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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.
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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).
1-Growing Success
2A-FORMATIVE Assessment
3-Blogposts
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]
1-RESEARCH
2-Summary
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)
4-EDUTOPIA
5-Blogposts
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).
2-The Four Pillars
3-Infographics
4-Blogposts
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.
1-Global Competencies
2-Growing Success
3-Blogposts
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).
1-Teaching Math
2-Connections
[2- Connections: ​Pedagogical System for Teaching and Learning Mathematics, System Implementation & Monitoring K-12 (2017), Ontario]
3-Blogposts
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?
Student Voice?

Contact: Have questions or comments? Need support? Help is only a 'click' away. Click HERE to message Flipping the Focus. 
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I am passionate about leadership for learning and teaching and learning through inquiry. Through collaborative exploration of high-yield, pedagogical strategies, I have been able to further engage students to deepen their learning and fellow educators in continuously growing their practice--Flipped Learning, Thinking Classrooms, culturing Student Voice, and balancing approaches to instruction in Mathematics--as examples. I hope that the sites and resources I have created serve you well in your educational journey through leadership for learning, teaching and learning by moving professional learning into your time ... your space. If you have questions or feedback, please feel free to contact me. Sincerely Yours, Chris Stewart |OCT | Founder & Educational Consultant, Flipping the Focus.

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