How would you meet her educational and socio-emotional needs?

What Adults Can Learn from Children

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Assume this child is a student in your class. What would you do to meet her educational needs? Respond to this post and give feedback AND extensions to each others responses. Make sure to include your name at the top of the response so I can record which teachers have posted/responded.

Give strategies and lesson ideas for how you would engage her in relevant work that challenges her to learn and apply her knowledge and skills to become an even more productive and collaborative 21st century citizen.Make sure to include some of the use of scholars and knowledge strategies such as depth and complexity and how she will apply them.
Include links to lesson/resource materials to support your ideas.

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Your thoughts, ideas, plans?

Now that you've articulated a question/hypothesis, do you have new aspirations for student success? Does this process help you to see possibilities for measuring successful intervention programs? Explain how you think this will be different than your current campus practices?

Taking Action to Improve Learning

View the 3 Step video to set the stage for a 21st Century Learning Space.

What does this have to do with Campus Action Research? We're looking critically at where we are and taking steps toward what we need to do to get even better.

Utilize the valuable links on the right, one of which is the New Century School House. Viewing the 3 Steps video sets the stage for a 21st Century Learning Space. Other sources give you more in-depth information about Action Research and sources for research.