I learned a lot from my research<\/a>\u00a0and the ensuing personalized unit of study I designed. A\u00a0challenge for many of my students was that providing a short time frame to complete a project didn\u2019t allow them to \u201cdig in\u201d as I\u00a0hoped they would to achieve their learning goal. I needed to reconsider the roll-out of an inquiry-based unit of study for my students that provided enough time, structure and guidance to allow them to succeed at every step of the learning process.<\/p>\n I was introduced to Genius Hour<\/b><\/a>\u00a0for the language classroom when I attended a conference in November. I had done a bit of reading<\/a> Many thanks to A. J. Juliani <\/b>(@ajjuliani)\u00a0<\/b>and Laura Sexton<\/b>\u00a0(@SraSpanglish) for their generous online sharing which has helped me immensely in the initial launch of this project. I am in the process of introducing a Genius Hour (or Heure de G\u00e9nie<\/i>) project to my Grade 10 French class, which will run from January-May (every 5th class in a non-semestered timetable). I am fortunate to be collaborating with my Spanish colleague who is following a similar format with her Grade 11 & 12 students.<\/p>\n In the coming months, I will observe how well students use their time during Genius Hour classes, how motivated they are to complete Genius Hour tasks in the target language, and evaluate language gains in the Interpretive, Interpersonal and Presentational modes of communication (to borrow ACTFL<\/b><\/a>-speak).<\/p>\n Has anyone tried Genius Hour in their classroom (French or other?) I\u2019d love to hear your input on positive outcomes, challenges and any advice you\u2019d like to share.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cultivating Genius When I began my Cohort 21 journey\u00a0back in 2012, I was grappling\u00a0with how much flexibility I had to allow students to determine the content they learned vs. the content I selected to develop their skills in speaking, listening, reading and writing in French. I learned a lot from my research\u00a0and the ensuing personalized … Continue reading “Cultivating Genius”<\/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":[7,56,60,61,5],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-french","tag-genius-hour","tag-inquiry","tag-motivation","tag-personalized-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","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=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The-Beginners-Guide-to-\"](\"http:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenbibby\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/16\/files\/2015\/01\/The-Beginners-Guide-to-.jpg\")
<\/a><\/b>on the topic that applied to teachers in all disciplines, but Laura Sexton\u2019s presentation<\/b><\/a> had me consider the idea through the lens of a World Language teacher, and got me really excited about the design of a new learning opportunity in my French\u00a0classes. Finally, this is the framework\u00a0that I\u2019ve been looking for!<\/p>\n