My Personal Learning Plan

Name: Vikas Patil Critical Friend: Shekhar Hardikar Work Profile: Geography Teacher for Grade 9 and 10 S N Kansagra School, Rajkot, India Present: - Usage of technology in the form of powerpoint presentations, videos etc - Using BLM in Grade 9 - Aligning my summative assessment with blooms taxonomy - Group instructions used most of the time - Content based instructional strategies used Goals - Generate interest among students by bringing relevance in what I teach - Making my instructions Simple - Using advanced tools like prezi - Using BML at all times - Ongoing summative assessment as per revised blooms taxonomy - Activities which enhance the 21t century skills of the learners - One on one interactions with the learners Strategies - BLM all the times - Maintaining a record of observations during the class - Patience during the interactions with learners - Constant analysing learners performance and sharing with them the same - Activities to engage students purposefully - Skill based strategies to be used - Video recording of my classroom activities Fierce Wonderings: - Which training programmes do I need to undertake to enhance my assessment skills? - How will I merge the new classroom strategies with the existing ones? - Videotape myself teaching and discuss it with my CF WALO: Present: - Friendly approach with the learners - Learners depend majorly on me for their learning - Using google doc, feedback form, PTM to know the learners - Mixture of Democratic and authoritarian approach in the class Goals - More Democratic approach - Make my learners independent - My Learners create their own Digital Portfolio - My Learners make documentaries on various topics - 24X7 communication with learners from anywhere, anytime Strategies - Providing developmental and positive feedback, always - Critical Friends Protocol - Increasing awareness about the learners through various strategies like one on one talk, parental feedback etc - Usage of internet platforms like edmodo, FB, DPs etc Fierce Wonderings: - How do I develop independent learners? - How do I cater to the differentiated learning needs that exist in the classroom? - Conduct and videotape CFP sessions for students work WALO: Me and my students Me, My content and My Classroom practices

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Present: - Emails used to communicate - Team members are independent - Subject dealt with in isolation - Weekly sharing session Goals - Easy and fast communication within the team - Independent yet interdependent team - Integration of different subjects in the classroom - Culture of sharing and learning from each other Strategies - Guiding the team members about usage of various devices - Usage of various planners and applications - Daily time for sharing good as well as not so good experiences Fierce Wonderings: - How do I get support of the teammates? - Which subject and topics can be effectively collaborated with the topics of geography? - Videotape myself facilitating a meeting or debriefing a classroom observation and reflect with colleagues. Present: - Collaborative work happening to create educational videos, learning material, assignments, assessment papers etc - Guidance and sharing happening while developing ideas and materials Goals - Create world class documentaries and educational videos - Create Projects that engage learners to develop skills - Collaboration between the members while working in such a way that 1+1 gets 3 or more. Strategies - Critical Friends Protocol - Regular meetings for planning and sharing - Archiving the creation of work on common platforms Fierce Wonderings: - How do I get the support of the subject colleagues to work collaboratively and achieve these goals? - Conduct a project tuning or looking at student work protocol with colleagues

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ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What happens when team members collaborate to cater to differentiated learning needs
in the classroom and enable learners to be independent learners?

Me and my Subject Department

Me and my team