Dene walks you through the 5 Keys to the Student Driven classroom. Throughout the course he shares each key, practical ideas that you can implement, along with thoughts to consider as you move towards a student driven classroom. 

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Welcome From EduSpark

Introduction from Dene

Introduction From Dene

Key #1: Perspective

Key #2: Variety

Key #3: Listening

Key #4: Knowledge

Key #5: Drive

The Five Keys

Examples of Things that Inspire the Student Driven Classroom

Practicality of the Student Driven Classroom

Course Wrap Up from Dene

What's Next?

Course Feedback and Comments

Course Wrap Up

The Five Keys to The Student Driven Classroom

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Dene Gainey

How to Start Writing With Success Using The Medium Platform

Medium 101: How to Build Extra Income Writing As An Educator

What I Learned Publishing 100+ Medium Articles

Module II

Course Rating (for impact) and Feedback Form

Medium 101: How to Start Writing With Success on Medium

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Ryan Fahey

As educators, we can be the unspoken heroes who turned the world around or the potential unspoken hero who missed 180 opportunities a year to turn the world around. This session will invite you as a participant to recognize and reflect on your  power and influence as educators.

What does it mean, what does it look like and how can we use it everyday to make a positive impact on students?

You will also look at your identities, positionality and will be invited to explore and reflect on your unconscious racial biases from a safe and empathetic space and its potential impact on your work as educators. In what ways is our work as educators informed by our identities, unconscious racial biases and positionality is one of the questions that will be explored and discussed. 

Participants will also have a chance to re-think and re-imagine the purpose of education and ultimately think of ways we can use our power, influence and positionality to transform education and help future leaders, our students to become compassionate, inclusive global citizens. 

At the end of this course, you will get the opportunity to write a purpose statement for yourself, which will guide your  future work as educators and school leaders.


Welcome from Doline

Getting Started

Your Power as an Educator

Our Positionality

Discussion Activity

Part 1: Self-Exploration

How Can we Best use our Power and Positionality in Education?

Who do You as an Educator Need to Be?

Your Purpose Statement

Part 2: Put it into Practice

Course Rating (For Impact) And Feedback Form

The Power Within Us As Educators, Unleash & Sustain

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Doline Ndorimana

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an instructional framework to guide the development of learning that enables all learners to be successful. Drawing on research in neuroscience and the learning sciences, UDL provides a set of principles and guidelines that enable consideration of how learners vary and provide instructional design that is equitable. Lessons designed using the UDL framework offer options that enable learners with varying needs and preferences to access and engage with the learning. Three core UDL principles focus on (1) providing multiple means of expressing learning, (2) providing multiple means of accessing learning, and (3) providing multiple means of engagement.

Welcome to the course

Introduction

Universal Design for Learning in the Science Classroom

Developing Learning Partnerships

What is Universal Design for Learning?

An Introduction to UDL in the Science Classroom

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Michael Harvey

In this course Lindsay shares 3 key ways to create unit plans in a more sustainable way. If you would like to dig deeper into this concept and have Lindsay walk you through the process step-by-step, explore her Pro course Curriculum Boot Camp.  

Designing Units to Engage Students and Advance Justice

What's next?

How to Design Units That Engage Students and Advance Justice

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Lindsay Lyons

As you explore the three modules, you’ll reflect on the power of daily teacher read alouds to develop a community of learners and boost students’ vocabulary and listening capacity.  The list of ten ways your daily read alouds become teaching tools includes enlarging background knowledge, understanding how diverse genres work, using context clues to figure out the meaning of unfamiliar words, developing an understanding of literary elements such as protagonist and theme as well as questioning techniques for discussing texts.  

Explore several resources that support students’ reading such as using Blooms Taxonomy to move from right there text questions to high level thinking such as synthesizing and analyzing and a chart of before, during, and after reading strategies.  Reflect on how to use a teacher’s notebook to model responses to reading for students and establish expectations for their writing about reading.  

In module 3, you’ll observe how you can use one text as a teaching tool for multiple purposes. By studying the think-alouds embedded in a short fairy tale, “The King and the Shirt” by Leo Tolstoy, you’ll be able to develop similar lessons for your students.   Each module contains the research that supports specific teaching ideas and closes with a video by Laura Robb and Evan Robb. You’ll also read a section called “Reflect and Connect” that invites you to try a strategy and then discuss your experiences with colleagues and students.  You can also use an EduSpark link to contact others taking this course. 

The estimated amount of time to complete Read Alouds: Multiple Teaching Opportunities is about 2 hours.  How you move through the content of a course is your choice: you can complete a few modules and pause or pause after each module. The point is to develop a plan that works for your style of learning and try to reserve time to reflect, pose questions, and reread parts to clarify your understandings.   

All Courses

The Five Keys to The Student Driven Classroom

Medium 101: How to Start Writing With Success on Medium

The Power Within Us As Educators, Unleash & Sustain

An Introduction to UDL in the Science Classroom

How to Design Units That Engage Students and Advance Justice

Read Alouds: Multiple Teaching Opportunities