Hi, I'm new here.
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Thread Topic: Hi, I'm new here.
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They said they wanted to read everything about it!
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I popped up to say hello and saw the essay you posted and I just went, "Tat's at it again"
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The spirit of inquiry inherent to ______________ Learning and the active role that students are expected to play is reflected in how the students experience the curriculum. The instructional building blocks of the ___________ curriculum are called “quests” to underscore that students are the heroes of their own stories.
Quests take concepts or skills—the underlying academic information that we wish to convey to students in a lesson—and wrap them in a narrative, problem, or other type of investigatory framework. In working through a quest, learners are directed toward resources that they need to research, and are given problems to solve, challenges to overcome, or specifications for artifacts that they will need to create. Some quests are completed in teams, while other quests are done individually. While working on a quest, learners receive guidance from mentors and on finishing a quest learners assess themselves and are assessed by mentors through a combination of informal feedback, and formal evaluation using rubrics. The experience of being in ______________ is very much the experience of working one’s way through quests, and it is through the act of completing quests that much of the learning in _____________ is framed.
In designing the quest and journey learning model for _______________, we have drawn heavily on the history of learning science to ensure a sound basis for the approach, and have also taken freely from research in game play and what makes for effective motivation and sustainability within complex, multiplayer games with active user communities. This background has led to a set of design principles for quests and journeys that ensure that the broader _______________ objectives are realized in the students’ experience of the curriculum at ________________.
At _______________ we refer to the teachers as “mentors” to stress that their role is one of support and encouragement of the learners in their charge and not one of teaching. In ________________ it is important that students do not view themselves as patients in an institution where instruction is done to them, but rather as agents actively working to expand their capabilities. Likewise, mentors are not like doctors operating on the students but guides and coaches helping students to acquire new skills and to perfect the ones they already have. The overall feeling of ________________ should be of a co-learning community, where different individuals pursue their own ends—sometimes working together, sometimes staying apart, with the mentors facilitating this process and keeping the community running smoothly.
Because ______________ has been designed with the learners in mind, and because the mentors are there to support the learners, it is essential that the learners play an active role in their own education. For this to happen, learners must be ready to fully participate in their learning and to collaborate with each other to advance their learning. Students who wish to sit passively in a classroom and be lectured to will find that __________ is not a good fit. Students need to come to class each day with an attitude of exploration and discovery, so that if asked the question “where do you want to go today?” they have an answer ready at hand.
A typical course at _____________ is divided into a number of journeys, typically one-term in length, which are in turn comprised of quests, some of which are required, some of which are optional, which are themselves organized into one or more levels within the journey. Students progress through the course by completing the required quests at each level, demonstrating their understanding and skills growth through creating artifacts.
Determining success and understanding student performance in ____________ differs in several ways from the typical assessment regimens employed in many school systems:
Students are assessed based on their actual work, rather than on an approach of two midterms and a final.
Students are assessed based on their daily participation in class, captured through an engagement rating.
Students are assessed based on their skills growth, captured through skills checks.
Students are assessed based on their ability to demonstrate learning through artifacts, which are reviewed by mentors as part of a formal artifact assessment.
This approach to assessment makes it possible to present an accurate and robust picture of a student’s capabilities and knowledge without spending significant amounts of time preparing for and administering examinations.
Because grades alone cannot provide an adequate representation of student understanding, they occur in the context of the narrative reports, and represent a summary of student performance as captured using the various components of the ________________ Learning assessment model.
(And that's about it out of the bits and pieces I found) -
XD I didn't write it, I just copied and pasted it and changed the school's name to _______
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ACK
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I know XDD
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Haha
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Really, guys, you should be used to this by now.
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A short summary that I found online:
Overview. _________ School is an independent, college-preparatory, day school for students in Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 12. ... _____ currently enrolls 467 students in the Upper School (9-12), 316 in the Middle School (6-8) and 461 in the Lower School (PK-5) for a total enrollment of 1244. -
Well you're still new here
Is that your school? -
Yeah
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My school literally gave us a handbook on our google drive that's what I copied and pasted all this from.
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Idk what the heck all those words mean but 🥴
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Ok, that's IT.
WHAT?!
NEW, YOU SAY? WELL, I THINK I'M NOT THAT NEW. I'VE BEEN HERE A FEW MONTHS!
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