Goal Setting: How students set goals and reflect on the learning process in order to improve learning outcomes I have been teaching 6th grade for the past four years. As each year passes, I’m noticing that what I’m doing with goal setting isn’t working. So, I want to try something different. Currently: After teaching a …
The shift to Common Core State Standards in 2010 not only changed teaching and learning by greatly increasing and standardizing emphasis on student knowledge construction and problem-solving, but were accompanied by an associated accountability movement that ties high-stakes testing of student outcomes to teacher evaluation. … Continue readingResearch, realism, and relationship: Empowering PD partnership between teachers and institutions
As part of the Teaching, Learning, and Assessment 1 class in theSPU Digital Education Leadership program, I wanted to investigate best practices for designing meaningful elementary makerspace projects that balance student engagement, empowerment, and self-efficacy while avoiding the frustration that can be caused by open-ended projects and challenging technology. Background Making in Education In his … Continue reading “Making in Elementary: Finding the Balance”
Q: What are tools, technology and curriculum that we can use to teach K-5 students how to use, understand and leverage technology to set goals, monitor and reflect on their learning in a way that makes sense for them developmentally? One digital platform that I had heard about and then researched further in order to …
Educators are often overwhelmed or saturated with educational tools that are presented as learning systems that will positively impact the learning the students in the classroom. Solutions focusing on differentiation, scaffolding, and increasing test scores are used to gain entrance into the classroom by the companies and organizations that provide educational technology systems. In… Continue reading An ED Tech Instructional 5 Step System Facilitating Student Learning with Multiple Solutions: By Liz Buffington
Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning sciences. In the digital world, it is the 21st-century skill for students to learn how to appropriately leverage digital technology to support learning activities and achieve learning goals which make some schools pilot …
Recently I implemented a brand-new digital tool to aid my high school students in organizing their research and citing their sources properly. The tool had just recently been purchased by my school and this was the first time both my students and I would be utilizing the tool for a major project. To roll out […]
