Happy summertime, everyone!<\/p>\n
At the end of a busy school year, I like to take some time in\u00a0June to relax and recharge, but it\u2019s also a great time to reflect and learn something new without the daily distractions of school life. I didn\u2019t jet off to any formal PD this June; I was lucky enough to choose my own destination (with a plethora of caf\u00e9s and beautiful Toronto libraries with free Wi-Fi at my doorstep) and I hand picked from a huge range of options what I wanted to learn about.<\/p>\n
I started with the following collection of articles and blog posts<\/strong><\/a> I had gathered this year (usually following a LangChat <\/strong>I had tuned in to late on a Thursday night!) Re-reading or seeing these resources for the first time helped me work through some big-ideas planning for next year (an FSL collaboration with interested teachers in my PLN, applying game-based learning to my Origines de Toronto<\/em> unit, changes to my culminating activities for next year). I also trained myself in Kaizena<\/span><\/b><\/a>, ThingLink <\/strong><\/a>and PixiClip<\/strong><\/a> in my quest to find tools that are easy for students or me to use and actually improve the learning experience (faster feedback, personalized vocabulary acquisition and tutorials for me to post to my course LMS pages respectively). I\u2019m really excited about these tools and will likely be blogging about them as I use them next year (hiccups and all)!<\/p>\n I\u2019ve been thinking a lot about how to get students to reflect on their learning and performance more often, and Colleen Lee-Haye\u2019s blog post showed up in my twitter<\/strong><\/a> feed just in time! I loved the tone she set for reflection at the beginning of the year with her class FAQ\u2019<\/strong>s and the questions she asked of her students to get them thinking about her class. By following through on several self-assessments<\/strong> and reflections<\/strong> throughout the year, @coleesensei<\/strong> is imparting a valuable learning strategy on her students from which they will benefit for years to come.<\/p>\n If you are on twitter, an interesting feed to follow is #ksi14<\/strong>. I was lucky enough to participate\u00a0in the Klingenstein Summer Institute<\/strong><\/a> in 2007, and since I knew a few teachers going to this year\u2019s session, I decided to follow along in their learning adventure. Tune in for some rich reflections on teaching philosophies, diversity and everything in between. @lesmcbeth<\/strong><\/a> and @AaronVigar<\/strong><\/a> are some great people to follow!<\/p>\n Coming up, I\u2019m looking forward to a google hangout on Authentic Resources<\/strong><\/a> on July 18th<\/sup> with the LangCamp group I\u2019ve joined (#LangChat for summer!) But first, I\u2019m ready to enjoy a few weeks unplugged and on the dock at the cottage with my family. I look forward to catching up (virtually or in person) soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Happy summertime, everyone! At the end of a busy school year, I like to take some time in\u00a0June to relax and recharge, but it\u2019s also a great time to reflect and learn something new without the daily distractions of school life. I didn\u2019t jet off to any formal PD this June; I was lucky enough … Continue reading “My Great Big Personalized PD Week”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}