Learning and the Brain Conference 2018
Building a Culture Where Personalized Learning (With Habits of Mind) Can Thrive
Bena Kallick and Allison Zmuda will make the case for why we need to make a shift toward personalizing learning and developing the necessary dispositions for success. Through a deeper exploration of these questions, the presenters will share examples from schools and districts that are developing generative experiences where questioning, problem posing, and innovative practices are designed and implemented.
- Part 1: Establishing “The Why”
- Part 2: Examining Key Terms and Connections
- Part 3: Growing Learners and Learning
- Part 4: Clarifying Pedagogical Moves
- Part 5: Building the Culture
Resources
- PPT Slides: Precon Session
- Google Doc: Contemporary Roles of Teacher
- 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
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
Redefining Student Success: Personalized Learning to Help Students Pursue Their Interests and Passions
Resources
NYT Opinion Piece: How Plato Foresaw Facebook’s Folly
Website: tolerance.org is a good for generating questions and conversations through an equity lens
Book Excerpt: Snow Story from Bertie Simmons on garnering respect
Illustrative Example on Community Trust: Furr Covenant
Video by Furr Students:
XQ – Stories from the Otherside from Furr High School on Vimeo.
Article by Yvette Jackson: Transformational Pedagogy: Cashing the Promissory Not of Equity for All Students
Interview with Yvette Jackson: Focusing on a classroom and school culture where every student has voice (one of the four attributes) and that voice shapes all aspects of school including curriculum, assessment, instructional design, evaluation of learning.