My classes finished unpacking the standards related to their upcoming project. I am very proud of the work they did. The insight and responsibility shown is impressive. Before we began, I narrowed the scope for the learners. They have never done this before, so sifting through all of the standards was going to be too hard for now. I decided to scaffold it and select relevant standards fort them. To start with, each team was given a single standard from either the state standards for the course or the ISTE Standards for Students. Each team accessed a shared Google Doc that allowed them to input their responses and see what the other teams are working on as well. I took pieces from several places to put this together for the students. These are the instructions I gave them.
For any standard to be completed and accepted, we had to have 100% agreement with all students in both classes. This took some work. Inside one class it was easy enough. A show of hands would do it. If someone had any issue at all, they were allowed to speak and say what they had to say. Every voice is important. Very rarely was something brought up that did not make it into the final document. Once one class approved it, the next class had to approve it as well. It took several days, but we got everyone through the process. Over and over, the discussion focused on if the class felt the targets were clear, completely addressed the standard, and every student could be assessed by it in the upcoming project. The final document is attached below. With this, we are about to start writing the rubrics now. I'm very excited. It is rare that learners get the opportunity to have this much input into their learning. They are very excited because they know that they should do well on the project and truly learn what they should. There is no doubt because the learners are setting the target and setting how it will be evaluated. There is clarity for everyone. While this did take several hours of valuable project time, I feel that we actually gained time in the process. The learners really took a hard look at what the standards mean and what they need to do to show mastery. In that, they have already started learning at a depth that no lecture, report, or homework assignment can reach. Next stop, the rubrics...
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