Our professional learning cohorts- Similarites.......
SmartLearning
Activate prior knowledge - make connections, ask questions; Feedback; Brain research - active involvement - movement, talking, imaging, listening
Individual elements that focus on learning
- Real and purposeful learning; students collaborate; made accountable
- Authentic tasks;
- Reflection important and knowing what the next steps are
- More time for formative and summative assessment
- Application and reinforcement of skills
Top 3:- Learning is organized according to tasks not content;
- Learning Rounds are essential for modeling lessons; connecting and collaborating;
- Knowing your outcomes (essential in all three cohorts);
ASSESSMENT
Students more involved;
Teachers and students understand outcomes;
Multiple ways of showing their learning and understanding
Informative feedback;
Teacher as coach and facilitator;
Teachers move to collaborative commitment;
Knowing audience and purpose of assessment;
Students are involved in both learning and assessment; develop criteria
Multiple feedback loops;
On going;
Top 3
1. must know outcomes and involve students in building criteria
2. understand purpose of assessment - formative or summative?
3. feedback needs to be effective
INQUIRY
Meaningful products lead to authentic learning;
feedback and reflection lead to engagement;
Collaborative
Deeper understanding;
Set criteria with students - feedback loop
Engagement
real-life experiences;
inspires confidence building;
diverse resources
Top 3 - authentic tasks
- outcomes with criteria - narrowing of outcomes and cross-curricular connections
- builds confidence
Common elements of our three professional learning cohorts as well as Universal Design for Learning.
Teachers as designers of learning, scaffold learning through:
- knowing outcomes and building criteria together
- collaboration between students, students and teachers and teachers
- effective feedback provided by peers and teachers - feedback loop is closed
- building confidence of learners
- increasing student engagement
- reflecting on learning
- goal setting for learning
- tasks that are real and purposeful
- multiple ways of showing understanding
- using current brain research on active learning
View the following Google Docs containing Professional Development Opportunities!