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My Destination Postcard: 



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 * =====Campus: Frostwood =====
 * =====Grade Level(s): 1st and 2nd Grade (Primary Gifted Students) =====
 * =====Discipline: =====
 * =====Topic: =====
 * =====Focus Question:What different types of planning and problem solving strategies does an architect use to plan a new school?=====
 * ===== Resources: Trade Books with planning strategies illustrated, //Balloon Over Broadway,// skyping session with architect of our new school, blog with our log of learning and responses from Architect. =====
 * Who else is thinking about your topic? Other primary GT classes, classroom teachers, architect studnets
 * Who else is grappling with this element of practice? classroom teachers, students interested in architecture
 * What are they finding? Websites, videos, blogs
 * How are they sharing? Video (not many), websites, blogs

> Working on the Work > **Mining the Effort** > > > ** An Opportunity in Overalls ** > How is your journey like that of a storyteller? Of a researcher? I feel like a researcher as I have given students opportunity to find resources outside of the norm. They have used databases, online tools and now are going to others for knowledge. > > 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? >
 * ===== 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.
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 * 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
 * My goal and objective is for my students to reach outside the classroom walls for global collaboration. My students will be able to plan their own with guidance and advice from an expert and create their own. This year I want to add a blog for a reflection piece.
 * What Obstacles/Problems do you anticipate?Our biggest obstacles will be the time I have with the PGP students. I have them twice a week.
 * What Strategies will you use to overcome these obstacles? I will use time to model and create some flipped lessons for the students to access at home to see quality blogging from Karen Ferraro's flipcharts she has created. They can do some of their blogging from home.
 * What resources and materials will you share via our EA wiki and learning community? I will be using our consuming blue prints and floor plans for our students to look at. The architect is collaborating with our students over their plans they are creating for their mini-buildings. We will be using computers and our Edmodo group for blogging..
 * Pre-assessment - //how will you determine the base-line of your students in your target area//? I have used a Padlet to determine where my students are with their questions about planning for building.
 * How will you measure success? Success will be measured by their products they will be creating. PGP will be creating their own floor plans for their new building using the knowledge learned from the architect. Their blogs will also reflect their learning in their beginning comments and their reflections after they are done with their products.
 * How will you know if you have succeeded? If the students are able to create their own mini-school from the planning stage to final product.
 * What will you collect as evidence of success? We will take pictures of the process and make a Stupeflix video of our journey.
 * Immediate Opportunities...
 * Activity Types
 * Design Time
 * What artifacts of your personal learning have you been collecting? Blogs on Early Adopters page
 * What process shifts do these suggest in your practice? The process shift I have had is the reflective thinking with my goals for learning. Instead of just teaching the technology tools, I am thinking of what my goal for the learner is first. Where do I want them to arrive. How am I challenging their thinking with the lesson?
 * What artifacts of student learning have you been collecting? PGP class blog, floor plans and problem solving notes they took with the architect.
 * What process shifts do these suggest in their practice? Students have realized they have the resources outside the classroom walls. They realized that they can collaborate with experts to grow their own learning. The students are beginning to reflect on their own learning by sharing in class blog.
 * What tweaks, edits, modifications have you made to your focus question? The modifications I have made is giving the students time to reflect. Making sure I take the time to allow the students to think about their problem solving, changing their thinking as they progress in their learning.
 * What question(s) remain? How long do I stay with reflection before going on to a new topic?
 * What new questions have surfaced as a result of your exploration this far? Will students internalize this journey of researching by asking others outside of their own walls?
 * What patterns are surfacing?
 * What themes are emerging? Problem solving through my thinking and my students
 * What does your data suggest?
 * Where have you allowed yourself to be vulnerable in this process? Allowing the students to take the time for reflection.
 * How are you allowing yourself, your professional learning to be 'seen'? Tweeting has been a challenge, but I know it is needed.
 * In what way(s) have you found the courage to be 'imperfect'? Regrouping after reflection
 * 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//)

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