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Resource 1: Flexible Classrooms: Making Space for Personalized Learning,…
Resource 1: Flexible Classrooms: Making Space for Personalized Learning
https://www.edutopia.org/video/flexible-classrooms-making-space-personalized-learning
By Emelina Minero
February 14, 2017
Summary-How you arrange your seating can be an asset for differentiating instruction. Summit Prep uses different seating configurations for independent work, collaborative work, mini lessons, and large-group discussions.
Independent Work:Have your students move tables against the walls. Their backs will face you, increasing transparency.
Collaborative Work:Have your students move tables to the sides of the classroom and work in groups of two to four students per table.
Mini Lessons:When doing mini lessons for small groups of two to three students, have them move a table to the middle of the room.
Large-Group Discussions:table-less circle configuration
【Why do I think this resource is useful to me?】 As teachers in this semester, we have been emphasizing the concept of how to support our learning diversity. Frankly speaking, the progress we have made is not that big. This article reminds me that if we want to develop this concept, it is actually necessary to create a personalized learning space for students.
Resource 2: Moving Your Classroom Outside During the Pandemic
Summary:how this rural elementary school safely and effectively took their classrooms outdoors.
https://www.edutopia.org/article/moving-your-classroom-outside-during-pandemic
By Amanda Yates
December 11, 2020
【Why do I think this resource is useful to me?】IB encourages us to make use of both indoor and outdoor space. However I always think using the space outside is a little bit challenging. But in this article, if we were fully prepared, we could also create a flexible outdoor space for students regardless of the pandemic. And when we move the learning space outdoors, we can use more natural materials.
Essential elements for all our outdoor classrooms included the following:
Fire pit (fire marshal approved)
Tarp shelter
Access to the nearby brook
Seating (most classrooms also constructed seating from logs, mats, hammocks, or five-gallon buckets)
Foot-pedal outdoor sinks
Outdoor storage containers packed with student whiteboards;
Waterproof notebooks for each student
Successes and future plans:
Math centers with nature manipulatives, including sticks, acorns, rocks, pine cones
Nature writing on clay, sand, dirt, mud, rocks, and “wood cookies” (a cross section of a tree trunk that ranges in size depending on the tree that was cut)
Sit spot journaling, where students observe, wonder about, and reflect on their immediate surroundings
Reading in hammocks (each student has their own)
Discussion and observations about stream health, maintenance, and how to study the stream without disrupting the natural environment
Comparing and contrasting westward expansion referencing social studies concepts, books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, and the students’ own outdoor explorations
Literacy walks, where a story is placed page by page throughout the forest, and students walk from one tree to another to read the story (this works for sight words too)
Story of the day, where students collectively or independently review the day in their journals