ISACS Reflection Group 7

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What does this mean for our work with students?
  • Provide opportunities for students to realize that some work goes unfinished and continues to be a work-in-progress.
  • Utilize online resources that enable teachers to post a question or idea to get many different comments, ideas or resources in return.
  • Use opportunities like literature studies/author studies and technology to create connections and interactions with other classrooms or schools.
  • Implement specific moment course techniques, such as Brain Gym, into the classroom to help with brain development for children who struggle with handwriting, learning to read, occupying other people’s space and focusing. Provide teachers with proper training for these areas.
  • Explore the possibilities to include such activities as tai chi, yoga, drumming and labyrinth within the school day.
  • Think about creating an outside labyrinth in the gardens.
Aspire
  • Explore Performance Task Scenarios to allow for instructional differentiation and to give students opportunities to take learning to a deeper understanding.
  • Explore interest in creating a class or course outline of the skills/concepts that students will encounter and that students will use that outline to check what was covered/learned at the end of the class/year.
  • Build rubrics (e.g. holistic rubric for Academic Research Project) and define assignment/project/presentation expectations.
  • Explore technique used by Ann Novak, Explanation Across the Curriculum 21st Century presenter, in writing an effective paragraph and creating a description in how to effectively respond to a lesson. (Conference handouts can be found on the wiki.)
  • Explore 3-2-1 Innovations and using the strategy of noun correlation to a topic (e.g., camera and professional development). Look at the quality behind successful name brands and how can we can approach professional development and school issues. Include the critical evaluation of these popular ideas and create predictions of the consequences.
  • Enhance global learning opportunities. Time zone differences can hinder classroom connections; however, the Flat Classroom approach can counter this problem.
  • Build relationships. Get to know students first and finding opportunities to reach them. Flicker.com is a great online source for students to post responses to pictures or artwork and this information can be shared globally.