Noel summation
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This document discusses strategies for understanding students' needs, teachers' needs, and developing oneself as a learner. It provides tips for getting to know students personally, building relationships, differentiating instruction, using technology purposefully, and making learning authentic. For teachers, it recommends relevant professional learning, collaboration, developing leadership, and support for new practices. It also emphasizes the importance of establishing a vision for 21st century learning, continually learning, and involving all stakeholders including IT staff. The overarching themes are developing a culture of sharing knowledge and ensuring deep learning for both students and teachers.
Noel summation
- 2. Method • Floated between sessions • Made it to four of the five breakouts • Listened to six of the research presentations • Wrote down what I was hearing verbatim without adding my impressions • Asked questions to pull out more information
- 3. Knowing Our Students- Understanding Their Needs • Know your students • Be fluent in their culture and speak their language. • Build relationships • Meet the needs of the students • Be flexible in meeting the needs of your students – How do they prefer to be communicated with? – Do not offer core subjects first period
- 4. Knowing Our Students- Understanding Their Needs • Meet them where they are and leverage their strengths • Journaling is a non threatening way to get certain children to open up and share • First Nation children are just like all children, they love technology. • Can you answer the question- “What are you doing for our students?”
- 5. Knowing Our Students- Understanding Their Needs • Observe students, consider how they learn, bring that information to the teachers and plan together to change teaching. • Elevate student voice- in passive and active ways • Traditional ways were not working- we need to know more to serve better • - Needs of Learners - Needs of Community
- 6. Knowing Our Students- Understanding Their Needs • Do you know how do these kids tick? • Become a learner of student learning. • Study children and determine how they get their needs met. Almost like creating an independent learning plan for each kid. • Make it personal for kids. Consider their ideas, needs, passion. Inspire students.
- 7. Knowing Our Students- Understanding Their Needs • Make learning authentic. • Help kids connect with subject matter experts • Help kids do something -- accomplish something. • Give children rich and robust tasks with real world problems to solve • Use technology with a purpose and include learning activities that feature student voice.
- 8. Knowing Our Students- Understanding Their Needs • We need to be up to our elbows in deep learning with kids. • You need to be in the middle of the learning with the kids- not stand and deliver • Curriculum should be organized so that it is sustained, embedded and just in time learning. • Work should focus on good pedagogy and 21st C learning.
- 9. Knowing Our Students- Understanding Their Needs • How can we engage students? • As freedom increased (with student choice) achievement increased. • Special needs kids felt included and like everyone else when they had the iPad. • Rhythm (musical and cadence helps kids learn) • Even when we are on the technology - need each other present to learn • Need IT to be supportive of children’s needs.
- 13. Knowing Our Faculty- Understand Their Needs • Effective professional learning needs to be relevant to the needs of teachers and their students while providing opportunities for application, practice, reflection, and practice. • Professional learning is most effective when you immerse teachers in the work. • Traditional ways were not working- we need to know more to serve better • - Needs of Staff • - Needs of System
- 14. Knowing Our Faculty- Understand Their Needs • Are you differentiating your professional learning? – Innovators come and leave. – Don’t Spend all your effort on the laggards. – Develop leaders in the group. – Empower those who get it to share what they know with others • Professional learning should not be one size fits all. • Help teachers see the path forward.
- 15. Knowing Our Faculty- Understand Their Needs • Teachers need release time to plan -- not just be given technology and be expected to use it. • As teachers planned for and used the technology collaboratively for teaching they gained expertise and went from learner to mentor to facilitator and eventually lead learner. • Tell teachers that TLLP grants are available- encourage them to apply
- 16. Knowing Our Faculty- Understand Their Needs • Help teacher understand that 21st Century skills has nothing to do with technology. • Need technology support there when it is needed. • IT staff has to be a collaborator with any professional learning plan • Do you have a plan for getting reluctant staff or faculty on board with the shifts and change?
- 19. Knowing Ourselves- Learners First • We need to first develop a vision of what 21st Century classroom looks like • We need to read the literature, think deeply as we plan and build on the shoulders of giants • Establishing vision is easy, it is keeping up with the change that is hard.
- 20. Knowing Ourselves- Learners First • We do not know it all- we are learning as we go • It is ok not to know- it is not ok to not be actively trying to learn. • We need to be up to our elbows in deep learning with kids. • You need to be in the middle of the learning • We have the knowledge management tools to keep up. •
- 23. Key Themes • Visible Learning- Share What You Know culture • Sheep beget Sheep • The deep learning for teachers didn’t come from training and the deep learning for children doesn’t come from teaching. • IT staff needs to be involved- make them a key partner sitting next to your pedagogy champions • All children, all parents, all teachers are important. Do not leave any of them out of your specific plans customized for their specific