The following template uses a social media "Facebook" format for students to display their learning style, multiple intelligences, learning preferences, goals, interests and hobbies.
The template can be edited to fit your grade or to add the content you'd like to include.
This learner profile includes learning style, MI, subject and learning preferences, goal setting and working preferences. These are just some of the things you may wish to include in a learner profile. This document is editable to make it work for you and your students.
So, let me ask you the question: How often do we let students “work the problem” in our schools and classrooms?
Do we give students a chance to figure it out on their own or in a small group? Do we challenge them to solve a challenge in a fixed amount of time? Do we let them struggle and fail to the point where they have to work the problem and find a solution?
With PL - Now every student was “working their own problem” and stumbling, struggling, and fighting to find a solution of how to learn, make, create, and launch an idea out into the world.
“The Martian” is a great example of working the problem. He has to use a multitude of 21st Century Skills, along with his team, and the people back on Earth to work together to survive and get him home.
Mental Wellness – Basics is a course that introduces adolescents to concepts related to mental health and wellness. Stigma associated with mental health can have serious and negative impacts on help-seeking behaviors, and many mental health conditions and symptoms can be significantly lessened through prevention. As such, this course will do the following:
Support students in identifying threats to mental health early, and taking measures to increase factors that protect mental health.
Attempt to reduce stigma by introducing students to the experiences of others in order to develop awareness and empathy, as well as by providing facts on the prevalence and symptoms of mental health conditions.
Foster a mental health mindset in students and help them develop feelings of self-efficacy by introducing knowledge and skills that promote and model advocacy for self and others.
This Course Covers
Self Awareness
Self Management
Relationship Skills
Social Awareness
Responsible Decision-Making
Students will explore the transmission of folktales over time and continent to evaluate their validity of a literary genre. By reading and analyzing a variety of folktales, students will realize the cultural implications of the genre. Students will create and perform their own original folktale in the form of a script that combines and modernizes the tales that they read. Learning will enhanced by technology infusion and the incorporation of 21 Century learning competencies.
Multi Modal Stations: math with someone, math with the teacher, math with technology, math on your own and math fluency.
An excellent inventory for students to determine their multiple intelligences.
A wealth of online personality tests for free. These may be some of the tests you wish to consider doing with older students as part of their learner profiles. Consider doing the Jungian Scales/Myers Briggs. The brain dominance, temperament quiz and memory test are also very interesting.
Shapes and Space Example Playlist for Grade 4 Math.
Project Zero at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education has created a collection of Core Thinking Routines as part of their Visible Thinking Project. Teachers can view the entire collection on the Project Zero website (https://pz.harvard.edu/thinking-routines#CoreThinkingRoutines), where each routine is described in detail (e.g., purpose, application, launch) in both English and Spanish.
These routines encourage students to be intentional thinkers.
What do they know or notice?
What is their perspective or position on an issue or idea?
How can they support their position or thinking?
What do they wonder? What are they confused about?
How has their thinking changed? What caused that change?
This is a template younger students can learn to share their learning style, MI, group style etc after completing their inventories.
This can be edited to suit your needs!
This website has been used to develop a number of open-source psychological tests. All are availible under a creative commons licence. This is the full list of such tests, not all have been finalized:
Open Extended Jungian Type Scales (documentation) * Myers Briggs
Open Hemispheric Brain Dominance Scale (documentation)
Open Enneagram of Personality Scales
Exposure Based Face Memory Test
For other open source measures, try the International Personality Item Pool.
These are some options you may want to consider for student learner profiles for older students - especially the Jung/Myers Briggs and Enneagram scales.
Similarities and differences between Problem Based Learning and Project Based Learning
The following is a resource for teaching research skills to grades 1 and 2 students. This works with the 21st century skills SECRET framework, but would also easily work with the 7Cs. It looks at teaching them:
How to ask a question
How to search for information
How to evaluate resources
How to take notes
How to share your learning
This graphic organizer allows students to decide if a risk is worth taking. Risk taking is an important part of self-management or regulation.
These resources are a good starting point when you want to implement 21st century SECRET skills. The guide book provides you with the theory of the skills as well as how to start. There is a template included on how to teach and assess these skills. The other pieces provide rubrics for students to assess their own skills as well as their peers.
SNOT Problem Solving: Self, Neighbour, Other, Teacher
"Shifting Minds 3.0: Redefining the Learning Landscape in Canada offers a vehicle for learning systems to reflect and inspire innovation that supports competency and resiliency in a global economy."
KEY MESSAGES
"*Surface changes in education will not equip students for the 21st century: change is needed at the core of educational practice.
*Whole-system reform requires conditions that support educators in examining and reshaping the foundations on which their practice is built.
*A dual strategy of both improvement and innovation is required to maintain stability while enabling forward momentum.
*Leaders watch for the fine balance between the need for autonomy to innovate at the school level and the desire for systemic and sustainable improvement.
*Diversity is messy but critical in order to minimize ‘group think’ and maximize the possible solutions that will meet real-world needs.
*Insights from complexity theory can help leaders think outside the box of the traditional system to inspire and spread positive changes.
*Change is inevitable: transformation is possible."
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"C21 Canada and the CEO Academy provides a national forum for education leaders to share ideas and build capacity for system-wide transformation. The organization brings together executive leaders of school districts and knowledge-sector businesses who share the belief that 21st century competencies and innovations in learning must be scaled on an urgent basis. The Spiral Playbook: Leading with an inquiring mindset in school systems and schools points the way forward. It describes a sustainable approach to professional inquiry that aims to transform how educators learn and lead – with teams and across networks.
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