As instructional leaders, how might you apply Mobley's 6 insights to help your students think creatively?
Instilling the seeds of imagination in 2nd graders can be a diffcult process. Often I hear the following comments, "I don't know.." or "I can't." As a teacher it is very frustrating as I just want them to be excited about learning new tasks. I feel I already use some defintely of Mobley's 6 insights of creativity in my teaching instruction or I will be applying the insights into my instruction.
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My first research cycle is sending a google form student questionaire. I will be getting a baseline of how each student feels in their mastery of Benchmark, Bridges, Seesaw, Gmail, Google forms and GoogleSlides. I will encorporate my checking for understanding chart I created for my students that they are all very comfortable with: I will assessming my students in Benchmark and Bridges. These are all online assessments. This will be a pre and post assessment to collect the data. Next, I will be sending an assignment in Seesaw that will allow the students to show mastery in Seesaw assignments. This is will be a pre and post assignment. The following are the results from my first round of pre-assessment of students understanding:
“What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, we must want for all children in the community. Any other ideal for our schools is narrow and unlovely; acted upon, it destroys our democracy.”-this quote is great and it how I feel about my students.
I am feeling very excited about my research project. I do feel that I initially started with so many different ideas and now having my ideas being dwindled down to one thought: I am excited. I am excited that my lesson designs are working in my virtual classroom. I do feel having taught the concept of the learning pit to my students has assisted me in helping them with frustrations with the online format. I do wish I had a week to just focus on this research project and did not have to go teach, go to meetings, and Union issues at my site.
Additonally, I am happy for the students that are demonstrating such confindence in their vitural learning. My end user that I chose that semester was a child that could not turn on her computer!!! Now, she is logging into Zoom, doing her Seesaw assignments and she has been in charge of a couple of Breakout Room sessions. I am very proud of her and my other students. I am also happy everyone is getting the vaccinations shots! |
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