Exploring Education: Recent Episodes

Heather Nelson

Various discoveries I'm making along the way to my Master's in Instructional Technology

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Sources

https://byotnetwork.com/2016/06/28/communication-for-personalized-learning/

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ842694.pdf

https://www.brown.edu/sheridan/teaching-learning-resources/teaching-resources/classroom-practices/classroom-communication/tips

https://teachingcommons.stanford.edu/news/spring-quarter-instructor-strategies

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Sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESlNrwgljb8

https://www.thepltoolbox.com/learningpathways.html

https://practices.learningaccelerator.org/strategies/promoting-personalization-through-learner-pathways

http://www.life-slc.org/nsf/linkd/files/Barron.NSSE.tracing.learning.pathways.%202010.pdf

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This episode focuses on venues for professional development for educators, as well as ideas for creating your own venues for learning.

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This episode focuses on my experience coaching a first year teacher through a new strategy to meet a goal.  Specifically, we focused on checking progress towards the goal and reflection on the overall coaching experience.

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This episode covers my experience with the second step of Jim Knight's Impact Cycle:  Learn.  This portion of the Impact Cycle is all about teaching your coachee a new strategy to use to meet their goal.

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This episode does have some mention of violence.  Stay safe.

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This episode has two major parts.

  1. My reflection on coaching an individual teacher using Jim Knight's Impact Cycle. (Specific to ITEC 7460)

  2. My reflection on the Professional Learning Community I've started for my department. (for my Master's Capstone)

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Sources:

https://scholarworks.umass.edu/pare/vol2/iss1/2/

https://citl.indiana.edu/teaching-resources/assessing-student-learning/authentic-assessment/

http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/toolbox/

http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/mar14/vol71/num06/The-Potential-of-Adaptive-Assessment.aspx

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Strategies from Jim Knight's The Impact Cycle for enrolling teachers into technology coaching for my Capstone project.

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Sources:  

https://www.prodigygame.com/main-en/blog/growth-mindset-in-students

https://research.acer.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1017&context=ar_misc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-swZaKN2Ic

https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED490412

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Sources:

http://www.ascd.org/ASCD/pdf/journals/ed_lead/el200609_weiner.pdf

https://teachereducation.steinhardt.nyu.edu/an-asset-based-approach-to-education-what-it-is-and-why-it-matters/

https://www.classcraft.com/blog/features/asset-based-teaching/#:~:text=Shifting%20your%20outlook%20on%20classroom,focuses%20on%20correcting%20their%20inadequacies.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2202/1940-1639.1041

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https://www.gettingsmart.com/2018/10/why-you-should-create-a-collaborative-classroom-this-year/

https://catlintucker.com/2017/08/grade-interviews/

https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/community-schools-effective-school-improvement-report

https://www.amazon.com/Cross-Curricular-Teaching-Learning-Secondary-English/dp/0415565049

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An Overview of planning for learner agency in a high school journalism class

Resources:

https://udl-irn.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/McClaskey_K2016PersonalizedLearning.pdf

https://barbarabray.net/2018/05/08/continuum-of-choice-choosing-the-learning-path-to-find-passion-and-purpose/

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17449642.2013.843360

http://blog.core-ed.org/blog/2014/02/ten-trends-2014-learner-agency.html

https://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/classroom_qa_with_larry_ferlazzo/2019/10/ways_to_support_student_agency.html

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Link to student survey:  https://forms.microsoft.com/Pages/ShareFormPage.aspx?id=JkvAr5sI1ky58Co_KAkTvtg02SrHnO1NquqSskh9zfxUOVRESlFWT1NFV09UQkdPOUlIVVpOVEgwUS4u&sharetoken=ffWjuwFSrLlYw63np5nZ

Resources:

Harvard Center on the Developing Child.  "Executive Function Activities for Adolescents."

https://46y5eh11fhgw3ve3ytpwxt9r-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Activities-for-Adolescents.pdf

Mares, Daniela, Alan McLuckie, Michael Schwartz. "Executive Function Impairments in Children with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder:  Do They Differ between School and Home Environments?" The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1 August 2007.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/070674370705200811

Prencipe, Angela, et al. "Development of hot and cool executive function during the transition to adolesence." Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2011.

http://eds.b.ebscohost.com.proxygsu-sche.galileo.usg.edu/eds/detail/detail?vid=0&sid=25167c87-4fd2-44d9-a46f-b34c2921a15a%40pdc-v-sessmgr05&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmUmc2NvcGU9c2l0ZQ%3d%3d#AN=S0022096510001827&db=edselp

Crone, Eveline. "Executive functions in adolesence:  inferences from brain and behavior." Developmental Science, Nov 2009.

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Resources:

https://bagwell.kennesaw.edu/current-students/docs/Personalized_Learning_Vision_for_Georgia.pdf

https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/apollo-personalized-learning/

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Sources:

http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/oct10/vol68/num02/Lessons-of-Mastery-Learning.aspx

https://www.springpointschools.org/blog/2016/01/five-key-lessons-mastery-startup/

http://www.redesignu.org/sites/default/files/uploads/Making-Mastery-Work-NMEF-2012-Inline.pdf

https://sites.google.com/a/philasd.org/competencyeducation/

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Links to the tools mentioned:

EdPuzzle

ClassFlow

SeeSaw

ExplainEverything

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