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| Ms. WW with her 1st grade class! |
BLENDED LEARNING TEACHER OF THE WEEK:
MS. WELCH-WALKER
Q. How long have you been teaching?
I have taught for fourteen years in public education with the majority of those years in elementary education in Michigan, Maryland, and North Carolina.
Q. What grade do you teach?
I am a first grade teacher at Hanford Dole Elementary School. Go Bobcats!
Q. How has your first year gone with BL implementation?
My first year as a BL teacher has been great! Blended Learning is taking my teaching style and incorporating the new model to my teaching style, but also the learners’ styles as well. The students are doing well with the blended learning model and learning better in smaller groups, as well as enjoying the rotations. It also makes me be more reflective on how my students are learning in the classroom and finding ways to use their multiple intelligences to their advantage.
Q. How has BL changed your thoughts about teaching?
I re-evaluated my teaching style to incorporate rotations to meet the needs of my students and the results are more engaged learners willing to show what they know. It has made me examine closely my teaching to make sure I meet the needs of all my students. In the teacher directed lesson, as well as the station rotations, personalized lessons need to be differentiated, building the foundation the students need to be successful as independent learners.
Q. If you had one word to describe BL what would say and why?
Innovation. I am passionate about teaching. Teaching is very diverse and challenging. I not afraid of failure because failure only makes you stronger. It challenges me to be reflective about why it didn’t work and find ways to make the learning more understandable and applicable for the learners in my classroom. As an innovator I sees opportunities to challenge and push the boundaries of the old ridged classroom structures to new ways of learning geared toward the learners’ style, but the teacher’s style as well.
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