Using Continuous Improvement tools, such as mission statements, plus/deltas, and the Plan, Do, Study, Act cycle, you can engage and empower students to "get in the driver's seat" and take charge of their own learning. This presentation equips you with tools that will help improve learning results and student accountability, as well as nurture a learning environment that thrives on continuous improvement.
1. Getting Students to
Take Responsibility for
Their Own Learning
Summer Institute 2013
Presented by:
Kate Howell
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• Choose a photo from your table.
• Add a caption or hashtag to your
photo using a post it!
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anytime any one of us engages in professional
learning or wants to connect with fellow BISD
educators
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6. Affinity Diagram
• Grab several Post It Notes.
• Write down your expectations for
this class.
• Each expectation should be on a
separate Post It.
• Add your Post It Notes to the
chart at the front of the room.
11. Mission Statements
• Why are we here?
• What do we need to do well
together?
• How will we make that happen?
13. Recite during morning meeting everyday
as a reminder for students and
teambuilding activity
Refer back to it as you introduce a
new unit to remind students of our
purpose
Behavior intervention- whole class or
individuals
Include it on your WEBSITE!
Integrate your mission statement
into classroom routines
18. Classroom Application
• LTs should be discussed in the beginning,
referenced to in the middle, and
recapped at the end
– Beginning: “By the end of this lesson, you
should be able to …..”
– Middle: “Remember as you work in groups to
focus on our learning target of …..”
– End: “How confident are you that you can
now .....? Write on your exit ticket one
example of….”
19. Learning Targets
• Students should begin asking
themselves…
–Where am I going?
–Where am I now?
–How can I close the gap?
25. Issue Bin
•Captures questions that deserve further
discussion or clarification
—Later/more appropriate time
•Group members can anonymously
comment or question without interrupting
30. • Determine levels of understanding
—“How much do you know about…”
• Gather student feelings
—“How did you feel about the unit
test?”
• Provide the teacher with feedback so
instruction can be modified/differentiated
• Shows students that their ideas, beliefs,
and feelings are important and valued.
Classroom Application
43. Plan
• What is the current problem that
needs to be addressed?
• What is our learning target for the
week?
44. DO
• What improvement strategies will we
use to correct the problem?
• What will we do to learn what we
said we would learn?
• Group Brainstorm and
consensus
• Choice Board or Strategy
Bank
• Spinner
• Individuals choose two
46. Study
• What information/data will be used to
determine whether or not the
improvement strategy is working?
• What were our results? What do our
results tell us?
• Plus/Delta
• Charts and graphs
• Data Folders
• Tally marks
47. Act
• Has our improvement strategy worked?
• If so, CELEBRATE! The “Do” will now
become a best practice for this goal.
• If not, go back to the original problem
and rework the plan.
• What will we do differently next time?
• Rx from your Plus/Delta
• Act is about improving the “Do” and
is a reaction to the data.
55. Today’s Learning
Target:
I can use at least three Continuous
Improvement tools in my classroom this
year.
- I am ready to get going!
– I am feeling a little overwhelmed
but just need time to process.
– I’d like some help to get started!
56. Leave your name and campus and I will set
up some time to help you get started!
What could be more
clear in this training?
What worked well for
you in this training?
57. • New BISD professional development survey
– Less than 5 questions!
– Open-ended rather than multiple choice
– Reflective…
We do not learn from
experience…we learn from
reflecting on experience.
John Dewey
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