Unit 4: Making Real-Life Connections
Content:
Unit Learning Methods
Lesson 1: Bringing it All Together
-Objectives, Reading Links, Instructor Thoughts, Activity
Lesson 2: Review
-Objectives, Reading Links, Instructor Thoughts, Activity
Unit 4: Making Real-Life Connections
Here you will find both lessons and links to the activities at the end of each lesson for this unit
Unit Learning Methods: Reflective Practice
Lesson 1: Bringing it All Together
Objective: Apply learned approaches and techniques towards previous experienced or created lesson plans to improve the students' connections/interactions in class and academic performance
Introduction:
We are approaching the end of this course! I hope so far you have learned the pieces in personalized learning that will help you bring it together. We now know what key components there are and how to apply various strategies. It’s time to look at some examples of how it looks as it comes together. You’ll be asked to go through the following resource and read, watch and think about the visuals and examples provided. It is time to take all the pieces and decide how to use them as you create your own personalized learning example.
Read:
“Six Examples of What Personalized Learning Looks Like”
Links:
https://www.edelements.com/blog/six-examples-of-what-personalized-learning-looks-like
Instructor’s Thoughts:
This reading gives us this glimpse of what it can look like bringing this altogether. These intentional decisions when creating activities, schedules and all other day to day plans! The videos embedded give us a great look into how we can make this happen, and although they show older students we can use the same key ideas when bringing this to early childhood education.
Below are one of the videos from this reading.
Think About This...
If we can take all of the ideas we have learned like flexibility and setting goals as we have discussed in previous lessons, the results can be successful for these students as seen in the video. We have the ingredients but starring at them all in a pile will not do anything, so we need to put it together and make it happen.
Lesson 1 Activity Guidelines and Materials
Lesson 2: Review/Reflect
Objective: Apply learned approaches and techniques towards previous experienced or created lesson plans to improve the students' connections/interactions in class and academic performance
Introduction
Through this course we have learned what personalized learning is, what it means, how to go about using it and even practiced putting these pieces into practice. While some of you may have had some prior knowledge at the beginning of this, it was a new concept for others. In this lesson, you have the chance to go back over some of the material from this course and how this helped you learn more. Scroll through some of these activities you completed and think about ways that you are now a master in this area that you were not before. This is a chance for us to review what was learned before closing our time together. Figure 1 below provides a visual of the course you went through.
Watch:
Instructor’s Thoughts:
I hope having a real-life example helps you imagine this for your classroom. You should take these ideas and examples as ideas for redesigning the way your own class runs! Hear what the teachers and students are saying and how they are doing through this type of designed lesson.
Lesson 2 Activity Guidelines and Materials