Meet the Teachers: Planning , Designing and Learning in 1:1 -- For all grades and subjects : Meet the Teachers: Planning , Designing and Learning in 1:1 -- For all grades and subjects Meet the teachers from Westwind School Division as we discuss the role of collaborative planning in improving teaching and learning. Join us as we share how we designed for 21st century learning with our specific grade teams and with mentors online in IO and face-to-face around specific disciplines. Hear how we engaged our students in authentic intellectual work and how we made teaching and learning public in various ways.
Collaboration : Collaboration Working as a team… what worked
Teamwork… enabling each other, enabling the students
“Projects” vrs. Project/Problem Based Learning : “Projects” vrs. Project/Problem Based Learning Project/Problem Based
Learning
Inquiry Based, uses thought provoking question as a focus
Focused
Aligns specific outcomes with assessment for learning
Uses project management tools to structure learning Projects
Loose set of Activities
Supplements the Curriculum
Thematic
Broad Summative Assessments
No Management structure
Planning : Planning Mentorship…designing learning for students
Using io
http://www.iostudent.com/2862
http://www.iostudent.com/2211
Assessment : Assessment Looking at assessment differently
Student Samples : Student Samples Links provided
Slide 7 : “ The success of technology has more to do with people than machines. All the right parts and pieces together won’t work miracles by themselves. It is people who make technology powerful by creatively using to fulfill dreams.”
Alliance for Technology Access 1996
Discussion : Discussion Questions / Comments?