Gossett+Student+Ownership+and+Relfection

Early Adopter: Inquiry & Design Challenge
My #|Destination #|Postcard:  Letting My Students Journey Into Their Own Learning.Its time to let go!

Name: Cristina Gossett **CONNECTING YOU THINKING** Who else is thinking about your topic? Who else is grappling with this element of practice? What are they finding? How are they sharing?
 * =====**Campus**: TWE =====
 * =====**Grade Level**(s): 2nd =====
 * =====**Discipline**: All =====
 * =====**Topic**: Math, Technology =====
 * =====**Focus Question**: How will my student's ownership allow them to see how their learning is relevant? =====
 * **Sub Questions**: What questions will help prompt deeper self-reflection? When is the reflection appropriate during the #|lesson?
 * **Resources**:Edmodo, iTouches,
 * Walking the Walk
 * 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: TLW teach a problem solving method to other students by video taping their strategies and walking the learner through the learning process.
 * What Obstacles/Problems do you anticipate? teaching kids how to upload videos onto edmodo.
 * 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?** My students will be able to log onto their Edmodo accounts on their own to post #|videos and reflect and respond to their posts.
 * **How will you know if you have succeeded?** My students will understand the importance of reflections in their work. They will see how other students respond to their videos by their success in learning.
 * **What will you collect as evidence of success?** Videos, Edmodo accounts, Writing Reflections (posts)
 * ** Mining the Effort **
 * What artifacts of your personal learning have you been collecting?
 * lessons that have been attached on my learning journey (blogging)
 * collaboration with my coworkers/i-coach/principal
 * What process shifts do these suggest in your practice?
 * What artifacts of student learning have you been collecting?
 * Students are reflecting on their own learning in math and journaling their progress in their writing.
 * What process shifts do these suggest in their practice?
 * What process shifts do these suggest in their practice?

How is your journey like that of a storyteller? Of a researcher? What question did you start out to find answer(s) to?
 * An Opportunity in Overalls **
 * What tweaks, edits, modifications have you made to your focus question?
 * I started with a big idea and quickly realized my idea was too big and had to start with a smaller picture. My students had to learn to release in their own thinking and become responsible in their own learning.
 * What question(s) remain?
 * Are my students really taking ownership in their learning?
 * What new questions have surfaced as a result of your exploration this far?
 * How will this look next year when I start earlier in the year?

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)

Collaborative Vocabulary Card
 * 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:sbisdlearnsymphony/InqDesign.png align="right"]]**

 * 1) Please #|make a new page:
 * Title: <name, topic, Round 1>
 * 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

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