These couple of months have quickly flown by. I have learned a couple of new innovative ways to help students learn. I have found that I am more aware in incorporating all 21st century learning skills into my classroom and to allow time for students to ask questions and reflect on what they are learning. I am looking forward to learning more about how to incorporate new technology into the classroom. I feel that I am somewhat tech savvy, but as soon as I feel fluent in an application, something new is out there that I have to start all over and learn about. That is our world today though, constant change and the challenge is to be flexible enough to keep on moving forward.

A CBL (Challenged Based Classroom) and Flipped Classroom is a new innovative way to educate in the class. The learning is student guided as opposed to teacher guided. It goes from the teacher being the "sage on the stage" to the "guide on the side". I can see how my own masters class is a flipped classroom to where I am provided the information and the professor is there to guide me through it.

I see that a CBL Classroom definitely motivates students through a process of engaging, motivating, and acting. Learning has meaning to it because a CBL class is focused on identifying challenges and implementing thoughtful and sustainable solutions. Real application towards an issue is made which make learning more meaningful as well as flexible.

I believe that a CBL classroom and possibly a flipped classroom does have a future in my class. I think these innovative examples of teaching support the 21st century learning skills and will help support students become critical thinkers. 

I will be using a student questionnaire that will be asking the students to respond about their experience with goal setting. Some of the questions will be quantitative and other s will be qualitative. These questions will answer some of my "needs to know" questions. I am still in the developing stage of my data collection, but have a goal to complete this by the end of the week and to get my research started in full force. Time is ticking fast, and my priority is to complete this on time!