Teaching%20and%20Learning%20Strategies%20for%20Success

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Teaching and Learning Strategies for Success
Richard D. Jones Senior Consultant International
Center for Leadership in Education
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• Personality

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Teaching and Learning Strategies for Success
Richard D. Jones Senior Consultant International
Center for Leadership in Education
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Education Is Important
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Small Learning Communities Do Make a Difference

• Increased Attendance
• Increased Student Achievement
• Increased Student Participation
• Increased Student and Parent Satisfaction
• Increased Positive Student Behavior
• Greater Focus on Students Interests and
  Aptitudes
• Relevancy Leads to High Achievement

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Pitfalls?

• Lack of Specific Goals
• Unchanged Curriculum
• Failure to Address Literacy
• Too Much Emphasis on Belonging
• Ignoring Staff Concerns
• Uninformed Student Assignment
• Bad Timing
• Focusing only on Teachers

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The Status Quo
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In schools the status quo persists!
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Protect the Status Quo
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Improving Student Achievement What are
the reasons WHY?
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Why?
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Why ?
Changing Nature of Work
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Accelerating Technology
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Employment 1970s

• High Skill
• Low Skill

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Employment 1990s

• High Skill
• Semi Skill
• Low Skill

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Employment 2010

• High Skill
• Semi Skill
• Low Skill

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1970s 1990s 2010
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Why?
Teaching To Standards
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Standards are NOT Curriculum
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Standards are a common destination
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Standards
VS.
Expectations
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Why?
An Overcrowded Curriculum
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McREL

• Needed Time

15,465
Hours
Available Time
9,042
Hours
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Teachers struggling to teach an overloaded
curriculum!
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Why?
Much Teaching Little Learning
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Teaching
VS.
Learning
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Why ?
Inconsistent Student Achievement
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Source NCES 1999-081R, Highlights From TIMSS
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NAEP Reading17 Year-Olds
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Source US Department of Education, National
Center for Education Statistics. NAEP 1999 Trends
in Academic Progress (p. 107) Washington, DC US
Department of Education, August 2000
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African American and Latino 17 Year Olds Read at
Same Levels as White 13 Year Olds
Source Source NAEP 1999 Long Term Trends
Summary Tables (online)
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Different Schools Different Expectations
National Reading Test
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ltD
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C
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ltD
SOURCE US Department of Education
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Why ?
Islands of Excellence
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1998 by The Education Trust, Inc.
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Professional Learning Community

• Shared Values
• Collaboration
• Reflective Dialogue
• Focus on Student Learning

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Why ?
Prepare for THE test?
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NYS Math A Question June 2003
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NYS Math A Question June 2002
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New SAT - 2005

• More Application
• New Writing Section
• Expand Critical Reading for Information
• More Achievement
• Base on three years of Math
• Higher Level Math Skills
• Less Aptitude
• Eliminate analogies
• Eliminate simple math reasoning

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Why ?
Increase Student Motivation
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Why Change?

• Changing Nature of Work
• Teaching to Standards
• Overcrowded Curriculum
• Much Teaching - Little Learning
• Inconsistent Student Achievement
• Islands of Excellence
• Prepare for THE test
• Increase Student Motivation

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Rigorous and RelevantLearning
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Rigor
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Relevance
My only skill is taking tests.
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All Students
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Best Practices
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Bringing Best Practices to Scale

1. Small Learning Communities

2. High Expectations
3. 9th Grade
4. 12th Grade
5. Data
6. Curriculum
7. Relationships / Reflective Thought
8. Professional Development
9. Leadership
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Everyone needs support when they take new risks
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Relationship Model
Key to Student Learning
1. Knowing Teachers get to know students and their families
2. Assisting Some positive support, but sporadic
3. Mentoring Moderate support from some individuals
4. Enduring Fully supported from all individuals
5. Mutually Beneficial Mutually supportive learning community
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Support Behaviors

• Respect
• Being There
• Active Listening
• Frequent Contact
• Encouragement
• Avoiding Put Downs
• ??????

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Bringing Best Practices to Scale

1. Small Learning Communities

2. High Expectations
3. 9th Grade
4. 12th Grade
5. Data
6. Curriculum
7. Relationships / Reflective Thought
8. Professional Development
9. Leadership
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Dont follow others blindly
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Lovers never send form letters.
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Further Information http//dickjones.us Or rdj_at_
nycap.rr.com
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Use of Data
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Data RichbutAnalysis Poor
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Types of Data

• Curriculum
• Demographics
• Student Learning
• School Processes
• Perceptions of Quality

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Types of Data Example
Type of Data Literacy
Curriculum
Demographics
Student Learning Performance on State Test
Processes
Perceptions of Quality
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Types of Data Example
Type of Data Literacy
Curriculum Level of Reading Comprehension on State Test Real World Postsecondary Learning
Demographics Incoming Student Reading Levels
Student Learning Performance on State Test Local Assessment
Processes Reading Levels of Textbooks Teaching Materials Success of Reading Practices
Perceptions of Quality Student Surveys
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Relationships

• Clearly Important ?
• How to Quantify?
• How to Develop?

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Relationships are Essential to Student Learning
Result of combination of support from

• Family
• Peers
• Teachers
• Community

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Relationship Model

• 0. Isolated
• Knowing
• Assisting
• Mentoring
• Enduring
• Mutually Beneficial

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Beginning to Use Data

• Ask Questions and Analyze
• Avoid Snap Judgments
• Collect Data to Answer Questions
• Set Goals Using Data

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Staying on the Cutting Edge
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Smaller Strategies Elementary

• Reduced Class Size
• Looping
• Multi-age Groupings
• Expanded Use of Adults
• Learning Centers
• Differentiated Instruction

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Smaller StrategiesSecondary

• Schools-within-Schools
• House Plans
• Freshman Academy
• Magnet Schools
• Career Academies