Reviewing and Tracking Work Completed

Agile Concepts

  • Kanban board
  • Iterations
  • Collaborative planning

Peak Learning Practices

  • Collaboration
  • Transparency
  • Trust

Learning & Teaching

Students in a middle school class had been working closely on using a kanban board in class and had good control over it and how it worked for them. They enjoyed making the plans for each lesson, which led me to introduce an end-of-lesson planning sheet. After each class, we left five minutes for planning time, which meant that students could suggest what they wanted to work on next class, based on what they had actually completed. When necessary, students made decisions regarding who would lead on certain activities. This was then noted on our sheet and posted on the kanban board.

The end-of-lesson planning sheet consisted of the following columns:

| Date/Lesson | What will we work on next class? | Who will lead/what will we need |
| Lesson 3    | - Warm-up                        | - Student A                     |
|             | - Shot practice                  | - Teacher                       |
|             | - Film shots                     | - We need our phones            |
|             | - Start tournament               | - Student B                     |
  • Students were able to use the end-of-lesson planning sheet to help remind themselves, when they entered the class, what had to be set-up or ready to go.
  • If the teacher or a student was absent, work could be easily seen and tracked by anyone on their return.
  • Students had ownership of what they learned, how they learned it, and in what order.
  • Collaboration with the teacher allowed for changes in the curriculum, and the time spent and the depth of activities were appropriate for the students.
  • The sheet provided exactly what had been worked on, which served as a curriculum map for the teacher, as well as a visible learning journey for the students.

Source

From a middle school course at Leysin American School, Leysin, 2019 Questions: Nic Cosgrove, [email protected]. Twitter: @agileinthealps

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