Aucock++++++Student+ownership+learning

Early Adopter: Inquiry & Design Challenge
My Destination Postcard:

Student Ownership of Learning Name:
 * =====Campus: Memorial Middle School =====
 * =====Grade Level(s): 6,7,8 =====
 * =====Discipline: ESL =====
 * =====Topic: Language Arts =====
 * =====Focus Question: Does choice make a difference with beginner ESL students?=====
 * ===== Resources: =====
 * =====//Who else is thinking about your topic? Parents and educators //=====
 * =====//Who else is grappling with this element of practice? students //=====
 * =====//What are they finding? //=====
 * =====//How are they sharing? //=====
 * =====//What are they finding? //=====
 * =====//How are they sharing? //=====
 * =====//How are they sharing? //=====
 * =====//How are they sharing? //=====

Working on the Work
 * ===== Activity: =====
 * 1) Individually, design a student resource, activity type, or mini-challenge to try in the classroom over the next month to test. Then, get feedback from partners.
 * 2) Try out resource, activity type, or project during the month(s), documenting plan, process, execution and reflection and collect student work samples.
 * 
 * < // please add link to Round 2 activity // >
 * < // please add link to Round 3 activity // >

//Please create a page for your activities that will help others understand the steps you are taking in your inquiry and design process.//

**Creating Your Activity Page [[image:InqDesign.png align="right"]]**

 * 1) Please make a new page:
 * Title: 
 * Template: activity design
 * Tag : design, campus
 * 1) SAVE your page
 * 2) Check to be sure your page appears at the top of our Activity Share page

//example:// Jennifer F. Round 1
 * Walking the Walk
 * How are you prepared to //Walk the Walk// this year? How will your journey reflect //action research//?
 * Please go to your personal learning journal page and respond to the following:
 * Identify your Goals & Objectives: Centers w/choices
 * What Obstacles/Problems do you
 * anticipate? Technology issues
 * What Strategies will you use to overcome these obstacles? Set up emergency centers that require no technology but hands on.
 * What resources and materials will you share via our EA wiki and learning community?Short video clips
 * Pre-assessment - //how will you determine the base-line of your students in your target area//? Set up trial centers
 * How will you measure success? Track with software
 * How will you know if you have succeeded? Students will begin to speak/talk/write in English.
 * What will you collect as evidence of success? Visual, paper, oral

> ( // please copy and paste the two sections below - Mining the Effort & Opportunity in Overalls - to your personal learning journal  // ) > ** Mining the Effort ** > > > ** An Opportunity in Overalls ** > How is your journey like that of a storyteller? Of a researcher? Both > > What question did you start out to find answer(s) to? > > As a researcher: > > What are you measuring? > > As a learner: > > What story is unfolding from your research? > > ** Defining Your Focus ** > > ** Considering the bigger picture... **
 * Immediate Opportunities...
 * Activity Types: Odyssey Reading, Rosetta Stone, Ipad apps for math,science, on-line books, GoAnimate with Edmodo
 * === February: ===
 * What artifacts of your personal learning have you been collecting? Anchor charts with student work and comments.
 * What process shifts do these suggest in your practice? More student based/found lessons.
 * What artifacts of student learning have you been collecting? Again the anchor charts and notes I've kept on students.
 * What process shifts do these suggest in their practice? Students begin to see the importance of owning their work.
 * What tweaks, edits, modifications have you made to your focus question?
 * What question(s) remain?
 * What new questions have surfaced as a result of your exploration this far?
 * What patterns are surfacing?
 * What themes are emerging?
 * What does your data suggest?
 * Where have you allowed yourself to be vulnerable in this process?
 * How are you allowing yourself, your professional learning to be 'seen'?
 * In what way(s) have you found the courage to be 'imperfect'?
 * What //a-ha!// moments, elements of a 'spiritual awakening'/"breakdown" have you experienced? What might these insights suggested to you?
 * (//just bullet point notes for now//)
 * Collaborative Glossary (@http://tinyurl.com/EAvocab)
 * What IS Early Adopters?
 * What is Early Adopters NOT?
 * What examples from your/your students practice might you offer others to "show" this?

> === January: === > > > > || [|Additional Resources?] || [|swilkie] || 8 || 42 || Jan 30, 2014 by   [|swilkie]  || > || [|Tweaks, Edits, Modifications?] || [|swilkie] || 6 || 30 || Jan 30, 2014 by   [|Zievertp]  || > Design Time
 * **Working on the Work**
 * Please post your Activity Write-Up //and// Reflection --> //moving toward your vision//
 * To make a new Activity page:
 * Title: < name, topic >
 * Template: //activity design//
 * Tags: design, discipline (see chart), campus , last name (ex: design, sciene, Ridgecrest, Butler)
 * SAVE your page
 * CHECK to be sure you page appears on our NEW SBISD Activity Share page, as well as on your Learning Journal page (both linked above)
 * **Essential Elements of Early Adopters:**
 * Documenting & Reflecting Less Is More - reflect & connect
 * Questioning
 * Feeding Yourself
 * Peer Feedback
 * Self-Monitoring & Assessment
 * **Questioning**
 * See, Think, Wonder
 * Sort
 * KWHQL
 * Thinking, Fast and Slow
 * Search Strategies
 * Alternative Media
 * Relatives Network
 * Global Learning
 * Questioning Resources:
 * Questioning - BalancEdTech Wikispaces
 * Question Starters
 * Questioning ToolKit - Jamie McKenzie
 * Blooms Question Stems
 * Socratic Question Stems
 * ~ Subject ||~ Author ||~ Replies ||~ Views ||~ Last Message ||
 * **Design Time**