The Goal: Increase student engagement and achievement by using student learning profiles with every student to design lessons and assessments that address the different learners within my History/Social Studies and Science classes by providing choice of summative assessment at the end of each unit.
1. The Plan: How is your goal going? What strategies are you using to achieve your goal? The goal is working well. I've had choice of projects in history 10 and environmental science 20. There will be continued choice in in these courses and I hope to implement my goal in History 20 and social 8/9. Strategies include: using outcome based assessment and providing rubrics so students know what is expected, and teaching necessary skills for students to complete projects. (Paraphrasing, citing, research skills) 2. The Support: What supports do you still need to help you achieve your goal? How can I help? Who else can help, if anyone? Continued access to technology and internet is very important for students to research information. Any suggestions for different formats for assignments? (I.e. Presentation formats, video tools, info graphics?) 3. The Proof: How are you following the achievement of yourgoal? What data or information will help you to reflect on the achievement of your goal? Are you seeing any progress in your students (in relation to your goal) that you may not have "recorded" but can reflect on? My goal worked best in Environmental science. The students in that class have very different interests and get excited when they can show their learning in any form. I've kept copies of these projects and rubrics. As well, several projects are on display in my classroom. At first some were overwhelmed by the amount of choice. To help them get started, I created a list of options. Some used these options but as the semester progressed many began to think of their own ideas. Students have gained a sense of independence that will become more evident as they are allowed to demonstrate their learning in similar ways for the rest of theyear. 4. The Review: What have you learned so far? What revisions and/or adjustments do you need to make for the remainder of the school year so to be satisfied that you're achieving your goal? I have learned that sometimes students need/want some guidance when first dealing with open options. Therefore a list of outcomes and ideas were always provided, but students were never limited by these ideas. Something we need to work on is daily goal setting. There are some days when not a lot is accomplished. I think I need to implement a similar tracking system to the one used in our heritage fair so students get more comfortable with goal setting. This way they will become more accountable for work completed or not completed during class time.
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