Transcript Your Role in Student Achievement: New Teacher Induction

Your Role in Student
Achievement:
New Teacher Induction
Follow Up
December 4, 2008
DALLAS, TEXAS ISD
Opening Speech: Dalton
Sherman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAM
LOnSNwzA
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What is YOUR
role in
Student
Achievement?
YOU
Question #1
A=True or B=False?
The Test Blueprint reflects the
degree to which each PASS
standard and objective is
represented on the test.
Question #2
A=True or B=False?
All content areas have
blueprints and are found
on the SDE website.
Question #3
A=True or B=False?
Blueprints are the “Cliff’s
Notes” of our curriculum.
Question #4
A=True or B=False?
It is important for teachers to
know about the blueprints
because it helps focus their
instruction.
Question #5
A=True or B=False?
Teachers should post blueprints in
their classrooms because it is
important for students to have
ownership over their learning and
for parents to know what their
children will be learning.
Question #6
A=True or B=False?
It is not necessary to use the
State Department of Education
item specifications to develop
teacher-made tests.
Question #7
A=True or B=False?
A teacher’s understanding of
content limits in the item
specifications will assist in
planning instruction.
Question #8
A=True or B=False?
Standards is a term which defines a
cumulative body of knowledge and
set of competencies that is the basis
for quality education. Oklahoma’s
state curriculum is standards-based
and every curriculum area has their
own standards.
Question #9
A=True or B=False?
Depth of Knowledge Levels
refer to levels of thinking,
similar to Bloom’s
Taxonomy.
Question #10
A=True or B=False?
About 50% of the state test
questions are recall of
information or Depth of
Knowledge Level 1.
Depth of Knowledge
• Level One (Recall) • Identify, recognize, use,
measure, explain, define
• Level Two (Skill/Concept) • Classify,
organize, estimate, collect, interpret, display
• Level Three (Strategic Thinking) • Compare,
contrast, examine, question, test,
• Level Four (Extended Thinking) • Design,
conduct, evaluate, create, develop, prove
Where to Find Blueprints
and Test Specifications?
• http://www.sde.state.ok.us/
EXTRA CREDIT
• Thinking about the music that was played
with the last slide…It was the theme song to
what 1969 to 1974 TV show?
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Amazing Brain Facts
Weighs 3 pounds
Consistency of Jello & Tofu
Consists of two hemispheres
Right hemisphere is responsible for artistic,
global, musical thought
Left hemisphere is responsible for language,
mathematics, logic
The frontal lobe is where thinking occurs
The frontal lobe does not fully develop until in
the 20’s
Born with 100 BILLION neurons
A neuron can have 6,000 dendrites
Dendrites talk to axons but don’t touch…they
communicate across space called a synapse
Neuron
• Dendrites
• Cell Body
• Axon
• Synapse
Role Play
• Using your dendrites
• “Talk” to someone else’s axon
MUSIC
• As the music plays, randomly touch 15 chairs
and then stop
Primacy-Recency Effect
• The primacy effect (but not the recency effect) is reduced
when items are presented quickly and is enhanced when
presented slowly (factors that reduce and enhance
processing of each item and thus permanent storage)
• The recency effect (but not the primacy effect) is reduced
when an interfering task is given; for example, subjects
may be asked to compute a math problem in their heads
prior to recalling list items; this task requires working
memory and interferes with any list items being attended
to
• Amnesiacs with poor ability to form permanent long-term
memories do not show a primacy effect, but do show a
recency effect
Memory Exercise
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Sharp
Pin
Haystack
Syringe
Thread
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Point
Hurt
Injection
Eye
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Sewing
Button
Pain
Thimble
Why did several of you have the word
“needle” on your list?
Because the brain thinks in CONNECTIONS!
How many isolated bits
of information can the
brain hold in short term
memory simultaneously?
• 7 items
• Give or take 2
• If you have more than that to teach, CHUNK IT
(and include activity)
Characteristics of the BrainCompatible Classroom
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Positive Environment
Visuals
Music
Relevant Lessons
Rituals Taught (procedures)
Students talking about content
Students moving
Positive Expectations
High Challenge, Low Stress
Content taught in Chunks
20 STRATEGIES
to take advantage of how the brain
learns 11.
best!
Use of graphic organizers
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Writing
Storytelling
Mnemonic devices
Visuals
Kinesthetic
Role Play
Visualization
Metaphor/Analogy/Simile
Teaching one
another/Cooperative
Learning
10. Music
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Drawing
Humor
Discussion
Games
Project Based Instruction
Field Trip
Work Study
Technology
Manipulatives