{"id":52,"date":"2016-01-13T19:55:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T19:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/alainaconnelly\/?p=52"},"modified":"2016-01-14T17:32:15","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T17:32:15","slug":"i-can-see-clearly-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/alainaconnelly\/2016\/01\/13\/i-can-see-clearly-now\/","title":{"rendered":"I can see clearly now"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was an inspiring and productive Saturday at The York School for our second Cohort 21 Face-to-face session. \u00a0Working through the Design Thinking process allowed me to better synthesize my action plan and come up with a more solidified question. \u00a0While it’s not quite finalized, it is more focused than \"IMG_1882\"<\/a>when I started the day. My goal is to move away from heavy content and allow my students to steer their learning and the direction we take the course. \u00a0Though this sounds terrifying to put the trust in them, I recognize that I need to set up parameters so that they have the tools to be successful. \u00a0My approach is to have them take on their culminating project in March\/ April….. RECORD SCRATCH….<\/p>\n

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That was the post I started writing at our last F2F in November and have been struggling to finish it until now, nearly 8 weeks later. The reason for my struggles stem from the fact that I couldn’t envision executing the question that I came up with at our last F2F. Though great, it did not resonate with what I really want and need to do. \u00a0So after a m\"OE\"<\/a>uch-needed break and some thinking about my practice, I came to the conclusion that what I really needed to focus on is using more FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT tools. \u00a0After a much-needed chat with @ddoucet and some guidance on how to go about my new plan (Assessment<\/a>\u00a0types), I flipped everything up in the air and am now focusing my attention on my students learning and meeting them where they are at and helping them get to where I want them to go.\u00a0I am an Outdoor Education teacher after all!<\/p>\n

I’ve been able to use several e-to\"2009-07-01-make-the-connection\"<\/a>ols to help assess where my students are at and where we need to go. \u00a0Tools such as Kahoot! (now requested daily), Socrative, Padlet\u00a0and balls of knowledge (used at our F2F as balls of compliments) have allowed me to see if what I’m saying is a) actually being heard and b) allowing my students to make the connections that I want them to be making.<\/p>\n

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I’m feeling much more excited about my teaching and other ways in which Cohort 21 will help me with my profession and get me to focus on one or two things that will help make me better. \u00a0Isn’t this what it’s really all about???<\/p>\n

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\"question\"<\/a>What formative tools do you use? \u00a0Do you struggle with making course content more of a priority then your students learning?<\/p>\n

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It was an inspiring and productive Saturday at The York School for our second Cohort 21 Face-to-face session. \u00a0Working through the Design Thinking process allowed me to better synthesize my Continue Reading &amp;rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":64,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,4,11],"tags":[10,9],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-classroom-reflections","category-design-thinking","category-face-2-face-sessions","category-formative-assessment","tag-design-thinking","tag-project-based-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/alainaconnelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/alainaconnelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/alainaconnelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/alainaconnelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/alainaconnelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/alainaconnelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/alainaconnelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/alainaconnelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/alainaconnelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/alainaconnelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}