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Creating Significant Learning Environments: Tying it all Together
Read more: Creating Significant Learning Environments: Tying it all TogetherEDLD 5313 Final Compilation What does a significant learning environment look like? How do I create a significant learning environment? These felt like overwhelming questions at the start of this course. I was introduced to the concept of significant learning environments in my very first course in the ADL program, but even after reading the…
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CSLE & Growth Mindset Reflection
Read more: CSLE & Growth Mindset ReflectionStriving to create significant learning environments means that every aspect of the environment must be considered. While growth mindset is one environmental aspect, it is only one part of the whole. Interestingly, in a recent meta-analysis at Case Western Reserve University it was “found that the overall correlation between growth mindset and academic achievement is…
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Understanding by Design: UbD Template
Read more: Understanding by Design: UbD TemplateReflection and Comparison: Fink’s 3-Column Table and UbD 3-Page Template Learning how to design a course is a completely new experience for me. I have delivered lots of instruction and facilitated hundreds of professional learning events over the years, but I was not the one designing the curriculum or the PL content. The concept of…
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Aligning Outcomes, Assessment and Activities
Read more: Aligning Outcomes, Assessment and ActivitiesInnovation Plan Integration This course aligns with my innovation plan by planning for the Year One professional learning (PL) implementation. By utilizing Fink’s (2013) course design principles I will create a significant learning environment for learners. This course will provide educators implementing the Reading Horizons (RH) program with critical knowledge of the Science of Reading…
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Learning Philosophy
Read more: Learning PhilosophyOne of my earliest memories is of playing school with my sister. As the younger sister, I played the part of the student while my older sister was the teacher. I remember being told to sit and be quiet and raise my hand to earn a sticker. I do not remember learning any academic content,…
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A New Culture of Learning
Read more: A New Culture of LearningIn my first career, I worked as a Recreation Therapist in an eating disorder treatment center and then in an addiction recovery program. I designed treatment plans for patients with the goal of helping them rediscover and connect with what brought them into a flow state (Csikszentmihalyi, 1991). When I heard Douglas Thomas (2012) discuss…
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Onward and Upward
Read more: Onward and Upward“I don’t know what lies around the bend, but I’m going to believe that the best does” (Montgomery, 1992, p. 330). This life is such a journey! As I complete my last writings for this semester and for this year, I can’t help but reflect on how life never turns out how you plan. In…
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Contribution to Learning-5302
Read more: Contribution to Learning-5302I sometimes think self-assessment is the most difficult of any course assessment. It forces me to reflect deeply on my learning and engagement. It also is a battle between being proud of what I have accomplished and honestly considering how I could improve. This term I am giving myself a 92/100 on my Contribution to…
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Learning Manifesto
Read more: Learning ManifestoMY WINDING PATH My journey into the education field has been a winding one. When I was a teenager I wanted to be a physical therapist. My favorite subject was biology. I chose to earn a degree in Therapeutic Recreation and worked as a Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist for the first several years of my…
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Minding the Mindset
Read more: Minding the MindsetA GROWTH MINDSET PLAN At Reading Horizons (RH) there is an organizational focus on mindset that shows up in everything we do. From being impact driven to the overall RH mission to eradicate illiteracy to the RH Way, we strive to learn, grow, face challenges head-on, support each other and work hard with a common…
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