Reflecting On The Spring, Preparing For The Fall
by Reflecting On The Spring It has been a while since I have written. When spring arrived this year, as a high school English teacher, my …
Author: Shawna Parkinson
Shawna is an English/Language Arts Teacher at Mason High School. Her posts often appear on Allison Zmuda's LearningPersonalized.com. Articles are cross-posted with Shawna's permission. Twitter: @ParksinonLearns
My Journey Into Creating A Design Challenge
In a contemporary analysis unit I recently designed, students were asked to analyze two, opposing texts on a debatable topic and then develop their own …
Prioritizing Investigation and Choice in Student Learning
While I am definitely a learner in personalized learning, my revelation this week has been that we should “lean away” from unit design and lesson …
The Deliberate Messes We Should Make More Often
The Metaphor: From the Learning Space to the Planning Space As I was teaching the other day, class had ended and my classroom was a …
Nurturing A “Literacy Of Me”
In “What Role Does Personalization Play in College and Career Readiness?” Julia Osteen includes Ed Hidalgo’s proposal that students should graduate with a “mission of …
Nurturing the Seeds of Talent and Passion within Learners
When I was twenty years old, I was standing in Benton Hall at Miami University, talking with my education professor after our 7 p.m. night …
Honoring “The Why” in Unit Design and Instruction
Over the past few years of teaching English to high school juniors, I have become increasingly aware of the competitive nature of our students’ post-secondary …
Wading into the Water of Personalized Learning
Writing this on the second day of school, I don’t mind sharing that I am happily exhausted! This feeling is the result of my own …