I’m excited to finish creating this online learning class for my 4th graders, teammates, and teachers anywhere, really.  I came up with an accountability piece in reading for students in 4th grade because we don’t currently have an engaging online reading platform that creates a sense of ownership for students.  I have used a lot of the things I will be linking already this year with my students and tweaking as I go.  The implementation process is no joke. 

As I thought about my online learning course, I was thankful for my  UbD-Reading and the Margie -3 Column Table -Reading I created in 5313 that has helped me go deeper in my planning and implementing ownership of learning.  I will be following Texas State Standards, focusing on 4.6 where my 4th-graders will use metacognitive skills to both develop and deepen comprehension of increasingly complex texts through an authentic learning environment that will give them choice, voice, and ownership of their reading growth.  They will learn the importance of being in charge of their own learning and the impacts it has on their growth.  

My learners will be able to set their own reading goals, track their progress, and self-reflect on their learning.  They will select their reading materials each week and choose how they will respond to their daily reading and how they will demonstrate understanding of their daily/weekly written responses and end-of-unit projects.  

My focus is on Blending Learning using the station rotation model.  Unfortunately, my school does not have an engaging online reading platform that would encourage ownership and accountability, so I came up with some things to use while we find this magical learning platform. I will use station rotations to implement student ownership of their reading lives by checking in on their tracking and growth in small groups.  My hope is that students will take their tracking with them and eventually add it to their ePortfolios when they get to that point. 

I use the word ePortfolio when talking about students tracking their learning growth throughout my planning, but ePortfolios are not my focus, YET.  Students will be tracking their reading on google slides and/or google sheets. Students will track books read, Newsela articles read and quizzes taken along with scores.  Station rotations are just what I need for ensuring my blended learning course is successful for all learners because they will allow for small group and even one on one check-ins from the start.  Holding learners accountable at the beginning as they form routines that work for them is going to be key to a successful course of students owning their learning. 

My goal is that teachers will take more of a guide on the side or coaching role in the classroom and that students will take ownership of their learning and eventually take this new skill to other aspects of their lives for years to come.

Instructional Design Outline:

3 Column Table -Reading - Outline-3 Column Table-Blended Learning

My UbD: 

Margie's UbD-Reading - Google Docs

3 Column Tabe:

3 Column Table -Reading - CSLE 3 Column Table (1)

References

Bates, A.W. (2019). Teaching in a Digital Age: Guidelines for designing teaching and learning. https://opentextbc.ca/teachinginadigitalage/ Videos from this post are also required viewing in the Discussion section.

Harapnuik. D. (2021). Assessment Of/For/As learning. https://www.harapnuik.org/?page_id=8900

Backward course design (n.d.) https://teaching.uwo.ca/curriculum/coursedesign/backward-design.html

Finks Taxonomy & 3 Column Table Resources – https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1gMqxX2SEtWmnQ37m4UxWUcWxy0w87rWj?usp=sharing