{"id":45,"date":"2015-01-14T16:45:08","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T16:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/megwallace\/?p=45"},"modified":"2015-01-14T16:45:08","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T16:45:08","slug":"sharing-the-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/megwallace\/2015\/01\/14\/sharing-the-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharing the Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are good ways, bad ways, right ways and wrong ways to do just about anything. But what about the ‘best’ way?<\/p>\n

I’m an ideas person, so I knew that coming up with ideas for my action research project wouldn’t be a problem. What I didn’t anticipate, however, was the challenge in selecting and narrowing it down to one specific thing. Something small enough to be realistic and achievable, yet big enough to be a challenge and impact the teaching and learning at RLC in a positive way.<\/p>\n

I’ve been thinking about little ol’ me in a big sea of educators. I’m a lucky fish; I’m so fortunate to be able to participate in the amazing opportunity that Cohort21 is. So how can I share this fantastic experience with the other faculty at RLC? And how can I do it best?<\/p>\n

With limited time, faculty with a broad range of interests and skills, where do you start?<\/p>\n

This year, I hosted my first\u00a0Lunch and Learn, focusing on critical thinking, based on Garfield Gini-Newmans’ Q chart. \"QuestioningChart\"<\/a>The session was optional, and yet over 50% of our faculty showed up. They were asked to come with some questions they’d recently asked students. During the session they had the opportunity to revamp them to force students to judge the merits of something, or have them make a decision and rationalize it using the words\u00a0could, should, would, will\u00a0<\/strong>and might. <\/b>It equaled small changes leading to big impact in critical thinking and learning.<\/p>\n

With the help of some fellow colleagues, we recently hosted\u00a0sessions which introduced teachers to\u00a0Kahoot!<\/a> Google Add-ons, Diigo<\/a><\/strong> and Socrative<\/strong><\/a>. Teachers signed up for the sessions of their choice, and shared ideas on how these technologies can best enhance student learning.<\/p>\n

It’s a start in the right direction. But there’s so much more that could be done. How do you do a lot with a little? These thoughts took me down memory lane to Sunday school and the story of Jesus feeding thousands of people with five loaves of bread and two fish.\u00a0He took something so small,<\/p>\n

\"Bread<\/a><\/p>\n

yet grew it into something to feed\u00a0thousands. I’ll call it the multiplier effect. Using this biblical story as an analogy led me towards my proposed action plan.\u00a0How can I take my experience from Cohort21, my metaphorical basket of bread and fish, and multiply it so more faculty can benefit and together we can improve the learning here at RLC?<\/p>\n

Or, in action plan speak,“How can I best facilitate a rich, professional learning culture for faculty, to improve student learning at RLC?”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Right now, that feels like an insurmountable task. But I like the idea of planting seeds, sharing\u00a0ideas and\u00a0growing together, so I’m ready to go for it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are good ways, bad ways, right ways and wrong ways to do just about anything. But what about the ‘best’ way? I’m an ideas person, so I knew that coming up with ideas for my action research project wouldn’t be a problem. What I didn’t anticipate, however, was the challenge in selecting and narrowing … Continue reading “Sharing the Love”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/megwallace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/megwallace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/megwallace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/megwallace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/megwallace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/megwallace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/megwallace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/megwallace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/megwallace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}