What specific strategies do you either use or recommend when it comes to personalizing learning through voice, choice, path, pace, and pace? I am looking to expand my coaching toolbox. thanks in advance for sharing. #edutooter #edutooters #education #pedagogy #personalizedlearning #disruptivethink #edtech #innovation #learning #professionaldevelopment
@esheninger I think there are many things required to make this work. I appreciate your framework. I will focus on one aspect, the nature of tasks we ask students to engage in, for me this is a central lever.
Specifically, I try to design wide entry tasks that provide students with a wide range of backgrounds with opportunities to engage and learn in a way that is identity affirming, culturally responsive, and cognitively demanding. I also try to build at least 3-4 scaffolds/check points within tasks to provide opportunities for reflection, revision, and to show learning.
For example, one lesson I am working on right now is anchored on asking if we should drink bottled water. This is something just about every student should already have some knowledge about, an opinion on, and can be answered in a variety of ways, with students carrying out investigations, doing research, arguing from evidence, and present their outcomes and ideas in various modalities.
