Welcome

Transform Your Teaching Practice with Mind In the Making.

Presented by: Diana Abel

Robin Ocheltree

Rene’ Manning

A Maricopa Community College

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What Is Mind in the Making?

• Mind in the Making (MITM) is an unprecedented, collaborative effort to communicate the science of early learning to the general public, families and professionals who work with children and families.

MITM Learning Modules for Early Childhood Educators

• A 12-part facilitated learning process

• Complements existing curricula

• Focuses on what research tells us about early learning and how to use this knowledge in every day practice

MITM Learning Modules for Early Childhood Educators

Designed on the research-based principle that teaching practice improves when educators:

• are engaged in understanding their own and children's learning

• are mindful of their own teaching practice; and

• Have a working knowledge of the science of early learning and are able to translate this knowledge into their teaching practice.

Core Principle:

Teachers Using the Modules work with Learning Partners and Learning Groups

Core Principle:

The Modules are not training, but rather a facilitated learning process

Core Principle:

Videos are used to capture research on early development and learning and to depict day-to-day interactions between

children and adults

Core Principle:

The Modules are intended to complement and/or enhance existing curricula and

training materials.

Module Components

The Modules begin with a brief introduction video that provides an overview of the research that is at the core of the Early Learning Modules.

Module Components:

Research Summaries/ReviewLearning Goals and Objectives

Tasks & Outcomes For Teachers/CaregiversGet Ready!

Did You Know? What Do You Think? What Do You See? What Can You Do?

Quotes Moving On and Doing More

Module One: Beginning A Learning Adventure

Teachers will understand that:

• What teachers do with children can have a lifelong impact.

• “Intentional teachers” are best able to foster learning in others.

Module Two: Essential Connections

Teachers will understand that:

• Human connections are essential to learning.

• The process of moving in and out of synchrony (synch) with others is the foundation of human relationships.

Module Three: How Learning Begins

Teachers will understand that learning begins when children are able to control their attention, behavior, and emotions enough to focus on other people.

Module Four: SEI Together: Social, Emotional, and Intellectual Learning are Inextricably Linked

Teachers will become more aware of how social, emotional and intellectual learning work together and to use this knowledge in teaching.

Module Five: SEI Together: Understanding Temperament

• Teachers will understand that effective teaching requires becoming aware of the role that temperament and goodness of fit play in child and adult behavior and learning.

Module Six: SEI Together: Building Confidence and Competence

• Teachers will understand that children receive powerful messages about themselves from the ways that adults respond to and interact with them.

Module Seven: SEI Together: How We Learn to Know Others'

Thoughts and Feelings• Teachers will understand

that one of the most important building blocks in early learning is for children to become able to take the perspectives of others. Researchers call this theory of mind.

Module Eight: SEI Together: How to Use Language and Literacy

Skills to Create Meaning in Experience

Teachers will understand how to use language to promote language and literacy skills in children.

Module Nine: SEI Together:

Encouraging Curiosity and Problem

Solving • Teachers will

understand that children are motivated by inborn curiosity and an innate drive to figure out how the world works.

Module Ten: SEI Together: Memory and Learning

• Participants will understand the role of memory in early learning.

Module Eleven: SEI Together: Stress and Learning

• Teachers will understand how stress can affect children’s growth and development and how teachers can help children learn to manage stress.

Module Twelve: SEI Together: Creating Communities of Learners

• Participants will understand the importance of teaching others what they have learned and of being connected to people, organizations, and resources that help them continue to learn about teaching.

National Dissemination

2007

Mind in the Making Learning Modules have been launched in:

Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island.

2008 New Partnership Sites:

Rio Salado College

Arizona