How do the ideas and information presented CONNECT to what you already knew?

What new ideas did you read about that EXTENDED or pushed your thinking in new directions?

What is still CHALLENGING or confusing for you to get your mind around? What questions, wonderings or puzzles do you now have? 

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Students do not actively engage unless the content relates to their lives. While I’m reading it I keep thinking about the 4th Industrial Revolution and all the changes that will take place in the world as our students complete their formal education and "go out" in to the real world. Some of the jobs and tasks they will perform have not even been invented right now.

 

What new ideas did you read about that EXTENDED or pushed your thinking in new directions?

Students need multiple opportunities to develop skills and apply the knowledge to real world situations - I don’t know if this is truly a new idea, however, I realize that the multiple and in different ways is so so important! With this new focus on learning for understanding we will have to develop new strategies to assess or reflect on this type of learning. Another area that has extended my thinking is in the arena of "students reflecting on their own work" -- We spend a great deal of time analyzing data and making decisions about what we think they need - I believe in the past I have not sought the input from the individual students about their learning and future learning.

 

 

What is still CHALLENGING or confusing for you to get your mind around? What questions, wonderings or puzzles do you now have? 

Still challenging to use the resources we have in the building to develop conceptually-based learning activities to address the themes in the 6 Transdisciplinary Themes

Concepts are a large group of related ideas or things - incorporating a large quantity of items or ideas. For example “Living Things” is a huge group that includes a large number of ‘things’ and by its nature excludes other ‘things.’

 

 

I have seen students connect their learning from one concept to another.  One example is when students start to see the connection between addition and subtraction -- ex, addition is used to place items into one group and as the inverse subtraction is used to take items away from a group. In science students begin to experience the importance of systems and how the parts or a system work together, including how a system would change if a certain part was not working or was taken out of the system.

 

 

Key concepts are the concepts in their most abstract form. The related concepts can be more subject specific, however they remain a subset of the key concepts. For example - the idea of CONNECTION is a concept that can relate to relationships and how we are connected to other people and can also be used to show the connection between multiplication and division - multiplication being the operation we use to put groups together and division being the operation we use to place a large group into smaller groups

How do the ideas and information presented CONNECT to what you already knew?

The world is always changing, the way kids learn is changing as well. We need to offer more choices for students to be actively engaged in their learning.

 

 

What new ideas did you read about that EXTENDED or pushed your thinking in new directions?

The new ideas I read about were students needing to assess themselves and be more actively engaged in their learning.

 

What is still CHALLENGING or confusing for you to get your mind around? What questions, wonderings or puzzles do you now have? 

  I am still being challenged on how to teach the concepts in the physical education classroom.

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Our students make connections to the learner profile in their everyday life.

 

 

 

Concepts are huge ideas and related help you focus more. A basketball team is a huge idea while each individual player is the related concept. Relationships on a team are the bigger concepts while individual relationships are the related concepts.

What new ideas did you read about that EXTENDED or pushed your thinking in new directions? None of the ideas were new to me because I've worked through a variety of curriculums during my years in teaching. However, it just reminded me to make sure that what is being taught cn be transferred across subjects and used in everyday life.

What is still CHALLENGING or confusing for you to get your mind around? What questions, wonderings or puzzles do you now have?  The challenging part is reaching all studnts at all levels in the short time we are given per topic.

Our students make connections to the learner profile in their everyday life.

 

 

 

Concepts are huge ideas and related help you focus more. A basketball team is a huge idea while each individual player is the related concept. Relationships on a team are the bigger concepts while individual relationships are the related concepts.

•Read the assigned theme descriptor and, in your collaborative space, make a note of what is unique to each theme. Note the key concepts and related concepts from the subject areas that are clearly evident and others that might be deduced or implied. Add any other concepts that you feel are relevant. 

•Be prepared to comment on what you notice about key and related concepts supporting the theme.  

Self-management skills - each student could develop strategies which they would use whenever they get in a conflict inorder to decrease the severity of the conflict.

Keep a journal of situations and conflicts in my classroom - reflecting back on the best ways to solve these issues. Also journal about thoughts and feelings right after a conflict - using this to later go back and reflect on alternate ways to solve the conflict.

* At least one inquiry experience with formative assessment

Have students study the United Nations and the different strategies (especially the committees) that the organization uses to resolve conflicts around the world.

Have students develop a committee to respond to a common conflict in their classroom.

Students could create a visual to promote conflict resolution - maybe including at least 3 identified strategies that work for them.

The connection between key concepts and related concepts is that they both describe the same thing. Concepts are the main idea or broad topic that is the basis of a unit. The key concepts breaks the concept down into specific topics that explore the 5 w's. The key concept is the outline while the concept is the overall theme.