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Self Assessment
Self Assessment
To what extent do you:
support students in scheduling their time from day one, building the skill in them to schedule on their own?
design your activity lists and learning experiences to create a need for students to schedule their time, having to balance individual and pair/group activities, and plan ahead for engaging with limited resources and small groups?
ensure that students are consistently engaging with their efficacy notebooks, reflecting on their learning experiences and how each relates back to the greater problem or challenge?
introduce and use the Help Board, Peer Expert Board, Mini-Lesson Request Board, and Quality Work Board from the start to ensure greater student-driven learning?
launch ALUs to build interest and felt need that sustains through the unit?
design a priming plan that takes into account each students' needs, as well as the experience of the class with LATIC structures for students?
Empowering Students to Schedule Their Own Time
Read the article “Practice What You Teach” to understand the importance of modeling time management in your classroom. Then reflect in your Efficacy Notebook about how well you model for your students and ways you can improve.
Read one or more of the following to help you glean ideas for getting students to schedule:
Sample primary schedules:
Primary (if you want to see what it could look like before grade 2)
Create a tool and/or activity that will gradually increase student responsibility for scheduling.
Empowering Students with Purposeful Classrooms Structures
Read K–5: pages 137–138, 141–144 Students Taking Charge by Dr. Nancy Sulla
Student Responsibility Boards — Student Responsibility Boards empower students, foster collaboration, and provide students with support. Explore the various types of boards and tips for implementation.
Sample Limited Resources Sign-up Sheets — Revise or use these samples for materials that are limited.
Implement the Efficacy Notebook or Implement the Digital Efficacy Notebook — The purpose of the Efficacy Notebook is to provide a means for students to make connections to what they are learning and how they apply it to the problem-based task they are solving. The Efficacy Notebook is unique for each student as individuals decide the contents of the pages based on personalized learning paths.
Designing and Implementing Table Journals — Reflection and collaboration are important components in the learning process within a student-driven classroom. The structure of table journals provides students with the opportunity to reflect on the effectiveness of their home groups while building their metacognitive and executive function skills.
Establishing Your Classroom Environment
The Resource Area — The resource area enables you to provide students with independent access to a variety of materials needed for differentiated learning activities.
Designing Your Classroom Layout — In LATIC, the amount of time you spend addressing the whole class is minimal. It is necessary to think beyond traditional classroom layouts and create a functional classroom aligned with a student-driven learning environment.
Addressing Biases — Studies show that if we are primed to recognize unconscious biases in ourselves and others, we are more likely to be reflective and think about where our words, thoughts, or actions are coming from. This tool will support you as you reflect on your physical and virtual environment.
Embracing Student Identity — What happens when a student's identity is excluded or misrepresented in the learning environment?
Systems of Executive Functioning: Promoting SEL and Student-Driven Learning Experiences — The components for social and emotional learning are supported by the foundational skills of executive function. A classroom that embraces both the SEL competencies and EF skills is creating a more student-driven learning experience.
Observable Evidence When Visiting a LATIC — Use this as a reflection tool to view your classroom with the lens of an outsider. How would you “evaluate” your LATIC? Set goals on which structures and strategies to improve upon in your Efficacy Notebook, then choose the appropriate activities below.
Structures and Strategies of LATIC Self-Evaluation — Use this checklist to review the various structures and strategies that make up the system of a classroom and reflect on the use of each. Set goals on which structures and strategies to improve upon in your Efficacy Notebook, then choose the appropriate activities below.
Teacher as Ferry or Teacher as Bridge? — Read this article OR…
Teacher as Ferry or Teacher as Bridge? — Watch this video that describes the shift from Ferry to Bridge Builder (as a quick reminder). Then, in your Efficacy Notebook, reflect on your own shift from being a ferry master to a bridge builder.
Implementing Your ALU
View this instructional video to learn about the importance of an Authentic Learning Unit (ALU) launch:
Design a Launch for an ALU — Creating an effective and exciting launch is an essential step in the overall design of your ALU. The launch of a new unit should hook the students and make them eager to learn new content so they can solve the problem you've presented. Utilize this tool to help you brainstorm ideas.
Tips for Implementing Your First ALU — Read these tips to guide you in implementing your first ALU.
Priming Students for Success
Students need to be set up for success in your LATIC. Read Students Taking Charge in Grades K–5: pgs. 206–211 to learn more about the purpose of a Priming Plan in a LATIC:
Start the Year with a Priming Plan — Read this blog post by Dr. Sulla to learn about the purpose of a Priming Plan in a LATIC.
Explore at least one of the Priming Plans below to glean ideas for your own Priming Plan:
Getting to Know You (K–1)
Telling Our Story (3–8)
View this Insights Video to understand more about priming for representation. Add ideas to your Priming Plan based on these insights.
Reflecting on Your Classroom Environment — What values are being reflected in your classroom environment, both physical and digital? Are all of your students seeing themselves represented within your environment in positive ways? How so? Add ideas to your Priming Plan.
Read the article Pre-Assessment Power. Then reflect in your Efficacy Notebook on how you plan to leverage pre-assessment during your Priming Plan to ensure that you have a clear understanding of what your students start the year knowing and not knowing.
Great Student Rubric — These rubrics are used across the whole year to help assess and build executive function skills in students. Use them as is or edit them to make them fit the needs of your students.
Creating a Priming Plan for Your Learner-Active, Technology-Infused Classroom — Utilize this template to guide you as you create your Priming Plan. There are even more hyperlinked documents within the document to assist in your planning.
View this Insights Video to understand more about planning for priming.
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