Potential Entry Points
Thinking about getting started with personalized and/or competency-based pathways? You're in the right place!
Mastery Learning & Personalized Supports
How might I help my students be productive and accountable while engaging in virtual or blended learning?
Intentionally designing the The First 20 Days of Virtual Learning (Education Elements)
Supporting students (and teachers!) with time and project management tools
Constructing personalized playlists
Using Universal Constructs such as Productivity & Accountability and Flexibility & Adaptability to directly instruct learning targets that will help students in K-12 learn discrete skills and the larger concepts connected to self-direction
And more!
Check out our page on learner agency to see continua of student voice, choice, ownership, engagement, self-efficacy, purpose, and motivation. This page includes links to resources by Barbara Bray and Kathleen McClaskey as well as recent research and other resources to help students be agents of their own learning.
Deeper Learning
How might I help my students engage in rigorous learning and critical thinking?
Prioritizing learning outcomes
Using DOK to drive instructional design and scaffolding
Using Specially Designed Instruction (SDI) and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) tenets
Exploring deeper learning as means to increase learning engagement through the Universal Constructs and problem- or project-based learning
Using student questioning to help them become leaders of their own learning
And more!
Click on the button to the left to visit our page with resources to embed Iowa's Universal Constructs in K-12 learning experiences.
Anytime/Anywhere Learning & Authentic Assessment
How might I engage in meaningful assessment and cross-curricular work?
Digital formative assessment tools and processes
Authentic assessments that include thinking like a disciplinarian, cross-cutting concepts and skills, Universal Constructs and SEL Competencies,
Performance-based assessments that allow for measuring learning across bundles of standards
Co-creating quality criteria and other ways to engage students in the data literacy process
And more!
Think-abouts for Personalized Assessment
Assessing personalized learning needs and building bridges to new learning does not happen all at once. It can happen over the course of the entire year and stretch even longer if necessary.
The key is to DIAGNOSE--using the RIOT framework--in a way that makes evident those knowledge, skills, and learning dispositions that can be scaffolded to grade level (or above) with interleaving. Interleaving is mixing practice with multiple skills together rather than than teaching individual skills in a block, coupled with the Iowa's SDI framework and the UDL guidelines and strategies, which provides ways to DESIGN and DELIVER learning experiences that support learner needs that attends to their personalized pathways.
Want to know more about how to accelerate students' learning? Check out the TNTP Learning Acceleration Guide.
Click on the button above to visit our page with more resources for learner-centered assessments, including virtual portfolio defenses, white papers on shifting to a broader set of assessments, and more.
Click on the button above to visit our resources on developing student assessment and data literacy so students can become agents of their own learning and partners in the assessment process as you work collaboratively to determine where they have been, where they are, and where they are going next.
Using Data to Inform Instruction by Great Schools Partnership is a step-by-step tool (with protocol, think-abouts, and planning sheets) that helps you think through how to use data of various types. Click on their image above to explore.
Deeper Learning & Personalized Supports
How might I use deeper learning elements to attend to social-emotional needs?
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Using Universal Construct and SEL Competency learning targets to support students in their learning about how to support each other collaboratively and how to use goal setting, reflection, and discussion to process emotions and persevere through challenges
Using check in and check out procedures to monitor SEL needs
Engaging in a trauma-informed approach to teaching during continuous learning
And more!
Click on the button to the left to see Iowa's new Social-Emotional Learning Competencies and additional resources to support SEL in K-12 learners.
Anytime/Anywhere Learning & Mastery Learning
How might I award credit in competency-based pathways?
Click here to navigate to resources on:
IDoE CBE Guidance
Using tools to assess teacher and system readiness for personalized, competency-based learning
Using learning progressions to determine proficiency and to scaffold learning through personalization
Engaging students in data literacy practices as co-owners of their learning pathways
Creating competencies and validating learning that occurs anytime and anywhere
And more!
Helpful Tips for LMS Content
How to Make Effective Videos for Learning (Edutopia)
Utilize playlist-based instruction by creating playlists in digital formats or in analog by creating a playlist that can be printed in hard copy
Connecting Virtually
Zoom Resources
Protecting the Privacy of K-12 Users Using Zoom (slide deck by Central Rivers AEA)
Zoom Online Event Best Practices.pdf (100 KB)
Deployment Guide for Admins.pdf (400 KB)
Google Hangouts Meet
Protecting the Privacy of K-12 Users Using Google Hangouts Meet (slide deck by Central Rivers AEA)
Additional Teacher Resources
Supporting Adults with the Important Shifts
