My 2 Big Shifts!
My 2 Big Shifts!
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Shift #1
Shift #1
Back in 2008, I accepted a newly created role at a school that missed AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress) on the previous year's state assessments. My role was to be a 7th Grade Targeted Math Specialist working exclusively with the math students who did not reach Proficient on the assessment.
It was in this role that I truly learned to teach, since all of my students had not only significant skill gaps but were also lacking work habits and study skills. Fast forward to the end of the school year and 95% of my previously underperforming students reached or even surpassed Proficiency on that year's math standardized state test.
My Shift that school year was learning, experientially, the fact that ALL students are truly capable of excelling!
Shift #2
Shift #2
Back in 2014, I was redesigning a middle school technology curriculum. As a Google enthusiast, I used a Google Site as the learning hub of instructional resources of what would become my first asynchronous, project-based, interactive blended learning class website.
Teaching in a blended learning structure using a Google Site as the hub of learning resources accessible in an asynchronous, personalized, sometimes project-based, sometimes standards-based manner became my standard way to deliver instruction to both staff in PD and students in classes.
My Shift that school year was successfully delivering instruction through an asynchronous, project-based, interactive blended learning website!
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