Iowa Story: Indianola Math Teacher Flips Her Algebra Classroom

Hear from Mindy Percy,  a high school math teacher at Indianola High School in Indianola Iowa. She will talk about how she flipped her math class to increase collaboration and math conversations.  Student are able to learn at their pace in her classroom.  Flipping has given the responsibility back to the student.


We would LOVE to share your story. If you would like to be interviewed for the Iowa Story of Online, Blended or Flipped Classrooms please contact us- Denise Krefting or Melissa Wicklund.

If you are interested in learning more about professional development for blended learning, here is the information on AEA Online's Blended Learning Cohort- https://instructor20.wixsite.com/aealearningonlinebf

Waukee APEX Students Create Content for Peers in the Student Personalized Learning System

Today we have student bloggers sharing the content they have created in the Student Personalized Learning System:

The Exploration of Health Sciences and Medicine students through the APEX, Aspiring Professional Experience, program have created a curriculum for 3-5th graders about how to make your brain healthy. The creators are: Safire Harter, a senior at Waukee High School, Janjay Peters, a senior at Waukee High School, and Chloe Anderson, a junior at Waukee High School.

APEX is a program through Waukee High School, where students have the opportunity to work with outside companies, and gain experience in the business world.

This course was designed to help students learn about a specific career or field that they might want to pursue later on in life and is intended for elementary age kids. The content is meant to teach these young students about:

• Why the brain is important 
• What the brain does 
• How to make your brain healthy 
• Careers in health 

The reason we chose the topic brain health was because we wanted to do something that we were all interested in. We all like children, and are also fascinated by the brain. In this project we decided to incorporate both of those aspects into the final product.

This module was added to the Student Personalized Learning System, and can be found on the AEA website. There are also many other lessons available to look at, so feel free to browse and maybe learn a thing or two in the process.

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AEA Learning Online thanks these students and their teacher Anne Boesen for their hard work on this module. To learn more about these modules and others, you can visit http://learning.aeak12online.org/ click on catalog then Health and Physical Education and the tab Statewide or enter the criteria in the search.

You can also have your students create content in our system. If you are interested in having students create content, teachers creating content or using the system please contact Denise Krefting, Melissa Wicklund or Craig Mohr.

Iowa Story: Johnston Teacher Blends her Science Classroom

Hear from Kyla Burns, a high school AP Environmental, Zoology, and Biology teacher at Johnston High School in Johnston, Iowa as she shares how she is blending her classroom.  She explains how she uses her online instruction helps her students when they need help they have a place they can go for support, it frees up student and teacher time and assists those that are absent. Johnston uses Virtual Sub time when teachers are absent and Kyla talks about how learning more about how to blend her classroom supported her work for students when she is gone using the Virtual Sub.

We would LOVE to share your story. If you would like to be interviewed for the Iowa Story of Online, Blended or Flipped Classrooms please contact us- Denise Krefting or Melissa Wicklund.

If you are interested in learning more about professional development for blended learning, here is the information on AEA Online's Blended Learning Cohort- https://instructor20.wixsite.com/aealearningonlinebf

Iowa Story: Indianola Math Teacher Blends Her Classroom with Station Rotation

Hear from Jill Oliver, a high school math teacher at Indianola School in Indianola, IA. She will share how she uses station rotation to put the learning back in the hands of the students.  She has students self-assessing their learning all the time to determine what they know, what they don't know and what to do about it. Jill will talk about how she created a more student engaged and empowered classroom.


We would LOVE to share your story. If you would like to be interviewed for the Iowa Story of Online, Blended or Flipped Classrooms please contact us- Denise Krefting or Melissa Wicklund.

If you are interested in learning more about professional development for blended learning, here is the information on AEA Online's Blended Learning Cohort- https://instructor20.wixsite.com/aealearningonlinebf

Iowa Story: Johnston Social Studies Teacher Blends Her Classroom

Hear from Jessica Dowell, a high school Social Studies teacher at Johnston Schools in Johnston, IA. She will share why she went this route as well as the benefits for students and teachers.  Jessica will talk about how this allowed her to differentiate for her students. At the end of the video there is a student examples of work. 

 

We would LOVE to share your story. If you would like to be interviewed for the Iowa Story of Online, Blended or Flipped Classrooms please contact us- Denise Krefting or Melissa Wicklund.

If you are interested in learning more about professional development for blended learning, here is the information on AEA Online's Blended Learning Cohort- https://instructor20.wixsite.com/aealearningonlinebf