1. Reading Workshop in a Personalized Learning Classroom
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Reading Workshop in a Personalized Learning Classroom
Gregory Mihalik
Instructional Facilitator, M.Ed., Ed.S., NBCT
Loudoun County Public Schools (Virginia)
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2. Give One; Get One On an index card, respond to the prompt:
My best experience teaching reading this year…
Take your card and find a partner; read your card.
Exchange cards.
After two or three exchanges, return to your seat and read your last card with the group.
As a table group, identify themes and patterns to share with the full group.

3. Agenda Philosophy of Personalized Learning Overview Core 4 Elements
Targeted Instruction
Data-Driven Decisions
Integrated Digital Content
Student Reflection & Ownership

4. Outcomes Participants will:
Explore Core 4 Elements of Personalized Learning.
Identify PL and content tools connected to the Core 4 Elements.
Make connections with tools and practices that can be applied in your classroom.

5. What is Personalized Learning?
In personalized learning settings, teachers assess students’ strengths and needs to create learning plans that are aligned with each student’s interests, while maintaining strong academic standards. This collaboration allows students to take greater ownership of their learning while enabling teachers to work with them to discover their passions and interests.
Personalized Learning: What is it?
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

6. What is Personalized Learning?
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What is Personalized Learning?
“Personalized Learning allows students to get the instruction and direction they need, when they need it. Personalized learning means that students’ needs are known to the teacher. It means that students’ learning styles, skills , and even personal issues affecting their learning are known as well.”
Personalized Learning Playbook: Why the Time is Now and How to Do It by Anthony Kim.
In a blended learning environment, students learn through a combination of online instruction – with some element of student control over time, place, path, and/or pace – and instruction in a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home. There are several different blended models that schools and districts can customize or combine to meet their specific needs.
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7. What is Personalized Learning?
THE CORE FOUR
ELEMENTS OF
PERSONALIZED LEARNING

8. What is Personalized Learning?
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What is Personalized Learning?
Targeted Instruction – Through data analysis, teachers can adapt instruction to meet student needs, interests, and skills. Instruction can be adapted individually or through homogenously skilled groups.
Data Driven Decisions – Collecting and reviewing data to make informed instructional decisions.
Student Reflection and Ownership – Enabling opportunities for students to reflect on their learning and set goals.
Integrated Digital Content – Incorporating digital content into curriculum to provide multiple options for learning.
THE CORE 4 OF PERSONALIZED LEARNING by Scott Johns on January 20, 2016
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9. VSRA - Word Study Strategies and Tips
Targeted Instruction
Small group
Differentiated digital content
Date-driven targeted intervention
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10. Targeted Instruction
Sample Schedule

11. Targeted Instruction
Sample Schedule

12. VSRA - Word Study Strategies and Tips
Data Driven Decisions
Teachers can search for passages and assessments linked specifically to SOL strategies
Tests and quizzes are not focusing on single skills, rather multiple skills
Data will need to be monitored over multiple quizzes to identify trends
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13. VSRA - Word Study Strategies and Tips
Data Driven Decisions
Using Data for Ongoing Skill Assessment
TO ACCESS
Reports
Assessments
Performance Reports
Performing on Standards
Pick standards
Set start and end date
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14. VSRA - Word Study Strategies and Tips
Data Driven Decisions
TO ACCESS
Search for more lessons
Reading Strategies
Pick specific strategy
Select/assign passage
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15. VSRA - Word Study Strategies and Tips
Data Driven Decisions
Links to SOL Standards
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16. Data Driven Decisions http://bit.ly/2rve7io

17. Integrated Digital Content
Google Classroom
User-friendly and teacher- directed tool to personalize leaning in the classroom
Effective method to distribute, collect, and respond to assignments
Students can work at self- directed pace

18. Integrated Digital Content
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Integrated Digital Content
Google Classroom
Enable voice and choice by presenting list of apps and websites for students to select
Lists can be uploaded to compatible websites for practice
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19. Integrated Digital Content
Google Classroom
Incorporate videos, audio clips and animations to explain concepts
Resources are assessable for students at anytime
Video: YouTube “Turning in Reading Response”

20. Integrated Digital Content
Google Forms
Collect data from students
Keeping teacher records
Examples: Student goal setting, teacher conferencing forms, book club notes

21. Integrated Digital Content
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Integrated Digital Content
Google Forms
Example 1
Reading Workshop Conferencing Form
Example 2
Tabs on Talk
Example 3
Student Reading Goal Form
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22. Videos, passages, and activities available for reading
Integrated Digital Content
Discovery Education
Outstanding resource for content area instruction science & social studies
Videos, passages, and activities available for reading

23. Discovery Education Available resources with SOL skills include:
Integrated Digital Content
Discovery Education Available resources with SOL skills include:
Context clues
Inference
Fiction and nonfiction
Synonyms
Main Idea
Antonyms
Problem and solution
Homophones
All terms can be searched in Discovery Ed search bar to find resources.
Reference materials
Drawing conclusions
Dictionary skills
Thesaurus skills
Poetry
Glossary skills
Character analysis
Text features
Cause and effect
Prediction
Setting

24. Discovery Education Integrated Digital Content
Useful lessons for multiple reading strategies
Includes videos and lesson plans
Look under:
Professional Learning- Strategies and Resources- Spotlight on Strategies

25. VSRA - Word Study Strategies and Tips
Integrated Digital Content
Students respond to class prompts
Grade 2+ effective
Range of topics
KidBlog
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26. Student Reflection and Ownership
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Student Reflection and Ownership
WORKSHOP MENU
Students complete a combination of teacher-required and self-selected activities on a weekly basis.
Activities include individual, collaborative and technology-based options.
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27. Student Reflection and Ownership
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Student Reflection and Ownership
REFLECTION SHEET
Students create a plan, record what they completed, and reflect each day.
Can be modified to include a reflection on entire reading/writing workshop
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28. Student Reflection and Ownership
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Student Reflection and Ownership
Screencast-O-Matic
Students can collaborate to create instructional videos teaching sorts & word study concepts.
Records all actions that occur on screen.
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29. Student Reflection and Ownership
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Student Reflection and Ownership
Screencast-O-Matic benefits include:
Students develop a thorough understanding of the sort by being able to “teach” it to peers.
Students can revisit videos to review as needed.
Students learn the importance of the sound, pattern, and/or meaning focus.
Students build collaborative skills working with peers.
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30. Student Reflection and Ownership
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Student Reflection and Ownership
Explain Everything
User-friendly app for students to create instructional videos
Students prepare and narrate slides
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31. Student Reflection and Ownership
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Student Reflection and Ownership
Google Documents
Teacher provide students feedback
Students and reply to feedback
Can be done during school, home, or anytime 
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32. Student Reflection and Ownership
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Student Reflection and Ownership
Google Documents
Ongoing discussion
Comments temporary and easily removed
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33. Reading workshop and PL

34. 3-2-1 Write 3 ideas you learned you want to hold onto.
Share with your table and narrow it down to 2.
Choose 1 to share out with the whole group.