Internship Update

As a final reflection for my EDLD 5352 Instructional Leadership class I am required to write a brief update on the progress of my internship with Lamar University. This class has been very beneficial in my growth as a future administrator, the tools that I was exposed to during this course will really guide me to promote more collaboration among teachers in the future. The web 2.0 tools that we researched are currently being put into use as we start a new school year. I plan on using Google Drive and Google Doc as my exclusive creation and storage tools this year. With the ability to share information with these tools allows for group think and discussion without set aside meeting times. I also plan on using the Edmodo classroom environment to deliver information and content to students and parents in a new way this year.

My current progress on my internship has not changed much since the last time I blogged. Because it is Summer I am more in the planning mode. I have had the opportunity to lead multiple staff developments for our staff on confidentiality and teacher/para relationship. This was great experience for me and has opened up the opportunity to lead a more intensive para-professional training during the next school year.

Overall, my internship is going very well. I have almost completed all of the required 150 hours needed for the program.

EDLD 5352 Instructional Leadership Video Conference

My current class in my graduate studies is EDLD 5352 Instructional Leadership. This has been a very good class to make sure we have are up to date on the current collaboration tools and web 2.0 tools. In last weeks web conference the professor clarified a lot of questions regarding our internship and collaboration document. This was very helpful for me, I was very curious about the process of submitting the collaborative documents. I feel very blessed to work with some amazing colleagues that must be great teachers. Dr. Benavides gave us some helpful feed back on ways that we can implement these collaboration tools with teachers at our campus when we are administrators. I really appreciate his feedback and because some of these tools are relatively new you can tell that he is still learning. Overall the conference was very helpful and sitting with hundreds of other learnings I though to myself, "Education has a bright future with all of these innovative teachers"