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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11/25/2018 05:40:20 pm
Great post Julie! I too am wondering about the benefits of the flipped classroom. We do all learn at different rates and so the idea that a student can watch a presentation about a concept and then rewind it & watch it at their own pace seems like something that could really help students learn and make a difference. They could also use these presentations again when reviewing for finals/tests, which incentivizes me to make some screencasts about new grammar/vocabulary. I also think writing these blogs helps me really think about what I am learning as part of this course and helps me focus in on the important points and how I can help my students learn better and stay more focused and motivated.
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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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