Next Generation Schools Annual Symposium 2016

In this session, the presenter shares a unique web-based platform called KP Compass for creating a blended “flipped classroom." Through use of interactive games, a student-centered learning environment is created. The personal tutor tracks students’ understanding levels and helps them achieve mastery through interactions with the online content, allowing the teacher to spend more time with both students who struggle and those who are gifted.

I am a 5th grade classroom teacher who after being inspired by Pernille Ripp in early 2014, have been on a journey of transforming my thinking and my math classroom. I will be sharing my classroom environment, structures to transform Common Core content into choices for students, student goal setting, and student led conferences.  

There is growing consensus that greater student engagement leads to greater student achievement (Cummins, et al.,2005; Flessa et al., 2010; Leithwood, McAdie, Bascia, & Rodrigue, 2006; Willms, Friesen, & Milton, 2009). Research suggests that students are more likely to develop as engaged, self-directed learners in inquiry-based classrooms (Jang, Reeve & Deci, 2010; NCREL online). 

In this session, participants will learn about the inquiry continuum from teacher-directed to student-teacher-directed inquiry. Understanding the inquiry continuum will help teachers feel comfortable with inquiry and understand how inquiry empowers students, yet can look very different depending on the discipline and the learning targets.