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MOOC-Ed: Learning Differences: Internalizing Habits of Mind

3/18/2015

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Consider whether one of the following activities might work well for your colleagues and context during a regularly scheduled staff/department/PLC meeting.

  1. Host a group / PLC viewing of the video Wyatt's Story. As a group, reflect upon the following questions and discuss:

    • What did you gain from watching this video?
    • Do you have any students similar to Wyatt?
  2. Take some time to reflect on your experiences in the Learning Differences MOOC-Ed. Discuss your "Aha!" Moments and your reflections for strategies you plan to use in the future. 

  3. Before the PLC group meets, each team member should come prepared with his or her mantra and a quick explanation for it.

    • Take turns presenting your mantra. Provide reactions or additional thoughts for each other.
    • Identify overarching themes and create a shared team vision/ mantra. 
    • Use Canva or another similar tool to create an image you can proudly display in your classrooms, in your hall, with parents, and even through social media!

A tech finder tool that you may use to help support your learners is provided by Understood. 


Source: The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation  - North Carolina State University
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MOOC-Ed: Learning Differences: Strategies for Supporting the Whole Student

3/16/2015

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During Week 5 of the above-mentioned MOOC-Ed, we have been encouraged to share the following activity to support students with learning differences:

Consider whether one of the following activities might work well for your colleagues and context during a regularly scheduled staff/department/PLC meeting.

Create a Student Profile and Plan for What to do Next:
  • Have each teacher on your team make a profile of one student they’re trying to “figure out.” This profile should include strengths, weaknesses, and specific evidence (try to avoid judgmental statements like “s/he’s so disruptive,” instead tell how s/he disrupts, when, and in what way). 
  • Bring the profiles to a PLC meeting and allow each teacher 5-10 minutes to present the student and the evidence and have a productive conversation similar to the what would you do next activity.
  • Follow up next week - how did the plan work? 



Experience Learning Difficulties Through a Child’s Eyes:
    • Using a common student (can be one of the students from part one or perhaps a different student) and go to the website Understood.org. 
    • Go to this link and fill out the information about the student you’re thinking of.
    • Complete the simulation.
    • Discuss how the simulation affected your perception of the student. What are you doing that really works for this student? What might you do differently?

You may also use some of these tech tools to help students further their learning on/off-line:
  • 30/30: It's a free time management app where students list their tasks as well as the time required for them to complete them. Students can also "see" the time left before they can move onto another task or take a break.
  • This research project calculator. This somewhat clunky program helps students prioritize and plan for long term assignments.
  • StudyBoost: This app #fliperentiates student learning beyond the brick and mortar setting. Students practice/review/study by answering self or teacher-prepared questions on the go!


Source: The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation  - North Carolina State University
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MOOC-Ed: Learning Differences: Student Motivation

2/26/2015

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Consider whether one of the following activities might work well for your colleagues during a regularly scheduled staff/department/PLC meeting.


Provide folks with learning materials and/or references about “Extrinsic & Intrinsic”  motivation in students (e.g. Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic. The Challenge of Motivation | Ecology of Education Blog.
Invite folks in small groups to ...
  • Brainstorm working definitions of “Extrinsic & Intrinsic”  motivation;
  • Discuss their students tendency toward “extrinsic” or “intrinsic” motivation … What do they see their students doing or saying?     



Recruit 4-6 folks to facilitate rotating “table talks” aligned and focused on specific content areas (i.e. Math, SS, Science and other site-based curricula). Provide facilitators with content specific motivation strategies gleaned from the MOOC-Ed and “group-think” some “Try It Tommorow” applications for upcoming lessons or units.


During whole staff, PLN/PLC and/or department meeting that is seeded with folks who have completed the Learning Differences MOOC-ED, ask each participant to record one to three ways they currently motivate students (overall or in specific content areas). When done, have everyone continuously pass their cards to the left (use a timer or music ). When time is up or the music stops, on the current card each person has in their hands, they add at least two more ideas or feedback. Repeat as appropriate. All cards go back to original owners, refreshed with new ideas and feedback.

Source: The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation  - 
North Carolina State University
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MOOC-Ed: Learning Differences: Working Memories

2/25/2015

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Consider whether one of the following activities might work well for your colleagues during a regularly scheduled staff/department/PLC meeting.

 Host a group / PLC viewing of the TEDTalk video: How your “working memory” makes sense of the world.  As a group, reflect upon the following questions and discuss:

Play the working memory game with the presenter, and discuss the questions below. [2:31-3:58]
  • The correct answer is: Tree Highway Mirror Saturn Electrode. How many words did you remember
  • What strategies did you employ in order to hold these 5 words in your working memory?  Were you surprised by your peer’s strategies?

How do we use our working memory in our daily lives?  How does this translate to the classroom? [4:39-5:14]


How is working memory limited? What strategies can we use in our classrooms to help support student’s working memory? [6:44-9:18]


Before the PLC group meets, the PLC lead (or another volunteer) should create a list of about 7 items.  Divide the time allotted for the PLC meeting by 10 (e.g., if the meeting will be 45 minutes, each division will be 4½ minutes).  At the start of the meeting ask colleagues to remember the first term on the list, then proceed with the meeting as normal.  When each chunk of time passes, give colleagues another term to be remembered.  (So for example, at the start of the meeting, you may ask them to remember “computer”; five minutes later, you ask them to remember “dolphin”; and ten minutes into the meeting, you add “pickle” to the list. And so on.)  After all of the items have been given, ask them to write the list of words down, preferably in order.  Then consider the following questions:
  • How many of the terms were you able to remember; were they in the right order?
  • Was there a point at which you were able to identify the need for implementing a strategy or tool to help you remember the terms?
  • If so, what strategy or tool did you employ?
  • What might this activity reveal about your classrooms and what are the implications for your students?


As a group, reflect on the resources in the course and hold a share out of the strategies you staff learned about, and what strategies they utilize to support their students’ working memory.  Using the strategies discussed, design a series of tasks that help students identify their own working memory capacities.  The first task should have 3 directives for students to remember at one time.  The second task might have 4-5 directives for students to remember.  The last should have 6-7 directives for students to remember.  Once these activities are complete, have students reflect on the following questions:

  • Question: How many steps were you able to accomplish before needing a memory jog? (asking a classmate or teacher, referring to assignment, etc.)
  • Question: What strategies did you use to help you remember what you had to accomplish?

Source: The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation  - North Carolina State University
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MOOC-Ed: Learning Differences: Habits of Mind

2/24/2015

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Consider whether one of the following activities might work well for your colleagues and context during a regularly scheduled staff/department/PLC meeting.


Hold a staff screening of the The Myth of Average, Todd Rose’s TEDx Talk video, and after watching together, discuss the following questions:
  • Do Todd Rose’s comments resonate with your personal or professional educational experience to date?
  • Have you been in classrooms designed for the “average pilot”? 
  • What do you need to embrace a “design to the edges” attitude? 

 

Encourage your staff to complete a learner sketch or profile at Faces of Learning either before or during your meeting. After folks have completed their profile, encourage conversations around the following:
  • Sharing strengths and challenges in each others’ learning profiles;
  • Reviewing and evaluating the various strategies suggested in each others’ learning profiles;
  • Learning profiles next steps… How might we use this with our students? What will we do with what we find out?


Provide folks with paper or electronic copies of your local or site-based 
teacher effectiveness standards and prompt folks to uncover the following:
  • In what ways do the standards address learning differences?
  • To what extent do the standards address learners' varying experiences, abilities, talents and prior learning?
  • To what extent do the standards expect teachers to address learners' language, culture, and family and community values as assets that can be used to promote their learning?

Source: The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation  - North Carolina State University
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