Graciely+Reichen-Learning+Journal

Early Adopter: Inquiry & Design Challenge
My Destination Postcard: 



Name: Graciely Reichen > http://groups.diigo.com/group/sbisd-early-adopters
 * =====Campus: Memorial Middle School =====
 * =====Grade Level(s): 8th Grade =====
 * =====Discipline: Language Arts/Social Studies =====
 * =====Topic: Reading/Writing and American History =====
 * =====Focus Question: Student owned learning: How can I empower my students to make connections between their current, daily lives to materials they read and history they learn?=====
 * ===== Resources: //s// //earch for existing resources (articles, websites, blogs, videos, etc.) - please be sure to add them to our [|Diigo] //=====

Getting Started
 * ===== 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 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

=**FEBRUARY 27, 2014**=


 * Mining the Effort **
 * What artifacts of your personal learning have you been collecting?
 * This year I have been trying to be more reflective in my lessons in how they went and what changes can be made. I keep a log in a binder of all of my assignments and I place a note to myself about what changes can be made.
 * Sometimes I have my students write to me about a project we did or how they feel the lesson went. I keep these in my log and I attempt to make some changes that need to be made to make it more engaging or interesting for my students.
 * As I work with different teachers that have several strengths and differing years of experience, I gather information/lessons from them and different resources that they are willing to hand over to me.
 * What process shifts do these suggest in your practice?


 * What artifacts of student learning have you been collecting?
 * What process shifts do these suggest in their practice?

How is your journey like that of a storyteller? Of a researcher?
 * An Opportunity in Overalls **

What question did you start out to find answer(s) to?
 * 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?

As a researcher:

What are you measuring?
 * What patterns are surfacing?
 * What themes are emerging?
 * What does your data suggest?

As a learner:
 * 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?

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


 * Defining Your Focus **
 * Collaborative Glossary (@http://tinyurl.com/EAvocab)


 * Considering the bigger picture... **
 * What IS Early Adopters?
 * What is Early Adopters NOT?
 * What examples from your/your students practice might you offer others to "show" this?