{"id":72,"date":"2017-04-21T04:12:54","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T04:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/gordongrise\/?p=72"},"modified":"2017-04-21T04:12:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T04:12:54","slug":"my-cohort-21-action-plan-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/gordongrise\/2017\/04\/21\/my-cohort-21-action-plan-story\/","title":{"rendered":"My Cohort 21 Action Plan Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beginning of the end puts an interesting light on how to approach this year of Cohort 21 and the action plan developed through the sessions and thinking behind the implementation in my classroom. As a teacher still at the beginning of my career, reflecting on success and failure sometimes means admitting that a lesson which wove specific and overall ministry expectations with interesting activities and learning objectives just flat out did not resonate with students. The feeling like you need to hold onto the lesson planning because of the work and effort expended is often overwhelming “maybe it was just that day’s schedule”\/”I’ll be more engaging next time”.<\/p>\n

I can honesetly say Cohort 21, the action plan I developed, and the collaborative process for the face to face sessions and online communication were instrumental in disrupting and reconstructing the way I approach instruction and reflection on each and every lesson I taught this year. That other educators struggle with similar questions and innovative teachers are trying, failing, and sharing their learning on how to improve was inspiring.<\/p>\n

Recognizing the opportunity to continue a personal passion of mine towards the ideas of global citizenship education, my “How might we” question for the action plan was framed within the context of the Grade 10 Civics curriculum: “How might we inspire students to recognize the impact they can have as engaged and active global citizens?”<\/p>\n

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Inspire. Recognize. Two verbs which I’m still unsure whether they are perfect, but at least they have served to guide my action plan to this point.<\/p>\n

Inspire: is this inspiration coming from me? From experiential opportunities? From students themselves? Their peers? These kinds of questions dominated my approach to formulating and reshaping how to deliver my lessons and assess student learning.<\/p>\n

Recognize: what is the best way to highlight or celebrate students who have made an impact? can we recognize impacts which may take months\/years to become fully formed? what kinds of forums or venues should this kind of recognition take place?<\/p>\n

Going into the future I’ll be spending more time thinking and testing the possible ways to inspire and recognize students for their work on global citizenship. Specifically, my thinking is to broaden the focus from classroom to a more school-wide approach capturing the motivated and engaged students in other grades as well. This will require collaboration with the faculty\/staff at my school as well as continued inspiration from the C21 group and others who have been recommended from this year’s work.<\/p>\n

Without a doubt, this is the end of the beginning. Where the next steps may take me is part of the excitement.<\/p>\n

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