On Friday, I was so pleased to be able to return to one of my favorite days of the year, High-Interest Day at Brookfield Elementary School. This is a day where I have been able to bring the concepts of physics to k-5 graders. You may be asking yourself, "Elementary students doing physics?" YES! Not just experimenting, but understanding the concepts behind the physics of electricity and sound. This is a very special day I have had the opportunity to be involved in since 2017. So, how are we able to bring the concepts of electricity and sound traditionally taught to high school 11th and 12th graders to the elementary level? There are a few keys 1) make it a hands-on experience 2) remove the mathematical calculations and make it practical. In the past, I had the luck of bringing a handful of my physics students with me to guide the elementary students through the concepts that they had learned over the course of the year. But in my new role as a Teaching and Learning Speciali
As a part of a recent professional development day at Brookfield Central, I gave a presentation covering how I have used the learning management system Canvas to add personalization to my assessments. Even more than what I currently do, I higlighted how Canvas can be used to align formative and summative assessments to the same learning outcomes. Once this is done, students and teachers can track progress towards mastery of learning outcomes.
The personalized learning model our district is guided by was designed by Cooperative Educational Service Agency 1 http://www.cesa1.k12.wi.us. The image below is a guide to the essentials of personalized learning.
For more information about CESA 1 and their model of personalized learning, follow this link http://www.cesa1.k12.wi.us/programs/pers_learning_pd.cfm.
This presentation was not designed as a stand alone. So forgive me if there seems to be any gaps.
I would love to discuss this further with any interested parties.
Would you be willing to give a live presentation of this via Canvas conferences or Google Hangouts on Air to teachers in Oshkosh?
ReplyDeleteMore context: We have just inked a contract with Canvas for our high school teachers. We are very new to personalized learning (at least in acknowledging it as a pedagogical phenomenon, many teachers have been doing some great things for a long time that weren't labeled such). I am a technology integration coach, and I'm teaching a course for UW-Oshkosh this summer on using technology to personalize learning. I would love to show some secondary teachers who other secondary teachers are not only using Canvas but rather focusing on instruction first (that's why you've chosen Canvas as your tool) and using technology to help gain greater choices, work towards mastery, and provide more specific, immediate feedback. We'd love to have you as a very informal guest speaker.
DeleteIf you don't mind, I'd also like to use your blog post "You Got Your Personalization in my PBL" with our course participants to help them reflect on assessment and personalization practices. I'm having particular difficulty with instructors who perceive their content to be so esoteric that students can't possibly have choices in the way they demonstrate understanding. It shouldn't matter, but what you teach will have particular weight with this demographic of instructor. Thanks for writing and posting!
Hi Mike! We'd love to pick your brain, too. You've seen how we use our own tech in our elementary world...canvas is required of us in the fall, as well. Scared, but eager to see the possibilities for our "littles" and how they are similar/different to your "bigs". Let's chat:)
ReplyDeletePS...we have a "Genius Hour" project on Newton right now! She asked to interview you!:)
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