The Artisan Approach: Capitalize on your talents and manage around your non-talents

The Artisan Approach: Capitalize on your talents and manage around your non-talents

A Primer on TalentNeural nature

TracesTypes

Themes

Non-talent?Get a little better

Get a partnerMake a support system

Overwhelm NT with TJust don’t do it

ConnectionTeaching new curriculum by identifying and “building on” past learning and experience

Mental ModelsEmploying images, sensory representations, symbol systems, and creative processing methodologies to create mental frameworks for learning

Personal RelevanceLinking new learning to students’ survival and/or immediate well-being

Locale MemoryTeaching to the brain’s 3-dimensional, spatial memory system

A Logic Model Theory in use…

Way of thinking…Rationale…

Life (as a school administrator)

BrevityFragmentation

Diversity

LeverageMechanical advantage

Effect size

Teaching QualityContent knowledge

Pedagogical skillCompelling nature

Coaching & FeedbackPattern recognition

Retrieval fluencyCoaching & feedback skills

School CultureAttracts talent

Repels problems

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What is an Artisan Teacher?An Artisan is part scientist, part artist, part skilled laborer. An Artisan is a craftsperson… one skilled in the applied arts.

Creating an Artisan Culture1. The opportunity to work with other talented

artisans

2. The opportunity to work with administrators who can develop artisans’ talents.

Performance FeedbackIncreasing student persistence by delivering abundant, immediate, and specific knowledge of results

Overt ResponsesObtaining “proof of learning” from students during instruction

What is an Artisan Teacher?An Artisan is part scientist, part artist, part skilled laborer. An Artisan is a craftsperson… one skilled in the applied arts.

What is an Artisan?An Artisan is part scientist, part artist, part skilled laborer. An Artisan is a craftsperson… one skilled in the applied arts.

A Primer on TalentNeural nature

TracesTypes

Themes

Neural PruningParing back of connections to create useful neural networks… birth through age 22.

Talent Friendly Characteristics:ValueAppreciate Recognize Develop

Agree or disagree? “Never, never, never give up!”

Winston Churchill

A Logic Model for turning

teaching talent into student achievement

Agree or disagree? “Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration”

Thomas Edison

Agree or disagree? Q: How do you get to Carnegie Hall? A: Practice, practice, practice.

Conscious AttentionGaining, keeping, and applying the learner’s finite attention span to the intended curriculum

The Artisan Approach: Capitalize on your talents and manage around your non-talents

ChunkingDividing the learning into small, discreet “packets of information” to avoid memory overload and enhance recall

Sensory RegisterSensory Register

Working MemoryWorking Memory

Long-TermMemory

Long-TermMemory

The Information Processing Model

Neural DownshiftingControlling the learning environment so as to keep students’ brains engaged in higher order thinking

Enriched EnvironmentsModifying the classroom’s physical and social/emotional attributes to enhance attention, effort, persistence, and achievement

Practice Improving recall and application through skillful rehearsal, repetition, drill, study, and review

23 Principles of Learning Themes of Talent

The Elements of Temperament:Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, Conscientiousness

Teacher EfficacyContent knowledgePedagogical skillCompelling nature

First-Time LearningCapitalizing on the brain’s tendency to attend to, process deeply, and remember well, learning it regards as new, original, or novel

SuccessEmploying the frames of aptitude, persistence, perception, prior experience, value, and consequences to maximize student effort

It’s all based on Talent

7 Tools Training30 second feedback5 minute feedback

Reflective planningPositive reinforcement coaching

Instructional coachingSmall group coaching

Teaching studies

What is an Artisan Teacher?An Artisan is part scientist, part artist, part skilled laborer. An Artisan is a craftsperson… one skilled in the applied arts.

Creating an Artisan CultureArtisan teachers seek employment at schools that have these two characteristics… [from exit interviews of “migrating artisans”]

EfficacyA sense of profound

satisfaction that comes from successfully applying one’s

talents to a difficult task.

Elements of Efficacy Knowledge

Skill Compelling Nature

Clear Learning GoalsWhat would I like my students to know and be able to do in the next 20 minutes?

CongruencyMatching activities, information, questions and responses precisely to the clear learning goal

LCS Creating the Learning Centered School

DiagnosisDetermining what students are next ready to learn

Task AnalysisA sequential “roadmap” to the clear learning goal

Mid-Course Corrections“Having a lesson plan but not believing it”

What is an Artisan Teacher?An Artisan is part scientist, part artist, part skilled laborer. An Artisan is a craftsperson… one skilled in the applied arts.

What is an Artisan Teacher?An Artisan is part scientist, part artist, part skilled laborer. An Artisan is a craftsperson… one skilled in the applied arts.

6 Big IdeasClear Learning Goals

CongruencyTask Analysis

DiagnosisOvert Responses

Mid-Course Corrections

For more information on the five Artisan principles, visit www.rutherfordlg.comClick on “The Artisan Teacher”Then, the Artisan Teacher printable brochure (.pdf)