{"id":256,"date":"2019-09-03T16:04:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T16:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.usnh.edu\/clusterlearningatplymouthstate\/chapter\/megan-heidenreich\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T12:45:57","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T12:45:57","slug":"megan-heidenreich","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.usnh.edu\/cluster-learning-at-plymouth-state\/chapter\/megan-heidenreich\/","title":{"raw":"Addressing Student Challenges in Learning Environments","rendered":"Addressing Student Challenges in Learning Environments"},"content":{"raw":"

Summer 2019<\/h4>\nI was pondering the prompts from <\/strong>\u201cWhat Is Open Pedagogy\u201d (Intro to the Open Pedagogy Notebook)<\/a> by Robin DeRosa and Rajiv Jhangiani\u00a0<\/em><\/strong> of what challenges do your students face in the learning environments, along with the assignment of how to create a learning environment that allows students to practice the Habits of Mind. <\/strong>\n
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  1. The First-Year Seminar Students experience their first time at college for most of them.\u00a0For all First-Year Students, they just moved into a new community, and that is stressful even when it is good.\u00a0Many have a new home, a new sleeping environment, new cafeteria to get used\u00a0to.\u00a0So many new things that can make one feel untethered and off-balance.<\/li>\n \t
  2. Neurodiversity, accessibility.<\/li>\n \t
  3. Technology needs, uses, and new systems such as Moodle to learn.<\/li>\n \t
  4. new terms- especially the Habits of Mind<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nThe second Prompt: How does my Pedagogy Address these challenges?\n
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    1. The teamwork and collaboration in class will help foster community between students.\u00a0I\u00a0also have community-building activities planned to help this.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nI require students to attend one club or connect in some way to a student organization.\u00a0I am doing this to help them think about how their project could connect to the broader campus community.\u00a0I hope this will encourage more outside of class connections for them.\u00a0Mostly\u00a0I\u00a0want them to return to class and say they connected with an organization outside of class.\u00a0This\u00a0can be a step outside the comfort zone for some students.\u00a0I\u00a0am still developing this assignment, so\u00a0I\u00a0appreciate any thoughts\u00a0you\u00a0have about it.\n
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      1. I\u00a0am providing a paper copy of the Open Education Material for the Tackling a Wicked Problem Class so if students do not have access to a computer or struggle to read on a computer; a paper copy is available.\u00a0An electronic copy will also be in the Moodle account.\u00a0\u00a0Videos are all closed caption, and\u00a0I\u00a0am looking for transcripts for all of them as well.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nWorking with Lindsay Page and Hannah Davidson to ensure\u00a0my\u00a0course is as accessible as possible to all learners.\n\n3.We will go over Moodle and how to access everything in class.\u00a0\u00a0I\u00a0give students options when turning in assignments from a paper copy to Moodle, e-mail- however, they can get it to\u00a0me\u00a0is\u00a0fine.\u00a0Clear rubrics for assignments so expectations are laid out clearly for each assignment.\u00a0A calendar of recommended steps for the projects, so they have a time frame to use to keep on task to help with those who need time management.\n
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        1. I\u00a0am connecting each activity in some way to a Habit of Mind (HOM).\u00a0I\u00a0am using the first-day activity of designing\u00a0a very simple\u00a0Rube Goldberg project to introduce the HOM instead of just read\u00a0your\u00a0Open Education Material (OEM).\u00a0Once finished with the activity, we will identify behaviors and strategies used to solve the challenge.\u00a0Then students will read the OEM for homework and the following class, we will assign the strategies to a HOM category.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nI\u00a0am repeating this idea after other class activities by giving the students time to figure out what skills they use during the activity or see in the videos and how they connect to the HOM.\u00a0I\u00a0am thinking of creating a google doc for a running list for the class.\n\nAny other challenges I should be aware\u00a0of?\u00a0Any other ideas to address them that\u00a0I\u00a0am missing? Thanks so much!","rendered":"

          Summer 2019<\/h4>\n

          I was pondering the prompts from <\/strong>\u201cWhat Is Open Pedagogy\u201d (Intro to the Open Pedagogy Notebook)<\/a> by Robin DeRosa and Rajiv Jhangiani\u00a0<\/em><\/strong> of what challenges do your students face in the learning environments, along with the assignment of how to create a learning environment that allows students to practice the Habits of Mind. <\/strong><\/p>\n

            \n
          1. The First-Year Seminar Students experience their first time at college for most of them.\u00a0For all First-Year Students, they just moved into a new community, and that is stressful even when it is good.\u00a0Many have a new home, a new sleeping environment, new cafeteria to get used\u00a0to.\u00a0So many new things that can make one feel untethered and off-balance.<\/li>\n
          2. Neurodiversity, accessibility.<\/li>\n
          3. Technology needs, uses, and new systems such as Moodle to learn.<\/li>\n
          4. new terms- especially the Habits of Mind<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            The second Prompt: How does my Pedagogy Address these challenges?<\/p>\n

              \n
            1. The teamwork and collaboration in class will help foster community between students.\u00a0I\u00a0also have community-building activities planned to help this.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

              I require students to attend one club or connect in some way to a student organization.\u00a0I am doing this to help them think about how their project could connect to the broader campus community.\u00a0I hope this will encourage more outside of class connections for them.\u00a0Mostly\u00a0I\u00a0want them to return to class and say they connected with an organization outside of class.\u00a0This\u00a0can be a step outside the comfort zone for some students.\u00a0I\u00a0am still developing this assignment, so\u00a0I\u00a0appreciate any thoughts\u00a0you\u00a0have about it.<\/p>\n

                \n
              1. I\u00a0am providing a paper copy of the Open Education Material for the Tackling a Wicked Problem Class so if students do not have access to a computer or struggle to read on a computer; a paper copy is available.\u00a0An electronic copy will also be in the Moodle account.\u00a0\u00a0Videos are all closed caption, and\u00a0I\u00a0am looking for transcripts for all of them as well.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                Working with Lindsay Page and Hannah Davidson to ensure\u00a0my\u00a0course is as accessible as possible to all learners.<\/p>\n

                3.We will go over Moodle and how to access everything in class.\u00a0\u00a0I\u00a0give students options when turning in assignments from a paper copy to Moodle, e-mail- however, they can get it to\u00a0me\u00a0is\u00a0fine.\u00a0Clear rubrics for assignments so expectations are laid out clearly for each assignment.\u00a0A calendar of recommended steps for the projects, so they have a time frame to use to keep on task to help with those who need time management.<\/p>\n

                  \n
                1. I\u00a0am connecting each activity in some way to a Habit of Mind (HOM).\u00a0I\u00a0am using the first-day activity of designing\u00a0a very simple\u00a0Rube Goldberg project to introduce the HOM instead of just read\u00a0your\u00a0Open Education Material (OEM).\u00a0Once finished with the activity, we will identify behaviors and strategies used to solve the challenge.\u00a0Then students will read the OEM for homework and the following class, we will assign the strategies to a HOM category.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                  I\u00a0am repeating this idea after other class activities by giving the students time to figure out what skills they use during the activity or see in the videos and how they connect to the HOM.\u00a0I\u00a0am thinking of creating a google doc for a running list for the class.<\/p>\n

                  Any other challenges I should be aware\u00a0of?\u00a0Any other ideas to address them that\u00a0I\u00a0am missing? Thanks so much!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"menu_order":4,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":["megan-heidenreich"],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[113],"license":[],"class_list":["post-256","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","contributor-megan-heidenreich"],"part":246,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.usnh.edu\/cluster-learning-at-plymouth-state\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.usnh.edu\/cluster-learning-at-plymouth-state\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.usnh.edu\/cluster-learning-at-plymouth-state\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.usnh.edu\/cluster-learning-at-plymouth-state\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.usnh.edu\/cluster-learning-at-plymouth-state\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.usnh.edu\/cluster-learning-at-plymouth-state\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/256\/revisions\/257"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.usnh.edu\/cluster-learning-at-plymouth-state\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/246"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.usnh.edu\/cluster-learning-at-plymouth-state\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/256\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.usnh.edu\/cluster-learning-at-plymouth-state\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.usnh.edu\/cluster-learning-at-plymouth-state\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.usnh.edu\/cluster-learning-at-plymouth-state\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.usnh.edu\/cluster-learning-at-plymouth-state\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}