Products & Performances

This is an overview of the products that will be created as a part of this project. More details can also be found in the Assessments area.

Products

Culminating Activity: Engaging Online Courses Wiki

Throughout the school year, each focus group will be working on their page within a collaborative wiki. During the school year, the wiki will primarily store group notes and goals as well as resources. At the end of the year, the site will be transformed into a public product to be shared at the district-level on how to make engaging online courses. To facilitate the process, the groups will be provided with an initial shell wiki with pages for each group.

Here's a preview of that shell: Engaging Online Courses Wiki

This rubric can be used to assess the wiki if this project is part of a formal course. As a professional development activity, the rubric could be used for groups to self-assess.

Engaging Online Course Wiki Rubric

Culminating Activity: Showcase of Learning

At the end of the school year, all of our groups will participate in a final showcase of learning.

Goals of the showcase:

Each individual group shares out their project with other groups
Outside stakeholders get to see the progress we've made
Serve as a launching point for our wiki to be shared with district staff

Audience for the showcase:

All of the teachers in the school
School's administrators
School's support staff (who may or may not have been in a group)
District-level staff members (Curriculum and Instruction, Achievement Directors, PBL Staff, Director of Blended Learning, Director of Educational Technology, Instructional Coach coordinators, Principals, other interested parties)

Products for the showcase:

Each group will give a 5-10 minute presentation of their learning for the year
Presentations could take the form of a formal Powerpoint/Google Slide, a tour of the group's portion of the wiki, or some other form

Key questions to be answered by each group's presentation:

What did you learn about your topic?
What progress have you made in your classroom?
What were the best resources you found?
What strategies were the most successful?
What strategies didn't work and why?
What are the next steps?

This is a checklist that the groups can use as they prepare their presentation.

Celebration of Learning Checklist

Reflection Methods

Teachers will be asked to reflect throughout the project on their personal progress as well as the functioning of their group.

Goal Setting Survey

At the beginning of the project, teachers will reflect on the chosen focus areas and which one they'd like to focus on. They'll also set some goals for the school year and let me know some key information about how I can help them as instructional coach. Here's a preview of that survey: Goal Setting Survey

Focus Group Monthly Survey

After each monthly PD session, groups will fill out a survey updating me on how their groups are functioning and what progress they're making. Here's a preview of that survey: Focus Group Monthly Survey

Monthly Focus Topic Discussion

In addition to monthly focus group meetings, we'll also have a whole staff discussion each month on one of the focus areas. This will allow us to reflect on where we're at as a whole school with that topic and how we might improve. (See the project timeline.)

Final Reflections

Once the wiki is complete and the celebration of learning is done, we'll participate in one last reflection discussion as a whole staff. We'll talk about how the process went, where we could have improved, and how we felt about this method of professional learning. We'll also connect the project to our growing understanding of PBL. Teachers will also reflect on the process in individual coaching conversations at the end of the year.

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