Curious, Critical Thinker

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Students Will...

Students will develop a sense of wonder and will initiate their own learning.
Students will generate powerful questions and independently investigate, reason and analyze multiple sources.
Students will carefully assess outcomes and draw logical conclusions about next steps.

Ideas

More opportunities for open ended and student directed assignments / demonstration of learning (i.e. Genius Hour).
Socratic Seminar (junior great books, unconference, engaging rich prompts / text)
Project Based Learning (service learning experiences, engineering design, scientific studies, science fair projects)
Performance Based Assessments (debates, mock scenarios, capstone presentations, student led instruction)
Creation of Exhibition Product in MS Encore classes
Cross curricular experiences
Guided Inquiry Models (Big 6, etc.)
Culture of active reading

District Examples

Work in Progress

Re-Imagining Entrepreneurship Units with PBLIn recent years at Johnson Elementary, 3rd grade students could look forward to learning about what it means to be an entrepreneur through a...

2nd Graders Take on Fairy Tales with PBLWhile working through the goal of renewing her National Boards, 2nd grade teacher Amy Opitz found that she was focusing on using technology ...

Achieving Advanced Levels of Collaboration for PBLAsk a group of first graders what they think in terms of the historical perspective through an examination of "the past", and they're likely...

First Grade Example of PBL

Music Room engagement - Veteran's Day PBL

Madness into Mastery - Using Bloxels with the study of Westward Expansion

Autmotate the Boring Stuff - students identified boring things they wanted to simplify with computational reasoning

Students move through a personalized learning path for math based on pre-assessment data and reflect on their progress in achieving their goals with choices for coding opportunities built in.