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ward roberts
11.30.2016
professional development
Brains Use Active Construction of Learning
The human brain is designed for interactive learning. We require
environmental input to develop our brain properly. Without
interactive visual, auditory and tactile input, our systems misfire
and underperform. Our brains are designed to actively manage
our experiences, not passively “download” them.
Useful, practical, functional knowledge is based in activity not
passivity (Singer, 1995). While it has the capacity for a “sit and
get” experience in a classroom memorizing numbers, poems, facts
and geography lessons, this declarative capacity may be the
weakest of all the brain’s learning systems. In fact, we cannot talk
about the interface between the brain and learning or the brain
and the environment as if these are isolated variables. For our
brain, interactive learning experiences in a relevant environment
are processed in far differently and more potent ways than sitting
in a classroom and reading or memorizing a text.
educational hypocrisy
noun
condition arising when
the delivery of a message
contradicts its own content
ALL
Leaders
ALL
Learners
Directors
Principals
Teachers
Students

spite
out of touch
misguided
conflicted
students
Obvious:
Model effective
classroom
instruction
Principals Meetings
ADVANTAGES
repeated break-out sessions
Better presentations
Happier participants
More questions
Specific groupings
Marion
Barwise JH
“Personal Agenda”
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FREE TIME (Check emails, make phone calls)
Principals Meetings
New Teacher
Orientation
with new teachers
Priority: instruction
First day: exciting/engaging
Classes: cooperative groups
Learning: choice & voice
HARDEST
PART
HARDEST
PART
TRUST
Principals Meetings
New Teacher
Orientation
District Staff
Development
TRENDS
Learning
Teaching
Group
Delivery
Individual
Planning
MOST PEOPLE are
NEAR the AVERAGE
The END of
AVERAGE
“You can’t see the forest for all the trees.”
“You can’t see the trees
because of the forest.”
If I look at the mass,
I will never act.
If I look at the one,
I will.
Mother Teresa
In preparing for battle
I have always found that
plans are useless,
but planning is
indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
DON’T BE A HYPOCRITE
Learning
Teaching
Group
Delivery
Individual
Planning
DISCLAIMERS
ADVICE
DISCLAIMERS
1. I am not alone.
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Personal Agenda
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DISCLAIMERS
1. I am not alone.
2. Or am I?
GT
It is very hard to
teach in a way
in which you
have never
learned.
ADVICE
1. Listen to what you’re saying.
2. Listen to what they’re saying.
3. Learn how to do a mail
merge.
4. Plan, plan, plan…but cut
yourself some slack.
inspire