What Personalized Learning Plans Do For Students (Deeper Learning) Personalized Learning Requires Effective Teaching First,Technology Second - Leading From the Classroom. On Tuesday, July 10, the US Department of Education (ED) hosted "What Teachers Need to Know about Personalized Learning" as part of their Teacher Summer Seminars. Richard Culatta, Deputy Director of the Office of Educational Technology, Matthew McCrea, Science Instructional Lead Teacher at G.
James Gholson Middle School in Maryland, and I discussed our perspectives on promoting personalized learning in schools from the policy, classroom, and staff development perspective. What is Personalized Learning? ED describes Personalized Learning as: Adjusting the pace of instruction so that instruction is more individualized.Adjusting the learning approach so that instruction is differentiated.Leveraging student interests and experiences so that learning is more... personalized. Richard emphasized the following points in his presentation: More than Technology Required I posed the following question to the teachers: Teachers understand that change does not happen so quickly and easily. It's time. 4 Ways to Promote Growth Mindset in PBL. Originally posted on GettingSmart.com. “I can’t do this! I hate geometry! I’m too dumb for this!” In our classroom, the word "can’t" was the worst four-letter word a student could use; after all, even the last three letters of "geometry" insist that you T-R-Y….TRY!
The student’s outburst is a classic example of fixed mindset. So, how does PBL promote growth mindset? Think of a student who shuts down at the first sight of adversity. Here are 4 Ways to Promote Growth Mindset in PBL: 1. Help students learn from failures. 2. Build in checkpoints for students to have opportunities to revise and improve their work. The Gallery Walk and the Tuning Protocol are two protocols that we can model and practice with students to structure feedback on three levels: from teacher to student from peer to peer from expert to student 3. In Setting the Standard for Project Based Learning, PBL experts from BIE suggest that teachers can offer opportunities for students to reflect both outward and inward. 4.
EENationalDesignWorkbook - Google Slides. Loudounpl | Resources. The Core 4 of Personalized Learning. In some ways, creating a successful personalized learning classroom is similar to winning a basketball game. To give us direction, my high school basketball coach consistently focused on three key areas, which he called the Big Three: (1) Out-rebound the other team (2) Limit turnovers to fewer than 12 (3) Make at least 80% of our free throws He believed that focusing on the Big Three would create the proper strategy to win basketball games. His words told us what we needed to know when we got back on the court, as well as gave us a preview about what we would likely do a lot of in the next day’s practice. Not surprisingly, when our team met these three elements, we won. At Education Elements, we have established our own set of key elements, called the Core Four, that lead to a successful personalized learning classroom. Dive Deeper Into the Core Four With This White paper Flexible Content and Tools Targeted Instruction Data Driven Decisions Student Reflection and Ownership.
Classroom Eye Candy 2: The Learning Lounge. Last November, I showed you an incredible classroom that blew me away to such a degree that it caused me to launch the Classroom Eye Candy series. Since then, I have heard from dozens of other teachers who wanted to share their classrooms as well. To keep the site from being overrun by classroom photos, and to keep the series special and exciting, I have decided to only feature one classroom every other month. So the time has come for the next room, and it’s a rock star! Although this 5th grade classroom also emphasizes flexible seating (which is NOT a requirement for this series, by the way), it has a very different vibe from the first one. To start with, it has a name. Without further ado, I bring you The Learning Lounge. Sherah Cash Name: Sherah Cash Job Title: 5th Grade Science and Social Studies Teacher School Location: Columbus, Georgia Q: Tell me about the evolution of this classroom. A: The creation of this space developed as I began my second year of teaching.
Untitled. Untitled. Innovation at the Secondary Level: 5 Misconceptions. Time and again we have seen that assumptions or misconceptions can get in the way of progress and success. Personalized learning is no exception; misconceptions about it often lead educators away from strategies and practices that could help students succeed. Sometimes, misconceptions represent more than small gaps in knowledge--they can be ingrained into industry-wide best practices, with disastrous results. For example, for centuries, doctors believed that mothers would die during childbirth due to patient-specific issues such as inflammation, pain, or other factors.
However, in 1847, Ignaz Semmelweiz, a Hungarian physician, hypothesized that doctors themselves were the root cause of labor-related deaths. As Design and Implementation Consultants, we have the privilege of working with passionate educators in schools and districts across the country. 1. 2. 3. Students now have access to libraries of information in their pockets. 4. Multiple problems exist in this type of logic. 5.