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Knowing Your Students

Slide Deck No. 1

Ministry of Education, 2009

Knowing Your Students

This first slide deck introduces:

• Learning for All K – 12 and its link to Education for All K – 6;

• The theme “Knowing Your Students’

• Provides a workshop framework to begin to unpack the theme ‘Knowing Your Students’

Learning for All K – 12

• Special Education Policy and Programs Branch is leading the development of a K – 12 resource guide as a follow-up to Education for All K – 6

• The working title of the document is Learning for All K – 12/L’apprentissage pour tous: de la maternelle à la 12e année

Learning for All K – 12Our Shared Beliefs

Through province wide consultations with parents, educators and educational stakeholders in spring 2008, the guiding principles of Education for All K – 6 were confirmed as essential to any effort to improve the achievement of all students and to close the achievement gap

Learning for All K – 12

The two key tenets of Learning for All K – 12 are:• Personalization • Precision

Learning for All K – 12 Personalization of Learning

• Share a personal learning experience that had a positive impact for you as a student when you were in school

• Reflect upon the factors that made this experience positive

Learning for All K – 12Personalization of Learning

• Share a personal learning experience that was unsuccessful for you as a student when you were in school

• Reflect upon the factors that made this experience unsuccessful

Learning for All K – 12Personalization of Learning

Brainstorm what you know about

personalization of learning?

Learning for All K – 12Personalization of Learning

If personalization starts with knowing your

students, what are some of the benefits in

“knowing your students”?

Learning for All K – 12

If personalization of learning starts

with knowing your students, what are some

of the challenges in “knowing your

students?”

Learning for All K -12

Sources for knowing your students:• The Ontario Student Record (OSR)• Consultations with previous teachers• Consultations with parents and/or students• Interest inventories• Classroom observation• Assessments (e.g., diagnostic, pre-tests,

conferencing, student portfolio, etc.)

Learning for All K – 12

Personalization starts with: • Knowing your students• Knowing where they are at in their learning• Knowing where they need to go in their learning

• Knowing how to get them to where they need to go in their learning

Learning for All K - 12

• Reflect upon your current teaching

assignment

• Develop a plan, individually and

collectively, about how you can know your

students better in order to improve your

connections with students and effect positive

change in their learning