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This slide deck explores the importance of knowing your students and personalizing their learning experience. It introduces the concept of Learning for All K-12 and provides a framework for unpacking the theme. The deck also discusses the challenges and benefits of knowing your students and suggests various sources for gaining insights into their needs and interests. It encourages educators to reflect on their current teaching assignments and develop plans for improving connections with students to drive positive change in their learning.
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Knowing Your Students Slide Deck No. 1 Ministry of Education, 2009 PUT TITLE HERE
Knowing Your Students This first slide deck introduces: • Learning for All K – 12 and its link to Education for All K – 6; • The theme “Knowing Your Students’ • Provides a workshop framework to begin to unpack the theme ‘Knowing Your Students’
Learning for All K – 12 • Special Education Policy and Programs Branch is leading the development of a K – 12 resource guide as a follow-up to Education for All K – 6 • The working title of the document is Learning forAll K – 12/L’apprentissage pour tous: de la maternelle à la 12e année
Learning for All K – 12Our Shared Beliefs Through province wide consultations with parents, educators and educational stakeholders in spring 2008, the guiding principles of Education for All K – 6 were confirmed as essential to any effort to improve the achievement of all students and to close the achievement gap
Learning for All K – 12 The two key tenets of Learning for All K – 12 are: • Personalization • Precision
Learning for All K – 12 Personalization of Learning • Share a personal learning experience that had a positive impact for you as a student when you were in school • Reflect upon the factors that made this experience positive
Learning for All K – 12Personalization of Learning • Share a personal learning experience that was unsuccessful for you as a student when you were in school • Reflect upon the factors that made this experience unsuccessful
Learning for All K – 12Personalization of Learning Brainstorm what you know about personalization of learning?
Learning for All K – 12Personalization of Learning If personalization starts with knowing your students, what are some of the benefits in “knowing your students”?
Learning for All K – 12 If personalization of learning starts with knowing your students, what are some of the challenges in “knowing your students?”
Learning for All K -12 Sources for knowing your students: • The Ontario Student Record (OSR) • Consultations with previous teachers • Consultations with parents and/or students • Interest inventories • Classroom observation • Assessments (e.g., diagnostic, pre-tests, conferencing, student portfolio, etc.)
Learning for All K – 12 Personalization starts with: • Knowing your students • Knowing where they are at in their learning • Knowing where they need to go in their learning • Knowing how to get them to where they need to go in their learning
Learning for All K - 12 • Reflect upon your current teaching assignment • Develop a plan, individually and collectively, about how you can know your students better in order to improve your connections with students and effect positive change in their learning
