Quest for Learning:
Maximizing Student Engagement with Marie Alcock
OCM BOCES School Library System is sponsoring this two-day professional learning event!
It’s crucial for 21st century teachers and students to determine together what a student will learn and at what pace. This workshop will help you dive deep into questing, a customizable pedagogy tailored to a student’s interests, needs, and abilities. Learn how to use questing to engross students in emotionally gripping learning experiences, engage them with actionable goals, and promote collaboration in online and physical spaces. During this bootcamp, led by renowned author and speaker Dr. Marie Alcock, you will learn how to:
Foster students’ 21st century skills by engaging critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and self-direction
Form learning partnerships with students that lead to co-teaching and co-learning.
Explore the three main design types—(1) inquiry, (2) network, and (3) game—through which students can quest.
Investigate the design decisions involved in identifying a quest, determining checkpoints, and helping students reflect on their quest.
Use formative assessment templates for engaging contemporary learners.
Quest for Learning: Maximizing Student Engagement
Register at https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?I=2772876&D=15882
Monday, Jul 30, 2018, 08:30 AM
OCM BOCES Main Campus, 110 Elwood Davis Rd. Liverpool, NY 13088
Dr. Marie Alcock, Facilitator
As president of Learning Systems Associates (LSA), Dr. Marie Alcock serves as a national and international education consultant. Working with the American Education and Research Association and People to People, Alcock has traveled to countries to share and learn about what countries are working on in the field of education.
In her role as president of LSA, Alcock serves as a national and international education consultant. In addition, she is currently on the faculty of Walden University’s School of Education, where she serves as a lead professor in curriculum, instruction, and assessment practices. She has spent the last 23 years working in public and private education as a teacher administrator. She has taught in Vermont, North Carolina, New Jersey, and New York City schools. A public advocate, she founded the nonprofit TEN list (Tomorrow’s Education Network), which is dedicated to connecting the greater community with students in the classroom to improve student literacy.
Website: https://www.lsalearning.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Learning-Systems-Associates-1497884680456214/
Twitter: @mariealcock
Day 1
AM:
Quest Format Basics
Quest Compass
3 Part Formative Assessment “I can do standards and authentic relevant joyful learning at the exact same time!”
3 Selfies of a Self Navigating Learner
Self regulation
Self motivation
Self assessment
Teacher Generated to Student Generated Continuum (just start don’t wait!)
PM:
Question Design
Worthy and Relevant
Work Session
Feedback and Share out
Day 2
AM:
Game Design -
Extended cycle of expertise
Game design lenses
Work Session
PM:
Network Design
- Three Tiers of Network Design
Work Session
Feedback and Share out