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Module 5: Journal of Connections to My Professional Community

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Connections Connection to Education Week blog post by Starr Sackstien Starr Sackstien is an author on the Hack Learning Series team and you can see her bio below.  Her book on Hacking Assessment was of particular interest to me in this process because it involves changing the way educators think about assessment.   Through my exploration of the hack learning platform I discovered that Starr Sackstien was an active contributor to EdWeeks Work in Progress and I was able to read her posts from the spring and summer of 2018. A post on July 31, 2018 discussed the competing values in education.  The post challenged the conception of education being reformed to the idea of educational transformation.  Sackstien discusses that this transformation should reflect on treating each student as an individual and using teaching and assessment to respond to those needs.   Competing Values in Education Make Real Transformation Challenging http://blogs.edweek.or...
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Module 4: Foundations and Principles in the Context of Practice

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My Electronic Journal The professional community I have decided to engage with is @hackmylearning.  Earlier this year a colleague exposed me to the books in the Hack Learning series.  The series includes books on a variety of different topics from from project based learning to assessment and much more.  One of the advantages to the ideas in these books is that they present practical progressive ideas that teachers can implement within just about any setting.   This particular community is attractive and applicable to my professional practice because presents "hack" ideas that can be implemented in the classroom.  The word "hack" in this series suggests that there are solutions to problems that others may not necessarily see. My personal definition of a hack is something that can improve the quality or efficiency of an activity without necessarily working harder.   This absolutely applies to my professional practice because often making changes...
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Module 3: Planning, Instruction, and Assessment Approaches in Different Curricular Designs

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The Process By Jennifer Simpson and Luke Nakonechny  To begin our analysis we again started building a mind map.  We wanted to connect the professional context to each of the philosophies.  As we worked through we found that the actions split into two philosophical themes: learner centered and subject centered.  We added the planning, instruction and assessment for these philosophies along with questions to focus for the teacher to our table.   https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1kmvyrE-mRu9qcKKMa7KopiUzNiScS3aVUOfWkknD0gA/edit?usp=sharing  The link to our table is here. If you would like to see our mind map for this portion, you can view it here. https://mm.tt/1127661604?t=VLlOmbIPI3 The Discussion The process of planning, instruction and assessment of the learner centered philosophies was well discussed in the readings and videos.  In the Teacher’s Point of View on Inquiry Based Learning video, she spoke about using a “backwa...
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