RRHS Faculty Meeting February 5, 2014. EPIC Generation Barney Fife and the Preamble to the...

RRHS Faculty Meeting

February 5, 2014

EPIC Generation

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The Power of Teaching with Images

• Left Brain teachers teaching Right Brain students

Teaching with Images

• Students remember most by learning;– Music– Experiences– Images

Place Your Teaching on Ice

• Images…..which leads to…• Conversation…..which leads to…..• Experiences…..changes their lives

Today’s EPIC Generation

• Experiential• Participatory (volunteering)• Image Rich• Connected

The Will

• You find the “Will” of a person when you get intellect and emotion pulling the same direction

Interesting Information

Students Today…Right brain thinkersLearn by uploadingExperiential in natureMusic & Art enables retentionDesire to learn what is relevantCreativity drives them

Schools Today…Left Brain DeliveryTeach by downloading lecturesPassive in NatureMusic & Art classes cutTeach for the next testCurriculum & Test score drive them

Images Are So Important

• Pictures Stick• Engage our emotions• Make us want to respond• Tell stories with our imagination

Students Today…

Full of the WorldSpeedConvenienceEntertainmentNurtureEntitlement

Unintended ConsequencesSlow is BadHard is BadBoring is badRisk is badLabor is bad

Dr. Elmore’s Blog

Who Do You Connect with When You Teach.msg

Code Red

• Tami Smith

Registration

• Jeff Bennett

Recognition

• Leigh Rogers

Final Thoughts

• Technology Form and Procedures• Korean Students that visited us; Comments made

were:Magnificent atmosphereGenerous welcoming smiles/exist in heart foreverOutstanding students and teachersGreatest Teachers classes“I was the happiest Blessed person in the whole world”