Resilience, Flipped , Challenged Based Learning
How can we not want to strive to incorporate what we learned in this weeks lesson into our teaching? The students in the resilience video were so inspiring. My own family has had some pretty serious personal trauma this year and we have learned so much together as we find our way to continue to move forward. One of the important lessons I have learned is we as people are able to cope and handle trauma better if we are busy working to help others. If we are able to be part of a solution to help and create positive change it give us hope. That is what those children were doing they were empowered to “Make a Difference” to help others, to beginning the healing process for those survivors of disasters. I think we all need to figure out ways to fit this into our teaching we have so many students with so much anxiety. Many of our own students have survived some seriously traumatic events or they are aware of events in world which are scary. There is a lots of learning that can occur that is Culturally Relevant being able to empathize with and then help those needing help. Also what valuable problem solving and collaboration opportunities this creates for our students. If we believe we our students are our future these lessons will be lessons that will stay with them for their entire lives it is very empowering the be a part of something important. I really appreciated the learning of the Flipped Classroom, Blended Learning, and Challenged Based Learning as well. It made me reflect on my own learning/teaching and realize there is a lot of change I could make to engage my students in a more meaningful way. That is why I signed up for this Masters program I know there are teaching strategies that more effective and current and I want to be the best teacher I can be. I also realized I have much reading and learning to do long after this Masters program is over which is exciting and I hope we can all stay connected as a learning community. For me at Valley Oak the homework piece of the flipped classroom is a challenge but I do think I could incorporate this idea into the warm-up part of my class. I really see the value of introducing a topic in this way and when they said you could rewind and go back it really made me think about how we all learn differently. I am a person that has to reread things many time I would /am a student who would benefit from rewinding. I also have realized there is value in watching/learning and then discussing. I need a lot of help figuring out how to make these videos and I want to learn , but in this class you have demonstrated we can use many different resources to achieve this front loading. Blogging has also proven to be a valuable way for me to process my own learning. I would love to have more time to read and discuss each others blogs since we all take different yet valuable pieces from our lessons. The Challenged Based Learning is how I strive to teach science and I am very excited with the new science standards because they focus on presenting phenomena and problems. I am going to work to modify some of my favorite lessons to be more Challenged Based. One real challenge I have is that often my students resist this feels foreign to them when I try to take them on trips to plant acorns or other habitat restoration they are afraid to take a chance and try something new. The quest of continually growing mindsets I suppose. I would love to work with my PLC to develop more Challenged Based math lessons. The C-Stem curriculum we are using is problem solving with coding and that is proving to be engaging as well as lessons from MVP(Math Vision Project). These are the ways we should be striving to reach our students in is more meaningful for us all.
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It is a process doing research. The quantitative data that will be collected for this project will be scores from mindset surveys, Math Inventory results given each trimester, and final trimester grades. These data sets should illustrate the hypothesized results that an improved growth mindset will result in higher achievement in Math 1 students. The students who are participating in this study have all failed Math 1 for 2-4 semesters before arriving to this class, they are defeated and have fixed mindsets about math. Student attendance will also be used to determine data that will be eliminated for the study. If students don't attend regularly it will be a challenge to observe mindset growth so for this study these students will be dropped from the data collection, 70% attendance minimum is needed. These data values will be evaluated for the effect size.
Qualitative data will not be the main focus of this study but it is valued. Student voice is important data to gather. Students will participate in lesson reflections answering questions related to where they feel they are in their learning as well as mindset questions. This data will be used to help improve lessons focusing on growth mindset development. I enjoyed all of our learning this week especially the work of Zaretta Hammond. I have been stuck thinking about the diagram of the Learning Pit and as I read through our homework to see what else we needed to complete I was excited by the fact we needed to think of a lesson that left our students in the learning pit . This happened to me this week ! I have had a tough week feeling rundown, behind in my life, and then I needed to make sub plans because I was going on a field trip. I created a lesson that I thought was a review for my students to do with the sub. Well this was not the case they all fell deep into the learning pit and I was right there with them. I have been sitting and pondering what went wrong ,where their confidence and perseverance went. I have also been reflecting on myself and why this lesson didn't work. The learning pit isn't a bad place to be and I embrace the opportunity to improve my lesson. I was just shocked that my students after all the progress they have made in the growth mindsets and confidence were not able to at least try to solve equations. As I work my way out of the pit I am realizing that I need to present this lesson in a new way that looks different and is more engaging than their previous experiences with solving equations. I am excited that I have come up with some ideas that would have been hard to leave with a sub but should work to have my students start making their way to the other side and out of the pit. I think this is a very frustrating part of teaching we work so hard to build their confidence and at the early stages of this process they can so quickly go backwards many steps. The learning pit is a great visual and may also be a fun way to have students illustrate where they think they are in their learning of a topic with words and pictures. Another valuable day of learning for me ! |
Julie LovieJulie Lovie Is a Math and Science teacher at Valley Oak High School with 25 years experience in teaching at a continuation high school. Julie Also teaches at Napa valley Adult School in the High School Diploma Program. She is passionate about the environment, loves gardening, and learning. Archives
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