Sarah TolsonEDET 650Internship in Educational TechnologyFall 2015

Proposal

I propose that my internship will take place at Lockmar Elementary School.

Lockmar is an A school in Palm Bay, Florida. I currently teach third grade at Lockmar

and would like to carry out my internship in my own classroom. I currently have twenty

students and I am responsible for teaching them all subjects.

I propose my mentor should be Carrie Balavender, our media specialist with

fifteen years of experience in the classroom and/or media center. Carrie is an amazing

teacher who works with our students on a weekly basis. She integrates technology,

speaking and listening, research, reading, and writing standards into her media center

block as frequently as she can. She has begun recording videos to ensure she covers

everything with each class daily. She is also integrating Google Classroom into the

media center this year. Carrie is an exemplary leader who frequently takes the initiative

to make our school a better place and is always very professional. She is someone

who I can express ideas to and we collaborate about how to incorporate more

technology or improve our school.

I propose that the project I will undertake during my internship is flipping my

classroom. Flipping my classroom will let my students and I have a blended learning

environment. I will “flip” traditional education by teaching content through screencasts,

videos, and through technology-rich materials that students can access at home and

online, basically their “homework.” In class, since less time will be spent on teacher-led

instruction, our time will be spent focusing on standards-integration and differentiated

activities. This will allow me to customize my instruction more effectively to meet the

needs of my students. I am interested in using Google Classroom as a major tool in

flipping my classroom, since my students and I have started integrating it this year.

Since flipping my classroom is a huge task, I plan to begin by flipping my math

instruction, then progressing to ELA.