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    Feb Resource of the Month: Battling the Boss & Level Up (Embedded Assessment)

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    Keeping our embedded assessment strategies engaging and effective is an ongoing process. This month let's look at a great check-in strategy, Battling the Boss.  It works really well in a personalized classroom where students are working at their own pace.  Students love it and it provides evidence of learning so both you and your student know if they are ready to move on.
     
    Overview: Students reflect and decide when they are ready to "Battle the Boss" - they then engage in a verbal, written &/or digital task that provides evidence of understanding around the learning focus.  The teacher and student then decide the best next steps in learning.  It is a great way to check for understanding and check in with students moving at their own pace. 
    Link to Battling the Boss Resource (just click): Includes video example and explanation
    Don't Forget!! 
    1. Modify the strategy to fit your situation-grade level, content area, student need, etc. Make it work for YOUR classroom! 
    2. Make the Battling the Boss challenge questions reflect the depth of thinking that is appropriate for your learning goal.

    Join in the conversation...post a comment:
    • Share how you used this strategy in your classroom...What worked? What didn't? What would you modify? 
    • Share an similar resource that you have used with success. 
    • Share an area of focus for next month's resource. 
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    Corona Conversations: Ways to Engage Students

    What is Happening?...Corona Conversations (and Challenges)
    Looking for a simple, interesting, authentic way to engage students over remote learning days?
    Use your innovation and creativity to expand on the ideas below to create a 1-2 week learning unit surrounding the topic of the Coronavirus.  Everyone’s lives are being affected, these unit topics will help students gain understanding about what is happening and why.  


    Unit topics have been created for different grades, but could easily be modified for additional grades based on student population and interests. 

    We encourage you to work with a team of teachers and pull in multi-disciplinary perspectives.  If you need support just use  http://www.connectinged.com/contact-us.html to get a message to us! 

    Get Started: 
    1. Read the Ideas below to choose possible areas of focus 
    2. Consider running a Self Organized Learning Environment for this unit
      1. Modify the SOLE method to create learning structure- FREE
        1. Younger students may need a curated list of resources to use
      2. Tools to Help Design
      3. Create supports needed for SOLE method
      4. Share Teaching Resources by joining this group in Schoology. Anyone can join after you create a FREE account. Schoology.com- Create Account- Groups-My Groups-Join Group-Enter Access Code- Go to  Discussions 
        Schoology Group Access Code  VFTW-RV66-ZKRJ6

    K-5                                            Theme: One Thing Leads To Another
    Possible Big Ideas/Essential Questions
    • Where’s All The Toilet Paper?
    • How do choices we make impact others?
    • What are the patterns, how do they help?

    Possible Unit Understandings
    • Choices we make impact (health or other) others
    • One thing depends on another
    • Information, collaboration and kindness are especially important in hard times
    • When there’s a great demand it can cause a lack of supplies
    • Demand for certain supply changes due to circumstances 
    • It’s the role of leaders on all levels to support communities in times of need
    • Problem solving is important in times of trouble
    • Observing and studying patterns help us understand the past, predict the future and make decisions today 
    • *How we see a situation depends on perspective, influences and education (ART, Photography)

    Possible Standards
    Grade KindergartenGrade 1Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 
    6-8                                                 Theme: Safety VS Freedom

    Possible Big Idea/Essential Question
    Possible Unit Understandings
    • Compromise is needed in times of crisis 
    • Information, collaboration and kindness are especially important in hard times
    • Laws and policies provide structure in times of crisis or need
    • A regions’ leadership, resources, policies and economic structure  play a role in the success of defeating a pandemic.
    • Demand for certain supply changes due to circumstances 
    • Great innovation can occur in times of distress
    • Studying the past helps us prepare for the future and solve problems in the present.
    • There are great benefits and struggles living in a globally connected world
    • Patterns help us solve problems.
    • How we see a situation depends on perspective, influences and education

    Possible Standards
    • Social Emotional Core Competencies 
    • Science- Structure, Function, and Information Processing, Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems Survival Populations, Engineering Design (Ohio, Next Gen) 
    • Health- Standard 1, 2, 3,7,8 (National)
    • Social Studies- Civics, Economics, History 
    • ELA- Reading Informational Text, Reading Literature  and/or any writing standard
    • Math- Statistics, Rates, Chance, Inference of Populations Based on Samples, Exponents
    • Art*
    • World Languages- Culture standards-How are target cultures/countries being affected

    9-12                                     Pandemic or Media Frenzy? Why?
    Possible Big Ideas/Essential Questions
    • Pandemic or Media frenzy? Why?
    • Who Are We, Who Could We Be In Times Of Crisis?

    Possible Unit Understandings
    • A pandemic is a disease epidemic that has spread across a large region, for instance multiple continents, or worldwide.
    • Information, collaboration and kindness are especially important in hard times
    • A regions’ leadership, resources, policies and economic structure  play a role in the success of defeating a pandemic.
    • Media (all types)  influences behavior
    • True colors reveal themselves in times of crisis
    • Great innovation can occur in times of distress
    • Studying the past helps us prepare for the future and solve problems in the present.
    • There are great benefits and struggles living in a globally connected world
    • Patterns help us solve problems.
    • Demand for certain supply changes due to circumstances 
    • *How we see a situation depends on perspective, influences and education

    Possible standards
    • Social Emotional Core Competencies 
    • Science- Engineering Design, Ecosystem Homeostasis, Carrying Capacity, Human Population (Ohio, Next Gen)
    • Health- Standard 1, 2, 3,7,8 (National)
    • ELA- Informational Text Standards, any Writing standards
    • American History- Standards related to history over time
    • World History- Geography, Foreign affairs 
    • Government- Economics, Rights of Government, Government Agencies 
    • Math- Statistics, Exponential Growth &  Relationships
    • *Art- Portray the Pandemic 
    • World Languages- Culture standards-How are target cultures/countries being affected



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    Join Us at Schoology Connect June 20th!

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    Check out the Schoology Connect Webpage for all of the details!
    Who Should Attend?
    Educators and administrators in Ohio or neighboring states who are currently using Schoology or who are considering adopting Schoology for their district or school.
    When & Where
    Thurs. June 20th, 2019 | 7:30am - 4:00pm ET
    Berlin High School
    3140 Berlin Station Road
    Delaware, OH 43015