Here's a link to my video!
At the end of a long week, I'm riding this line of excited and inspired / totally overwhelmed.
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Showing posts with label PAML. Show all posts
Friday, July 1, 2016
A glimpse into my reflective memo
For one part of my Reflective Memo, I decided to play with a new tool called Adobe Spark. It's an amazing tool! I suggest checking it out.
Here's a link to my video!
At the end of a long week, I'm riding this line of excited and inspired / totally overwhelmed.
Here's a link to my video!
At the end of a long week, I'm riding this line of excited and inspired / totally overwhelmed.
Thursday, June 30, 2016
Great Graphic for Teacher Advisory
Peoples Academy working on the final touches...
Today we spent the day finalizing our action research for over-hauling our TA.
After many hours of reading and collecting research we have a clear vision!
Alex's Thursday thoughts
The speed of my voice is indicative of my energy level... Sloooooow & looooooow
Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Standards and Proficiencies
Transferable Skills - Middle grades teachers create learning opportunities within and across their disciplinary fields that enhance students’ transferable skills.
I hope I am not making a mistake of working on two tasks at once, but as we work through improving our TA practice at Peoples Academy we are also designing a new science curriculum. I justify this work on parallel platforms because it seems that all of our work is interconnected. I am transferring the skills and middle level philosophies we are exploring into my understanding of how science class should work. This work is driven by the coming expectation that scholarly habits will be assessed separately from content knowledge.
So... my challenge is to synthesize everything I am learning into a real world science class, while shaking out the skills we can develop in TA. I am getting more confused by explaining... Try again: I want to identify the transferable skills (scholarly habits) that we waste science class time teaching (or waste even more time by not teaching the skills), so we can concentrate on those skills in TA or AT.
Try again: I selfishly want TA & AT to serve science, and I want science and all of our classes classes to work together, so when it is time to start our experiment, we aren't having a lesson on "respect" or "being prepared."
I think it would be helpful if we had a common set of expectations(scholarly habits) across VT... Sometimes I think we put a lot of resources as a state into having many people working to figure out the same thing.
I hope I am not making a mistake of working on two tasks at once, but as we work through improving our TA practice at Peoples Academy we are also designing a new science curriculum. I justify this work on parallel platforms because it seems that all of our work is interconnected. I am transferring the skills and middle level philosophies we are exploring into my understanding of how science class should work. This work is driven by the coming expectation that scholarly habits will be assessed separately from content knowledge.
So... my challenge is to synthesize everything I am learning into a real world science class, while shaking out the skills we can develop in TA. I am getting more confused by explaining... Try again: I want to identify the transferable skills (scholarly habits) that we waste science class time teaching (or waste even more time by not teaching the skills), so we can concentrate on those skills in TA or AT.
Try again: I selfishly want TA & AT to serve science, and I want science and all of our classes classes to work together, so when it is time to start our experiment, we aren't having a lesson on "respect" or "being prepared."
I think it would be helpful if we had a common set of expectations(scholarly habits) across VT... Sometimes I think we put a lot of resources as a state into having many people working to figure out the same thing.
Teacher Advisory and Student Voice
Democratic Classrooms - Middle grades teachers create and support democratic classrooms in which student voice and student-centered pedagogy empower students with agency and choice in their learning.
On Tuesday we listened to students from different schools discuss their likes and dislikes in Teacher Advisory. One important lesson I took away from that was to involve students in what our TA process is. It was evident that students in that group had some definite things about TA that they liked. For instance, students like TA to be the beginning of the day, they liked the transition it had to set them up for the day and they liked the activities that were fun. But there was one student who said he would prefer to start the day with silent reading, go ahead and welcome him and say announcements, but don't bug him after that.
My aha moment was when another student explained that in his class they all took turns running morning meeting. What a powerful way to engage students especially 7th and 8th graders in this process. Another wonderful thing is that we will actually have more time to plan this time with students because of schedule changes. The 7th and 8th graders will be able to choose activities, some learning, greetings etc. I look forward to recharging my TA time and making it meaningful for my students and myself.
On Tuesday we listened to students from different schools discuss their likes and dislikes in Teacher Advisory. One important lesson I took away from that was to involve students in what our TA process is. It was evident that students in that group had some definite things about TA that they liked. For instance, students like TA to be the beginning of the day, they liked the transition it had to set them up for the day and they liked the activities that were fun. But there was one student who said he would prefer to start the day with silent reading, go ahead and welcome him and say announcements, but don't bug him after that.
My aha moment was when another student explained that in his class they all took turns running morning meeting. What a powerful way to engage students especially 7th and 8th graders in this process. Another wonderful thing is that we will actually have more time to plan this time with students because of schedule changes. The 7th and 8th graders will be able to choose activities, some learning, greetings etc. I look forward to recharging my TA time and making it meaningful for my students and myself.
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Tuesday's Take-aways
Accomplished...
AHA moment & THANK YOU...
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| This is a Word Cloud of our Action Research rationale |
AHA moment & THANK YOU...
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| Here's an annotated screenshot of my notes from our time with SMS |
Monday, June 27, 2016
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