NAME:
Amy Garrison
SCHOOL:
Columbia Middle School
CLASS:
Engineering & Technology
SCHOOL PHONE:
706-541-0744 ext. 5818
I grew up in Marietta, Georgia and graduated from Lassiter High School.
I attended Georgia Southern University where I earned a Bachelor of Science
degree in Graphic Arts and a degree in Technology Education. I have earned my
Masters Degree and Ed.S degree from Augusta State University.
I work with the following guidelines in my classroom:
* Know the objectives, lessons, resources, and the timeline then plan with
the result in mind.
* Prepare organized, meaningful lessons / activities for any age student.
* Plan so well that when the lesson is happening, the learning is the
focus not the how-to of the next part of the lesson.
* Plan for the worst; hope for the best.
* Expect ambitious efforts, but build in evaluation checks to encourage
best efforts.
* Always make the student feel appreciated.
* Facilitate so that users who are stuck can be helped while users who are
rolling along can continue in order to reduce frustration.
* Resolve distractions and reward on-time, involved participation.
* Regularly document and positively proclaim progress.
* Build the next lesson from the documented gains of the lessons prior.
Learning is a product of planning and preparation as well as structure and
flexibility within that structure. Learning is a result of the relationship
between structure and flexibility and the relationships between teacher and
student, parent and student, and between student and student. Learning is an
outcome of the relationship between an understanding already in place and an
idea just discovered, between a willingness to learn and a refusal to remain
apathetic or ignorant, and between the realization that learning requires a
disciplined effort and the fascination that real work is more often than not,
enjoyable! Technology and education are the perfect partners for encouraging
all of the above relationships.