Action Plan for Learning School Name: Elementary School School Goal: School Year: 2015-2016 Goal / Inquiry To use strategies and structures of Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) to grow Student learning students’ self-awareness and personal management to increase student achievement across all areas of the curriculum. Rationale Self-regulation is a factor in student success at school. 1-3 reasons for choosing Building capacity to identify student emotions and thoughts and goal influence on behaviour enhances students’ learning readiness and individual potential. Elementary has informally been working on promoting self-regulation and we are now looking to bring the school together through a formal process utilizing common, school-wide language. and sources Past direction and from Brenda Whittam-Neary with regards to References to support actions redesigning classroom spaces and learning spaces within the school to promote self-regulation Some have had RULER training with Miriam Miller LIF staffing designated to counselling, and student services to assist with teaching/learning self-regulation techniques We have created and furnished a Sensory room and students all have access to Sensory Breaks (Max. 10 min.) Every class has sensory hand tools, a stepper, a lego wall and an I-Pad with self-regulation Apps. Some classes have created dedicated sensory areas Backup Documentation Planned Actions Continuing Practices: Continuing practices We will continue to explore the impact designing self-regulated learning working well (1-3) environments has on students’ ability to regulate themselves in our What will we do classrooms. differently? (1-3) For the 2015-2016 school year, we will continue to focus our professional How will we provide for development on self-regulation. In June, staff identified multiple staff development and suggestions for self-regulation structures and strategies that requires collaboration? further reflection and refining. How will we involve Continue to provide release time to support teacher collaboration time parents? where requested. How will we involve students? What will we do differently? How will we monitor We will create monthly school-wide self-regulation assemblies and use this progress and adjust time to teach a self-regulation strategy to reinforce common language. actions?
Action Plan for Learning School Name: Elementary School School Goal: School Year: 2015-2016 Goal / Inquiry Student learning To use strategies and structures of Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) to grow students’ self-awareness and personal management to increase student achievement across all areas of the curriculum. Rationale 1-3 reasons for choosing goal Self-regulation is a factor in student success at school. Building capacity to identify student emotions and thoughts and influence on behaviour enhances students’ learning readiness and individual potential. Elementary has informally been working on promoting self-regulation and we are now looking to bring the school together through a formal process utilizing common, school-wide language. References and sources to support actions Past direction and from Brenda Whittam-Neary with regards to redesigning classroom spaces and learning spaces within the school to promote self-regulation Some have had RULER training with Miriam Miller LIF staffing designated to counselling, and student services to assist with teaching/learning self-regulation techniques We have created and furnished a Sensory room and students all have access to Sensory Breaks (Max. 10 min.) Every class has sensory hand tools, a stepper, a lego wall and an I-Pad with self-regulation Apps. Some classes have created dedicated sensory areas Backup Documentation Planned Actions Continuing practices working well (1-3) What will we do differently? (1-3) How will we provide for staff development and collaboration? How will we involve parents? How will we involve students? How will we monitor progress and adjust actions? Continuing Practices: We will continue to explore the impact designing self-regulated learning environments has on students’ ability to regulate themselves in our classrooms. For the 2015-2016 school year, we will continue to focus our professional development on self-regulation. In June, staff identified multiple suggestions for self-regulation structures and strategies that requires further reflection and refining. Continue to provide release time to support teacher collaboration time where requested. What will we do differently? We will create monthly school-wide self-regulation assemblies and use this time to teach a self-regulation strategy to reinforce common language.
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