Transcript What Is It About Me You Can`t Teach?

What Is It About Me You
Can’t Teach?
“New ideas About Planning for
Continuous School Improvement”
A Presentation to
Administrators and Teachers at
Munford Middle School
by
Dr. Michael D. Ingram
Planning for Continuous School
Improvement at Munford Middle
School begins with asking essential
questions:
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What are some barriers imposed by students
and/or adults that perpetuate low achievement
and impede our teaching in schools?
What are some research-based approaches to
deal with many of the barriers that impede our
teaching and student learning?
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What is the importance of establishing and promoting a
“vision” that all children can and will learn?
What resources and instructional strategies are available
to teachers that will help them promote the vision that
all children can and will learn?
What are some barriers imposed by students
and/or adults that perpetuate low
achievement and impede our teaching in
schools?
I can’t teach you because you are…
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Poor
A student with an attitude problem
A discipline problem
Black
Hispanic
White
Rich
EC
Gifted
Special Ed
Learning Disabled
Handicapped
A drug baby
Too quiet
Too talkative
Too hyper
Disengaged and don’t care about your education
A student that just sleeps in class
A student that can’t follow directions
Always absent from school
A student with no parental supervision
I can’t teach you because you
wear…
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Sagging pants and I don’t enjoy seeing your underwear
Tattoos
Unwashed clothes
Designer clothes and you think you are better than everyone
else
Piercings
Long hair
All black gothic clothes
Short skirts
Green hair
Confederate belt buckle
Jeans with holes in them
Short shorts
Weave
Mohawk
Additional barriers and pitfalls that students
and teachers encounter
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Mismanagement of funds
Lack of funding
Failing economy and unemployment
Disengagement or no alignment between the community
and the school
Media propaganda
Peer pressure
Parental expectations
State and Federal mandates
Incompetent or poor leadership in schools
What are some research-based
approaches to deal with many of the
barriers that perpetuate low
achievement and impede our teaching
in schools?
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Mission Statement and Vision
Strategic Teaching
Multiple Intelligence and Learning Styles
21st Century Technology Skills
What is the importance of establishing
and promoting a “vision” for continuous
improvement in schools?
Build Bridges with a “Vision” which
states…
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We believe that ALL children can and
will learn
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Individuals who value others will respect and
value themselves
Understanding others and valuing their unique
characteristics will help in developing positive
relationships
Commit to high levels of personal and
organizational performance in order to ensure
implementation of this vision of learning
Building Bridges
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Get to know your students
Conduct surveys
Infuse procedures with get-to-know
you activities
Check for prior knowledge
Remember that no one rises to low
expectations (Carl Boyd)
The Future
The Past
What resources and instructional
strategies are available to teachers
that will help them promote the vision
that all children can and will learn?
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Strategic Teaching
Multiple Intelligence and Learning
Styles
21st Century Technology Skills
Use “Strategic Teaching” Techniques
to Engage Students with Diversities
or Disabilities
Empower students and give them the
opportunity to take responsibility for his/her
own learning and direction with engaging,
hands-on activities.
Five Features of Strategic
Teaching
1. Measurable Outcome and Formative
assessment
2. Two Instructional Practices in Every
Lesson:
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Chunking
Student Discussion
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Three Parts to a Strategic Lesson:
(a) Before
(b) During
(c) After
Four Steps to Explicit Instruction:
Model
(I do it)
Guided Practice
(We do it)
Guided Practice
(Ya’ll do it)
Independent Practice (You do it)
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Five Components of Active Listening
T
----Talking
W
----Writing
I
----Investigating
R
----Reading
L
----Listening
The KWL can be used in Strategic
Teaching as a “Before” and “After”
strategy.
Use Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple
Intelligences to Engage Students with
Diversities and/or Disabilities
MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES
GARDNER’S MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE THEORY
Benefits to using Multiple Intelligences Theory in
Schools
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Students will be taught several lessons each
grading period in their learning style
Teachers provide opportunities for authentic
learning based on students’ needs, interest, and
talents
Parents and other community members may
become more involved by participating in the
learning process through demonstrations and/or
apprenticeship activities
Students’ self-esteem may be helped as they are
able to show their strengths
Varied activities may open doors to learning for
students who are not successful on pencil and
paper assessments (e.g., students with learning
disabilities, etc.)
Incorporate 21st Century Technology
Skills in the classroom to Engage Students
with Diversities and/or Disabilities
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PowerPoint
Moviemaker
Blogs
Wikis
iPad
The Web
Webcasts
Edmodo.com
We must create solutions/answers to
these essential questions:
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What are some barriers imposed by students
and/or adults that perpetuate low achievement
and impede our teaching in schools?
What are some research-based approaches to
deal with many of the barriers that impede our
teaching and student learning?
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What is the importance of establishing and promoting a
“vision” that all children can and will learn?
What resources and instructional strategies are available
to teachers that will help them promote the vision that
all children can and will learn?
In order to Implement Continuous
Learning at our School…
1. We must implement the “vision” that ALL
children can and will learn in our schools.
2. We must commit to high levels of performance
to support the “vision.”
3. We must support the “vision” by engaging our
students in 21st Century instructional practices.
(a) Implement Strategic Teaching
(b) Implement Multiple Intelligence Theory
/Learning Styles
(c) Incorporate 21st Century Technology Skills
across the curriculum