The Forsyth Virtual Academy Content Specialists have some tips and takeaways to help you apply to creation based learning in your own class, no matter the subject!
Use Status Updates to help manage projects! Can be Google Docs, Google Site Portfolio, Flipgrid, etc.
Make the work visible! Have students present work to classmates, and get feedback
Find Competitions and Audiences! Give kids a platform to share
Allow for students to have partners if they want
Keep grading simple! Use something like a Single Point Rubric!
Provide project feedback along the way to reduce the need for major corrections at the end!
Create meaningful activities that apply in daily life
Use student responses as a way to get to know them, follow up!
Provide impactful projects with life-long benefits
Create broad topics where students can then select a niche they are interested in
Provide frequent feedback
Deemphasize the grade. Emphasize the learning process and continous improvement
Projects can be hands-on, even in an online setting!
Kids can interact with others to do their work (ex: survey questions, etc.)
Reports can be pretty!
Now students also know a new tool to create
Give the students the freedom to find their own understanding of difficult and often complex statistical topics by assigning open ended project guidelines...
GO FIND MEANING using this or that skill or topic
We get it! These are BIG ideas. But it can start small!
What do you already do to support kids in imagining, creating, playing, sharing, reflecting? What can you do to further those supports, based on updates to your curriculum? How can you increase the level of DOK in something you already have?
Check out the tips below!