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Comfortable with a lecture?

Are they “comfortable” too?

Don’t let your class become a dead zone!

Make your class available online

What’s fair in educating and assessing student learning?

Offer your students a choice

How do you do that? Think: Bloom’s Taxonomy

What does it mean?

What are different ways they can really know the content?

Now think: Bloom’s in 2013

Can technology help?

Think: Who are my students?

What activities can we use to correlate learning styles to content area? These boys are writing a cooking show in Spanish. Verbal/Kinesthetic

What activities can we use to correlate learning styles to content area? These students correlated weather with clothing and geography to pack their bags to go to a destination – they used iPads to look up weather Logical/Visual

What activities can we use to correlate learning styles to content area? The students CHOSE their own type of self- portrait

What activities can we use to correlate learning styles to content area? Students “got funky” and told about themselves at the start of the year. They much preferred it to a traditional writing exercise.

What activities can we use to correlate learning styles to content area? Students built a French street and sold items to each other from their stores – in French! Artistic/Social

What activities can we use to correlate learning styles to content area? This student is showing how to make croissants

Students can make a quick presentation on Educreations or ShowMe to demonstrate what they’ve learned, and to help each other!

What activities can we use to correlate learning styles to content area? Students make presentations: research/visual

What activities can we use to correlate learning styles to content area? Creating games: Visual/Kinesthetic/Social

What activities can we use to correlate learning styles to content area? Creating games: Kinesthetic

What activities can we use to correlate learning styles to content area? Researching, Memorizing, Presenting, Speaking in the target language: Solitary/Mathematical/Visual

What activities can we use to correlate learning styles to content area? Writing postcards: Verbal/Visual/Social

What activities can we use to correlate learning styles to content area? Creating presentations – sharing on google drive for input from the teacher – Visual/Verbal – social or solitary

What activities can we use to correlate learning styles to content area? Presentations can draw in from student interest

What activities can we use to correlate learning styles to content area? Surveys for the Mathematical learner

What activities can we use to correlate learning styles to content area? Acting out the vocabulary and grammar is verbal and kinesthetic, social – and for many FUN!

What activities can we use to correlate learning styles to content area? New technologies, like Prezi, pique the interest

What activities can we use to correlate learning styles to content area? And posters on Glogster can fascinate for instructive video or for student creation

What activities can we use to correlate learning styles to content area? Verbal and Mathematical learners both enjoy researching family trees – it doesn’t have to be your own!

How do I go about making a choice board?

 Create a Scavenger Hunt (logical/mathematical)  Do a video or presentation to explain (social, oral, visual, verbal)  Conduct an experiment and write up results (solitary or social; logical/mathematical)  Make a drawing of the system at work (artistic)  Write a rap song and present it about the target topic (musical)  Create a game or activity that involves students moving through the activity (kinesthetic) What about your Science class?

 In English class, students might create and interact on faux Facebook pages, including their own musings (Notes, photos, music, etc.) (Social/verbal/artistic)  Students create a video of a story they read or modernize it (e.g. Chaucer, Shakespeare) (Verbal/artistic/dramatic)  In costume, students retell the story, memorizing a part of it (Artistic/Dramatic/Kinesthetic)  Students recreate an event from the time period, including dress, games, conversation, food, and themes based on time period (All learning styles and interests)  Students create a game based on characters and themes in the book (Kinesthetic) What about your English class?

Take some time to create some activities based on something you are currently teaching. Dare to dream!

  Students are more engaged in learning content when they are using activities developed for their own learning styles   Students transfer their motivation to do the hard work of learning from their “grades” to learning the material in order to create something that shows their understanding of the material   It is no more difficult to teach and to assess learning when projects are developed to offer choice, and assessed with a rubric. The bonus is that you get to spend more time with each student! Take Aways

  When students do a significant portion of their project work in class, you will be able to guide them through the process in order to ensure substantive learning occurs; fewer errors occur and students are happy with their success!   Build the instructions and rubrics to match the goals of the project. Students will know exactly what you want them to put in their project, and are evaluated based on their inclusion of the requirements along with their participation. Take Aways