New Content on 9-12 Financial Literacy Added to the Student Personalized Learning System

As many of you are aware, the 2018 legislature passed a bill requiring a one-half unit course in personal finance for those graduating high school. In an attempt to help districts teach this content, AEA Learning Online has added content in the Student Personalized Learning System for teachers to use with students. These modules follow the Iowa Core Financial Literacy Standards for 9-12 students.

The currently created modules:

• Financial Literacy 9-12: Introduction
• Financial Literacy 9-12: Money Management 1 (Spending Plans and Goals)
  
• Financial Literacy 9-12: Money Management 2( Needs VS Wants and Goals)
  
• Financial Literacy 9-12: Money Management 3 ( Income and Banking )
• Financial Literacy 9-12: Money Management 4 ( Checking and Bring it all together )
  
• Financial Literacy 9-12: Being Credit Worthy and Financially Secure 1 (Credit Cards)
  
• Financial Literacy 9-12: Being Credit Worthy and Financially Secure 2 (Loans)
  
• Financial Literacy 9-12: Being Credit Worthy and Financially Secure 3 (Credit Scores, Reports & ID Theft)
  
• Financial Literacy 9-12: Risk Management 1( Strategies for protection of identity.)
  
• Financial Literacy 9-12: Risk Management 2 (insurance and premiums)
  
• Financial Literacy 9-12: Risk Management 3 (non-insurance protection)

• Financial Literacy K-2
  
• Financial Literacy 3-5

Coming soon modules on:

• Financial Literacy 9-12: Achieving Long Term Financial Security
  
• Financial Literacy 9-12: Human, Cultural and Social Issues

You can find any of this content in our Student Personalized Learning Center by logging in, clicking on Catalog then Financial Literacy. Click on the icon to the far right of the title to explore the modules. 


If you wish to use these with students or have any questions please contact Denise Krefting (dkrefting@aealearningonline.org) Craig Mohr (cmohr@aealearningonline.org) or Melissa Wicklund (mwicklund@aealearningonline.org)

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If you have any other suggestions please let us know. Remember you can also create your own modules in our system. If you are interested in this, please contact us: Denise Krefting, Craig Mohr or Melissa Wicklund. If you or others that you are aware of who might be interested in getting this information on the Student Personalized Learning System  please sign up for this newsletter at http://eepurl.com/ccWi45 

7th Grade Illustrative Mathematics from Open Up Resources on Student Personalized Learning System

We are excited to share with you that the content from Open Up Resources 7th Grade Illustrative Mathematics has been added to AEA Learning Online's Student Personalized Learning System (http://learning.aeak12online.org/ ).  The content comes from Open Up Resources (https://im.openupresources.org/index.html) and is available for teachers to use with their students.  

In a problem-based curriculum, students work on carefully crafted and sequenced mathematics problems during most of the instructional time. A typical lesson in Illustrative Mathematics has four phases:

1. A warm-up
2. One or more instructional activities
3. The lesson synthesis
4. A cool-down

Four instructional routines frequently used in warm-ups are Number Talks, Notice and Wonder, Which One Doesn’t Belong, and True or False. Selected activities are structured using Five Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematical Discussions (Smith & Stein, 2011), also described in Principles to Actions: Ensuring Mathematical Success for All (NCTM, 2014), and Intentional Talk: How to Structure and Lead Productive Mathematical Discussions (Kazemi & Hintz, 2014). 

6th grade has already been added to the system and 8th grade will be coming soon. 

Teachers can view the content by:

1) Going to the Student Personalized Learning System (http://learning.aeak12online.org/)

2) Log in with your username and password that you use in the teacher training system (https://training.aealearningonline.org )

3) Click on Catalog

4) Click on Math and the Statewide Tab

5) Scroll down to Statewide Module to see the individual modules. Click on the far right icon from the module name to preview. There is also a  Statewide Learning Opportunity that contains all of the modules that can be assigned to students at the bottom of the page.

If you wish to use these modules with students please contact Denise Krefting (dkrefting@aealearningonline.org)   or Melissa Wicklund (mwicklund@aealearningonline.org).

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

Today we have 2 groups of student bloggers from Waukee High School's Aspiring Professional Experiences Program (APEX). The first group contains Regan Doud, Nick Glidden and Morgan Vaudt. We are from the Exploration of Health Science and Medicine course and have created a personalized learning module of the Digestive System. Through this module you will learn:

• What is the purpose of the digestive system
• What makes up the digestive system
• How food goes through the digestive system
• What the roles are of each organ

This Module is mainly for High School Students as it goes further in depth with the Digestive System.

The second group consists of Katelyn Felt, Ava Almajidi and Kaelyn Brooks (no picture available). We are also from the Exploration of Health Science and Medicine course at Waukee APEX and have created a personalized learning module titled "The Development of a Child's Brain ". Through this module you will learn

• To recognize different parts of the human brain and their functions
• Why infants learn faster than adults
• What and infant's brain looks like at birth and the states it goes through in the first five years
• The causes and effects of abnormalities in a child's brain
• The effect that toxic stress and neglect has on the brain

This Module is mainly for High School Students as it goes further in depth with the development of a child's brain. We hope you find these modules helpful and can learn something from this.

AEA Learning Online is a learning system set to help students by offering an alternative and helpful learning source. The site offers a wide variety of topics and information; some that are created with the support of other students to further create depth and aid to their learning. We enjoyed building this content for you to use.
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AEA Learning Online thanks leads Kate Felt and Regan Doud, their teams and their teacher Ryan Lensing for their hard work on these modules.

To learn more about these modules, you can visit http://learning.aeak12online.org/ click on catalog then Science for Digestion and Family and Consumer Science for The Development of a Child's Brain 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.

AEA Learning Online turns 7

Happy birthday to us!

On this day in 2011, AEA Learning Online officially opened its doors as a collective program of the 9 AEAs.  Today marks the 7th anniversary of that new chapter in offering services for Iowa educators.

As we begin a new year, we can think of no better way to help celebrate that to continue to offer new offerings in online learning for teachers and students in Iowa.  Be sure to check out our summer catalog for online courses.  Or, visit our self-paced course catalog on our training system for a course you can start today.

Teacher Softchalk Lessons Chosen as Lesson of the Week

Congratulations to Deborah Smith-Henry, high school Science teacher from Des Moines Roosevelt High School  and Lexi Schafer, high school  Business teacher from Johnston High School whose Softchalk lessons were chosen as Softchalk's Lesson of the Week.

Each week Softchalk selects a stand out, top notch, lesson from SoftChalk Share and features it across their social media platforms. SoftChalk Share is an Open Education Resource (OER), learning object repository with thousands of free learning materials created by educators.

In Deborah's lesson, "Community Interactions", students explore what community ecology learning about co-evolution, predation, mimicy, competition and symbiosis of organisms.  See Deborah's Lesson: https://softchalkcloud.com/lesson/serve/H4v30dn9bzQyr2/html.

In Lexi's lesson, "Types of Investments", students will explore importance of diversity of investment, investment options ( stocks, bonds, mutual funds, index funds, target date funds and risks associated with them.  See Lexi's lesson: https://www.softchalkcloud.com/lesson/serve/K8s3rhynxauTQM/html



Deborah and Lexi learned how to use Softchalk and best practices about lesson design in the Blending/Flipping Your Classroom Cohort professional development. Learn more about this professional development at (https://instructor20.wixsite.com/aealearningonlinebf).


Softchalk is available at no cost to Iowa teachers teaching in the State of Iowa. If you are interested in learning more about this tool and getting access to it, contact us via email: eabbey@aealearningonline.org, dkrefting@aealearningonline.org or mwicklund@aealearningonline.org.

Johnston Teacher's Softchalk Lesson Chosen as Lesson of the Week

Congratulations to Jessica Dowell, high school Social Studies teacher from Johnston High School whose Softchalk lesson " Decolonization Around the World: Africa" was chosen as Softchalk's Lesson of the Week.  In this lesson, students explore what is meant by the term "decolonization", the affects of decolonization in Africa, and the challenges that African countries experience after their European colonizers left.  Jessica learned bow to use Softchalk and best practices about lesson design in the Blending/Flipping Your Classroom Cohort.


Each week Softchalk selects a stand out, top notch, lesson from SoftChalk Share and features it across their social media platforms. SoftChalk Share is an Open Education Resource (OER), learning object repository with thousands of free learning materials created by educators.

Softchalk is available at not cost to Iowa teachers teaching in the State of Iowa. If you are interested in learning more about this tool and getting access to it, contact us via email: Evan Abbey, Denise Krefting or Melissa Wicklund.

You can learn more about using Softchalk and blending your classroom in our Blending/Flipping Your Classroom cohort professional development.  Learn more about this professional development at https://instructor20.wixsite.com/aealearningonlinebf.

Professional Development: Blending Flipping Your Classroom Cohort

Several Blending Flipping Your Classroom cohorts will be available for teachers this summer in Great Prairie AEA, Green Hills AEA  and Heartland AEA.  Course 1 "Blending/ Flipping Your Classroom 1: Introduction" the start of the four course series will begin in June in Great Prairie at Van Buren CSD, July at Heartland and August in Green Hills.


These cohorts consist of 4 courses that teachers and administrators can take through out a 1 1/2 year period.   Credit is available at a significantly reduced rate.

• The first course (Blending/ Flipping Your Classroom 1- Introduction is a three day face-to-face training on "Blending/Flipping your classroom 1" for one license renewal credit.  There is a secondary and an elementary version
• The second course is a fully online course "Blending/Flipping 2- Blended Instruction" as well as an elementary option for two credits (license renewal and graduate) which is available to those who have completed the first course. 
• The third in the series is "Blending/Flipping Your Classroom 3: Designing Online Lessons" which will take place as a blended model with two days face-to-face and the rest online for those who have completed the first two courses. This course is also two credits (license renewal and graduate).  
•  Finally the fourth in this series is "Blending/Flipping 4: Activities and Assessment "which will take place as a blended model with two days face-to-face and the rest online and is also 2 credits (license renewal and graduate) for those who have taken the three other courses.  

The last three courses in the series (six credits) can also be applied to the Drake Online Teacher certification for those that are interested.  Learn more about the cohort here.

If you are interested in signing up or finding out more about the first course in the series offered at
Great Prairie AEA @ Van Buren June 2018 click here.
Heartland AEA July 2018 click here
Heartland AEA Elementary Version July 2018 click here
Green Hills AEA August 2018 click here.

As other AEAs develop their summer schedule, their cohort courses will be added.  Please note that several school districts are also offering the cohort as part of their professional development.  Find out more by contacting Denise Krefting or Melissa Wicklund.

6th Grade Illustrative Mathematics from Open Up Resources on Student Personalized Learning System

We are excited to share with you that the content from Open Up Resources 6th Grade Illustrative Mathematics has been added to AEA Learning Online's Student Personalized Learning System ( http://learning.aeak12online.org/ ).  The content comes from Open Up Resources (https://im.openupresources.org/index.html) and is available for teachers to use with their students.  

In a problem-based curriculum, students work on carefully crafted and sequenced mathematics problems during most of the instructional time. A typical lesson in Illustrative Mathematics has four phases:

1. A warm-up
2. One or more instructional activities
3. The lesson synthesis
4. A cool-down

Four instructional routines frequently used in warm-ups are Number Talks, Notice and Wonder, Which One Doesn’t Belong, and True or False. Selected activities are structured using Five Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematical Discussions (Smith & Stein, 2011), also described in Principles to Actions: Ensuring Mathematical Success for All (NCTM, 2014), and Intentional Talk: How to Structure and Lead Productive Mathematical Discussions (Kazemi & Hintz, 2014). 

 

Other grades will be coming soon. 

Teachers can view the content by:

1) Going to the Student Personalized Learning System (http://learning.aeak12online.org/)

2) Log in with your username and password that you use in the teacher training system (https://training.aealearningonline.org )

3) Click on Catalog

4) Click on Math and the Statewide Tab

5) Scroll down to Statewide Module to see the individual modules. Click on the far right icon from the module name to preview. There is also a  Statewide Learning Opportunity that contains all of the modules that can be assigned to students at the bottom of the page.

If you wish to use these modules with students please contact Denise Krefting (dkrefting@aealearningonline.org)   or Melissa Wicklund (mwicklund@aealearningonline.org).

28 Days of OLLIE: Denise Krefting

Denise Krefting is an instructional designer at AEA Learning Online in Johnston, Iowa. During the final days of the February she will share some thoughts on how you can start blending/flipping your classroom.

Over the next few days, check out the community here and hear Denise

•       Share information about getting started with blending and flipping your classroom

•       Discuss AEA Learning Online’s Blended/Flipped professional learning opportunities

28 Days of OLLIE Features: Megan Deyen

Megan Deyen is a kindergarten teacher, at Lawson Elementary, in Johnston, Iowa. Prior to teaching kindergarten, she taught 4th grade. During the final days of the February we will hear how she blended/flipped her 4th grade math instruction. 

Over the next few days, check out the community here and hear Megan
• Talk about her blended learning journey
• Describe her flipped classroom
• Discuss how she assessed students and provided them with feedback
• Share the benefits her students experienced 
• Describe her classroom culture
• Reflect on her blended learning “takeaways”

28 Days of OLLIE: Indianola's Online Program

On Feb. 13-16, we are highlighting Kim Grissom from Indianola High School, in Indianola, Iowa. Kim is an instructional coach who supports blended instruction in her school. She is specifically focused on developing ninth grade English, self-paced content. Students can access when they unable to attend school during the traditional school day or in instances where they need to make up work in order to meet a course requirement.

Over the next few days, check out the community here and hear Kim

• Discuss about her blended learning journey
• Describe what blended/self-paced learning looks like 
• Reflect on her blended learning “takeaways”

This week will also feature a conversation with the superintendent at Indianola, Art Sathoff. It will focus on Indianola’s Online Program and provide administrators with ideas on how to systemically support online/blended learning at the district level.

28 Days of OLLIE: Brianne Barr

On Feb. 7-11th we are focusing on Brianne Barr. Brianna is a 4th grade teacher and technology integration model teacher at Fillmore Elementary in Davenport, Iowa. Her classroom features the station rotation blended learning model.

Over the next few days, check out the community here and hear Brianne

• Talk about her blended learning journey
• Describe what blended learning in her classroom looks like
• Share student and parent responses to blended learning
• Discuss the importance of a growth mindset in a blended learning classroom
• Reflect on how to create a blended learning classroom