Dyad 38

Ariel Dagan and Kara Gleason

WHO WE ARE:

Ariel Dagan is the library media specialist at Tri-County Regional Vocational Technical High School in Franklin, Massachusetts.

Kara Gleason is the library media specialist at Minuteman Regional Vocational Technical School High School in Lexington, Massachusetts.

OUR PARTNERSHIP:

• Option 2: Jointly follow a similar lesson format but use different content from own work context

THE PURPOSE OF OUR INQUIRY: The purpose of our inquiry will focus on how can we take the tools and knowledge gained in the summer institute and apply it to the learning objectives that we have for our students as they embark on their technical career education paths (9th grade) and go beyond formal instruction in with personal inquiry on their independent senior projects (12th grade).

LESSON SUMMARY: These lessons are designed to support and encourage student learners to draw on elements of character, motivation, and personal inquiry as they choose a career path (9th grade) and senior project/capstone topic (12th grade) which combines both research and product development.

TEACHING GOALS:

1. Incorporate a sense of belonging among students into the school community and mission; examine elements of personal character and how they might tie into a career path selection (9th grade)

2. Guide students to select a career path using personal inquiry and digital information resources (9th grade)

3. Personalize the process of determining a career path (9th) and senior project essential question (12th) by guiding students to create a digital story about themselves and their experiences thus far with their career major

4. Engage students in the question formulation technique personal inquiry strategy to determine a career path or senior project inquiry question (9th & 12th grade)

5. Provide tools for student reflection throughout the learning process (9th & 12th grade)

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

9th grade students will be able to:

1. Consider how identity, character, digital texts, and personal interests can serve to inform the student in the career major selection process

2. Conduct collaborative research on the Bureau of Labor Statistics website and "Careers In" (Salem Press e-resource) to investigate career majors and utilize the information in the career major selection process

12th grade students will be able to:

1. Create a digital story showing the learner engaged with aspects of their career major over time

2. Initiate and engage in the personal digital inquiry process to develop a senior project focus using the question formulation technique

TEXTS/TOOLS/TECHNOLOGIES AND RATIONALE:

9th grade:

Nearpod: Interactive platform allowing students engagement in real time or anytime learning. (Nearpod has within it multiple interactive tools for curating and creating similar to what can be achieved by using online authoring tools and collection of reports on student data)

FlipGrid: for student video reflection and interaction with other students through commenting

Google Form: If student prefer to write they use this option ( students have affordances in each interaction)

VideoAnt: Student will respond and slow their watching by pausing during video to annotate their thought on "Science of Character" and "21 Famous Failures".

Bureau of Labor Statistics: Users will explores Occupational Employment Statistic Maps for numbers in the industry they would like to pursue and annual wage.

12th grade:

Screencast-o-matic: This screencasting tool will be used to create the "greet" videos. It is important for students participating in "anytime" learning to maintain a connection with their instructor. This welcoming screencast will allow learners to see the instructor's face and hear her voice.

Edpuzzle: The "greet" screencasts will be modified with EdPuzzle which allows for formative assessment questions and SEL check-ins to be embedded into the video. Rather than watching passively students engage by answering questions at certain points of the video.

Adobe Spark: This tool for creating engaging videos and media will be used to create a montage of sample Senior Project essential questions from previous years.

Flipgrid: This tool for capturing video reflections will be used as students check-in about their learning and thinking during the process of personal inquiry into creating a senior project topic and question.

Google Docs / Slides or Microsoft Word / PPT: The activities for the Question Formulation Technique will be presented and shared with learners through these word-processing and presentation tools.