Michelle's+Learning+Styles

Early Adopter: Inquiry & Design Challenge
Destination Postcard: My pebble is incorporating students different types of learning styles into designing my instructions so that I am able to reach each individual student in my classroom. By allowing students the opportunity and flexibility to express the ownership of their learning through the best learning style for them.

Walking the Walk

 * Given our discussion this morning, please consider and respond to the following, as they relate to your personal learning journey this year:
 * Identify your Goals & Objectives
 * What Obstacles/Problems do you anticipate?
 * What Strategies will you use to overcome these obstacles?
 * What resources and materials will you share via our EA wiki and learning community?
 * Data Collection:
 * Pre-assessment - //how will you determine the base-line of your students in your target area//?
 * Action Research Assessment and Evaluation:
 * How will you measure success?
 * How will you know if you have succeeded?
 * What will you collect as evidence of success?



Name: Michelle Hammack - sub question: How will this help students learn that this is the way they learn? Will this impact the way that they learn and have more ownership for the information and concepts that they are supposed to be learning? To help in retaining information? How do I take Itouch audio recordings of the kids and upload it? Where do i put it and organize the info to easily find it? (Individual folders?) What will it look like if I allow the students to use a flip camera to record each other within the classroom?
 * =====Campus: Westwood =====
 * =====Grade Level(s): Kindergarten =====
 * =====Discipline: All =====
 * =====Topic:Learning Styles =====
 * =====Focus Question: How will I be able to plan instruction time for each type of learning style to be represented in each subject?=====

How is your journey like that of a storyteller? Of a researcher?
 * An Opportunity in Overalls**
 * I am able to tell the story of the students day by taking pictures and creating visuals that show the students the ability they have in every thing we do can reach them through each one of their own learning styles.

What question did you start out to find answer(s) to? That several students are needing more than one type of learning style to help assist then in new learning or core curriculum to be able to retain information.


 * What tweaks, edits, modifications have you made to your focus question?
 * I need to not just understand the different backgrounds of my students, but more importantly how their background affects their perceptions.
 * What question(s) remain?
 * What tools can I employ my students with to help them step outside of "their bubble" and how do I do this?
 * What new questions have surfaced as a result of your exploration this far?
 * How can I best measure/resolve my students' perception or point of view hindering mastery of content.

As a researcher: What are you measuring?
 * What patterns are surfacing?
 * That students are needing repitition of events over and over in all the different modes of learning styles to help support each individual student be successfull in everyday learning in the kindergarten classroom. Also that we naturally teach several different learning styles by teaching one activity without intensionally trying to do it.
 * What themes are emerging?
 * That studens need more prior knowledge and experiences to be comfortable in taking risks by trying to use new learning styles.
 * What does your data suggest?
 * That students use several different modes of learning styles all at the same time and that using several different styles can help them hold new information for longer periods of time to reuse in core curriculum.

As a learner:
 * In what way(s) has your professional perception been expanded?
 * I think I am more cognicint of trying to incorporate learning styles and expanding the information to hit as many learning styles at one time as possible with the one topic.
 * How are you allowing yourself and your authentic, real, professional learning to be 'seen'?
 * Changing the way I run my classroom and incorporate new systems within the room that have created a shift in the management of my room with the students.
 * In what way(s) have you found the courage to be 'imperfect'?
 * How do you define vulnerability in the context of our work?What about this process makes you feel vulnerable?
 * What strategies are you using through this process that might benefit your students as well?
 * What **//a-ha!//** moments, or elements of a 'spiritual awakening'/'breakdown' have you experienced? What might these insights suggested to you?

What story is unfolding from your research?
 * (//just bullet point notes for now//)

**Resources**: Thinking > We made several different connections while having a discussion about your article. We really liked the point that you make about really knowing the content by explaining the information learned without using the new core word. As teachers we will make an effort to not be thoughtless and allow students the ability to express their learning through reflections by facilitating as a “guide on the side”. We need to be more thoughtful when it comes to students questioning and allow them to create their own independent learning styles to allow them the opportunity to question or express their own learning in an individual manner. > When discussing thinking shifts we need parents to begin having deeper discussions about school content and also have a true understanding of learning and help support students and teachers when trying to have deeper meaningful reflections of knowledge. Students will have to be made more aware of their ownership in their own learning and that it does not fall back onto the parents and teacher. Plus they will need to be more willing to take a risk in a learning environment. The teacher will have to make more shifts by following the “gradual release model” and allow and accept student questioning that we may not know the answers too.
 * Documentation & Reflection - http://balancedtech.wikispaces.com/Documentation+and+Reflection+Prompts
 * Inquiry - http://balancedtech.wikispaces.com/Inquiry
 * Resources: search for existing resources (articles, websites, blogs, videos, etc.) - please be sure to add them to our [|Diigo]
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 * Wiggins blog post []
 * Our response:


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

//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:sbisdlearnsymphony/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