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2019 ATX Spring Professional Learning Institute - Lora Alaniz : Accredible : Certificates, Badges and Blockchain.

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2019 ATX Spring Professional Learning Institute

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1) I strongly agree with the idea of tapping into students' intrinsic motivations and I try to seize upon things that I have found out about what my students' care about and use that later if at all possible. It is part of a larger view in which I feel education should trim the number of required courses and expand upon those interesting elective courses that would offer students much more choice that taps into what they care about.

2) I worry that grading for "Effort, Persistence, and Focus" is antithetic to SBG. I would wonder how one can effectively do both, as I have always conceptualized SBG as grading based upon what a student can do, not necessarily what effort or persistence they put into doing it.

3) I might agree most with modeling positive reactions to setbacks, or as I like to say "failure is fine". Experimental science is basically iteration over failure, so as much as I can I try to relate my experiences with failure or encourage them to try again and again during work/labs.

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True Grit

1) Build on Student Strengths - One of the most important traits of a positive learning environment

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True Grit

1) Build on Student Strengths - One of the most important traits of a positive learning environment

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As Montell Jordan says... "This Is How We Do It"

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As Montell Jordan says... "This Is How We Do It"

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Build on Student Strengths - This is HUGE with doing a product as your output. Students need to be well rounded, but they lean towards photography or writing or design or promotions... yearbook gives them the opportunity to build them where they'd like to go.

Incorporate Kids’ Passions into the Classroom
In Principles of Arts & AV we sample a lot of different things, and making projects matter to them is paramount. They will learn the material if its something them, their life, or their passions.

Even if it is being a SoundCloud Artist... lil 'Lil Screech: https://soundcloud.com/user-382683781

- Claes

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1. Practice that I use is get to know your students not just as a student but as a person. It becomes a lot easier to relate the lesson to your students when you know what their interest are, but this is not just a one time thing and this does not have to be formal. I was always taught that students do not care how much you know till they know how much you care.

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I try to take time to have conversations with the kids about how they feel about the content to gain a better understanding of their passions.  I also like to discuss wrong answers in order to gain a better perspective on how to get to the correct answer.

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Build on Students Strengths by Audra Lockwood

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Build on Students Strengths by Audra Lockwood

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I feel that we do, on large part, find out what student's strengths are and put them aside to work on their weaknesses. Working with Special Education students, I have seen these almost continuously. We list a students strengths and only make goals and objectives for them to work on for their weaknesses. This is a failure on our part to see that especially students who have learning differences and challenges need to be reinforced in their strengths and grow their potential and abilities there.

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1. Present challenging material that requires students to apply what they are learning to real world, out-of-the-box situations.

2) Reward and encourage students along the way. Don't let students think that just because they made an EMG or NEV on an assignment, that they have not succeeded. Continue to push them towards a higher score, reminding them that they are growing and improving along the way and that is really what learning is about.

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the two ideas that I agree with most are Let Students Know that Learning Involves Struggle and Promote Practice

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1. Incorporate Kids’ Passions into the Classroom.

This can be achieved in an English classroom  by allowing students to write essays and responses related to topics that are of specific interest to them. The fundamentals of writing a persuasive essay stay the same regardless of the essay's topic.

2. Let Students Know that Learning Involves Struggle.

After writing or presenting over chosen topics, focus as a class on issues/struggles that seemed to show up repeatedly, and then potentially create centers to address issues that showed up more sporadically, reinforcing the idea that these struggles are not an individual issue and are normal to experience. 

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1. Incorporate Kids’ Passions into the Classroom.

This can be achieved in an English classroom  by allowing students to write essays and responses related to topics that are of specific interest to them. The fundamentals of writing a persuasive essay stay the same regardless of the essay's topic.

2. Let Students Know that Learning Involves Struggle.

After writing or presenting over chosen topics, focus as a class on issues/struggles that seemed to show up repeatedly, and then potentially create centers to address issues that showed up more sporadically, reinforcing the idea that these struggles are not an individual issue and are normal to experience. 

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I like the concept of grit as an ideal to espouse to our students, but I think we have to be mindful of what the issues they are dealing with as teenagers. For example, Pew Research recently released survey results that said

Most U.S. Teens See Anxiety and Depression as a Major Problem Among Their Peers. Depression and anxiety will be significant barriers for our students to develop "girt" as one of their personality characteristics. That said I think we should be constantly exposing our students to examples of "gritty" people like Mike Boyd who has a YouTube channel where he makes videos about failure and learning. It is inspirational to watch him fail over and over again until he learns how to do something.

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Provide more opportunities for student choice. By using rubrics, teachers can establish a common criteria for mastery of certain skills. Then the teacher can leave the choice of topic to the student. Allowing the students to have more control over how they apply their skills, but keeping them to a common standard.
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Use mastery paths to allow students to work to their individual potential and gain information using multiple modalities.

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Several of the points were about effort & struggle. These are CTE 'job skills' that are a grade in my class.
Other points centered around student's interest/strength, that is why I offer options toward mastery. Some kids like projects that are more artsy, others like projects that are more techy.

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1) Let students know that learning involves struggle: challenging my students and then encouraging them for trying allows them to feel comfortable making mistakes.  Rewarding failure is a regular part of my class, because failure shows effort.

2) Incorporate kids passion into the classroom: For many of my more advanced students, I allow them to take our projects, papers and book units to a new level by incorporating multiple ways to assess mastery of the content, such as a painting, a movie script, a movie soundtrack, or a song.  Allowing them to explore mastery of concepts through their own passions has brought out some really fantastic talents that I didn't even know my kids had.

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My two strategies would be teaching a growth mindset and promoting practice to ensure that they don't give up at the first failure/disappointment.