GDPI-PME 810 Integrated Planning, Instruction, and Assessment

The Peer Analysis of Gagan's Professional Community: Edutopia  I really enjoyed reading Gagan’s blog and journal entries. It was a great reading along the process that she took as she grew a deeper connection with her professional community. Through random searches or general researching in the past few years, I have often come across and appreciated the information I have received through Edutopia. I was interested to read Gagan’s experiences from connecting with this community.  It was also was engaging to recognize and reflect on the similarities and differences of the context of practice between Gagan’s professional community and my own. Similarities: There is a lot of connection between Project Zero and Edutopia.  Through a quick search I found multiple sources of information that posted the philosophies of Project Zero.  Edutopia seems to act as a platform for a variety of philosophies and those of Project Zero fit with the core of some of them.  Fr...

As I work through the first half of my Master’s program: Graduate Program of Professional Inquiry, through Queen’s University, we have been challenged on making connections with professional communities. As a result from my experiences during my week at the Project Zero Classroom 2017, I am using Project Zero as the community for my focus. I have connected with them as through twitter, educators from my study group during my week at Project Zero Classroom, personal e-mails with educators I met during the week course, and most recently through the Project Zero blog. @ProjectZeroHGSE @learnfriendly #pzc2017 Group S – Study Group Google Group Personal E-mails www.pz.harvard.edu/blog/learn.outofedenwalk.com Through this course I have been uncovering research and information about conceptions of curriculum, educational philosophies, curricular designs, planning, instruction, and evaluation.   Through my new knowledge of these areas I have made a lot of connections...

During my week at PZ, I was part of a weekly Study Group. We discussed creating a Google Folder to share resources. A couple days ago I contacted my Study Group leaders and later that day I received this message from them: Inside the folder, the Study Group leader added all the resources that we used during our week.   I also added a document sharing Visible Thinking Routines.   The intention is that this folder will be an active platform for collaboration. Also because I participated in the PZ classroom, I have access to all of the resources from the all 38 of the mini course- even if I did not attend them. Unfortunately this resource cannot be shared, and I only have access to because I paid the PZ participation program fee. This is one of the documents that is shared on this resource I found in a sharable format on another website: Artful Thinking: Using Art to Promote Thinking in the Classroom