Luke Zollars' Space

      Recently, we have been learning about the creation and extrapolation of surveys. From what I have learned, I have come up with a few ideas on how I can use this in my future classrooms. I can create surveys to collect data on my student's prior knowledge in order to determine how much I will have to cover the basics. To do this, I can list each standard of the class in the survey and have each student answer with a number that corresponds to their understanding. From this, I can then use excel to organize the data and determine the average understanding for each standard. A similar approach could also be used to measure my student's satisfaction with different aspects of the class such as my method of teaching. This would of course be in high school grade levels where the students would be comfortable with using technology in this way.

      In my years of being a student, I have experienced many different methods of teaching. I was always enrolled in a traditional brick and mortar school however, when the Covid-19 pandemic occurred, I was forced to complete my eighth-grade year through a mix of synchronous and asynchronous online schooling. These forms of distance learning have varying effectiveness from student to student of course, but for me, I found the asynchronous approach to be most effective. Sitting in an online meeting listening to the teacher give lecture in the synchronous method always felt tedious and rather boring. On the other hand, the freedom of the asynchronous method worked well for me and allowed me to complete assignments quicker and then have free time. As for technology or methods of distance learning that I would like to experience, I can say that I wish some of the resources we have now such as canvas were more fleshed out back when we were forced into online learning.  ...