The restful holiday break always manages to soften the reality of the January schedule. Ski season begins, GII ramps up, and oh yeah there’s final assessments and the beginning of a new semester in the classroom.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, this means missing January 20th’s face to face at MaRS and not receiving all the wonderful feedback from fellow cohorts in person. So, instead these blog posts and checking TweetDeck will be my way of tapping into our wonderful sense of collaboration and innovation!<\/p>\n
Recently, I’ve had some success in the classroom around addressing my HMW question. In some ad-hoc interviews with students I discovered (not unsurprisingly) that their best memories when it came to effective engagement came when outside of school in new and unfamiliar territory. Thinking about how to leverage this led me to craft an assessment for my entire Grade 10 Civics students to visit a local civic meeting and get involved in the political process at the municipal level.<\/p>\n
The students\u00a0brought back some phenomenal learning about the challenges and opportunities available to them even as “only” teenagers. Using conversational assessment helped students to focus on the experience and led to many articulating a story about their experiences drawing on the interesting settings, characters, and ‘plot’ of the meeting – students who normally would be bogged down in the details taking extensive notes mentioned that this style of assessment freed them to sit, listen, and take in\u00a0the process and emboldened many to become active participants. Reflecting on changes for future iterations, I’m going to\u00a0provide a longer timeline for completion of the experiential portion; many comments from students said they chose meetings based on time\/proximity rather than personal interest and hopefully with greater options they’ll be more able to visit a meeting that aligns with their passions.<\/p>\n
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I’m going to be on the lookout for similar stories of educators trying to discover what ideas\u00a0they’ve tested\u00a0that engage students in the learning process tomorrow online; looking forward to it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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