Taking an active role in choosing, demonstrating, and evaluating learning goals to master key skills and competencies.
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- Sets personal learning goals
- Co-constructs personal learning environments to develop personalized learning processes
- Uses a growth mindset
- Demonstrates their learning in a variety of ways.
- Understands the benefit of productive struggle in the learning process
Evidence
- Student goal setting
- Students collecting data and analyzing/interpreting
- Self-paced learning
- Students utilizing multiple strategies to get through struggle
- Student presentations of their individual learning
- Using available resources
- Trial and error
- Intentional learners
Strategies
- Use of digital portfolios
- Self-assessment
- Students graph and keep track of their own data
- Exhibition of learning
- Student-led conferences
- PBL's that inspire students to be enthused.
- Student choice in learning decisions
Mini-Golf Courses
Pre-Calculus students design a miniature golf course using their knowledge of vectors.
Passion Projects
A student works on her passion project about YouTube (her future career).
Goal Setting
Primary students set goals for the new year.
Recycling PBL
IMG_8467.MOVFirst grade students at Chandlers code a robot to complete tasks.
fitness club
Students participate in a fitness class at the Carpenter Center. Students choose their monthly club based on their interests.
SCK Launch
Students explore medical careers they are interested in pursuing.
career festival
Eighth grade students attend a career festival in Bowling Green and explore career paths they find interesting.
graphing
Second grade students develop their individual graphs after researching topics they chose and surveying peers.
writing
Kindergarten students practice self-paced reading and writing.
teaching others
Eighth grade students teach fifth grade students about their individual lessons on bull-riding.
investigating
Students investigate, predict, and analyze data within the chemistry lab.
