What is the role of personalized learning and competency-based learning in education today? Given your students’ grade level and the subject matter you teach, consider how and whether you can incorporate competency-based learning and/or personalized learning into your practice.
There has been a huge shift in favor of charter schools in the Vallejo City Unified school district lately. With boasts of increased computer skills, foreign language acquisition, and a higher level of rigor than public schools it's hard to make a convincing case to send your student to a public school. With a shift towards personalized learning there may be hope for public schools yet. I can work towards: lessons personalized to individuals, creating collaborative groups working on similar learning goals, and giving the power of learning back to the students. Currently VCUSD has two online programs that I use in my classroom that have lessons "personalized" to individuals. We use Imagine Math and Imagine Learning (for ELA). The way they work is that a student is introduced to a topic either be a video or pre-quiz depending on the program. The student completes work within the lesson then is able to move on by passing a post-quiz. If the student does not pass then remediation is assigned. I monitor use and if I see a student hasn't passed a lesson within 2 tries then I pull for small group. The article from Knowledge Works gave mention to putting students into collaborative groups. I think something like this could really work for my students. I could introduce a writing topic whole group then pull smalls groups as students are working on an assignment individually. Some students will need less support than others. Those students will likely only need the whole group introduction while other students may need support writing the intro, body, or conclusion. It just requires more planning than just one whole group lesson. The EdWeek article pushes to put the power back into the hands of the student in terms of deciding how long they spend on a topic, maybe that they are already familiar with. I know that I have many higher level students complain that they're bored with content that they already know. The Personalized Learning video mentioned that there may be some difficulties associated with students deciding for themselves such as: time management (something most people struggle with), students choosing the easier task, and not knowing what works best for each type of student. I'd like to give my students a choice on their next ELA performance task. They may either write an essay or create a power point supporting their opinion.
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How did your findings influence your thinking about the bigger challenge? What do you know now? What do you need find out and how will you discover it? What data will you collect to inform you? How is your research innovative? New and scale-able Currently I'm working on the same research question. I know now that each student has different preferences in regards to how they interact with reflection. I still need to know whether calming strategies have a positive effect on test scores on in the classroom at all since students expressed that they mostly used calming strategies with peers or siblings. I know that they at least use them. Going forward each student will be reflecting in the manner they preferred (journal or conversation). I am going to compare the test scores of the students from the journal vs. conversation groups. Since CAASPP test data will not yet be available I will be using District Benchmark Assessment data to compare growth between the two groups. This research is innovative in dealing with calming testing strategies. Adverse Childhood Experience research as well as Grit research are still fairly new. Single classroom research has not been a theme in my research. Previous research also included more members of the family. |
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