This course is amazing, and I would recommend it to anyone, it is a lot of work but great value for money - you have a built in community, get test and try your ideas and have research and readings to back up the practical tips. In a practical sense, while our Making Learning Visible course started out physical, it had to transfer to a virtual setting for the 'classroom' due to COVID. This posed challenges for me as a learning coach as I was unable to interact with a class in the traditional sense. Using my best educator ingenuity I decided to test my ideas on my own children. I had been admiring the work that my friend and colleague Graham Laing had been doing with his students on the learning assets and wanted to take his ideas further. I was interested in the concept of engagement (who wasn't during COVID!) and initially thought about a star including the points: committed, attentive, enthusiastic, diligent and see value. These aspects were important but the idea of a star was not at all user friendly. After feedback from my 'class' at home I refined my idea to an engagement triangle where I combined some elements to simplify the ability to place students' learning ON the triangle. With a triangle I thought it could be interesting for students to see how they felt about activities when they are learning and use this as a reflective tool. I will see if I can find a class to use it with, I have a Grade 5 exhibition class I will be working with next year and this will hopefully be a useful tool in Seesaw - making it an easy to complete end of lesson or end of week reflection.
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AuthorEmma Ahmed is a learning coach and curriculum coordinator at International Schools. Archives
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