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There's a companion article to the video, which you can find here: www.edutopia.org/article/self-paced-learning-early-elementary-grades Also, we recommend taking a look at the links in the description. The Modern Classrooms Project has a ton of resources on making self-paced learning work for students.
Hi Ita! We'd encourage you to sign up for our free course: learn.modernclassrooms.org/ or check out our exemplars page for more content-specific examples: www.modernclassrooms.org/exemplars
The teacher in the video told me: "No, my roadmaps are not personalized for each student, but that is an interesting idea. In my classroom, each student receives the same roadmap to guide them through each journey. However, what becomes personalized is their journey. Some will complete all activities, some will complete only Must Do activities. Some are given the opportunity to decide if they’d like to complete Should Do or Aspire to Do activities. What is also unique for each student is where they work, with whom they collaborate during our lesson block, and how much teacher support they have in a given day. When my students do reach math mastery, there is a lot more student choice available in terms of how they will enrich themselves. They may choose to complete additional teacher planned activities, some decide to become helpers for their peers, coaching them through completion of activities, and some even try making their own instructional videos based on what they have learned!"
0:58 -- "There was a misconception that younger learners aren't able to be as self-directed..." That's because 100 years later, mainstream education still purposely ignores Maria Montessori's foundational principle, "auto-didactism", laid out in the introductory pages of her book, "The Absorbent Mind": that we humans self-teach from the very first year of life, without the help of spoken or written language, formal instruction, or dictionaries. That this ability is /built-in/ to us as humans. And therefore that the ideal classroom should set up an environment where this auto-didactism is supported , not suppressed. We are only now finally coming around to rediscovering her principle for ourselves after a century lost -- and it is more than a little ironic that MCP was created by teachers dissatisfied with what they had been "taught" in the mainstream academic pedagogical model.
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Congrats to Modern Classrooms Project educators 👏 This is awesome!
How do you organize your road map? I'd like to know more!
There's a companion article to the video, which you can find here: www.edutopia.org/article/self-paced-learning-early-elementary-grades
Also, we recommend taking a look at the links in the description. The Modern Classrooms Project has a ton of resources on making self-paced learning work for students.
I'd love to learn how to implement this model in my classroom.
We have a free course you can take as a starting point: learn.modernclassrooms.org/, or email us at partnerships@modernclassrooms.org!
Amazing! Goals for this year!
I love this model.
How would this set up look in a ELA classes?
Hi Ita! We'd encourage you to sign up for our free course: learn.modernclassrooms.org/ or check out our exemplars page for more content-specific examples: www.modernclassrooms.org/exemplars
This is just awesome 👏👏
I'd love to know whether or not the road maps are personalized based on student interests and ability.
The teacher in the video told me: "No, my roadmaps are not personalized for each student, but that is an interesting idea. In my classroom, each student receives the same roadmap to guide them through each journey. However, what becomes personalized is their journey. Some will complete all activities, some will complete only Must Do activities. Some are given the opportunity to decide if they’d like to complete Should Do or Aspire to Do activities. What is also unique for each student is where they work, with whom they collaborate during our lesson block, and how much teacher support they have in a given day. When my students do reach math mastery, there is a lot more student choice available in terms of how they will enrich themselves. They may choose to complete additional teacher planned activities, some decide to become helpers for their peers, coaching them through completion of activities, and some even try making their own instructional videos based on what they have learned!"
Soooooooopr!! Thankyou very much for sharing. 🤝
0:58 -- "There was a misconception that younger learners aren't able to be as self-directed..."
That's because 100 years later, mainstream education still purposely ignores Maria Montessori's foundational principle, "auto-didactism", laid out in the introductory pages of her book, "The Absorbent Mind": that we humans self-teach from the very first year of life, without the help of spoken or written language, formal instruction, or dictionaries. That this ability is /built-in/ to us as humans. And therefore that the ideal classroom should set up an environment where this auto-didactism is supported , not suppressed.
We are only now finally coming around to rediscovering her principle for ourselves after a century lost -- and it is more than a little ironic that MCP was created by teachers dissatisfied with what they had been "taught" in the mainstream academic pedagogical model.