As an educator I always felt that teaching came with learning from the learners. I would always tell my students that we come to school to learn and that I teach to learn from them. Having dialogue with students always helped me with what I would teach and how I could get the point across with out loosing the students desire to learn. I the past two year I’ve taken professional development courses that somewhat coached into changing the way I teach. Let my classroom become a village for learning. I didn’t know how to carry the plan out because of some of the discipline problems and students taking it as an opportunity play in a learning environment. I do believe that students are their own driving force when it comes to learning. My classroom setting consists of learning groups with students helping each other.  I start my lesson with what’s called an essential question and the students take over. Before closing the lesson the students are asked to answer the essential with a demonstration if possible. I don’t want you to be under the impression that this always work because it doesn’t.  But I do believe students have a lot to teach to educators.

The different studies that I have encountered with Full Sail University over the past nine months have helped me a whole lot in the classroom. I have expanded the learning environments and incorporated it with technology. Children love to create and show off what they create. I have them to create digital stories in math about what they learned. I have them to take pictures and help them with creating Podcasts. Children are learning to be fluent with their multiplication facts by creating raps and using Garage band to create sound and beats to go along with their creation. I’m enjoying what I’m learning and so are my students. My next goal is to get them ready for the technology fair that takes place in February.

The classroom-learning environments have everything to do with a student’s success. PlE offer students a platform for learning and make them accountable for what they learn.  One of the PLE learning might be a blog this can be incorporated for students to share what they learned with other peers. PlE is encouraging students to become publishers. They can archive their personal reflections and some of their digital captions with hope of inviting other students into their learning world. I think that PLE is something that should take over the way educators teach and develop lessons. In the book Brain Based Learning it focused a lot on how we learn and how the brain is at work. I believe that all children can learn and offering them the opportunity to bring with them the things that will better assist them in their learning is a good place to start.  The book also discussed how science and doing science experiments lesson help with some of the critical thinking skills students need to be successful. We remember more of what we do and when we can create we can carry learning up a stairwell of knowledge.