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Secondary Personalized Learning Instructional Model Designs

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See how the Flipped Mastery Model combines elements of the flipped classroom with self-paced, compentency-based learning to engage students.

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By Alex Hernandez -

Personalizing with technology isn't easy-especially when the user has to adjust to the product, rather than the other way around.
Resource: The Star Teacher Pre-Screener The Science of Teacher Selection and Interviewing
Take KIPP Bay Area math teacher Tricia Dong. A few years ago, she could see that some of her fifth graders struggled with second grade math skills, while others were capable of eighth grade content on the NWEA Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) assessment. She wanted to create unique content for each of them-but it wasn't easy. "The first time I created Khan Academy playlists for each of my 100 fifth graders," says Dong, "it took me 6 hours."

Individualizing lessons for students is a still a manual process for most teachers.

Individualizing lessons for students is a still a manual process for most teachers-Dong's experience is not unusual-which means customization can happen sporadically or not at all. But for good learning to happen, customization is a non-negotiable.

Four KIPP teachers decided to take matters into their own hands, responding to this frustration by building something better. Today, KIPP Bay Area teachers can generate personalized Khan Academy playlists for their students in under 10 minutes using an automated tool. The tool was designed by KIPP Bay Area teachers and, unsurprisingly, solves a real problem while saving time.

How'd they do it? Here's their story.

Building Tools That Teachers Want To Use

KIPP Bay Area is a public charter school network operating 11 schools serving 4,700 K-12 students. Seventy-seven percent of the network's students are low-income, and 95% are students of color. And like in many districts and schools, teachers are surrounded by "helpful" tools that are not very helpful.

For example, KIPP students are assessed three times a year on the NWEA MAP test. MAP is unique because it measures students' academic growth throughout the year. It can tell a teacher that their 7th grade student started the year with the math skills of a typical 4th grader and ended the year performing like the average 6th grader. Traditional assessments do not capture that type of student growth data nor do end-of-year state tests. But there's a problem: the data is not actionable for teachers. What does a teacher do now that they know Carlos has a 174 scale score in "Measurement and Data"?

"Data that is not actionable plus online content that is not customized is a recipe for disappointment."

Prior to the 2014-2015 school year, teachers also had access to Khan Academy, where math content is organized by grade level. But organizing content by grade level is not helpful when students are all over place in their knowledge and skills. "Data that is not actionable plus online content that is not customized is a recipe for disappointment," laments Jennie Dougherty, KIPP Bay Area's Associate Director of Innovation.

Teachers, by default, began creating their own solutions. In fall 2014, Khan Academy quietly released a PDF document that told teachers which Khan Academy exercises are most relevant to students based on their MAP scores. Kamal Pannu, who was a 5th grade math teacher back then, began manually assigning Khan Academy exercises to students using this guidance. "I prototyped an early version of a tool that created Khan Academy playlists based on students' individual MAP scores, but the initial setup took me weeks, and it wasn't very practical," said Pannu.

Dougherty, who manages innovation for the region, noticed that Pannu and other teachers were making different hacks to the same problem. She worked with them to build an automated tool. The resulting 1.0 version was a Google spreadsheet (shown below) that allows teachers to copy-and-paste their students' MAP scores and generate an individualized Khan Academy playlist for each student.

All of a sudden, the MAP assessment data was actionable and the Khan Academy content was personalized. KIPP teachers understood that, in order for Khan Academy to be more useful in the classroom, students couldn't just roam free in the software; the classroom experience needed coherence. The tool (pictured above) is a Rosetta Stone of sorts that takes a student's individual MAP data, uses this data to help students move through Khan Academy in targeted ways-moving up or down grade levels as appropriate-and allows teachers to link the work on Khan Academy to the classroom.

Let's dig into how the playlists are used.

These Teachers Have Moves Like Jagger

The customized Khan Academy playlists have completely transformed KIPP's classrooms! Ok, just kidding. But in all seriousness, the playlists became an important part of these teachers' classrooms, helping struggling students close skill gaps and advanced students access new content.

During the start of the 2015-2016 school year, KIPP Bay Area began implementing the Eureka Math curriculum while adopting the Common Core standards. In Ms. Dong's classes, she grouped her 5th graders into low, medium and high groups, and each group did three rotations during a 70 minute period-using a combination of Khan Academy and Eureka Math. See below.

Low

Small group Eureka lesson with teacher

Independent practice on Eureka

Khan Academy exercises to fill skill gaps

Medium

Students try Eureka lesson on their own

Small group Eureka lesson with teacher

Independent practice on Eureka

High

Students try Eureka lesson on their own

Khan Academy extension exercises

Small group instruction with teacher to correct Eureka misperceptions or support extension activities

The structure allows Dong to spend her time pushing students' conceptual understanding on Eureka math while giving students customized practice opportunities on Khan Academy.

Four teachers-Neil Davis, Tricia Dong, Katie Hogan, and Kamal Pannu-stood out among their colleagues as having the best methods to combine small group instruction, individual support and customized practice opportunities for students.Their students' growth on the MAP test that year ranged from promising to earth-shattering. Hogan and Pannu, for example, finished the year with two-thirds of their students scoring in the top quartile nationally.

This success led KIPP Bay Area to refine the tool and release it to all math teachers in the fall of 2015. And here's a crazy stat: Dougherty's team generated individualized playlists for over 3,600 students during September alone.

A little alignment created hunger for more-and these teachers aren't stopping the design process anytime soon.

Hungry for More

Ultimately, these KIPP teachers wanted tighter alignment between their classroom lessons and what students were doing online. They appreciated online learning's potential to provide personalized practice, but it needed to be part of coherent classroom experience.

Aligning MAP to Khan Academy was a first step. But a little alignment created hunger for more-and these teachers aren't stopping the design process anytime soon.

"Let's break the mystery of 'black box' online content and align Eureka Math to Khan Academy," says Pannu. "For each Eureka lesson, let's find the foundational math skills on Khan Academy for students who are 1-2 years behind grade level."

Sounds like another tool to build. Take your pencils and notebooks out, Silicon Valley. Class is in session.

Source: When Teachers Build Edtech, Awesomeness Ensues-and Here's Why | EdSurge News

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Since Jonathan Bergman and Aaron Sams first experimented with the idea in their Colorado classrooms in 2004, flipped learning has exploded onto the larger educational scene. It's been one of the hottest topics in education for several years running and doesn't seem to be losing steam.

Basically, it all started when Bergman and Sams first came across a technology that makes it easy to record videos. They had a lot of students that regularly missed class and saw an opportunity to make sure that missing class didn't mean missing out on the lessons. Once students had the option of reviewing the lessons at home, the teachers quickly realized the shift opened up additional time in class for more productive, interactive activities than the lectures they'd been giving.

And voila: a movement began.

A 2014 survey from the Flipped Learning network found that 78% of teachers said they'd flipped a lesson, and 96% of those that tried it said they'd recommend it.

What is a flipped classroom?

Once a new idea becomes a buzzword, pinning down the definition can become a tad more challenging. The flipped learning network has developed what they hope will be seen as the definitive definition:

"Flipped Learning is a pedagogical approach in which direct instruction moves from the group learning space to the individual learning space, and the resulting group space is transformed into a dynamic, interactive learning environment where the educator guides students as they apply concepts and engage creatively in the subject matter."

That gets the idea across, but it's a bit of a mouthful. The gist, in somewhat simpler terms, is that it's about moving the more passive elements of learning (watching a lecture, reading a chapter, etc.) outside of the classroom, so that more class time is available for interactive, hands-on learning.

Most people hear "flipped learning" and picture kids watching videos at home, but proponents of it suggest that it doesn't have to be exclusively about videos. Teachers are encouraged to give students options - some students will still learn better by reading a textbook chapter, but others will benefit from videos, audio files, or any other type of material you can find or create that covers a given topic.

The Benefits of Flipping Your Classroom

For a veteran teacher, flipping the classroom means completely re-thinking how to do the job you've done a certain way for years. And it comes with some extra work. That being the case, why would any teacher bother?

1. Flipped learning keeps students more engaged.

The flipped classroom model addresses how students learn best. We all know how hard it can be to stay focused during a long lecture, even if it's on a subject we're especially interested in. Discussions and hands-on activities tend to keep students' interest. While you work with students directly as they explore the concepts they're learning in class, you can provide immediate feedback that helps them improve their learning as they go.

2. Teachers provide more personalized attention.

Students don't all learn at the same pace and in the same ways. That's always been a complicating factor in teaching. The question of how to meet thirty or more unique students at their own levels is one that keeps teachers up at night.

The flipped classroom model gives teachers more opportunities to work directly with students. They can therefore clearly see when an individual student is having trouble with a concept and work with them directly to get through it. The increased interaction with students in the classroom will help teachers gain a clearer idea of the different learning styles of their students, so they can tailor their instruction to the needs of each one.

3. Students can work at their own pace.

A student sitting in a lecture, diligently taking notes will almost certainly miss one thing the professor says while writing down another. And that's still a vast improvement over the student whose mind wanders so they don't catch much of anything.

If they're watching a video at home instead, they have the power to pause the lecture while they write something down, and rewind and re-watch a particular part they didn't fully understand the first time. If they feel they could really use a second viewing to better understand the concept, they have that option. They have more power over the way and process by which they study and learn.

Examples of Flipped Classrooms

As in most things, there's no one right way to flip a classroom or lesson. But knowing how other teachers have done it can help give you ideas about what will work best for you.

The Backwards Classroom

Stacy Roshan's classroom is probably the closest to what most people think of as a "flipped classroom" of those on our list, although she's referred to it as the " backwards classroom " herself. She flipped her classroom largely to help reduce the anxiety she saw students experience in her AP Calculus class whenever she'd introduce complicated new concepts.

For homework, her students watch videos she's recorded in advance that cover the concepts explored in each chapter of her textbook. They spend their time in class doing the types of math problems that students have traditionally done as homework. If they have difficulty working through a problem, the teacher's right there for them to ask for help.

She does have to spend a lot of time creating those videos, but is happy enough with the results of using a flipped model that she's been at it for over four years now and is taking the time to experiment with new ways to make it better, like including embedded quizzes in the videos that students watch at home.

The Faux Flipped Classroom

One of the common criticisms leveled at flipped learning is that it depends on a certain amount of privilege: what about all the students who don't have a computer at home to watch videos on? Tracey Gillies addresses this concern with what she calls the "faux flipped" classroom.

Students who don't have a computer at home can watch the assigned video in class. Gillies' classroom is full of students each doing their own thing - watching a video, working out problems, taking quizzes, or posting or commenting on an online discussion board to get input from other students. Each of them is able to work on an assignment for as long as they need in order to master it, and then move on.

And Gillies is there to work with anyone who needs her help, at whatever point in the process they are at.

An Evolved Flipped Classroom

Shelley Wright embraced the flipped classroom back in 2011 and wrote a post about her experiences with flipped learning so far. But she followed it up a year later with a new post about how her flipped classroom had turned into something else - not a reversion back to the traditional way, but a more evolved version of the student-centered classroom she was seeking by flipping her lessons.

As students in her classroom became better at taking the lead on finding valuable resources and pursuing learning their own way, she shifted her focus to helping them with the process of learning how to learn better on their own rather than teaching about the subjects directly.

Her lesson to other teachers interested in flipped learning seems to boil down to: don't think it's all about the videos, they can be a part of it or not. It's about shifting from passive learning to active learning, in whatever way works for you and your students.

The Tools of Flipped Learning

A comprehensive list of every possible tool educators could use to flip a classroom would require a book (and probably still miss some), but we wanted to address a few resources that are common in flipped classrooms.

Of course, familiar tools like YouTube, Evernote, Google Drive, and blogging platforms can play a role as well, but here are a few more specifically suited to flipped learning.

To create videos for students to watch at home, you'll need easy-to-use screencasting software. Camtasia isn't the only one on the market; you can find a list of some of the other screencasting tools you can use here (including some free ones). We're highlighting Camtasia, because the company has optimized the tool for flipped classrooms.

Using Camtasia is fairly intuitive for new users. It allows you to record either your screen, or yourself. And, in one of the features that most sets it apart, it allows you to add interactive elements to your video. You can include quizzes throughout a video to test students' comprehension of what they've just seen, and you can include links out to any additional materials you want them to read or view. It does cost $75 if you're buying the Mac version, and $179 for the PC version, so it's a bit of an investment. But there are volume discounts that may help out if enough teachers in one institution are interested in exploring the flipped classroom.

Part of the appeal of flipped classrooms is that all that extra class time provides more opportunities for collaboration amongst students. Wikispaces is a great tool for encouraging and enabling that collaboration. It's free, unless your school is interested in purchasing a more secure version of the product.

The free version provides a lot of useful features though. You can give students assignments through the wiki, for both individual and group projects. You can load content for them to review and comment on, start discussions (or let them do so), and track how engaged different students are with the content you've assigned. It's plenty useful for non-flipped classrooms as well, but can help students collaborate and interact more both within and outside of the classroom, so lends itself especially well to the challenges of flipped learning.

EdModo is one of the most commonly used education tools in the world and can even claim the title of largest K-12 social network. It enables a lot of the same kind of tasks that Wikispaces does: loading content and assignments for your students to access, and allowing students to share discussions and comments, for instance. But it adds a much larger social element since you can interact with other students and educators beyond your own classroom. That means you can tap into the content and lessons beyond those you've developed and students can seek out insights beyond those their own classmates have.

The tool also provides analytics that help you spot who needs help with what so you can make your class time more productive. And students can access everything loaded to Edmodo on mobile devices as well as desktops, so they can do their learning wherever works best for them.

Like WikiSpaces and Edmodo, Moodle has the functionality to serve as the platform for a flipped classroom. Teachers can load resources, including any relevant ones they find shared by other teachers in Moodle, to create the assignments and curriculum for each class.

Conveniently, an educator from Northwest Regional ESD created a course on how to flip a class using Moodle within Moodle itself. So you can learn about some of the best practices and processes, while also seeing an example of what a course in Moodle looks like at the same time. You can load all the content related to each module, divide it according to topics, and include a variety of content formats.

The last resource on our list is less about providing or organizing content and assignments for your students, and more about actively soliciting their feedback. If the goal of a flipped classroom is to make the learning experience more student-centered, then it makes sense to regularly check in with them.

You can use Poll Everywhere both for occasional quizzes to see how students are doing throughout a class period and to solicit input from the class on which concepts to focus on and how to address them. If you have three ideas for activities students can do together to explore a particular concept, make them choices students can vote on. You can group the students according to their preferences, or focus on the winning option for activities that involve the whole class.

Additional Helpful Resources

As you've noticed by now, this is a big subject. You can find a lot more to learn and say about flipped learning than we've covered here. If you want more information before trying the flipped classroom out, here are some helpful places to start:

In Conclusion

The flipped classroom may not be for everyone. It involves some extra upfront work and just might not mesh with the teaching style of every educator out there. But enough of the teachers that have tried it are having success that you may find it worthwhile to experiment with flipping a lesson or two to see what happens. You might just become a convert.
Editor's note: This article is a revision and combination of several older Edudemic articles, updated and re-analyzed to reflect the latest innovations.

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No, your link is not broken. Curriculum Pathways® from SAS was officially retired July 15, 2021. Since its launch more than two decades ago, the product has provided interactive resources in the core disciplines and other subjects for educators and students. But it is time to move forward.

SAS®, a recognized leader in analytics, will continue supporting K-12 education with tools and resources advancing data literacy. Organizations around the globe are looking for candidates who can think critically to discern creative solutions for today's problems. Our new education outreach program is designed to introduce and build those skills that are now in high demand.

Read more about our data literacy initiative and explore the resources-some familiar and some new-that you can use today to develop data-savvy global citizens for tomorrow:

SAS® DataFly - Brand new! Bring data into your classroom in the form of personalized, customized student responses. Pose questions, create and administer surveys, and then analyze the results.

GatherIQ™ - Learn about the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 using impact stories and data to explain the needs and outline solutions.

SAS® CodeSnaps - Have students work collaboratively to build a program with this iOS app directing a Sphero robot to run an obstacle course, play soccer, navigate a map and more.

SAS® Math Stretch - Help students master important number skills with this iOS app. Adjust the difficulty, assign practice for understanding and quiz students to check proficiency.

These are just the beginning! Bookmark our data literacy site and visit often to learn more. Follow us@SASEducator as we add offerings to encourage curiosity and promote problem-solving for the next generation.

If you have additional questions about Curriculum Pathways, check out the FAQs below.

Thank you,

The SAS Education Outreach Team
FAQ's: Why did Curriculum Pathways retire?

Many of the older resources were built using technologies no longer supported by modern browsers or sustainable for long-term use. Also, several external web sites referenced in lessons ceased to exist and replacements were unavailable.

Over the lifetime of Curriculum Pathways, many new programs and applications have been developed by other providers in the education space-a lot of them available at no cost.

Both public and private sectors need data scientists and other technology specialists. SAS, a global analytics and data company, is uniquely positioned to provide supporting resources for data literacy and computer science in keeping with our core values.

What can I use instead of Curriculum Pathways resources?
Look for both OER (open education resources) and paid resources to be used in place of Curriculum Pathways. Below are a just a few examples of alternative resources.
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See the links above for information on SAS® CodeSnaps, SAS® Math Stretch, and GatherIQ™.

Still have questions? Contact us at socialinnovation@sas.com.

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