To be an effective (& empathetic) educator, it's vital to set goals and reflect. Some of my goals for this teaching period were regarding learner engagement/participation, retention rates & a demonstrated increase in student learning from one assessment to the next.
Student feedback (student perceptions) andincidental feedback are some of the most important methods and artefacts I utilizewhen reflecting on how well I achieved my goals in a teaching period.
Further, one of the main things the Academic Team (Unit Coordinator and Program Director)look at are retention rates, fail rates and pass rates.
’At-risk’ students refer to students who risk not successfully completing their current academic study. They are the types of students that lead to low retention rates.” (Fang & Shewmaker 2016, p. 161). @CanvasLMS provides me with the the ability to utilise small data.
By utilising this readily available small data, I can implemented targeted interventions, close achievement gaps, and provide an empathetic, student-centeric approach to teaching. #onlinelearning#lthechat
Over the next few weeks, I'll continue to post on learner analytics, why they matter, and how to use them to support positive learning outcomes. #onlinelearning#smalldata
I'd also love to hear how YOU actively use learner analytics to improve student learning outcomes.
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Most of the feedback literature is dominated by white scholars & they're struggling to understand why there is a lack of "uptake"... yet many seem unwilling to unpack & address white supremacy...
Receiving academic feedback requires a lot of decoding & interpreting, plus responding! but psychological & semantic 'noise' (both from sender & receiver e.g., jargon & abstraction & 'histories'/prior microagressions) can inhibit this 'dialogic cycle'...
Academic 'counterspaces', can operate as optimal psychological environments for feedback - that support students culturally & emotionally...
Demands for equality has been, increasingly, met with calls for 'law and order' & @cityofurbana & @Urbana116 leaders continue to argue that “positive” interactions between police & youth of color are essential to better community relations.
That is the narrative that @cityofurbana public officials & @Urbana116 Board of Education used to form a partnership between the school district & the Urbana police in 1994 which has now become fully-funded with education dollars in December 2019.
The positive rhetoric surrounding this initiative has normalized a sustained, increasingly invasive, & even hostile police presence in low-income educational institutions.
The more I read, the more I am informed & aware of revolutionary struggles, cycles, waves, thrusts and perils, & have recognized well before today that we have entered a global revolutionary cycle...
This one, coinciding with a massive consciousness/ awakening, will be more cataclysmic than any this planet has yet undergone.
We are totally transforming - politically, economically, spiritually, technologically, & "planetarily."
I recently finished up interviews with @WCIA3 & @wandtvnews regarding the @cityofurbana juvenile arrest data for 2019/2020 & I wanted to post additional thoughts that may not be captured in the released interviews due to time constraints...
Please don't center me (be it for praise or otherwise). When this is done, it shifts the focus.
I am not an expert in restorative justice, community action, nor racial equity; there are many experts & they, along w/ the youth, should be front & center - leading the way for change.
Let's discuss the importance of restorative justice through a critical race lens,@cityofurbana. In 2015, there were 667 total suspensions (in-school and out-of school) at @Urbana116. Of those, 66% were Black students (1)
The question of safety in schools is not just about preventing extreme forms of violence, fights, or bullying. It is also about shrinking the achievement gap since the way @Urbana116 disciplines its students will either help or hurt academic achievement (2)