Fostering Grit with Technology - Vuillaume
Grit in classroom lessons:
Helping students to build grit through carefully planned lessons has become a goal of many educators in our district. Helping to foster a lifelong passion for learning by building perseverance and long-term goal planning is no small task. By leveraging technology in the classroom, teachers now have the ability to teach, measure, and foster grit in their classroom.
Using presentation tools like Peardeck to help embed formative assessments throughout a lesson has turned the act of assessing from being punitive in nature to fostering a growth mindset in which teacher and student are active participants in a revise and reflect model of teaching. Peardeck allows both teacher and student to know what is understood in real time during the presentation of content. Allowing the teacher to change the lesson on the fly, meeting the needs of the students in a more timely fashion.
The weaving of Chromebooks into the fiber of the daily classroom has allowed teachers to challenge students with more authentic learning opportunities. These opportunities challenge students to problem solve their way towards a goal, creating a more college/career-focused curriculum. One such example would be the AP Psychology programs annual Psychology Fair. Students create a psychology-related experiment, research the topic, create a hypothesis, and then design the experiment. Ultimately, the students will test this experiment on as many Sandburg students as possible. During this time they are receiving feedback from not only their teacher, but experts in the field of psychology throughout the nation through the use of classroom blogs and email.
The last part of fostering grit in students is by celebrating the successes of our student's accomplishments in class. The use of tools like Canvas allows students to set goals and track the progress of those goals from assignment to assignment helps to keep them directed and driven.
Desi Vuillaume
Helping students to build grit through carefully planned lessons has become a goal of many educators in our district. Helping to foster a lifelong passion for learning by building perseverance and long-term goal planning is no small task. By leveraging technology in the classroom, teachers now have the ability to teach, measure, and foster grit in their classroom.
Using presentation tools like Peardeck to help embed formative assessments throughout a lesson has turned the act of assessing from being punitive in nature to fostering a growth mindset in which teacher and student are active participants in a revise and reflect model of teaching. Peardeck allows both teacher and student to know what is understood in real time during the presentation of content. Allowing the teacher to change the lesson on the fly, meeting the needs of the students in a more timely fashion.
The weaving of Chromebooks into the fiber of the daily classroom has allowed teachers to challenge students with more authentic learning opportunities. These opportunities challenge students to problem solve their way towards a goal, creating a more college/career-focused curriculum. One such example would be the AP Psychology programs annual Psychology Fair. Students create a psychology-related experiment, research the topic, create a hypothesis, and then design the experiment. Ultimately, the students will test this experiment on as many Sandburg students as possible. During this time they are receiving feedback from not only their teacher, but experts in the field of psychology throughout the nation through the use of classroom blogs and email.
The last part of fostering grit in students is by celebrating the successes of our student's accomplishments in class. The use of tools like Canvas allows students to set goals and track the progress of those goals from assignment to assignment helps to keep them directed and driven.
Desi Vuillaume
Carl Sandburg High School
AP Psychology
@djvuillaume
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