OUSD School Transformation Collaborative:
Spring 2017 Cohort
Our Solution Prototype
Students will be given access to an adaptive math software and a differentiated playlist of learning activities for at least one full unit of content that allows them to acquire new knowledge and skills at their own pace each week.
To accelerate progress, the playlist will also include frequent online checks for understanding and “mastery tasks” that give students real-time feedback on their work. Students will select their path through the playlist and set their pace with the adaptive math software.
Our Design Challenge
How might we give students control over the pace of instruction to accelerate their academic progress, while at the same time, providing multiple pathways for acheiving their learning goals?
Personalized Science Prototype
Our Solution Prototype
Students will be given access to an adaptive math software and a differentiated playlist of learning activities for at least one full unit of content that allows them to acquire new knowledge and skills at their own pace each week.
To accelerate progress, the playlist will also include frequent online checks for understanding and “mastery tasks” that give students real-time feedback on their work. Students will select their path through the playlist and set their pace with the adaptive math software.
Our Design Challenge
How might we give students control over the pace of instruction to accelerate their academic progress, while at the same time, providing multiple pathways for acheiving their learning goals?
Our Solution Prototype
Teachers will design a flexible and intentional science learning experience around the learner’s needs and interests, incorporating rich online resources.
Students will be given access to a differentiated learning menu, collaborative group labs and roles and data-driven teacher small group instruction to foster creative, responsible, independent thinking.
Our Design Challenge
Meeting the requirements of the Next Generation Science Standards and Common Core State Standards can be a challenge in diverse, mixed-ability classrooms (NGSS background info).
How can we use personalization to help to address the implementation of the Next Generation Science Standards? How might we create multiple learning paths in science that are rigorous, personalized, authentic and make students feel like they have choice? Given that teachers need to track and manage what students are working on and remediate missing foundational skills and concepts, how can this be done so that all students are successful?
Learning Menus
Students are given learning menus (made in Google Docs) with differentiated resources appealing to multiple learning modalities. Students have choice in using the resources that they feel best meet their needs as learners. Learning menus provide key conceptual understanding so that labs and activities are more meaningful to students.
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Five Key Features of the Science PL Prototype
Collaborative Group Work and Labs
Students are given group roles based on real jobs in science and taught key collaborative skills like discussion and facilitation. They complete a group lab report that provides opportunities to work with others while developing their own thinking and work.
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Targeted Small Group Instruction
Teacher led small groups are designed using assessment data and provide needed science and literacy foundational skills so students can be successful in hands-on activities and learning menus.
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Assessment Data
Giving teachers critical student data, assessment is targeted to provide not only summative data but also diagnostic information for teacher intervention.
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Self-Directed Learning
Teachers slowly release more control to students so that they can successfully make choices to meet their needs as learners, track their progress, select their working groups and determine their readiness for assessment.
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