Week Seven: Sharing Success
If you are taking the course
for 2 graduate credits from Fitchburg State College, you will need to complete
an additional out of class assignment.
Your assignment is to write a reflection paper about the course using the questions
below as a guide. Your paper should be not less than two (2) or greater than
three (3) pages in length. This assignment must be emailed as an attachment
to the instructor, Bob Tucker, no more than 14 days after the date of the last
face to face class. The instructor email is: tuckerb@mespa.org
Use 1” margins, single space, save in Word (.doc) or text (.txt) format
You have just completed a seven week hybrid course learning how to design
activities that follow research-based curriculum design principles. You also
investigated how the use of curriculum mapping might help you make better informed
curriculum decisions. Write a reflection paper following the guidelines above
and answering the following questions:
What activities during the past seven weeks, if any, have changed the way you think about and prepare to work with students? Elaborate on the reasons for your answer(s).
What conditions exist where you work that might help you in changing your teaching methods? What conditions do you see as barriers to making these changes?
This course was purposely designed as a hybrid model –using both face to face and online activities. Do you feel this was the best method to teach this course? Explain. Specially address what you see as the strengths and weaknesses of this approach.