Reflecting on my Innovation Plan

 

When I began this journey one of the first assignments of the Lamar University DLL program was to create my innovation-plan. After some research, I decided I wanted to establish a blended learning Blended learning-literature-review-1 environment in my traditional classroom. Although the elementary school where I teach offers some levels of blended or hybrid learning within our course of studies, there is not enough academic content for dual language options to be carried out within the courses with the important teaching advantage. or frequent face-to-face instruction in world language learning. There are incidental speaking and listening situations and cultural learning opportunities that arise in the traditional classroom that are effectively recreated in a fully remote learning environment. Through my action-research, I came to understand that a blended learning environment has incredible potential benefits for world language learners. It enables personalized multicultural learning in a way that seamlessly absorbs instruction and development within the entire group.

 

As I reflect on the development journey of my innovation project, I realize that many components have come together to strengthen, evolve, and update my plan. From the beginning of reflecting on the mindset to taking an idea and designing an intentional, structured and timely implementation plan and continually reflecting to improve, the development of the implementation planning stage has been a fascinating journey.

 

It's fantastic to see all the components fit together. Make and submit a plan proposal and presentation that will be useful to me very soon! Then I made an implementation outline that helped me organize the time frame, the order of the content, and the “ What- How- Why” we will establish a meaningful learning environment. I am excited to use it as a magical and specialized content book, examining all the literature and research on blended learning taught me a lot about the implications of blended learning, plus writing a review of the literature for others to peruse is a useful piece of evidence of learning housed in my e-portfolio. Literally, everything that has been done fits together perfectly that will form a strong and bright solid image.

 

Implementing my Innovation Plan

 

I began testing my innovation plan at the beginning of the 2022-2023 school year with my Kindergarten students. Despite being an initial stage of learning, they are students within the blended learning environment and in class it has been so effective that I have been able to measure how effective it is for the multiple challenges that my students can also present and the way in which I have developed it for the students. motivated or reluctant at their grade level. I think the main advantage we have had is that they come without major academic backgrounds that could hinder our innovation without hesitation in trying something new, they finally come to see the value of having more freedom to develop their skills in their own cycle. As for the few reluctant or quickly bored students, while they required more follow-up, most of them enjoyed and benefited from the blended learning environment in class.This is how I designed it in  new-culture-of-learning- understanding-by-design-template. 

 

When students are not intrinsically motivated, I believe that teachers have to try to control the learning environment of these students with other inclusion techniques. However, what I found was that these students responded positively by taking responsibility for their learning. I really can't complain because the levels of rejection have not been higher, nor have I given up taking control, but the majority of my students have risen to each circumstance that I have presented without carrying structures of past educational demands, everything has been a free and fun environment without traditional class structures.

 

My innovation project INNOVATION PROJECT Update 5320 RT is almost ready, I still need to finish some parts of the course lessons, get more focus to err as little as possible and consider every legal aspect for action research and consolidate the cohort and training dates with the participants. And designate the dates because although I thought that by this year 2023 it could be consolidated, they will already be presented for the new semester of 2024 and that it has been consolidated who the participants are and, while I work in association with the administration of my school, and Provide additional training for implementation support to the group of teachers who are entering with the Two Way Dual program in my district, and who at the same time are conducting their research with their learning environments through a case study. The plan will officially launch in 2024.

 

Learning from experience

 

As I analyze, evaluate and reflect on the learning process so far, I realize that my ideas and the process of continuous improvement will forever evolve. This is such a spectacular realization, as perfection is no longer my goal, but rather continuous growth and improvement, through collaboration and reflection, are built into my intentionally practiced learner growth-mindset. At first I thought that this plan would be difficult and very big and although I often heard that it would start little by little, I couldn't discern, it suffocated me to think how I would do it within my district but now I see that Dr. H was right. I need to go one day at a time, in an organized and controlled way and go from evolution to evolution. I feel incredible seeing the more linear path to the future and starting to execute my action research on specific participants and groups.

 

There are several changes I will make as I move forward with my planing-the-alternative-pl-assignment-5  innovation plan. First, I want the blended learning environment to be a part of almost every class period. I plan to break up the vocabulary and grammar instruction into smaller lessons that will last fifteen to twenty minutes each day. The remainder of each class meeting, students will have the opportunity to work independently, in small groups, or with me to meet their individual learning needs.

 

I will also include more project-based learning that incorporates vocabulary, grammar topics, and culture, while allowing students to have more choice, ownership, and voice in their learning. My goal is to eliminate traditional testing models in the coming years in favor of performance-based assessments. As I work toward that goal, I will continue to seek feedback from students and reflect on how they are doing as tests and exams begin to disappear from their learning environment and project-based learning becomes effective.

 

Influence others

 

One of the most surprising findings as I've implemented my innovation plan is how open many of my Bilingual colleagues are to incorporating some of what I'm doing into courses. I have been offering some professional development opportunities with my colleagues and they have been well received. Perhaps at some point we will offer sessions beyond our department within what the district has already designed or proposed, we are still studying that point. For now, it is good to know that the students included in this Two way Dual language program outside of my classroom are benefiting from my innovation plan. The journey continues.