{"id":4375,"date":"2017-03-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/blog\/cw_post\/lincoln-orchard-mesa-what-did-you-notice\/"},"modified":"2020-02-05T13:01:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T18:01:15","slug":"lincoln-orchard-mesa-what-did-you-notice","status":"publish","type":"cw_post","link":"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/cw_post\/lincoln-orchard-mesa-what-did-you-notice\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln Orchard Mesa: What Did You Notice?"},"content":{"rendered":"
This article is the eleventh in the Designing Performance-Based Learning at D51 series. A reminder: D51 uses the phrase performance-based learning or P-BL.<\/i><\/p>\n
What I noticed at Lincoln Orchard Mesa (Lincoln) is that every teacher in every classroom I visited would at some point or another engage a student with the question, What did you notice?<\/em><\/p>\n What did you notice about the drawing of the sheep in the book? What did you notice about differences in the charts on how we are doing learning words? What do you notice about the words in the sentence? The constant reflection is aimed at building meta-cognition, one of the Habits of Mind needed to become a self-directed learner. The question wobbles right next to its shadow question, What weren\u2019t you noticing? When prompted, frequently reflecting on what you are noticing (or not) soon helps you become very intentional about where you are directing your attention.<\/p>\nBackground<\/h3>\n