WEBSITE: www.learningpersonalized.com/earcos
Organizational Flow for Our 2 Days
Saturday Agenda: Slides
- 9:00-10:15 What Personalized Learning Is and Why it Matters and Diving into a Unit of Study — participants identify a unit to personalize
- 10:30-12:00 Exploring Seven Elements of Personalized Learning; Identifying 1-2 elements to personalize based on the unit
- 12:45-2:15 Applying 1-2 elements to Personalize Unit
- 2:30-4:00 Gallery Walk to Share Ideas; Role of a Teacher in a Personalized Learning Ecosystem
- 8:30-10:00 Deeper Understanding of Challenges of Personalizing and How to Balance; Revising Units of Study
- 10:15-11:45 Peer Critique and Next Steps
- 12:30-2:00 Growing a Culture that Supports Personalized Learning
Resources
- Google Doc: What We Are Working On
- Google Doc: Instructional Moves
- Article: Examines each of the 16-habits-of-mind
- Illustrative Example: VA School Division clarifies What Personalized Learning Is and Isn’t
- Article from Bena Kallick and Allison Zmuda (Ed Leadership, 2017) Orchestrating the Move
- Authored by Allison Zmuda and Jill Thompson (April 2018): How to Leverage Personalized Learning
- MOMA Online Exhibition: Migration and Movement
- Great Starters for Interview Questions: StoryCorps
Personalizing Learning Tools
Tool #1: Clarification Tool that describe the range of each of the 7 elements from teacher generated to student generated
Tool #2: Reflection and Action Tool that poses questions about past and future practice that may help guide where to get started
Tool #3: Process Tool to grow student’s role in goal setting for Goals
Tool #3: Design Tool for students to use to set S.M.A.R.T. Goals (2 versions)
Tool #4: Design Tool to grow elements: Inquiry/Idea Generation and Task and Audience
Tool #5: Process Tool to grow student’s voice and co-creation in Evaluation
Tool #6: Process Tool to grow student analysis and self-discovery in Evaluation
Tool #7: Approach to Feedback
Tool #8: Process Tool to grow student’s voice and co-creation in Feedback
Tool #9: Process Tool to grow student’s voice and co-creation in Demonstration of Learning
Examples to Inspire
Example #1: AP Physics Teacher Mike Mohammad
Example #2: Social Studies Teacher Laura Stott
Example #3: Mark Wise and Global Challenge for 8th Grade
Example #4: Thought Process of Task Design for 1st Year Physics Teacher
Example #5: Innovation Lab (High School) Presentations of Learning
Example #6: AP/IB Bio Teacher Talks About How He Frames Designs with His Students
Example #7: 7th Grade Humanities Unit Transformation
Example #8: Scoring tool to grow Inquiry and students role in Evaluation of their own learning in an English Classroom
Example #9: Math Teacher Describes Feedback to Students in a PreCalculus Classroom
Example #10: Community Partnership at Kellam High School
Example #11: Rubrics: Collaboration and Critical Thinking by 5th/6th Grade teachers
Example #12: From Aveson, CA: Grade 1 and 2 Example
Example #13:From Newport News, VA: Math Rubric, Grades 2-5
Example #14: From Grade 3 Classroom on Authentic Audience
Example #15: Communicating with Parents about Change in Approach in ELA Classroom