{"id":37,"date":"2015-01-15T13:40:47","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T13:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/bethnichols\/?p=37"},"modified":"2015-01-15T13:40:47","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T13:40:47","slug":"action-plan-reflection-growth-and-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/bethnichols\/2015\/01\/15\/action-plan-reflection-growth-and-blogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Action Plan – Reflection, Growth and Blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

I began this whole process last year with a problem: my Grade 9 math students made the same mistakes over and over again, and my feedback wasn\u2019t helping.<\/p>\n

So I then I did some research, found a reflection template that I liked, played around with it a bit and gave it a go. The results were significantly better than I expected, but in sharing with the rest of my staff at the end of the school year, a question came up about how I could use technology to make the process more efficient. Cohort 21 seemed like the perfect way to examine the problem and find some sneaky tool to make it both flashy and efficient. Simple, right? Wrong<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

There can\u2019t be that many tools out there or ideas about how to approach reflection that will be helpful for math, right? Wrong<\/strong><\/em>. There\u2019s so much more ed tech out there than I could anticipated and it was overwhelming at first.<\/p>\n

But all that needed tweaking was the technology to deliver my reflection, right? Wrong<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

After (finally) making my first blog post, I was flooded by a stream of supportive and helpful comments. One of these posts was from Derek Doucet, who pointed me towards this article<\/a> about assessment for deeper learning. That\u2019s where I saw an image that changed the direction of what I want to do completely.<\/p>\n

\"lenz-assessmentdeeperlearning-triangle300\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Assessment as\u00a0learning could be a process rather than end point – ah ha!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Lucky for me, I teach a course that is semestered, so I begin a brand new course with a familiar bunch of Grade 12 boys on Friday. While they spend this week preparing for an exam, I\u2019ve been planning to experiment on them with this reflective process.<\/p>\n

My (draft) action plan is as follows<\/em><\/p>\n