Blake_Relevant+Teaching+That+Matters

==include component="pageList" hideInternal="true" tag="blake" limit="100" Early Adopter: Inquiry & Design Challenge ==

My Destination Postcard:


 * I am open-minded to learning new things that I can implement in my instruction. My goal is to make my lessons highly relevant to student learning. **


 * Name: Ms. Blake **
 * =====**Spring Branch Middle School **=====
 * =====**6th **=====
 * =====**Science **=====
 * =====**Topics: Relevant Teaching That Matters **=====
 * =====**Focus Question: How do we let students take the lead using digital communication inside and outside of the classroom? **=====
 * =====** Sub-questions : **=====
 * =====**How will I be able to get all learners involved due to lack of technology for 100% of students? **=====
 * Walking the Walk
 * ** How are you prepared to Walk the Walk this year? How will your journey reflect action research ? **
 * ** 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? I measure success through **
 * ** How will you know if you have succeeded? I will know I succeeded by monitoring student success. **
 * ** What will you collect as evidence of success? ** ** To monitor student success, I will collect student work such as daily sentence stems, "red light, green light" approach using sticky notes, labs, projects, assessments, etc. **
 * ** How will you know if you have succeeded? I will know I succeeded by monitoring student success. **
 * ** What will you collect as evidence of success? ** ** To monitor student success, I will collect student work such as daily sentence stems, "red light, green light" approach using sticky notes, labs, projects, assessments, etc. **

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**Resources: Edmodo for blogging; Powtoons, GoAnimate, Puppetpals for interactive presentations** =====
 * ===== Resources: //s// //earch for existing resources (articles, websites, blogs, videos, etc.) - please be sure to add them to our [|Diigo] //=====
 * add additional resources here
 * Mining the Effort**
 * What artifacts of your personal learning have you been collecting? I have blogs, reflections on my learning journal, the "take aways" from the EAC meetings that I have shared with my coworkers at my school.
 * What process shifts do these suggest in your practice? I am allowing more flexibility in my classroom which gives students a voice.
 * What process shifts do these suggest in your practice? I am allowing more flexibility in my classroom which gives students a voice.


 * What artifacts of student learning have you been collecting? I have collected movies (using iMovie, Powtoons, GoAnimate) that students have created.
 * What process shifts do these suggest in their practice? I am open to learning new things and keeping up with the advances of today's society.

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)
 * http://bit.ly/1cWTrpi


 * 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?


 * 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