Virtual Learning Communities
What if you could bring back more than just good intentions from professional learning experiences?
Our Virtual Learning Communities are different than most online courses in that each VLC has a facilitator who guides the course, provides valuable feedback, and fosters a community of learners. At EdQuiddity, we believe professional learning should:
- Model innovative practices
- Provide new learning
- Have participants design materials to use in school immediately
We now offer an option beyond our in-person professional learning! Online engagement, 25 hours of self-paced engagement, in addition to continual feedback and assistance, and video conference sessions. Work at times convenient for you and have fun challenging your pedagogical thinking.
Only $595 per seat or $4,950 for a 10-pack of seats.
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Available VLC Schedule
Explore the power of the 6 Ps of PBL. Design a PBL task, a rubric to drive instruction, a scaffold of rich and diverse learning activities to implement with your students, and a plan for facilitating the learning.
Syllabus:
- Understanding how “Raising Academic Rigor,” “Engaging Students in Learning,” and “Building Student Responsibility for Learning” go hand-in-hand
- Exploring the 6 Ps of PBL: place, problem, project, profession, phenomena, and pursuit-based learning
- Developing authentic, open-ended, problem-based tasks that create a felt need to learn
- Designing analytic rubrics to offer clearly articulated expectations, a roadmap for all learners, and challenges for gifted learners
- Designing a scaffold for learning to develop differentiated learning and practice activities
- Developing one or more other structures to support the unit, e.g.:
- Formative Assessments to drive instructional planning
- Facilitation Questions to probe students’ thinking at higher cognitive levels
- Facilitation Grid to manage your ongoing student facilitation
Participants in this course will use Dr. Nancy Sulla’s book Students Taking Charge as a resource. The assigned book must be purchased in advance. Access to MyQPortal is included for all participants while enrolled in the VLC.
How can teachers help English Language Learners (ELLs) thrive in their classrooms? This VLC will offer strategies based on 7 Essential Elements for ELL Support: Physical Space, Scaffolding, Resources, Explicit Language Instruction, Facilitation, Emotional Wellness, and Social Engagement. Participants will learn actionable strategies to implement to help both students and teachers thrive. Strategies will be tailored to each participant’s grade level and subject area.
Syllabus:
- Understanding the “7 Essential Elements for ELL Support”
- Recognizing the role that students’ academic backgrounds have in implementing these elements
- Learning strategies for each of the 7 Elements
- Making assessment work for ELLs
- Eliciting feedback from your ELLs
How can you ensure that each of your learners is able to access learning and succeed in any learning environment? How can teachers make the most of their time with students to cover a lot of curriculum? The teacher’s role as a facilitator of learning has become more relevant than ever. Explore strategies to help students navigate their learning environment to build academic resilience, accelerate student learning through a focus on the power standards, and support social-emotional learning and executive function. This course will help you rethink instruction to prioritize differentiation and scaffolds that will meet all learners’ needs. Participants will deconstruct their curriculum to identify and teach to the power standards in ways that build foundational standards in the process.
Syllabus:
- Exploring and developing strategies to help students manage and self-regulate in any learning environment (inclusion, self-contained, or other)
- Gaining strategies and structures to support differentiated student engagement
- Developing purposeful opportunities for students to self-assess and reflect, as well as to support students’ executive function and social-emotional learning
- Exploring opportunities to build a learning community with parents, caregivers, aides, and/or paras to create an optimal learning environment
- Deconstructing your standards to identify the power standards and develop maps to connect your power standards to related content
- Generating related problems to drive instruction through the power standards
- Exploring formative and summative assessment strategies to encourage a data-driven environment that pushes students to higher achievement
Participants in this course will use Reinventing the Classroom Experience by Dr. Nancy Sulla as a resource. The assigned book must be purchased in advance. Access to MyQPortal is included for all participants while enrolled in the VLC.