My primary audience is my middle school students, I want to develop curriculum with the new integrated model the right way. Whether it be sharing a learning tool we used in class, like flipgrid or complete overhauls on how I have approached my teaching. My colleagues are also my audience. I have shared and will continue to share both tools and pedagogy I have learned. I have shared tech tools at our content meetings and shared my pre and post test data when trying new methods.
My ultimate goal is for students to have a clear understanding of what they are learning and a purpose of why they are learning it. I also want them to be part of the learning process where they will reflect on what they have learned and still need to learn. My challenge is building this culture in middle school and getting them to be part of the process. Two things that really stuck out from the readings. Baggio-”needs to be relevant to the learner” And Clarke “How will you and the student know what they’ve learned” My initial thoughts in addressing the challenge of sharing what I have learned was with my students. How can I get this into kid terms so they can understand it. I have found they needed to start with something concrete like pre and post test so they had a number to see their learning. I am also going to try and let the kids come up with how they can transfer the knowledge they learned. I also used a google form with the learning intentions for the unit and will be revisiting weekly so they can reflect on how they think they are learning Also, to share the learning with colleagues can be tricky. We meet twice a month for an hour as a content team. I share with the other 7th grade science teacher but not the rest of the department or staff. Well sometimes in passing if another teacher is trying the same strategies.
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Kayla Bryant
3/5/2018 06:25:56 pm
I agree that our students are our main audience, and it's definitely a shift in thinking to focus our attention on other teachers instead. It can definitely be challenging to share information with colleagues when we meet so rarely at school. I do think though that it will be easier to share the information when we create our capstone website, then colleagues we teach with as well as colleagues around the world will potentially be able to see what we have been studying.
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Maria Dowling
3/6/2018 07:44:41 pm
You do have a challenging job. I live with an 8th grader, so I know how difficult it can be to get them to do anything. I think it's great that you're taking the time to build a culture of self-reflection. I also think that the way you include your students in the learning process will help with this.
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