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“Books will be obsolete in the schools. Our school system will be completely changed in 10 years-”
Who said this?
Do you agree with this?
Slide 3
“Books will be obsolete in the schools. Our school system will be completely changed in 10 years-”
Thomas Edison1913
Customize Learning for ALL
Tell of a time you or a colleague customized the learning within a classroom for one student.
What has kept you from replicating this?
How Has Your World Changed?
Most students entering college for the first time this fall were born in
1994. For these students, Kurt Cobain, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Richard Nixon and John Wayne Gacy have always been dead. Every year,
Beloit College in Beloit, Wis., releases its Mindset List to give a
snapshot of how the incoming freshmen class views the world. The
list for the Class of 2016:
How will Tech and Innovation play a role in
your classroom?
What Barriers do you foresee and what supports will you
need?
There is no better purpose in today’s world than There is no better purpose in today’s world than to prepare our young men and women for an to prepare our young men and women for an
increasing complex future.increasing complex future.
Creative Work
Routine Work
done by people
Routine Work
done by machines
More Developed Countries
Less Developed Countries
-Research-Design
-Development-Creative-Inquiry
National Center on Education and the
Economy(2009)
Swartz Creek
Routine Work
done by students
Routine Work
done by teachers
The DREAM
The Reality ?
-Research-Design
-Development-Creative-Inquiry
The Norm
The Status
Quo
Majority of
classrooms?
Getting there
How will this look like in
your classroom
Learn by Doing
Inquiry
@ Swartz Creek
3-D LearningDone
Building on Prior KnowledgeGetting to know your students
How will you know if your learners know/don’t know?
DoingWhat is being done in the classroom?
What experiences will they have using the knowledge and skills you are teaching?
DoWhat will your students do with the knowledge and skills?
How will you facilitate creativity in your classroom?
1. Your intelligence is something very basic about you
that you can't change.
4. You can always substantially change how intelligent you are.
Read each statement and decide whether you mostly agree
with it or disagree with it.
2. You can learn new things, but you can't really change how intelligent you are.
3. No matter how much intelligence you have,
you can always change it quite a bit.
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Questions 1 and 2 are the fixed mindset questions.
Questions 3 and 4 reflect the growth mindset.
Which mindset did you agree with more?
Status Quo
Swartz Creek
Content Driven
Fixed Mindset
Procedures
Conformity
Industrial Model
Facts
memorization
Rules
Policy
Homework
New Teacher/Program
lower order thinking
SquelchedCreativity
Routine
Status Quo
Swartz Creek
Content Driven
Fixed Mindset
Procedures
Conformity
Industrial Model
Facts
memorization
Rules
Policy
Homework
Routine
SquelchedCreativity
lower Order Thinking
New Teacher/Program
Swartz Creek
Content Driven
Fixed Mindset
Procedures
Conformity
Industrial Model
Facts
memorization
Rules
Policy
Homework
New Teacher/Program
Routine
SquelchedCreativity
Lower Order Thinking
We need you resilient to the gravitational pull...Your learners need you...
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swcrkCIACurriculumInstruction
Assessment
Go to the Table of Contents to the right
Click on the Danielson’s Framework for Teaching Page
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Introduction
Group Activity
Questions/Comments
“I know it seems crazy when everyone else in the
world wants to be a film director, but for me,
teaching is one of the few heroic jobs left. All the
biggest miracles take place in classrooms. Nothing
happens without teachers.”
Stephen FrearsBritish film director
If you were to walk into a classroom, what might you
see or hear there (from the students as well as the
teacher) that would cause you to think that
you werein the presence of an expert?
What would make you think: “Oh, this is good; if I had
a child this age, this is the class I would hope for.”
Common language
Development of shared understandings
Self-assessment and reflection on practice
Structured professional conversation
Benefits of Using the Framework
Why use the Framework?
Teacher preparation
Supervising student teachers
Teacher recruitment and hiring
Mentoring beginning teachers
Structuring professional development
Evaluating teacher performance
Go to the Table of Contents to the right
Click on the Danielson’s Framework for Teaching Page
Introduction
Group Activity
Questions/Comments
In groups of 3-4 (4 groups total)
Research the Domain assigned and answer the questions on the activity
sheet
You will have 5 minutes to report
out (everyone must participate!
Go to the Table of Contents to the right
Click on the Danielson’s Framework for Teaching Page
Introduction
Group Activity
Questions/Comments