{"id":178,"date":"2019-04-29T01:19:59","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T00:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissathompson.ca\/?p=178"},"modified":"2024-04-02T19:46:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T19:46:43","slug":"its-gonna-be-may-pgp-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melissathompson.ca\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":"It’s Gonna Be May – PGP Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"

I cannot believe Passover is over and tomorrow we will be back at school for the final months of the year. It feels like just yesterday I was sitting in Dr. Mitzmacher’s office, discussing my Professional Growth Plan for the year. Boy has it evolved!<\/p>\n

I knew this year would bring it’s challenges, and I knew I needed to try as many things as I could to find the formula that would work for my students. Personalized Learning became the guiding term for what I wanted to do. In one of my earlier posts<\/a> I talked about personalizing the math classroom. This was, and continues to be, the subject I have the hardest time personalizing. How do you make it authentic, personal, and engaging for all students? How do you truly make it personalized, where students are in charge and have choice and voice, without spending HOURS creating games and tasks? Especially when you have a prescribed curriculum to teach and report on. As I said, I’m still figuring this out.<\/p>\n

I had the honour of Skyping with Allison Zmuda from Learning Personalized<\/a> a few months ago. She had a wealth of information to share, specifically this graphic<\/a>, which I intend to share with my students. Allison and I have discussed Skyping again with my class for them to share with her their thoughts and ideas of how to get through their learning pits!<\/p>\n

I have also been working with my students on documenting their learning<\/a>, more recently by creating student blogfolios<\/a>. I believe that through the process of reflecting on their learning, and knowing they will be sharing their work with others, students will take more ownership over their learning, will interpret the tasks in their own unique ways, and will develop their own personal strategies of getting themselves out of their learning pit for the sake of learning!<\/p>\n

Through the work I have done with Silvia this year I have grown my professional learning network on Twitter and am extremely motivated to learn and share with those “around” me. Every time I write a post, save a tweet, or connect with someone new, I share it with my students to help them see the power of a global network. I feel more comfortable reaching out to others for help, knowing that I am contributing as well.<\/p>\n

There is still so much on my “To-Do” list:<\/p>\n