Intro to Personalized

LearningBillie Rengo

Session description Interested teachers will have the opportunity to explore what

personalized learning is and will learn the core components of the personalized learning honeycomb. They will learn the first steps in implementing personalized learning in the classrooms (Teachers will learn to guide their students in creating a class goal and will learn management techniques to track progress towards goals and the completion of goals. This will be accomplished by making a connection to the instructional tools and management techniques described in “The CAFÉ Book” by Boushey and Moser.) Teachers will work with the learning continuums previously creating in the Spring of the 2014-2015 school year to gain competence in identifying student goals and become familiar with the progression of skills. (The learning continuums are entirely aligned with the CCSS in reading, writing, language and math and consist of student “I can” statements.) Self-assessment techniques described in “Visible Learning” by John Hattie will be discussed as an integral component of personalized learning. Finally, teachers will learn how to use formative assessments aligned to the CCSS to identify instructional needs.

Today’s PurposeLearning Intentions: By the end of this session, you will:

Understand the core components of the personalized learning honeycomb.

Understand how to guide students in setting goals and tracking progress towards completion.

Understand the progression of skills students are expected to master.

Understand the role of assessments in guiding instruction

Success Criteria: By the end of this session, you will have: Identified management strategies to use to help students set goals. Identified assessments you currently have or may need to measure

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What is Personalized Learning?

Making Connections

What are your current views and understandings about personalized

learning? What do you already know?

The Big Picture CESA 1 Video Resources

Personalized Learning Characteristics

Your ranking Actual rankingFlexible time and pace 3

Standards guided learning 2

Learner profiles 1

Learner choice 2

Customized learning paths 1

Rapid cycle feedback 2

Learner voice 2

Proficiency based progress 1

Assessment 2

Flexible learning spaces 3

Rank the following characteristics with a 1, 2, or 3. (1 being foremost important to personalized learning,2 being secondary, and a 3 being last.)

Core Components

Direction, please!! Start at the center. Work your way out.

What is different? Learning is the constant…Time is not. Student choice Ownership and responsibility Students see themselves as their own best

teachers Students are not all working on the same

activity at the same time Different rates of learning

Jigsaw Activity

Learner Profile

What does it mean to be a learner from the

eyes of a teacher?

From the eyes of a student?

Learner Qualities

Goals Visible Linked to standards Student friendly words “I can” statements Increases lesson

clarity Taken from continuum Answers:

Where am I? Where to next?

Foundational Skills

Reading Literature

Reading Informational

Language Writing

“I can” statements

go here

Progressing Through Goals Standards of

achievement How is proficiency

demonstrated? When do students

move? “Touch Points” from

“The CAFÉ” CCSS assessments for

ELA and Math

Pause and Reflect Take a moment to tell the person next to

you about your current assessment practices.

What evidence do you have that students are learning?

How do students show evidence of learning?

Record Keeping For Teachers A place to write down

student goals (Copies of student continuums? A class roster?)

A place to document progress Conferring pages or “keeping track” rosters

Lesson plans

For Students Continuums Student binders for

storage Incentive charts

Penseive from “The CAFÉ”

Continuum “I can” statements Show progression In the hands of

students Binders Mark off completed

goals

Self-assessment Journals How am I doing? Where to next? How am I going to get

there?

What are my next steps?

Parental InvolvementLetter to ParentsInvite reinforcement and discussionTalk to child about goalsCheck incentive chartEncouragementThe message is that kids matter and learning is of foremost importance.

Instruction and Follow-Up

Small group lessons 1:1 conferring Introduce goals Support learning Move on to new goals How long does a child

spend on a goal?

Schedules Gradually release

responsibility Students assume

more choice in when to complete activities

Layars

Reflect Share what spoke to

you from our session. What did you think

about? What will you do next?

Today’s PurposeLearning Intentions: By the end of this session, you will:

Understand the core components of the personalized learning honeycomb.

Understand how to guide students in setting goals and tracking progress towards completion.

Understand the progression of skills students are expected to master.

Understand the role of assessments in guiding instruction

Success Criteria: By the end of this session, you will have: Identified management strategies to use to help students set goals. Identified assessments you currently have or may need to measure

success