sbisd early adopters

The brain will not change in classroom direct instruction without the student’s attention.

Ask students to make a prediction on something related to your content (the process, outcome, circumstance(s), etc.)

add a strong goal-acquisition

Learning is, and should be, much more participatory than ever.  

We truly can learn from anyone, anywhere, anytime, including the “experts” and “amateurs” in any given field.  We need to take advantage

What I am most excited about now is that we no longer need to be stagnant in our roles as either “teacher” or “learner”, because now, at any time, we can be either or both.  Isn’t that setting the staff for true “lifelong learning”?

my brief love affair with the flip has ended. It simply didn’t produce the tranformative learning experience I knew I wanted for my students .

I helped them learn to learn. I prompted them to reflect on their thinking and learning, while at the same time I shared my own journey as a learner. I helped them develop skills such as using research tools, finding and evaluating sources, and collaborating with their peers. My goal as a teacher shifted from information-giver and gatekeeper to someone who was determined to work myself out of a job by the time my students graduated.

In our classroom, we sit down with the curriculum, and students actually see what the outcomes and objectives are. We then have a dialogue about what my students’ learning might look like. They have a choice over what order they are going to work on outcomes, how they are going to learn and reach those outcomes, and how they are going to show me what they have learned.