Personalized Learning

As a personal learning advisor, I ensure that students are learning how to learn. On their way to becoming independent learners, students need guidance. I created this template to check in with students regularly about their grades and their social/emotional learning. I help students set up planners, use digital calendars, link their calendars to their phones, draft emails to teachers or professors, and more.

ASU Prep Digital+ uses choice boards to ensure that students have autonomy in their project-based learning. Using a Google Slides template, I adjusted the theme layout to create 12 background squares and then created checklists for each of the project types above so that students could choose any project type with a comparable amount of work for each.

Air Tutors uses Miro.com along with other technologies to teach students remotely. I set up my boards based loosely on the Madeline Hunter lesson planning strategy. I incorporated both priming/activating prior knowledge and inquiry based learning into the warm up. I like to set my students up for success by providing inquiry-based questions just above what I taught last time that will be easy for them to solve! I continued the inquiry style throughout the lesson.  I ended sessions with a brain work out that allows multiple attempts at utilizing a new skill so that students could practice mastery learning. 

The table at the top is a means of helping regulate behavior by randomly recognizing students' efforts, their helping behaviors, and any behaviors I want to encourage. I use a variable interval schedule of rewards (the hardest to extinguish), but the "rewards" are recognition based, which research states is more effective for long-term, internalized motivation.

In an effort to "gamify" mastery learning, I use what many online programs use, badges! Students have pre-post tests and have multiple attempts to earn 100% on a quiz to earn a badge after each unit! I require 100% on short quizzes, though mastery is generally considered 80%. I have found that most students can earn this after multiple short quizzes. Quizzes are never the same questions, though they test the same concepts.