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Impactful moments/experiences for me:
-A student getting sick in my class and having all my students jumping to help.
-A student that habitually missed school came to school for 2 straight months because of incentives we worked towards.
-My ex baseball players having tears in their eyes when I told them I was going to be coaching at another school.

Impactful moments/experiences for my students:
-The student that came into school and stop cutting classes seeing her test scores improve dramatically proving to her she was smarter than she thought.
-Holding students to a certain standard during the year made most of them start holding themselves to that same standard.
-A student getting sick in my class, every kid was ready to help, I believe this experience showed the rest of the class the kind hearted nature they all had in common.

I think a lot of these experiences run from the same or similar moments. They seem to build off relationships.

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Common elements of these experiences were all of us working together, and having strong relationships. I think some of the time I was the “teacher/leader” of the experience but then at the same time kids took that role and it was like I was the student.

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I am most excited to try out Prototype and Test with my learners.

I believe that I definitely include communicate to ideate daily in my lessons.

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I think there is a lot of opportunities to share ideas on twitter with people who are in our professional community but we may not even know. I believe that sharing with students where certain ideas for things such as lessons come from might help model that you are willing to collaborate so why not them?

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I think that design thinking will definitely increase the creativity or students in my classroom. This can help them have a deeper understanding of how we can apply this to the real world and why we are doing what we are doing.

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It was a creative assignment in which they could make connections between the past and present. They also were excited about a topic they were passionate about. For example, we created a lesson regarding whether or not homework was beneficial in order to teach claim and how to support your claim with textual evidence. This sparked student interest which led to students of our classes meeting with the principal. I think we could have done more but it was actually difficult for myself to find the time needed.

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I think having friends in my professional learning network is key. I go to them for new ideas and they motivate me to try my best with every single lesson. It's pretty cool when you're learning network consists of teachers teaching different subjects than you so you can see what is happening in other content areas that you can adapt to your own.

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Excitement and curiosity was the common element with my sixth graders when we were on the simple machine’s unit.  One day I mentioned how I wanted to try one day to have students build their own lever design to launch marshmallows at me!  Next thing I know, I am at the craft store and having my husband cut all different sizes of wood and other materials from home.  I had them research a design, talk about why they chose that design and then start building.  Their role were the researches and my role was more of a facilitator.
They totally took over the class and the lesson, I found myself taking their direction as far as the students telling me what they needed from me.

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The most impactful moments for myself are seeing that "light-bulb" moment when a students understands. I think the most impactful experience for my students are the "fun" lessons and when they receive a high grade on an assessment, especially when they struggled in the past in math.

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Simply by giving students time to reflect on their learning gives them more power and purpose. I find that I am always rushing to get through the curriculum so reflection has not been a priority.

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The common factor among the most impactful experiences/lessons was relevance and creating an emotional connection. When the students were able to see the connection to their everyday lives, connect with their peers emotionally and through laughter.

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I feel confident that I already include work that develops empathy and understanding. I am looking forward to having students "Prototype and Test".

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I am looking most forward to the prototype and test element.  I think I already include the understand and emphasize in my work.  Geometry is very abstract and students need to understand how complex problems may be.

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I work with an amazing team of 2nd grade teachers.When one of learns something new or takes a class, we share the ideas and our creations. We also model for our students how we work together and share ideas. Especially with little ones, they need to be explicitly taught how and what to communicate to each other in order to work together .

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Working with colleagues is important for many reasons .  Often we are working in isolation only to find out that our team mate has been struggling with a similar issue/problem.  When I am bouncing ideas off of a colleague, I tend to get more excited about projects and lessons. There is an element of "Shared enjoyment".

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Ideas on how to build more empathy and mindfulness at the HS level.

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Having friends that you can collaborate with and bounce ideas off of is critical. Modeling the skill of respecting other teachers' and students' opinions and points of view.

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I think the idea of giving time and space for students to understand the content I am teaching is critical. Sometimes I feel the need to complete a specific lesson in the 42 minutes I am given, but have to stop myself and realize that maybe this lesson needs more time because it opened up different thought passages for my students. Discussions are important and I have to remember that learning should not be on a time crunch!

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My most impactful experiences:
1) Attending ACTFL Convention 2019 which affirmed my current practice and gave me eye-opening new ideas to bring back.
2) Distance learning reminded me to check in more regularly with students - emotionally and for lesson feedback
3) Keep it simple for novice student success.  Keep it challenging for student learning.  Keep it fun for student interest.

Student impactful experiences:
1) Students reported excitement when speaking with native Italian speakers (grandparents, parents, neighbors, family in Italy)
2) Distance learning - After several discussions, I believe students have a newfound appreciation for school and their teachers.
3) Students shared that their favorite parts of class were when we sang in Italian, had competitions / games and whole-class discussions.

Some of these experiences do overlap with each other!

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Offering the larger purpose as the goal, students can

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My favorite part about teaching is creating the personal relationships with my students. It makes them WANT to do better. They want to to be the best in my class and feel as though they're actually letting me down when they're not trying their hardest. Having one on one conversations with students, getting to know them, asking questions about their lives, and following up on these answers really helps develop this.

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I am most looking forward to their involvement and enthusiasm to learn and participate.
I am confident in letting them take the lead on their learning. As a science teacher performing experiments in the classroom, students are always asking more "what if" questions, and al long as it it safe and relevant, I let them explore further into a question they had been curious about.

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understand better where their process fits in the whole.

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understand better where their process fits in the whole.

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I would like to try Prototype and Test with my students. I think I try to include Iterate and Reflect into my teaching by providing students with feedback but struggle with getting students to self-reflect.

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This year, I had a couple of instances where students were failing or very behind academically. When I sat with them to create a game plan and asked them to share what will realistically work for them and what they feel most comfortable with is where I saw the most success. They were thankful to be taking part in their learning and having a voice.

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Reflection is very important, especially when the content is hard and students are struggling. By allowing students the opportunity to fail and and then reflect on what they don't know while helping them learn.

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I teach in an ICT class and one of the most impactful learning experiences for me was watching my, otherwise struggling students, excel in design challenges. We regularly designed STEAM challenges to encourage working together, solving problems and applying prior knowledge. Allowing my struggling students another way to share their understanding gave them confidence and a chance to shine.

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Working in an environment where you can feel comfortable and at ease with colleagues who become friends is critical.  Having the opportunity to engage with colleagues who understand not just the professional challenges you face but also the personal challenges, gives you the opportunity to truly collaborate.

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time to evaluate and ask more questions is something I will be changing in my learning space. Allowing more time to reflect and make sure students fully and meaningfully understand a concept.

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Having colleagues that I work with on a daily basis is important to keep our curriculum new and exciting for the students. When we collaborate, we are able to identify what works and doesn't work, while we come up with ideas that students will enjoy as well as be challenged with. Our students see us collaborate and in turn know they can come to any of us if they need help.

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If I were to think about the most impactful learning experiences this year for my students I feel that they would be similar to mine. I would say most of them had to do with Teachers College as I learned to use the program and using the principles and ideas from the program (learning for me) I saw my students reflect the knowledge taught.

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Iterate and Reflect- allowing time for students time to think about their learning - and reflect in their mindful journals where we often take concepts of the past and have them try to relate or bring to contemporary times.

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Common elements include: Eliciting feedback from students, making learning fun and meaningful, being flexible and open to change. My role included finding resources, designing tasks and lesson pacing. Students' roles included sharing their ideas, responding to each other and building / revising their own responses.

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I think my role was actually quite minimal. It was more a brief introduction or example and then the students really took off and tried it on their own.

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I feel that the most impactful experiences for my students are the learning challenges that the students have the most control over.  When they work on problem solving a topic or technique in drawing or photography that really pushes them out of their comfort zone.  Allowing them to work with partners or groups allows them to collaborate and bounce ideas off one another.  Often during these units I take a step back and really allow the students to guide their learning.

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I work on an amazing team and we share all students and loop with them for two years. we have a lot of planning time and all the teachers are on the same page with trying to be innovative.

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I can identify friends in professional learning by who makes me feel motivated to try something new and who has a really optimistic outlook.

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Friends in my PLN inspire me and the ideas I bring into my classroom.  I often invite teachers into the classroom to share their expertise in how it relates to what we are learning, and always give visitors a big welcome. :)

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Bringing the experiences of their own lives into the classroom and being able to incorporate it into content.

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Working with colleagues either from a team or department is helpful. But I have also found that looking beyond the people you work with everyday can provide a completely different perspective.

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Teaching through "Distance Learning" has been a learning experience for both myself and for my students because it required us to completely change everything we were used to. For me in regards to teaching; for students in regards to learning. Learning to navigate new ways of teaching and learning without being in the classroom was a challenge for both students and teachers.