Growth In Student Learning – Evidence: Measurement of growth is difficult and can be accomplished through different means. I was able to get a lot of data from the student feedback survey. Otherwise, I can attribute the growth of a learning community to resources I have created and projects that emerged from our community building efforts. A comparison of the activities from early fall to the activities in the spring show how the class worked together to explain concepts. The use of art has been the most significant source of growth in making the content accessible and relevant to students. The added use of technology to enhance explanations also caters to the students being digitally literate. To me this is most easily measured through turn in rates and completion of work. The changes over time are tracked through Engrade. There are several notable examples of growth in students like Luis, Yagnel, and Beverly.
Growth in learning was most notable in one of my most favorite units on the carbon cycle. In the video, you can see a glimpse how over a couple of weeks, students go from being able to process and reproduce parts of the carbon cycle to being able to complete a diagram of all the parts together and describe the processes themselves.
Bridges Part 1 – In the two weeks of the bridge building project, I saw students take a blueprint design to actual bridges. They learned a lot from it and really enjoyed the testing process.
Bridges Part 2 – I ended up showing these edited slow motion videos to my students. They got a laugh out of it for sure. The first and second videos show the best performing videos from each class.
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