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The Connected Classroom (Community partner involvement in planning, design…
The Connected Classroom
The meaningful integration of classroom and community learning (Butler & Christofili,
2014; Van Wynsberghe and Andruske, 2007);
CSL for diverse learniers i.e. women, First Nations, ESL
I teach an ESL class which is a small class size and allows me to integrate their background into my teaching practice
I incorporate their first language into assignments (providing the English and second language translation)
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Find more opportunities to connect with the different learners in the classroom community i.e. have the texts and project topics been appropriately chosen for the diversity of the group?
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Projects that match the skill levels of students (Mason, 2014; Zapata, 2011)
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Continual revisement of the skill level of students as some may surprise you. Making projects acievable within their zone of proximal development (according to Bloom's Taxonomy)
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Community partner involvement in planning, design and delivery of activities (Charles, Alexander & Oliver 2014);
Need to reach out to the broader community - local, nationally and internationally
I have engaged in opportunities within the school community i.e. different teachers and across different grades (partnering with upper school students)
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The importance of reflection as the mechanism for learning (Ash, Clayton & Atkinson
2005)
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Three Questions
Participate: What? Students are immersed in an experience, acknowledging what they are doing, what they are thinking, and what they are feeling during the experience p.9
Reflect: so what? Students think about their experiences, guided by reflective questions and prompts, and identify what they learned as part of the experience - themselves, family, people, world, other opportunities p.10
Apply: So now what? Students describe how their learning stimulates further inquiry; how it influence their decisions, goals, plans and what they would have done differently p.10
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