using the self-check for the inclusion. Hopefully, this would have a positive influence on student