Using Essential Questions to Personalize Learning
by When you ask an open-ended question, how many valid answers might students come up with? Ten? One hundred? Thousands? Personalized Learning thought leaders Jay McTighe …
Category: Reflections
Personalizing “Need to Know” Content
by It’s day two of a unit on cellular mutations in Mrs. Coleman’s biology class. There are terms and concepts students need to know, like nondisjunction. …
Personalizing Learning in Math (Part 1)
It’s day three of the Circles Unit. Students come to class and Mrs. Verstreate tells students about her weekend: a dead deer, a popped tire, …
A Reflective Learning Culture
Let’s take a few minutes to consider the pauses we take before, during, and after a lesson. When do you reflect on teaching and learning? …
Student Portfolios
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Feedback and Learning: How am I doing?
Disillusioned It’s a bittersweet sting. After brainstorming and modeling, students begin drafting their thoughts. We’re minutes in and the question enters “Can you take a …
Prioritizing Investigation and Choice in Student Learning
by 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 …
5 Tools for Self-Discovery
Making Meaning through Self-Discovery Meet Lola- a young girl challenged to capture the essence of her hometown. With deep desire, “Lola closed her eyes and …
Connect Your Thoughts
Mind Map/ Concept Map A mind map is a way to display the interconnectedness of ideas. Mind maps are helpful for brainstorming and categorizing information- …
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 …