It's a Personal Thing...
Learning Gets Personal at RTMS - February 1, 2016
Teaching is a work of heart!
As I've been in classrooms seeing you play with our instructional models for Personalized Learning, I've had the opportunity to talk to the kids about their experiences. I'm hearing wonderful feedback from our students about the things you are trying out. Students especially like having the opportunity for choice and voice in their learning. They like being able to choose how they will learn something and know that you are there to catch them if they need extra help. They like being able to be creative and choose how they will demonstrate what they have learned. What you are doing with students to personalize learning is making a difference and helping your students to feel empowered about their education! In my opinion, that is something to celebrate and help drive your passion!
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Resources for Student Reflection
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Tech Tuesday - OneNote Class Notebook
Tuesday, Feb 9, 2016, 09:00 AM
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PBL Corner - Spreading the word about innovative PBLs happening in our school!
6th grade Math - a "BOO"-rito PBL!
Here's a fab-boo-lous example of what the 6th grade math students questioned and solved for their project-based learning unit in October. -- Thank you to the department for sharing your experience!
"It involved our local Chipotle. We challenged our students to determine if the company would still make a profit during their “Boorito” charitable funds promotion.
We provided the students with facts throughout the project that they utilized to determine how much money Chipotle might raise. As part of our project, we encouraged our students to dress up on Halloween and wear one “unnecessary” item to emphasize the fact that Chipotle does not use any unnecessary items in their food.
Unfortunately this was around the same time that Chipotle’s around the nation started having problems with E-coli."
Be sure to check out next month's PBL corner!
Heather Van Looy, Ed.S.
River Trail Middle School
Email: vanlooy@fultonschools.org
Website: www.vanlooy.wix.com/tech_den
Location: 10795 Rogers Circle, Johns Creek, GA 30097
Phone: 470-254-8613
Twitter: @heathervanlooy