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Angela, Marta, Chika

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Key Piont 1 : Stop looking at averaged instead look for  dimensions.

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Key Piont 1 : Stop looking at averaged instead look for  dimensions.

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Averages keep us from reaching our full potential. We are all different. We look different, have different talents, needs and intelligence.

We have to start to look at student and ask questions. What do they bring? What are their stories, their history? Learn about their talents and passion. We have to understand that is no only one way or one path of learning. We have to try design adjustable curriculum for all the students to be successful.
Connections/ examples:

In schools :

-In our education system IEP is created for individual students to meet their needs. Individual plan sometimes is not efficient. Instead we should create adjustable plan  so every student can benefit from it.

- Using visuals- benefits all students
Personal connection. Having two kids made me realize that I can not teach them the same way. My younger son is more visual and artistic and is easily overwhelm with homework.  And my older son have an excellent memory and he is more logical person. Whenever I try to help them learn I use different approaches and methods for them to learn and understand the same material . I use visuals, pictures, or teach by examples and I always think of different ways of teaching. Even they are both my sons, but they learn differently.

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Funds of knowledge - Dr. Leyton Schnellert

Todd Rose's book “ End of Average”

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The end of average ?

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Episode three of Shelly Moore’s video looks at the notion of average in education. It brings an insight to teachers in designing curriculum in a dimensional way. There is no one-size-fits-all solution in curriculum planning and teachers need to look at students' abilities to create adjustable curriculums for them. Moore's focus is to put an end to average. She explains this idea by using the example of airplanes. In the Air Force researchers studied 4,000 pilots and took their measurements to create an average seating for the pilot. But the result was that no one could fit into the average seating. Same with education, if we create a standard curriculum based on all student’s averages, then it will be a curriculum that fits no students at all. Moore is suggesting that we stop looking at average, and look at students in a dimension.

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Key Point 2: Teaching students to make the adjustments, not teachers adjusting for the students. 

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Key Point 2: Teaching students to make the adjustments, not teachers adjusting for the students. 

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We have learned that it is almost impossible to have one standardized curriculum for every individual student. And it is also not economical to design a tailored curriculum for every student. So teachers and EAs are making adaptations for the students in a way that they think is best for the students. But the best way is actually the students making adjustments for themselves, just like how the pilot would adjust their own seat according to their comfortability.

Insights and examples
This is where student agency and self-regulated learning come to play. As teachers and EAs, we need to teach students to make the adjustments that they need so that the adjustments are most optimal and comfortable.
This can be achieved by teachers and EAs taking the time to listen to their stories, How do we find out and use what our students' strengths in all of their dimensions, and designing a curriculum that is adjustable just for them. A few examples of self-regulated learning could be:

·      Having the student set up their learning goals.

·      Student can choose the way they want to express their learning and knowledge. Such as audio recording, drawing, videos, etc.

·      Student evaluate their own learning experiences.

Aside from self-regulated learning, teachers can also provide an inclusive learning space (such as cozy corners) and allow student choice. Our final goal is not for the student to fit into the plane, the goal is to have students fly the plane. It is our job to teach them how to make the adjustments that they need.