EMS Faculty Learning Time by btruchon

Project Based Learning

lbotte — 2018-09-13 11:06:36 UTC

Student driven ideas - beyond the Genius Hour. Passion Projects, Genius hour, etc. will get old if done in every grade, every year.

Habits of Learning

2018-09-13 11:07:09 UTC

Connecting students and ideas through Maker projects.

2018-09-13 11:07:12 UTC

How do you scaffold a maker project to ensure success and buy in?

How do Maker style projects lead to deeper learning?

Student Interest/Culture Driven Projects

jdemink — 2018-09-13 11:07:28 UTC

Use the idea of project based learning and blend that with the backgrounds and interests of our students.

Student Driven Investigations

lbotte — 2018-09-13 11:07:32 UTC

How do we make our every day curriculum more student driven and more authentic for students? How do you incorporate more student voice into your lessons so they are doing the talking and leading.

Habits of Learning

2018-09-13 11:07:59 UTC

2018-09-13 11:08:11 UTC

- teacher led workshops with choice for attendees
- Teach Meet-
- Formalize Teacher Partner- provide work time for pairs/groups to conference and improve their craft
-Guest presenters??? Do we use some of the funds to support this? Who would this be?

Transformative Tech

lbotte — 2018-09-13 11:08:13 UTC

It's been years since we really had any tech training, and with returning to chromebooks, we have gone back to a substitution model in many areas

Effectively Designing Curriculum Project Based Learning based on Proficiencies identified by each group.

jdemink — 2018-09-13 11:09:34 UTC

Using the concept of backward design--re envision how we create and summative assessments and utilize those as the drivers for our formative work that takes place in the classroom.

Changing Child Needs

2018-09-13 11:11:26 UTC

Invite Psychologist and Med Drs. to come in and share most recent trends in child development and the changing needs of the middle school and HS age kiddo.

Homework:

2018-09-13 11:12:27 UTC

Best Practices in HW and making sure reluctant learners can access and find success in HW.

Inclusion:

2018-09-13 11:12:59 UTC

What is the goal of inclusion? What are best practices? Responsibilities and roles in building an inclusive classroom.

Habits of Learning

2018-09-13 11:13:37 UTC

What are they? How to assess? Is this happening Q1?

Focus on Revision as a Tool for Assessment

jdemink — 2018-09-13 11:13:40 UTC

Creating less more impactful assessments that can be revised multiple times. Going slow and taking time and letting student need drive instruction as opposed to a pacing map.

Teaming

2018-09-13 11:13:58 UTC

How to build a team of teachers. How to build a team of learners.

Feedback Only Grading

lbotte — 2018-09-13 11:14:42 UTC

Research shows it is most effective, but how do you do it?

Inventory Faculty: What do they feel they need help with?

2018-09-13 11:15:38 UTC

HOTS instead of LOTS

jdemink — 2018-09-13 11:15:47 UTC

Higher Order Thinking Skills vs. Lower Order Thinking Skills) Looking at assessments that we already do and using Bloom's Taxonomy as a measuring tool to assess our own assessments and revise them/get rid of them if they do not focus /get to analysis or above.

Identifying exactly where we want kids to be with morning meeting?

2018-09-13 11:16:03 UTC

What is the end game?

What does success look like?

Going beyond games...

btruchon1 — 2025-12-06 15:11:08 UTC

test

btruchon1 — 2025-12-06 15:11:34 UTC

test

btruchon1 — 2025-12-06 15:11:54 UTC

test