Interested in student-driven classrooms? Join Dr. Nancy Sulla @nsulla (author of Students Taking Charge, Its Not What You Teach But How, Building Executive Function: The Missing Link to Student Achievement, and more) and educators from all over in #LATICchat on Thursday nights at 8pm ET. We hope to bring together a community of educators to share insights, stories, examples, pictures from their classrooms, and more. We welcome all educators to join; no need to be running a #LATIC classroom.
To me flipping a classroom allows teachers to archive and share teaching through video that students can access when needed so that support can be provided more effectively during class time. #LATICchat
A1) To me part of flipping the classroom means giving the students a say in the layout of the room at the start of the year and always changing it up based on their feedback and needs #LATICchat
A1 flipped classroom is allowing for a free access to knowledge without it being trickled down from the teacher. Puts the control in the hands of students and gives them the opportunity to learn to regulate themselves.
#LATICchat
A1) A key aspect of flipping a classroom is utilizing technology in a transformational manner. Giving students access to resources, videos and tools at home in order to maximize classroom time to facilitate students on an individual and small-group level #LATICchat
I like the free access terminology. Ss can continue to access if they need reteaching, delay access if they need more time, and fast forward what they already know. #LATICchat
A1 I think of the root of flipped classrooms being learning stemming from sources other than the teacher possibly in other places than the classroom #LATICchat
A1 I think flipping the classroom means instead of the T being the center and driver of the class the S's become the C. The teacher sets the path but the S's make the critical decisions regarding learning and synthisizing materials. IMHO #LATICchat
A2 how content is accessed and interacted with is no longer in direct control of the teacher but allows the teacher greater freedom to guide students to a deeper level of understanding based on how they best learn is flipped power.
#LATICchat
A2) I like to look at everything in a classroom through a continuum. When students take charge, the power of choice in accessing resources and instructional opportunities is shifted towards the student. #LATICchat
A2) #LATIC is about flipping power ... putting the learning journey in the hands of students ... goals, scheduling time, choosing learning activities, assessment, and more. Can't wait to talk about more! #LATICchat
A3) Problem-based learning driven by an analytic rubric ... let students identify what they need to learn to solve the problem ... set goals, and pursue the learning! #LATIC#LATICchat
A2) Students need to be able to take charge of their own learning based on their individual needs. Mastered a standard/concept? Take it to the next step to become an expert! Now quite there yet? Choose the activities to guide you there. #LATICchat
A2 Instead of the T making decisions and even filtering or editing material the S's take responsibility and ownership of the materials and therefore their learning through empowerment and access to information. #LATICchat
#laticchat a3- putting structures in place like the analytic rubric allow students to know the expectations up front so they can track and self reflect on their progress/goals
A2) Students need to be able to take charge of their own learning based on their individual needs. Mastered a standard/concept? Take it to the next step to become an expert! Now quite there yet? Choose the activities to guide you there. #LATICchat
A3) have students become involved in their progress with weekly data chats and teach them how to write goals based on those conversations with you instead of giving them goals #LATICchat
A2) Ferry vs. Bridge! Students shouldn’t be completing activities just for compliance. Teachers need to make sure they are providing engaging options for students in order to avoid this. #LATICchat
A2 The center of learning shifts from teacher directed to student centered. The focus on problem solving and collaboration helps move them toward the skills needed in a he 21st century workplace. #LATICchat
Q3) Goal setting through analytic rubrics! An important part of powerful facilitation is ensuring individual students have support in moving towards their goals over the course of a unit #LATICchat
A3 having students set goals for themselves is key but cannot be expected unless it's been taught/practiced. For years students have been taught to follow what is said. Taking the leap into self directed goal setting can be daunting but accomplished with scaffolds.
#LATICchat
A3) Another idea ... Have students use a learning dashboard to track their own progress and set goals ... an easy way to start. Get the resource here (click through for free content; download on the right.) https://t.co/nO9rvNac42#LATICchat
Exactly, every child’s pace of learning is different and as educators we need to take this into account daily. Scaffold learning for students to give them multiple opportunities to grapple at content. #LATICchat
A3) Displaying and celebrating experts is always a great motivation for Ss to take responsibility. Ss see others on the expert board or leading a SGML and begin to push themselves to get to that level too! My teammate @JessicaLHeck is our expert with experts! 🙌🏼 #LATICchat
A2) Ferry vs. Bridge! Students shouldn’t be completing activities just for compliance. Teachers need to make sure they are providing engaging options for students in order to avoid this. #LATICchat
S's are empowered and have decision making power over their learning and exersize and develop executive function but make no mistake T's still maintain control that is the true art of teaching. #LATICchat
me2! cant wait to see your awesomeness gracing the halls of TCEA, your voice echoing amidst the learned and seekers of knowledge in service of those who grasp for understanding 😁
A4) problem-based learning tasks did it for me with 5th graders; kiddos want (need) to feel informed enough to solve the problem and advocate for their suggested solution #LATICchat
#LATICchat A3 learning dashboards is a structure I'd like to learn more about and possibly implement. I'm curious how that structure works along with analytic rubrics and other structures. It's important S's understand the role structures play in their class for effective flipped
#LATICchat A4- first step to creating that felt-need is knowing your students. Once you do that- then you can truest create those authentic tasks to engage them in the learning. Make it real. Make it relevant.
A4 when tasks are true and authentic students feel a need to learn the content to complete the task successfully. It makes them want to seek out learning.
#LATICchat
A4) Involve idea & people the Ss already know. One of our most successful ALU’s last year was Going Solar where the Ss made a proposal for using solar power at CWTES and presented to our superintendent. They were always asking “when is Mrs. Marks’ boss coming here?!” #LATICchat
A3 Grab S's with real life applications and ties to the Curric. they are learning. Empower them to decide the path through choice and optional activites. Let the rubric serve as a guide but not the rule. The T facilitates instead of dictates learning #LATICchat
Q4) With ALU’s, students are solving a problem the they care at about. It drives their yearning to learn and the instruction that occurs throughout a LATIC #LATICchat
What they don’t know how to do on the rubric is what drives them back to the learning and the practice on the activity list and signing up for SGMLs and making use of experts #LATICchat
A4 With felt need…The key is a problem that they student is connected to, igniting that passion and giving them an authentic audience for their solutions #LATICchat
A5) students teach one another; provide more opportunities for Ss to discuss learning with one another while you do more facilitating and listening. My students call it “creeping on them” 😂 #LATICchat
A6) A great opportunity to set the stage for students owning the environment is to have them engage in the design of the classroom during a priming plan. #LATICchat
#LATICchat a6- Great conversation with @patriciaeyer this week regarding physical space. She reminded me that Ts must shift paradigms first before designing their rooms. It is the shift in instruction that allows Ts to find a purpose for new furniture.
A6 Give Ss the opportunity to design the learning space for the task at hand. I have seen many classrooms transform along with the transformation of learning--but moving furniture isn't the answer, it is the process and pedogogy behind it that makes a difference. #LATICchat
Q6) I firmly believe in the idea of students having voice & choice in the classroom. I have been using #flexibleseating for the last 2 years. Giving students a choice in where they sit only makes sense. They need to be comfortable while they learn. #LATICCHAT
A6 Ss help design & every space has a purpose, multiple types of devices based on use, areas for working alone, partners, small groups, connecting to experts, place to create, place to advocate #learningenvironment#LATICchat
A5 Push S's to reach beyond what they see for themselves and the world around them.Inspire them to seek out not just sols but probs. SGML to teach, reteach or stretch your S's understanding. Direct your S's to Question Question Question. #LATICchat
A6 #LATICchat one thing I love that happened in my room this year is a second “teacher chair” next to my easel and almost always have a kiddo in the other one if I need the whole class’ attention at once. Sometimes two kiddos share the teach or a group of kiddos shares the space
A6) Let the students design the classroom ... and identify new furniture you might want to see about acquiring ... great pic of S-defined furnishings from my blog: Form Follows Function - https://t.co/MK4YhFBq1o#LATICchat
A7) Let students brainstorm and define what content mastery would look like ... and then assess their own mastery of it. They're often harder on themselves than the teacher. #LATICchat
I also encouraged my students to take ownership of the classroom. I had students take over the responsibility of taking care the our library. They chose how to organize the books on the shelf & even created a checkout list & monitored whether my books were returned. #LATICCHAT
The beauty of seesaw or a portfolio style is also the ability to revisit your work and thoughts as well as build on and revise your thinking like a work of art. #LATICchat
In reply to
@StarfishEmily, @Mrgarrettrox, @Seesaw
Hey Marjan! Great to see you ... this chat about a new way of looking at flipping the classroom is on fire! And now we need you to weigh in, too, from your awesome 3rd grade Learner-Active, Technology-Infused Classroom! #LATICchat
Love the book organization. 2nd grade Ss in Washingtonville are writing summer reading lists for the first graders coming up and teaching them all the different ways books can be sorted to help them be ready for reading in the fall #LATICchat
i love this!!!!! Watching students schedule what, how, when, and with whom they will learn never gets old ... and I've been doing for this for over two decades now. #LATICchat
A7 students should know the grade they are getting before they ever turn it in. Power of rubrics! Allows students to take control over their success.
#LATICchat
That one was hard for me! We have two cupboards that are FULL of backpacks and coats on the floor in the hall....but they LOVE IT! Great recording studio for student reflection on iPads too #LATICchat
That one was hard for me! We have two cupboards that are FULL of backpacks and coats on the floor in the hall....but they LOVE IT! Great recording studio for student reflection on iPads too #LATICchat
A6 Are resources and work space tailored to the T or the S's.... Takes some work but flipping your space gives the S's greater access and ownership to learning in the classroom. Giving S's the ability to post and respond in Google Clsrm also flips the virtual clsrm. #LATICchat
Nope. Have them brainstorm all the things that they learning this year, and then figure out what problem in the school or community they can solve with that learning or reflect on their year and design the classroom and a handbook for next year’s students. #LATICchat
Not a stretch at all ... your students can definitely brainstorm Authentic Learning Unit ideas for the last one of the year!!! The premise of my second book ... Ss as problem-finders, innovators, and entrepreneurs! #LATICchat
A7 encourage self assessment, reflection and peer evaluation with the rubric, home group journals, self reflection space and activities on an AL in an ALU. #LATICchat
A8) Ss running small-group, mini-lessons (after being vetted) ... Ss brainstorming community problems to solve and, thus, defining the next ALU; Ss acting as peer experts so other Ss go to them and not only the T ... just some ideas #LATICchat
AQ I haven’t tried a lot of these things and am so excited to! This week I will take a baby step and follow and scour the tweets of your recommendations for primary grades!! #LATICchat
What a crazy busy night. I will have to go back through and read it again. Thanks #LATICchat This was amazing! So inspired and so many connections were made. Have a great week and see you same time next week!
