Seek Find Be

Among the National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) for Teachers, number three: Model Digital-Age Work and Learning, best matches my focus in this course. I can see the utility of blogs in the classroom routine of teaching grading and tracking student progress. Yet I seek to use a blog this year support the smooth operation of a peer tutoring program. This relates to all four subareas of the goal as articulated by NETS. First, I need technological fluency to get beyond print materials to run the peer tutoring program. If I create an effective blog, I will “collaboration with students, peers, parents and community members using digital tools” by recruiting students in the program and communicating expectations; I look forward to fewer reactive phone calls because I did not have all info in one digitally accessible space. Further, I plan to have tutors post brief updates to summarize their tutoring sessions; this will serve as an accountability tool that I did not have without a blog. Finally, the use of a blog, to evaluate information resources will impact learning by assuring that peer tutoring is organized, consistent and easy to access.

My first blog post

Smart is a choice! Casco Bay High School’s Peer Tutoring program is a place to get smarter. Students can become smarter as learning partners seeking help on school work and peer tutors who will get smarter by coaching and tutoring learning partners.