Re-thinking learning for the 21st Century
Written by Laura Mustard
I feel like I’ve been working up to this year’s action plan for quite a while. In some way, the majority of my past plans have come at the issue it is designed to address, in different ways. Information literacy instruction in Grade 9, leveraging learning partnerships, and increasing my use of feedback in one-shot … Continue reading “Growing Researchers: An Action Plan Update”
Written by Laura Mustard
The focus of my Cohort 21 Action Plan last year had to do with utilizing feedback in one-shot library instruction. That was one way of addressing a problem I was seeing for my students — the problem being, in short, that they didn’t have the background or understanding of the research process they needed to … Continue reading “Library to the Power of Three”
Written by Laura Mustard
My Action Plan this year centred on some of the problems inherent in one-shot library instruction. To get a sense of what those are, please check out this post or see my slide deck, below. I settled on the HMW question how might we use feedback most effectively in one-shot library instruction? Once again, I loved … Continue reading “Feedback Loops: Reflections on My Action Plan Story”
Written by Laura Mustard
The focus for my Action Plan this year came to me as I was trying, and failing, to make a class of Grade 10 students laugh at my joke about the CRAAP test. I had been asked by the course leader for biology to teach a lesson about finding reliable internet sources for the students’ … Continue reading “Feedback Mechanisms: An Action Plan Update”
Written by Laura Mustard
I feel so grateful to be returning to Cohort 21 as a coach again this year. It’s my third year in this role – @gnichols once called me a “wily veteran” – and I’m so looking forward to tackling a new area of my practice in this year’s Action Plan. Sometimes there’s no better way … Continue reading “Innovation through Reflection: A Look Back at my Cohort 21 Action Plans”
Written by Laura Mustard
I began this school year with a fresh perspective on my school’s library, keen to think big about library advocacy and design. My goal was to increase my ability to advocate for the library as a learning space of central importance in our school community. I wanted to make sure people were aware of our … Continue reading “Breaking Down Library Walls: Reflections on My Action Plan”
Written by Laura Mustard
Our second Face 2 Face session at the York School seems ages ago now and I can’t wait to get together next week at the ME to WE Global Learning Centre. I’ve had the chance to mull and consider and hesitate on some of the big thinking I did at our last meeting. That day … Continue reading “Leveraging Expertise in our Community: An Action Plan Update”
Written by Laura Mustard
My #goals this year seem modest, even to me. I am so excited to be back as a part of Cohort 21, coaching for the second time, but to be honest my goal for the start of the school year has been finding the new normal. I’m back from maternity leave and settling into a … Continue reading “Hopes, Dreams and Aspirations”
Written by Laura Mustard
For more information about my Action Plan, and a final reflection on the C21 experience this year, please check out my Slides presentation. This year I conceived my Action Plan by attempting to take the empathy stage in the design thinking process seriously. In a Google Doc that I always kept open in a tab, … Continue reading “The End of the Beginning: An Investigation into Information Literacy Instruction in Grade 9”
Written by Laura Mustard
Since our second Face 2 Face at The York School I’ve had the chance to ponder my “how might we.” Following the design thinking process totally blew open the question for me and I’m looking forward to delving deeper into some of the key components and strategies that I identified in our third Face 2 … Continue reading “Confident and Competent Researchers: Action Plan Update”