Using My GAME Plan with Students

Constructing a GAME Plan has been a very valuable experience for me as a teacher and I now feel better equipped to implement technology into my classroom and curriculum because of my experience creating a GAME Plan. I have spent some time reflecting on the NETS-S standards and definitely think they are all very valuable. It can be challenging for me as a kindergarten teacher to incorporate these standards into my everyday classroom but I just have to spend time being creative and coming up with ways to still utilize them. My students cannot develop their own GAME plan of course because they are not developmentally capable but I can always use this strategy to expose them and have them take part in the process as I am guiding them along. Most of the process would be to engage my students and having them come up with learning goals. This is a very important step because I think it is so important for students to know what they are learning and why. The action portion of the lesson would be during instruction and having the students collaborate in small groups. Finally, at the end we would simply have a large class discussion on what we learned and if we met the goals we had established in the beginning. Even though this is a much more basic GAME plan, it still can work for my young students. It is not as involved but it is still important to expose them to such tools of organization. I know that I feel much more organized and thorough as a teacher so this can be incredibly effective on students.