Mindspeak includes three levels of activities. Each level includes a series of short quizzes and activities covering six academic skills (reading fluency, reading comprehension, writing, math operations, oral expression and listening comprehension), and 5 affective and cognitive areas (learning skills, learning preferences, multiple intelligences, motivational tendencies and executive functioning skills).
The estimated time to complete each activity is approximately 5-10 minutes with an estimated total time for all activities of 90 minutes depending on the student’s grade and ability level.
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The outcome from the assessment generates a holistic learning plan which is presented to educators from the voice of the student. It enables the educator to learn more about the student’s interests, academic and learning strengths and needs, learning preferences, motivational type, goals and strategies that may work best for them.
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A class profile is a one page snapshot of profiles for all students that the teacher, tutor or educator supports. It provides them with a holistic glance of each student’s strengths, needs, interests, learning preferences and motivational tendencies to help BUILD STUDENT RELATIONSHIPS.
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Intrinsic versus Extrinsic Motivation
MINDSpeak engages students with a gamified experience of short quizzes, videos, puzzles and other activities. Students are initially extrinsically rewarding them for their efforts then trigger instrinsic motivation as students learn more about themselves throughout their journey.
Students earn coins for each activity completed, then select rewards from the SMART shop with these coins. Some rewards may help make learning easier in the classroom but the redemption of these rewards require teacher approval.
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Universal Design for Learning (UDL) for all Students
UDL considers the needs of all learners by embedding lessons with multiple means of engagement, multiple means of representation and multiple means of action and expression (Cast, 2018). Engagement impacts a student’s motivation to learn by enabling learners to engage with the material in a variety of ways. Representation refers to the way learners perceive and understand material using different means of representation to align with different learning preferences. Action and expression enables learners to express what they know in alternative ways that work best for them. In short, UDL provides a way to consider the needs of all learners by providing students with a choice of how and what they learn.
Differentiated Instruction
In addition to UDL, differentiated instruction enables additional opportunities for more students to be successful. It is a process of teaching students of differing abilities in the same class where teachers consider learners’ readiness, interest and learning preferences to adapt various elements of the curriculum (Tomlinson, 2014). Differentiation can occur through one or more of the following ways: “the content of learning (what is being learned); the process of learning (the types of activities); the products of learning (ways learning is demonstrated); or the environment of learning (where learning takes place)” (OME, 2013, p. 17).
Educators have access to hundreds of UDL strategies that can be used for individual learners or the entire class.
