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=Early Adopter: Inquiry & Design Challenge= Destination Postcard: If only… my students will become self-motivated learners. - students will teach each other about concepts/skills - students will ask and create assessments - students will come up with ideas on what they want to learn - students will propose ideas on how to learn

My 3 rules: 1. Curiosity 2. Self-Control 3. Grit

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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**: Students will take the initiative to learn by looking for sources of information to answer their questions and decide how they will show their learning.
 * **What Obstacles/Problems do you anticipate?** Students will not have enough computer to do their research. Some students will be distracted. Some students will not cooperate.
 * **What Strategies will you use to overcome these obstacles?** Borrow computers from other classrooms. Get a grant to get more computers
 * What resources and materials will you share via our EA wiki and learning community? pictures, link, and files created by my students
 * Pre-assessment - //how will you determine the base-line of your students in your target area//? Initially, my students are not creating and posting on Edmodo or Wikispaces often.
 * How will you measure success? My students will be able to respond and post more on Edmodo and Wikispaces
 * How will you know if you have succeeded? More posts and responses online
 * What will you collect as evidence of success? The quality and quantity of post and responses they write.



media type="custom" key="24041580" align="left" Challenging Frustrating // Roller Coaster // Enlightening Contagious Inspiring

Students will become reflective learners by thinking about what they have learned, why is it important for them to learn it, and how they can apply what they have learned in different areas of their lives.

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Name: M. Elias - What are some steps I will take so my students will become reflective learners? How can they make a reflection before the lesson and after the lesson? How will they have multiple chances of reflection through out their learning? How will I use their reflection to drive my instruction? Can students generate some questions on their own regarding what they were learning? - What are some criteria I need to see so I could say that my students have become reflective learners?
 * =====Campus: Westwood Elementary =====
 * =====Grade Level(s): 3rd Grade =====
 * =====Discipline: Inter-Disciplinary =====
 * =====Topic: Reflective Learner =====
 * =====Focus Question: How will my students become reflective learners? How does self-reflection impact learning?=====


 * An Opportunity in Overalls**

How is your journey like that of a storyteller? Of a researcher?

I wanted my journey to be more of a researcher, trying to control and predict the outcome. Hoping that everybody would learn and become a reflective learner right away. Hoping that a light bulb would just all of a sudden turn on and every body would take ownership of their learning. However, my journey has turned to be more like a storyteller. There are struggles and the outcome is not always perfect.

What question did you start out to find answer(s) to? They were able to make a reflection at the beginning and through out the lesson


 * 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? How can I employ
 * What tools can I employ my students with to help them step outside of "their bubble" and how do I do this?
 * 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?
 * What themes are emerging?
 * What does your data suggest?

As a learner:
 * In what way(s) has your professional perception been expanded?
 * How are you allowing yourself and your authentic, real, professional learning to be 'seen'?
 * 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**:

Design
 * 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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Thinking > Mr. Wiggins, your points of interest regarding thoughtfulness and thoughtlessness really describes the perils and pedagogical stalemates that teachers are facing in the classrooms of today. > Even though we are at the front trenches of educating our future citizens, we wonder what a doctor or an attorney would do if she/he faced a medical/legal board that is composed of people from different walks of life? This certainly would not happen; however, this is happening in our educational system. The teacher is merely a piece of clay being molded by many others who have not been in the classrooms of today. > Can we make the educational leaders come to the trenches and see what a year is like dealing with the daily tasks of teachers across America? > The thinking shifts that need to happen is for the teachers to be on the State Board of Education instead of people who have taught years ago or people who do not know about the intricacies of education. We are the experts; therefore, we need to take hold of our education system and set the educational system. > Another shift is the home and the parents. We need more collaborative work with parents and community in order to educate our children. > The last shift is to have education become a priority by letting teachers do what they need to do—TEACH.
 * Wiggins blog post http://grantwiggins.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/thinking-about-a-lack-of-thinking/
 * 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