MAC PL - Before You Arrive: Pre-Session Learning Activities

GETTING STARTED
Instructions
1-View the introductory video (see left).

2A-Explore at least two options from the "Learning Activities" listed below. You might strategically base your choices on the response you provided to question #10 in the Pre-Session Welcome Survey.

2B-Optional: Consider inviting a colleague to learn with you and inviting them to the session.

3-Optional: Following the "Learning Activities", consider extending your thinking through the interactive, In-session Graphic (see right).

4-Have questions or comments? Need support? Help is only a 'click' away. Use the "Contact" button to message Flipping the Focus (see right). 
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5-For "Learning Activities - Further Options" (below), consider what innovative approaches and attention to frameworks you might bring to our conversations.
Video: Introduction
[Video Transcript]
Pre-release: In-session Graphic
Don't forget! Once you've spent time with some of the OPTIONS, below, click "Learn More" to interact with the pre-release of the In-session Graphic.
LEARNING ACTIVITY: OPTION 1 (Framework)
Growing Assessment
Growing Success: Assessment, Evaluation and Reporting in Ontario Schools (2010)
Formative Assessment: Growing Success
"The primary purpose of assessment and evaluation is to improve student learning (p6, Growing Success)."

1-Read about Ontario's formative assessment principles, pp.31-32.

2A-Frame your thinking about effective, formative assessment practices with Growing Success, pp.33-36.

2B-(See right) Relate your reading to Causarano's & Coulombe's Assessment Loop (@HarnessingA, 2018)
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3-On this subject, explore Flipping the Focus' blog-related post(s).
Video: Introduction
[Video Transcript]
2B-The Assessment Loop
The Assessment Loop
Causarano & Coulombe, 2018 (with permission)
LEARNING ACTIVITY: OPTION 2 (Framework)
Video: Introduction
[Video Transcript]
14 practices for the Thinking Classroom
3-The 14 Practices to Building Thinking Classrooms (Sketchnote by Laura Wheeler, Educator - Ridgemont High School, Ottawa, Ontario; with permission)
Thinking Classrooms
1-Read about Dr. Peter Liljedahl's (Simon Fraser University, BC) research on Thinking Classrooms.

2-A summary of #1 is also provided--highlighting 11 of 14 essential practices to building these classrooms. 

3-Dr. Liljedahl has now expanded this list to 14 practices (graphic; see left).

4-Consider an example of classroom practice through this Edutopia blogpost.
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5-On this subject, explore Flipping the Focus' blog-related post(s).
LEARNING ACTIVITY: OPTION 3​ (Framework)
Flipped Learning
1-Watch the Introduction (A) & accompanying Prezi (B) for a Flipped Learning continuum. Wrap up your video experience with "Teaching for Tomorrow" (C) videos (see right).

2-Explore the definition of Flipped Learning through The Four Pillars.

3-Consider some summary graphics (see right, then to link, below).
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​4-On this subject, explore Flipping the Focus' blog-related post(s).
1A-Video: Introduction
[Video 1A Transcript]
1B-Prezi: Flipped Learning Continuum
1C-Video: "Teaching for Tomorrow"
3-Infographic
Flipped Learning: The Big Picture Infographic
Find more education infographics on e-Learning Infographics
LEARNING ACTIVITY: OPTION 4 (Skill Development)
"Transferable Skills"
Transferable Skills
Source: People for Education, 2017
Global Competencies
1-Review Ontario's anticipated set of Global Competencies ("Transferable Skills"). 
2-Examine the evolution of Ontario's Learning Skills from Growing Success (pp. 10-14) to the anticipated set of "Transferable Skills" (in #1, above).
3-Leading towards this subject, consider Flipping the Focus' blog-related post(s) on Thinking Classrooms, Innovation & Problem Solving.
Video: Introduction
[Video Transcript]
LEARNING ACTIVITY: OPTION 5 (Framework)
Pedagogical System - Mathematics
1-Familiarize yourself with effective practices leading to the Pedagogical System.

2-Consider making connections to your leadership/classroom practice with these criteria.
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​3-On this subject, explore Flipping the Focus' blog-related post(s).
[2- Connections: ​Pedagogical System for Teaching and Learning Mathematics, System Implementation & Monitoring K-12 (2017), Ontario]
Video: Introduction
[Video Transcript]
pedagogical system for teaching and learning mathematics
Pedagogical System for Teaching and Learning Mathematics, System Implementation & Monitoring K-12 (SIM K-12, 2017), Ontario (Adapted from: Anthony & Walshaw, 2009)
LEARNING ACTIVITIES - FURTHER OPTIONS
The “Before You Arrive” activities serve to offer you first-exposure to the principles we’ll be considering through our session. With some of our whole-group learning moved into your time and your space, we’ll be better equipped to spending more of our time integrating our thinking, building our knowledge and co-creating criteria for reaching our in-session learning goals.
In addition to the activities presented, what other innovative approaches and attention to frameworks might you consider bringing to our conversations?
Contact: Have questions or comments? Need support? Help is only a 'click' away. Click HERE to message Flipping the Focus.