Genius Hour at JVPS

Our grade 6/7 Class at Johnsview Village P.S. is 

participating in, "Genius Hour", where students pursue a 

topic of special interest.  This supports the Board's goal of

Modern Learning.  To gain a deeper understanding of what 

Genius Hour is comprised of, please watch the video 

enclosed with this blog.  The learning goal below, helps

students to articulate their learning and the success criteria

which is co-constructed with the students, provides the 

students with a road map of how to complete the task.

Learning Goal:

We are learning to apply a variety of skills as we each pursue a topic of our own interest.

Success Criteria

We will know we are successful when we:

  Formulate questions that are open-ended and related to our personal interests

   Gather information to support our ideas

  Sort and classify information in ways that allow us to view the information from different perspectives and make connections between ideas

  Make judgments and draw conclusions about ideas in texts and cite evidence from the text to support our views

  Extend our understanding of tasks by connecting, comparing, and contrasting the ideas in them to our own knowledge, to other texts and to the world around us

  Determine whether the ideas and information we have gathered are adequate and do more research if necessary

  Make revisions to improve the content, clarity, and interest of our presentation

  Communicate orally in a clear, coherent manner, using appropriate organizing strategies to link ideas and information

  Use a variety of appropriate visual aids to support our presentation

Modern Learning at Johnsview

At Johnsview Village Public School our students are thinking about modern learning and what it means to them. Some of our students created this bulletin board expressing their interpretation of modern learning.  

In classrooms, to support modern learning, students are focusing on higher order thinking questions, the problem solving model in mathematics and using technology to upload assignments on to the google classroom. 

Modern Learning at Johnsview Village P.S.

Modern Learning is authentic, relevant, deep learning that enables learners to create, to connect, to communicate, to share their learning with the world and be ready for the future.

One of the goals for the York Region District School Board is to ensure that all our students are receiving the tools that they need to be ready for their future, through a focus on Modern Learning outlined in the graphic above through Vision, Mindsets, Deep Learning and Skills.  

At Johnsview Village P.S. we are well on our way to providing this modern learning experience to our students through our approach on growth mindsets, our focus on math and the use of the problem solving model to engage our students in real life math problems and our use of technology to engage our learners.  Parents will be hearing more about Modern Learning throughout the year.