RAIS Professional Development with Mr. McShan

RAIS Professional Development with Mr. McShan

November 7th, 2020

All about Mr. McShan

• Teacher at RAIS Dammam

• 8 years in education

• [e-mail]

My experience with Freckle

• Going on one full year of usage

• Overall, students are happy with it.

• Parents comments are positive about it.

• Currently assessing students in Grades 4, 5, and Middle School.

Order of events

• Warm up

• Polls and things

• Brief video introduction to Freckle

• Who benefits from it? How can this be implemented?

• Getting Started.

• QCC and Conclusion

Poll

How many hours on average per week are you lesson planning outside of your instructional time?

• 1-2 hours

• 3-4 hours

• 5-7 hours

• More than 10 hours per week.

Poll

I am confident in my understanding of differentiation..

• Very confident

• Somewhat confident

• No confidence/not sure what differentiation is.

Poll

I feel I have the means to personally connect with my students one on one outside of the class period.

• Strongly Agree

• Agree

• Neutral

• Disagree

• Strongly Disagree

Open Ended

My biggest struggle with the process of online learning is...

Differentiation

Let's talk about it.

How to implement Freckle

• Warm ups

• Differentiatied Practice

Multiple Select

Select all the examples of differentiated instruction...

• A personalized course packet with individualized remediation or enrichment materials.

• One-on-one coaching with a student, designed around his/her specific challenges.

• Varying sets of reading comprehension questions to answer for a given boo

• Assigning ‘advanced’ students to teach ‘struggling’ students.

• Grouping students into different classes based on their ability.

More ways to implement Freckle

• Formative Assessments

• Homework

• Blended Learning

• Stations

• IEP's

• Project Based Learning

• Enrichment

The question is still...

Because online learning has too many problems to count and we need to be solution oriented:

Seriously!

A short list:

• Difficult to maintain relationships

• Monitoring motivation

• Online education shifts costs from the school to the learner

• Children need to move!!!

• Virtual schools require technology support

• Parents are shut out of their child’s education

• Some components of learning are harder to accomplish on a screen