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Sometimes the questions are more important than the answers...

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Sometimes the questions are more important than the answers...

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This has made me want to focus more on encouraging students to ask questions. 

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This has made me want to focus more on encouraging students to ask questions. 

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I want to emphasize the "Rule of 5" mentioned on page 186 - it is great to say students should have choices, but too many choices makes anxiety "spike".  Guidance towards appropriate choices is also important, so our role is still critical.
-Brian

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There is value to showing "exemplars of creativity", especially in Math.  I struggle with how much to stress individual solutions when looking at student work - lots of times, students think in Math they are being "called out", good or bad, when work is discussed.
-Brian

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"You have two ears and one mouth, so you should listen twice as much as you talk". That further expresses why we need to help our students how to listen better.  - Michele

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"You have two ears and one mouth, so you should listen twice as much as you talk". That further expresses why we need to help our students how to listen better.  - Michele

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Scaffold listening skills~ helping students understand the difference and what "Active Listening" and "Cognitive Listening" looks like.- Michele

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Scaffold listening skills~ helping students understand the difference and what "Active Listening" and "Cognitive Listening" looks like.- Michele

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It is important to not only teach our students to be knowledgable but also resourceful. Often times we want to give our students as much information as we can to make them knowledgable on the subject matter, but we must also put them to work to be observant and resourceful. -Kayla

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Provide multiple means of engagement for students. Empower students to actively participate in their learning. -Kayla

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This makes me aware of the fact that I need to trust my students.  They have great ideas and are problem solvers when given the opportunity.
Lori

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I will offer my students opportunities to choose topics of interest when completing assignments.
Lori

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"Too often teachers give students options, but they do not give them choices." Moving forward I need to be more aware if my students feel that they have a voice. -Janeen

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"Too often teachers give students options, but they do not give them choices." Moving forward I need to be more aware if my students feel that they have a voice. -Janeen

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In order to provide students with choices and not options, I need to let them be co-creators of the final product choices while applying the rule of 5 and identifying barriers. -Janeen

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In order to provide students with choices and not options, I need to let them be co-creators of the final product choices while applying the rule of 5 and identifying barriers. -Janeen

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Observational and analytical skills can be extremely important in gauging actual understanding. Content is very important, but the context in which students think of the information can entirely change their learning. Allowing students to come up with creative and diverse ideas can greatly benefit learning and true understanding
-Logan

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In the future, I will encourage collaborative, open-ended opportunities so that students can showcase their own capabilities within the classroom. This will offer opportunities for students to come to new conclusions, and challenge new ideas in a way to impact active learning.
-Logan

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The students need to set goals and I need to empower them to be more resourceful.  I find value in reminding the students of the goals and providing them with multiple means of engagement.
-Lori

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I will provided some "non-traditional" ways to consume learning that will push the students to be more resourceful.  This will include providing multiple means of engagement.
-Lori V.

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"Innovators need to be creators, not just consumers".  This stuck with me because i don't always require my students to create but usually to just do.  

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"Innovators need to be creators, not just consumers".  This stuck with me because i don't always require my students to create but usually to just do.  

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Encourage students to not only solve problems, but to think about various other ways that people might approach problems to show them that there are multiple ways to show your knowledge and solve problems.

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Encourage students to not only solve problems, but to think about various other ways that people might approach problems to show them that there are multiple ways to show your knowledge and solve problems.

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This makes me more aware of the importance of encouraging students to bring their own resources. Empowering students to observe and use all of the resources available to them makes them stronger, more independent learners.
- Meredith

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I will discuss and present examples of creativity!

- Meredith

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How many choices to provide? Often providing too many options will overwhelm and "paralyze" students, preventing them from selecting an option and moving forward. Providing some (5) diverse choices allows students to work in a manner that is most interesting to them while helping them to narrow down their choices and get to the business of learning!

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I will provide several, not too many, not too few choices for students to demonstrate their learning. 

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I will provide several, not too many, not too few choices for students to demonstrate their learning. 

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I will include more opportunities for creatively demonstrating learning.

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I will include more opportunities for creatively demonstrating learning.

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- Angela L

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Teaching students to listen and look for the information that will lead to life-long understanding will be challenging for both the teacher and the student. - Heather

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Teaching students to listen and look for the information that will lead to life-long understanding will be challenging for both the teacher and the student. - Heather

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I would like to try to give students more input to how we learn a unit. - Heather

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I would like to try to give students more input to how we learn a unit. - Heather

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Creation is not a recipe, and yet often the projects or activities that we give to students do yield the same products. I think employing the iterative design process more purposefully will help make that shift from recipe to true creation. (Melissa)

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Creation is not a recipe, and yet often the projects or activities that we give to students do yield the same products. I think employing the iterative design process more purposefully will help make that shift from recipe to true creation. (Melissa)

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It's important that we begin to incorporate active listening and observation into all lessons, as these are valuable career skills for students to practice. These are 2 things that will become regular elements of enrichment programs. (Melissa)

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I'm not sure that it really changes anything that I think, but it did help elucidate things I'd been considering. (BP)

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I have to consider how I actively give students choice, not just options, in what they do in class.  (BP)

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Multiple means of representation. I need to remember that even in math you don’t have to give a rest to see if students learned a concept. The test might actually have barriers to students showing their knowledge. - Liz

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I will try to incorporate more choice for students. - Liz

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The idea of students co-creating lessons changes my thought about needing to find the perfect lesson that can engage all students.
-Lisa W.

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I can make students co-creators by allowing them the opportunity to search for art making activities that will satisfy the requirements of the assignment.
-Lisa W.

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"This is what you'll be learning about in the next week. That is non-negotiable, but you get to decide what you want to create to show me that you met your goal."

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"This is what you'll be learning about in the next week. That is non-negotiable, but you get to decide what you want to create to show me that you met your goal."

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I love this idea as a way to increase student engagement. I would need to think about how and, most importantly, when this would be applicable in a language arts classroom. - Jason

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Allowing the students to choose how to show what they've learned.

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Allowing the students to choose how to show what they've learned.

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I think one of the biggest challenges is putting aside the idea that I know best, or probable more accurately, an over-reliance on what I've done before. I want to focus on bringing in more opportunities for students to choose how they will show what they know. - Jason

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I never really thought of the difference between active and cognitive listening. I think differentiating between the two can be important for students' learning.

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I never really thought of the difference between active and cognitive listening. I think differentiating between the two can be important for students' learning.

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I like the idea of having students develop their own vocabulary lists. This would be a good way to supplement our current program.

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I like the idea of having students develop their own vocabulary lists. This would be a good way to supplement our current program.

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It emphasizes the importance of empowering students by helping them become active learners, and exposing them to resources so they can become more independent. - Ryan

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Explore more strategies to get students actively engaged by giving them more choice, as well as more opportunities to be creative. - Ryan

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"We try to personalize education but then create standardized outcomes."  Students can create in a multitude of ways and should contribute to the resources used in class.
jill

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I like the idea of helping student to slow down. Allowing time for students to process before asking for an answer and staying positive.

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I liked the suggestion of scheduling downtime for students during the class period. I like giving students a moment during class to stand or stretch. Allowing students to quietly brainstorm before talking with each other in groups seems like a good idea, especially for the students who take a minute to process.

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I will try to provide students with choices when doing activities and projects but with more open-ended instructions so that I do not get back 25 of the same thing.
Jill

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I so often feel like "there's not enough time." How detrimental to our students--and to those of us who teach. When we have an important question to address (and shouldn't that be the norm rather than the exception??), this is sound advice from the IItB authors: "Provide students with time to explore your school library, share/swap resources with one another, or use school devices to access resources online...[e]mpower students to observe,...create strategies, then notice and observe the resources that are most appropriate for them" (174).

~Stacie

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I will further educate myself about the many resources we have available at our school and then collaborate with colleagues to create meaningful learning opportunities for students--remembering that it must be "meaningful to the student, not only to the teacher" (182).

~Stacie

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I need to work on empowering students to be more observant of the right information. All too often, due to perceived time restraints, I feel we give them the exact location of where to find the answers. I need to teach students the skills to manage, analyze, and synthesize the resources available to them to ensure success as life- long learners.
Jamie

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I will slow down and start to focus on building skills as much as teaching the content.
Jamie

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We need to slow down.  Plain and simple and get the students to participate into the decision making and problem solving more.

Bill

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The quote about listening twice as much as you talk stuck out to me. Often during classroom discussions, when students are sharing something I am immediately thinking about my response. Rather, I should let the students guide the class with their contributions more often. - Mark

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I will continue to try and create an open environment where it is ok to be wrong about something.  Sometimes you need some wrong ideas to help us collectively get to the correct one.   Also illustrate that there is no one set way to solve a problem.  Lets keep open minds.

Bill

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Try to re-think some of the projects I do, especially our presentation project later in the year, so that students can express their learning in a way that is creative, authentic, and effective. - Mark

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I think it's important to give students more choices. Instead of telling students to do things a certain way, give them options to choose how they can best show what they've learned and use their creativity.
Kayla F.

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I will try to offer different ways that students can complete an assignment i.e. poster, slideshow, video, etc.
Kayla F.

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These chapters really stress the importance of observation. I believe it gave us more motivation to try and slow down both our teaching and student responses in order to elicit more clear and introspective thinking.

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I think I will help my students understand better the difference between active and cognitive listening. It would also be helpful to introduce my students to helpful resources such as Khan Academy. I believe the more we can do to help our kids take responsibility for their learning the better students they will become.

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Observation is sometime that I often forget about in the course of a class, yet it is something so important and easily incorporated. I often show the students what I want them to see, but need to give more time to discuss (within their groups) what they are observing.

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One thing I have started to focus on after reading this material is to share out creative ways of solving problems that none of their peers thought of. Sometimes the students share them in class, but I have also shared work that students have included in assessments that no one else had come up with and it was different than any ways we had discussed in class. Stressing creative ways and the logic behind that creativity is meaningful.

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I don't think this changes the way I think as much as it pushes me further into a direction I was already heading.  I think a lot of the STEAM classes I teach already set themselves up for students to find opportunities to observe and create.  I need to continue to find authentic experiences for them so that they can build these skills in a manner that will benefit them in the future.

-Flowers

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I plan on looking for more community-based, real-world, learning experiences for my student to build these skills.  I plan on being more open to these opportunities when they are presented to me.

-Flowers

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I think the more choices we give to students it gives them options about to best show understanding and to showcase their creativity.
Joe L.

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I will offer and provide students opportunities to choose topics that match their interests and intelligences. - Joe L.

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Ch 9 "Observant" reminds me of an earlier PD in which the presenter said that we cannot truly be "multitaskers." Whew!  This is true and let's myself and others off the hook to always be "doing" when we may actually accomplish more by just paying attention.
Ch 10 "Creators" is reminiscent of "Student Voice and Choice." ~Karen

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Ch 9 - To be more "observant," I need to listen more, slow down and *PACE myself.
*Positive Attitude Changes Everything
Ch 10 - A postive way to express "Identify the Barriers" is to consider the possibilities ~Karen

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I often feel that I need to provide all of the information and resources that students need to learn about a topic or complete a project. This helped me to see the value in having students find resources they could use complete these tasks.  -Ken

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I often feel that I need to provide all of the information and resources that students need to learn about a topic or complete a project. This helped me to see the value in having students find resources they could use complete these tasks.  -Ken

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I will try to incorporate ways for students to be more creative in demonstrating their knowledge.        -Ken

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I will try to incorporate ways for students to be more creative in demonstrating their knowledge.        -Ken

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This chapter reminded me of the importance of making students a part of the learning process. Whether this be the environment of the classroom or giving them choice of products to create, they will be much more invested if they have ownership. -J Patouillet

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This chapter reminded me of the importance of making students a part of the learning process. Whether this be the environment of the classroom or giving them choice of products to create, they will be much more invested if they have ownership. -J Patouillet

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I will definitely use the idea of having students make their own vocabulary lists. Maybe in some sort of word web, with the unit topic in the middle and then have them find words throughout the texts that relate to the topic or essential question. -J Patouillet

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I was intrigued by the idea of not just giving the students options, but giving them choices in how they want to express their creativity in reaching their goals.  But keeping in mind to limit the number of choices to allow students to meet their goals in a reasonable amount of time.
Dave

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I will try and listen to what are some topics of interest to the students that fits within our curriculum and allow the students to explore different resources and work collaboratively to create solutions that can be shared in a method they choose to a real world problem.
- Dave

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Students should have a lot more choice in their learning and will actually come up with some really creative ideas. -Kelsey K.

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I will offer more opportunities for the students to choose how to demonstrate their learning. -Kelsey K.

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When students have a choice in their learning, they buy into the subject and the material even more. These ideas do not necessarily change my thinking, but they have made me consider how I can give students even more choice in their learning.
- Shannon S

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Our Pops Concert is a time where students choose the music, the props, the lighting, etc. They are able to be creative and make decisions to put on display for their audience. I would like to figure out a way to make this happen more than once a year.
- Shannon S

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I like the idea of slowing down and getting  our students to be more observant.  I believe in giving the students choices, but not too many.  When the students have a say, they actively participate more. 

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I like the idea of slowing down and getting  our students to be more observant.  I believe in giving the students choices, but not too many.  When the students have a say, they actively participate more. 

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I want my students to push themselves and learn it is ok to be wrong or not 100% correct.  I also want to focus on skills more and use content as a means of doing that. -Greg

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I want my students to push themselves and learn it is ok to be wrong or not 100% correct.  I also want to focus on skills more and use content as a means of doing that. -Greg

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Chapter 9 emphasized slowing down, and that students (and we) are distracted by daily life, hindering our ability to truly observe and notice our resources, ideas, and possibilities. We tend to plan days and weeks that are "go go go" for them, but sometimes slowing down to think and process is far more helpful than packing more into every class period. -Jesse

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It is important that I allow students time to process big ideas, taking everything in from the world around them. At an age when their identities are being formed, I'd hate for them to miss something crucial because I pressured them to "speed up" with something not as valuable to them. -Jesse

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I need to remember that students are capable of creating their own learning. Otherwise, they are passively engaging in the process of learning. I need to continue to work on ways to include them in the learning process. - Becky

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I want to take some time to slow down and allow the students to reflect on their learning and construct their own vocabulary lists for what they are learning to see what they think is important. I also hope to be able to co-create lessons and activities with them in the future. I'm not sure how or where I will start with this as it will be a learning process.

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I like when the teacher incorporated the argument about cigarette butts into the lesson, having the students observe that yes, there are indeed cigarette butts strewn about, and yes, they should do something about it by writing letters and alerting the news station. It was an authentic lesson using the powers of observation to prompt a teachable moment.

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It made me think of how important it is for students to know how to find their own resources and bring them to the class. Some already do this with recordings and song suggestions, but it's more important now to encourage them to do this on their own.

-Amy

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I will actively advocate for students to find their own resources and bring them to class, and show them how to differentiate from quality resources from bad resources.
-Amy

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Empowering students to feel involved in their learning process provides them a sense of accomplishment in the classroom which is important to their success. -Kristen

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I will make sure to provide the students more choice in their long term projects to help guide this empowerment. -Kristen

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Providing students choices in not only how they represent their learning in a final product, but also in how they engage with the content can be powerful.  This will help students take responsibility for their learning. - Mary D.

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I will consider providing opportunities for students to become the teacher and become co-creators in lessons. - Mary D.

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More student centered activities..  consider student input - mark

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More student centered activities..  consider student input - mark

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Observations and listening to students are important to not only build relationships, but make learning meaningful and engaging. -Megan

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I will provide more opportunity for creativity by offering more student choice. -Megan

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Providing choice-based learning opportunities for students will help provide better outcomes in student learning when they are able to be in control.

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Creating student surveys to give them student-voice and choice

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Since I have been implementing the active learner mentality in my classroom in all 3 grade levels, I have noticed by 8th grade, students are able to incorporate their own learning and identify their deficiencies; which then creates the issue of having them make their weakness become a strength.
GWG

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The goal that I set when we began reading this is to become more astute at having active learners communicate and collaborate with peers that do not learn/comprehend/participate like they do, and take something away from that other learning style
GWG

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Giving Students Opportunities to work together and continue to grow in their skills to work as a cohesive group as well is important in order to prepare students for their future careers. - Brooke

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I will continue to grow and learn about how I can support students in their ways of working together and understanding of working together in a group or groups. Brooke

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This reminds me how important it is that students are participants in their learning. If they feel connected to the idea they will be engaged and excited.

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I will collect more information about what students want to learn and why.

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Ask questions!  If you stop asking questions then one's teaching will become obsolete.  The most important question to me is, How does this shift benefit the students?- Michele

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Ask questions!  If you stop asking questions then one's teaching will become obsolete.  The most important question to me is, How does this shift benefit the students?- Michele

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Keep my compelling reason first and foremost.- Michele

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Keep my compelling reason first and foremost.- Michele