Indiana+District+Lutheran+Teachers+Conference+--+September+2017

THE POWER OF ONE: PERSONALIZED LEARNING ACROSS THE GRADES
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ARTICLES:
 * Personalized vs. Differentiated vs. Individualized Learning
 * Personalized Learning Looks Like This


 * STUDENT PORTFOLIOS AND PROJECTS FROM LIGHTS ACADEMY, AN ACCELERATED, PROJECT-BASED, PERSONALIZED LEARNING EXPERIENCE AT LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL, PARKER, CO**

STUDENT PORTFOLIOS:
 * Carrie B.
 * Madi M.
 * Stephanie N.
 * Morgan W.
 * Noah R.

STUDENT PROJECTS:
 * Drowning Out the Risks -- a study on how to prevent drownings
 * The Future of Space Exploration
 * [|Denver Zoo Project] -- Does our zoo care well for the animals?
 * How Would It Affect the United States if Denver Were to Disappear?
 * How Does the Geographic Location of Downtown Denver Affect the People That Live, Visit, and Work There?
 * Eating Disorders Among Dancers

CHECKPOINTS TO SUCCESS: APPLYING FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS TO THE LEARNING PROCESS
Here is a long list of formative assessment ideas, along with brief descriptions of each idea. Please send additional ideas for this list to dawblack@gmail.com.


 * Use a formative assessment with one, some, or all of the students. Some think that formative assessments need to be used with the entire class. An educator can be far more strategic with them. Some students might need more attention at times. Some class periods may only have time for a couple formative checks. Do not feel that you have to do the same thing every time for all students. This is where you can find ways to honor the individual gifts that they have been given by God.
 * Two impact verses -- Have a student read a section of Scripture. Then have them share with you in some format a verse or two that had the most impact for them. You will learn a lot about your student that way.
 * Exit tickets:
 * Can be paper or electronic
 * Quick quiz. Quizzes could be marked in class as a checkpoint or by the teacher. Often 3-5 quick questions work the best.
 * Questions: What is the most important thing you learned today? What is one question you have about today's lesson? What is one new thought that you had during today's lesson.
 * List of activities completed during class time. Especially useful for projects or classroom work time.
 * Have students create a quick illustration/picture about something that was discussed or studied.
 * Compare and contrast two items using a venn diagram.
 * Have a student write a quick note to a historical or Biblical character.
 * A math problem of the day at the end of the class to check for understanding.
 * Have students build something that shows what they learn
 * Answer a quick opinion question
 * Simple classroom coverage during student work time
 * Students list questions in which they are legitimately curious. Questioning like this takes practice, so make sure to include that in your routine.
 * Online discussion using Edmodo, Google Classroom, or Schoology. Use a question prompt and ask for student responses as well. Practice sound, God-pleasing etiquette when discussing with one another. This is an opportunity to prepare students for the multiple online classes they are likely to take in their lives.
 * Annotation of a section of reading or text.
 * Use a tool like EDpuzzle to have students watch a short video and then answer quick questions or share thoughts through the service.
 * Share a list of ideas and have students rank the ideas in order of importance. Can be oral or written. Have them defend their picks.
 * 3-2-1 -- Have students share three things they learned today, two things they found interesting, and one question they still have.
 * Use PollEverywhere to get some quick feedback to questions through cell phones or other devices.
 * Socrative is another service where students may be polled and asked questions about their learning in a digital environment.
 * Create a team Kahoot challenge using cell phones and other devices.
 * Give students the ability to respond to questions physically, such as with thumbs up, thumbs down, thumbs medium, nods and shakes of the head, etc.
 * Ask students to share one question they answered through research or had answered during the class.
 * Have students use a hand thermometer. Raised high means that they are burning with new learning. Placed in the middle means that are doing well but that they don't have full learning yet. Placed low indicates they need re-teaching or assistance.
 * A fake Twitter post: Have students summarize what they have learned in 140 characters or less.
 * Two Truths and a Lie: Encourage students to share two truths and a lie about what they have learned. Then challenge the class to see if they can identify the lie.
 * Use Padlet to digitally collect thoughts and ideas about academic topics and questions.
 * TodaysMeet is a digital backchannel tool, where thoughts and ideas may be shared and captured for future use.
 * Older students may create self-assessment learning blogs and posts.
 * Have students submit an audio file of what they have learned or questions that they have.
 * Challenge students to make some sort of prediction -- about a science experiment, an election, etc. That prediction should allow you to assess the understanding of a topic.
 * Have students explain to you how they know something is true. Then see if there are any misunderstandings in their explanations. This could lead to a strong formative assessment conversation with your student.
 * Use an essential question as a formative assessment tool and conversation in the class setting or as an individual conversation.
 * Use a small group rotation to assess the understanding of students in different way?
 * Allow students to create fake [|Twitter] tweets of Facebook posts as another person from history.
 * Let older students teach younger students about an idea or concept. You will get a great sense of their knowledge and understanding through this process.
 * Simple conversations among a small group of students on how to accomplish a particular task. Look for realism and new learning in their steps.
 * Create a short video or screencast to describe their learning. Screencast-O-Matic is a great, free tool for creating these short video clips.
 * Allow students to share 2-3 photos with captions that describe what they have learned.
 * Students respond to a learning prompt using sticky notes that are placed on a wall.
 * Create a quick learning survey. Google Forms is a great digital tool to accomplish this.
 * Have students create mind maps of what they have learned. See this link for a list of 11 free tools that may be used for this purpose.
 * DINNER PARTY: When studying a book, reading, or completing a unit, ask students to name two people that they would invited to a dinner part and one question they would ask them. You can even have students predict responses and provide reasons for those responses.

Other resources:
 * 50+ Tools for Formative Assessments
 * Formative -- a online service where formative assessments may be created and shared in the digital world.

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