My original innovation plan - Time to Charge Up to Change Lives. My plan was to get all the tools and toys (that we already owned) out of the closets and get them into the hands of our students. As I worked along and as Dr. Harapnuik kept pulling me along - trying to "clarify my thinking" I came to the realization that I didn't REALLY have a plan. I thought I did - I wanted the students to get to learn in an active way. I wanted the students that didn't learn from lectures of that were bored in class to have a way to connect.

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Since writing the first plan - I have developed my thoughts and found research backing  my thoughts and reasons. What I want to implement in my school district is Project Based Learning so that the seven areas of intelligences can be explored. Each child is different. There is no average person. The answers on a fill in the circle test does not show what a students learned.

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We have to meet the students where and how they learn.  Learning styles differ. Intelligences differ. There are seven different types of learning intelligences and any number of combinations of those.

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With the research and the connection I have made with colleagues in this program and my other PLN's  I feel much better about taking this plan to my superintendent and then to the staff.

 

Not tech for tech sake but change for the student's sake. Education has changed, students have changed, learning has changed and so should the way we teach.

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I still have one issue - problem - one thing that still nags at me and I don't have the answer so I left it out of my my argument -  but it is one that I need to fill before I can PUSH - full steam ahead. How do you grade it - what criteria- what/how - if everyone turns in something different? . I have learned from students in this class about a LMS that can help with this, aligning the content and scoring to the state standards.

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One other challenge that I am aware of and learned some strategies to help cope is - my stakeholders. Students are flexible but seasoned teachers and parents are not.​

The outside world does not give grades but it sure seems as though they like to look at them. We need to address this amd prepare our students for the future.

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How will I use these lessons? I have learned from each discussion I have reas and I have learned from each article I have read ad I am adding all the new tools to my tool belt. I am learning from my mistakes and others. I am building a complete plan using the hindsight of others as the foresight to my plan. I know my WHY and I am developing a well rounded plan.

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