Can Personalized Learning and Project Based Learning Truly Coexist? River Bend MS
Introductions @VL_Ales_Geo, @mrcaviness_RBM, @FritzEducation, @juliet_kenny, @Shaffer_LCPS www.lcps.org/rbms
DRIVING QUESTION: Can Personalized Learning and Project Based Learning Truly Coexist? This session offers a unique guide for teachers and administrators interested in implementing a 21st century learning design that incorporates both Personalized Learning and Project Based Learning . Come learn how teachers can create truly authentic learning experiences that meet the individual needs of all students! This session also includes strategies for administrators to support all school stakeholders with transformational change.
Personalized Learning vs. Project Based Learning
Personalized Learning vs. Project Based Learning
Personalized Learning vs. Project Based Learning
What is Personalized Learning?
Personalized Learning
Diagnostic Assessment (Measure of ● Academic Progress) Formative Assessments ● Data-Driven Performance-Based Assessments ● Digital Content (e.g. Lexile Level in ● Decisions Achieve 3000 )
Targeted Instruction
Flexible Content & Tools
Student Reflection & Ownership
Personalized Learning Classroom Design
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Engagement Student-Centered Learning (Time) PBL PL
How To Introduce PL & PBL Teachers s s t t n n e e d r a u P t S 1 2 3
Teachers
Teachers
Teachers
Teacher Concern s ❏ Classroom Management ❏ SOL Scores ❏ Time ❏ Self-Imposed Pressures
Expectations, Support, & PD
Expectations, Support, & PD On Grade Enrichment Remediation
Parents
Parent Concern s ❏ Grades ❏ Unfamiliarity ❏ Technology Use ❏ Other Students’ Impact
Remember Why Study Guide ● Topic A ● Topic B ● Topic C ● Topic D ● Your job is to memorize and regurgitate.
Teach Them the Why
I wish I could go back to middle school!
Students
Student Concern s ❏ Grades ❏ Computer Adapted Programs ❏ Repetitiveness
Warm Up Spiral Question on Board 2015 - 2016: Homework Check from the Board A Day in our Geometry Lesson Classroom Practice Give out Homework
2016-2017: Wave 1 PL
Targeted Instruction : What is the key info ● students need to know for the majority of What it looked like in our my students to figure this out? Which classroom: students do I continue to scaffold with Lesson Times Get Shorter ● small-group support or videos? Data Driven Decisions : What do my ● students still not understand and what station can I make to continue to work on it? Workshop Model ●
Flexible Content and Tools : How can I ● organize so many things going on in the What it looked like in our classroom? classroom: Student Ownership and Reflection : What ● ALEKS, Google Suite ● activities do my students enjoy? How can we Students rotate around ● give them opportunities to find their stations or pick a practice out strengths and weaknesses? of 2-3 that they’d prefer to do or know they need to work on the most.
2017-2018: PBL Questions we are using to guide our PBL changes: How can my students use this math ● authentically? (How can we apply it?) How can I get my students to spend ● more time THINKING about a skill?
The Dessert Project
The Same: Different: Frame lessons with the focus on the We still have SHORT Whole essential question. Group Lessons, we still have those elements of PL, and yes, we We use playlists and genius hours still do engaging worksheets to incorporate PBA and PBL into (authentic to the discipline) . (almost) every unit.
Driving Question that moves us forward: What do my students need?
Our Questions: How do we make time for real world application and a system of accountability (SOLs)? What will my students remember in a month? A year? 10 years? Why do we do what we do?
Where PL Fits In Our PBL Classroom - Leveraging Digital Tools - Constant formative assessments - Playlists for student autonomy - Constant feedback and revision
Engagement Student-Centered Learning (Time) PBL PL
Where to start? High Importance of Standard Low High Authenticity
Supporting Teachers in PBL and PL Building Blocks Toward Deeper ● Learning Passport to Professional ● Development Book Studies ● Learning Walks ● Professional Development ● Opportunities Professional Learning Loop ●
Managing Complex Change
Can Personalized Learning and Project Based Learning Truly Coexist? @VL_Ales_Geo, @mrcaviness_RBM, @FritzEducation, @juliet_kenny, @Shaffer_LCPS www.lcps.org/rbms
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