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Tuesday: Keynote Description

Many educators believe that a “one-size-fits-all” instructional model has run its course but there is limited explanation of what the role of the contemporary teacher should be. This keynote will make the case for learning experiences that are relevant, challenging, and worthy of the attempt for both teacher and student.

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Wednesday: Measuring and Motivating Student Learning

How can we design learning experiences that are more in tune with the contemporary world we are living in and the students we have in front of us? The true goal of personalized learning: for every student to become self-directed learners through the design and development of their learning experiences. In this session, participants will explore how personalized learning is a simple and powerful frame that allows students to thoughtfully engage with inquiry, generate ideas, and develop challenging, yet achievable, performance opportunities.

Participants will be able to:

  • Explore why personalized learning is important for student engagement and learning
  • Understand how students can become self-directed when Personalized Learning is connected with Habits of Mind
  • Examine how metaphor of sound board amplifies student agency in their own learning
  • Grow an idea using one or more of the 7 elements of Personalized Learning

Resources

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Tool 1: Design Considerations for Seven Elements of PL

Tool 2: Planning and Design with Seven Elements of PL

Thursday: Designing Relevant Learning with Students

Deep learning is a voluntary endeavor. How can we get students to volunteer for the experience? This session will take a deeper dive into two of the seven elements of personalized learning—

Inquiry and idea generation: Posing and pursuing interesting questions and intriguing ideas.

Task and audience: Developing work that can matter to others through authentic forms (genres); opportunity to share, receive feedback, and revise.

Participants will have an opportunity to look at a range of examples in various grade levels and subject areas to inspire their own design. There will be time to both explore examples as well as create.

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Tool 1: Design Considerations for Seven Elements of PL

Tool 2: Planning and Design with Seven Elements of PL

Tool 3: Template for Designing Tasks

Tool 4: Genres or Communication Forms for Designing Tasks

Examples for Inspiration

Elementary Examples on Learning Personalized

Example 1: K-8 Art Classroom and Impact of Choice

Example 2: Blueprint (Gr. 5-6 School within a School)

Example 3: Grade 5 Teacher Reflects on 1st Year of Personalized Learning

Example 4: Grade 3 Teacher on Earth Day Design

Example 5: Focus on Community Partnerships in Task Design

Secondary Examples on Learning Personalized

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

Thursday: Facilitating our Learners’ Growth

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Our students come to better understand themselves through experimentation, feedback, persistent practice, risk taking, failure, and success. This session will take a deeper dive into three of the seven elements of personalized learning—

Goals: Articulating goals with students to personalize learning experience.

Evaluation: Developing tools that measure student learning as well as provide opportunity to revisit goals.

Feedback: Working with students to understand strengths and struggles to better coach them on next steps.

Participants will have an opportunity to look at a range of examples in various grade levels and subject areas to inspire their own design. There will be time to both explore examples as well as create.

Tool 1: Design Considerations for Seven Elements of PL

Tool 2: Planning and Design with Seven Elements of PL

Tool 3: Growing Student Voice in Evaluation

Tool 4: Reflecting on Work with Students

Example 1: Math Rubric (Grades 2-5)

Example 2: Grade 6 Writing Rubric

Example 3: Getting Started on Course Based Standards in an English Classroom (Kevin Siedlecki and Denise Earles)

Example 4: Math Coordinator Describing Development of a K-5 Math Rubric

Example 5: 3rd Grade Classroom Teachers on Personalizing Rubrics with their Students

Example 6: Pre Calculus Teacher’s Journey Seeking Out Feedback