On Your Mark…
Get Set…
Go!
Year two of personalized “blended
learning” is a skip and a jump away. The first year’s training wheels have been
removed and staying on course, without losing balance, is the goal. Reflection
of this past year’s results has been crucial for smoothing the path in
anticipation of year two’s optimal ride.
Trajectory tenets required for balancing,
optimizing and accelerating our personalized “Blended Learning” journey:
Overall:
Insure
buy-in of the belief, from kindergarteners to head of school, teachers, parents
and board members that personalized learning is indispensable for its potential to individualize, advance and enhance learning for all
students.
Teachers:
· Collect & analyze student data
· Utilize data-driven class/lesson
management
· Establish and maintain
station/rotation flexible groupings
· Devise the year’s master plan of
skill benchmarks and provide a menu of lesson offerings (both digital &
teacher directed) that eliminate redundancy in the curriculum, except when
needed.
· Maintain time efficiency to
accommodate the learning requirements of each student.
· Strategize with colleagues as to best
practices for productivity
Student-Teacher
Partnerships:
· Develop strategies
that inspire students to become self-directed and motivated learners who take
responsibility for maintaining their focus on digital instruction.
· Increase student comfort with
independent work
· Follow policies and procedures to
control social behavior
· Foster Internalized learning
ownership
· Modify student need for teacher
and peer approval
· Cultivate innate motivation for
differentiated learning according to skill levels
· Promote self-satisfaction and
pride as the rewards for personal progress
· Set skill goals to develop
individual education paths
· Support analysis and reflection
upon personal data as a steering tool towards skill mastery.
· Establish daily pathways for
communication between teacher and student
Oh, so easy to write the
trajectory tenets of operation before the school year begins. Now, the “how to”
begins as teachers convene for pre-service week and brainstorm for successful
implementation.
To be continued…
