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Rigor and Mastery
Did you Know? Canvas Parent Observer Accounts
Blended Learning Best Practices: Rigor and Mastery
Monthly checklist (videos you may need now)
Rigor/Mastery Resources
Digital Citizenship
BL Resources
September Canvas winner
Rigor and Mastery Challenge: Chance to win!
Rigor and Mastery
Rigor and Mastery
Teaching the standards doesn't have to be a dismal, boring task. When students are engaged with the ask of the standard, learning can be joyful and motivating, it just takes the right tools. In addition, when we allow students to track and analyze data, the standards become less scary and confidence increases, because students understand where they are and where they need to be to show mastery. This newsletter offers a variety of ways to gather data around mastery of the standard.
Did you know that parents can create a Parent Observer account in Canvas? Canvas Observer enhances the potential for parents to engage in their children's education. Parents can review upcoming or past assignments, check on grades, and receive alerts for student activity. Canvas Parent can be used by any Canvas user with an observer account and is available for both Android and iOS devices. For step-by-step instructions that can be sent home to parents, click HERE. For teacher instructions on how to print off a class list of pairing codes, please click HERE.
Blended Learning Best Practices: Rigor and Mastery
Blended Learning Best Practices: Rigor and Mastery
Blended Learning Focus: Rigor and Mastery
Blended Learning Focus: Rigor and Mastery
When thinking about an amusement park, the roller coasters loops and turns are those of the most rigorous rides. The thrills of the roller coasters, the scrambler and the rides that drop are intense and provide riders with an unexplainable adrenaline rush.
As we move forward this month with rigor and mastery, it is important to consider the goals and objectives that students need to master by the end of each unit of study. If you want your students to master standards in a meaningful and relevant way, rigor is the key. Rigor is also what makes a learning unit robust, engaging, and appropriately challenging. (ASCD.org) Just as the most intense amusement park rides can be intimidating the adrenaline rush is what intrigues the rider to get on. How can you intrigue/motivate your students to remain engaged in the unit of study?
Here are a few things to consider as you look at building a lesson that promotes rigor/mastery.
Gaining Understanding of What your Students Know (exit tickets explained)
Fostering Joy in the Academically Rigorous English Classroom (Great read for all subject areas)
Monthly Checklist
Monthly Checklist
Consider...
Using Google Forms to create exit tickets to assess mastery of standard/s
Creating a Rubric in Canvas and Attaching it to an Assignment.
Rigor and Mastery Resources
Rigor and Mastery Resources
(*While these resources are free, they are not district-supported).
(*While these resources are free, they are not district-supported).
Kahoot: Students compete against each other to answer questions quickly and correctly. The teacher receives feedback on who answered correctly and who did not.
Quizizz: Create lessons, conduct formative assessments, assign homework, and have other interactions with your students (for all grades) in a captivating way.
Ditch that Textbook: This website has free, editable templates and graphic organizers that can be used to tie back to a variety of verbs often found in academic standards.
Try one of these 5 techniques for enhancing joy coupled with rigorous learning in the classroom.
Monthly Digital Citizenship Lessons
October Digital Citizenship Theme: We are critical thinkers and creators.
It's essential that students learn to think critically about the news and media they encounter every day. Students will demonstrate the ability to identify, evaluate, and use information effectively, find credible and trustworthy sources, and give proper credit. They will recognize how individuals and society are influenced by the media and the misrepresentations and stereotypes they sometimes promote. Students will reflect on their responsibilities and rights as creators in the online spaces where they consume, create, and share information. Read more about this topic on the Common Sense Education website.
Monthly activities to teach digital citizenship are available on the Guilford is Cyber Safe website.
Resources
Resources
BL Resource Website: Visit our website for all things blended learning. Locate your blended learning specialist, find out about our virtual course offerings,
District-Provided Tools Database: Want to know what digital resources we have for you? Check out the district's Air Table. You can filter to find the information you need.
Resources Document for Best Practices: If you like the Blended Learning Look-for document but feel like you need to know more, please check out our resource page that directly aligns with each of the blended learning focus areas.
Digital Learning Resources Canvas Page: Need help with one of our GCS district-provided resources? Visit our digital learning resource page to find video tutorials and instructional guides on anything from Swivl to Canvas.
Congratulations to our September Newsletter Culture Challenge winner, Ellen Neese, from Cone Elementary! Ms. Neese has won a $25 gift card to LA Nails in Oak Ridge, NC for submitting a check-in that she does with students at the start of each day.
Special thanks to LA Nails in Oak Ridge for there generous support. We could not do this without our community partners.
Rigor and Mastery Challenge
Rigor and Mastery Challenge
How do you promote rigor/mastery in your classroom?
Please submit a screenshot of one of the following to Jessica Lamberth at lamberj2@gcsnc.com. Once you submit your screenshot, you will automatically be entered into a drawing for a prize.
Google Form Exit Ticket that you have created.
Canvas quiz that you have created.
Outcomes that you have imported into your Canvas course.
Rubric used in Canvas for an assignment.
Last Day to submit your Rigor and Mastery Challenge entry is Monday, October 28th.
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