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Personalized Learning with RCSD Resources

In Action Expectations & Etiquette

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Agenda For Personalized Learning PLE

Learn/Create

Personalized learning is an instructional approach that empowers students to build ownership of their learning. Educators personalize learning by targeting instruction, fostering collaboration and creativity, facilitating reflection and goal-setting, and designing flexible learning experiences.

Personalizing learning is an active and ongoing process. It is a student-centered approach to learning that calls on educators to be responsive to the needs of their students.

When students get the instruction they need, when they need it, they are more engaged, successful, and better prepared for college and careers.

Watch a video on what is personalized learning. (5:16 min)

Read about personalized learning by clicking on the image.

RCSD Examples

Let's look at some examples of lessons that can be utilized in a personalized learning environment from a student's view. Select a lesson from the links below that you would want to explore from a student lens. Follow the directions in the video to create a student link and go through the lesson as a student. Then scroll down for the next task 👇.

Select a lesson from the folder on the right.

📁RCSD Shared Lessons

2. Make a copy of the lesson.

🎬 Video Support: Find a lesson and make a copy

3. Start an Individual Paced Pear Deck lesson

Steps and How to: Pear Deck How To

Install Pear Deck Add On - red section
Open Pear Deck Add On - orange section
Start "Student-Paced" Lesson - yellow section
Copy Join Link and paste in a new tab - yellow section

Go through the Student-Paced Pear Deck lesson

start pear deck add-on and view as student.mp4

As you work through the lesson as a student, notice the type of lesson components you are seeing that make the lesson more student-centered. In the Padlet below click on the heart to like if you experienced the component in the lesson you viewed.

Classroom Set Up

One way that educators personalize learning is by designing flexible learning experiences. Students learn in different ways and to truly personalize the learning experience, there must be opportunities for students to progress towards mastery of their learning through flexible learning pathways and at different paces. Proving more student control of path and pace frees up teachers to connect with small groups or individual students.

You might ask yourself, what is the best classroom design aka instructional model for personalized learning? There is no 'best model', the best model is the right model for your classroom given your circumstances, students, and objectives.

Read the articles and watch the videos describing the different models and then read over how Pear Deck Slide Lessons can be incorporated into these models.

Think about what model would work in your classroom as you will be implementing with students later in this course.

Classroom Set Up

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In looking through the examples provided of RCSD Shared lessons, how do you see this fitting in to make your classroom or lesson more student-centered?

Please discuss specific lesson components that you may want to include and ways to use them in your classroom.

Look over some suggestions and ideas from RCSD colleagues on how to incorporate these and other personalized lessons. Please note, many of these ideas can be incorporated in other subject areas.

Create Assignment for your Students

Now it is time to get started and create an activity for your students. You likely want to use one of our RCSD Shared Lessons, however, if you prefer you could also start from a template and/or make your own from scratch!

Important note! If you are using one of our RCSD Shared lessons, you will need to be sure to edit your own copy. Why? There are several reasons, but the most important of which is that if you use them with links where students input data, someone else will be getting that data, not you! Please be sure to read through this closely to know what other things to look out for when editing your copy so that it will best work for you!

Directions for Shared RCSD Peardeck Lessons

eCLC Implementation Cycle

Share Your Assignment

Once you have created your activity, let's post and share so we can all get ideas from one another! What did your colleagues create that will allow their students to work through a student-centered activity?

Please start a post and include the following information about your assignment:

State grade level and subject
Briefly describe your activity and how you plan to use it with your students.
Include a link to your activity to share with others. Make sure your link is shared so that others can view.
Include a screenshot of your assignment posted in either Google Classroom, Seesaw or eLearning for your students to access.

Read through your colleague's posts and engage in reflective collegial discussion.

Implement & Reflect

Implement Student-Driven Activities & Collecting Artifacts

Now that you have your activity and posted to get feedback from colleagues, it's time to use it with your students!

As your students work through your activity, collect the artifacts of their work. Remember, you will want to include:

Taking pictures or videos of students working on the activities
Gathering links and screenshots of students' work

You will need to share these artifacts in the next assignment (Classroom Implementation Discussion).

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After your students have completed your activity, create a post in which you:

Reflect on the implementation of the activity: what went well, what can be improved, and what support you might still need.
Include some artifacts- screenshots of student work in Pear Deck, images/videos of students working (if possible), etc.
Answer this question: What elements of student-centered learning did you see while your student was working and how did it support student learning?
Read through your colleague's posts and engage in reflective collegial discussion.

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