Learning Design
Learning Design
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Preparing student lessons starts with focusing on the students in front of you, designing instruction that integrates content and process skills, developing student-centered learning targets, designing aligned assessments, and using follow-up data to guide the student learning process.
Preparing student lessons starts with focusing on the students in front of you, designing instruction that integrates content and process skills, developing student-centered learning targets, designing aligned assessments, and using follow-up data to guide the student learning process.
Framework to Build Student Agency
Framework to Build Student Agency
Key questions in backward design and student-centered learning include
Key questions in backward design and student-centered learning include
What do we want students to know (skill, competency, and standard)?
How will we know if they learn it?
What will we do if they know it?
What will we do if do not know it?
Example Templates for Lesson Planning
Example Templates for Lesson Planning
Work Samples
Work Samples
I designed this learning experience so that students could guide their own learning and connect real-life experiences with classroom content and develop competencies such as learning interdependently, sustaining wellness for them and natural systems over time, and reasoning about connections.
Experiments in the Field or Lab Build Agency when students are able to:
Predict and hypothesize
Connect Big Ideas in a Systems
Determine importance of Tasks
Question
Imagine
I designed this learning experience to help students expand their understanding of ocean systems and challenge their beliefs about sharks and recognize the impermanence of reefs without action. Providing multiple avenues of choice allowed students to select learning experiences that spoke to their interests.
Project-based learning builds connections when students:
Visualize Patterns
Connect and Relate
Predict and hypothesize
Determine importance of Tasks
Question
I created these maps for each unit to help students ask big questions, make connections, and visualize the learning as they read and took notes. While this is traditional, it deepened the learning for many and built an understanding of a tool for critical thinking about connections.
Simple learning strategies include techniques that allow students to:
Visualize Patterns
Connect and Relate
Plan
Adjust
"Perhaps the most important difference of all between standards-based learning and competency-based learning is the commitment to the student."
- Chris Sturgis of CompetencyWorks
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