Differentiating Instruction in the World of a Screenager

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Differentiating Instruction in the World of a
Screenager

• Taking simple steps to success!

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The Greatest ProfessionA Fortunate Life (The
Personal)
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Partner Talk

• Talk with a partner you do not know well
• Be prepared to get to know them and describe one
  priceless moment that they experienced from the
  advantages of teaching.
• http//www.fieryideas.com/flash/timer.swf
• Digital_Clock2.ppt

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The Warrior Way

• Helping kids
• Getting Families assistance
• Giving kids lunch money
• Giving kids a ride home
• Helping our community when in crisis

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We are not here for summer

• We make a difference !
• We touch each other with care, empathy ,and our
  commitment to our content.
• But the world around us has changed.
• Before we discuss that, what has remained the
  same in schools?

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Discuss at your tables

• What are some things that have been done in
  schools. The same way as long as we remember!
• http//www.fieryideas.com/flash/timer.swf
• Digital_Clock2.ppt

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Who Moved My Cheese?

•     It is easier to change the location of
  a cemetery, than to change the school
  curriculum.
•  Woodrow T. Wilson (American 28th President of
  the United States 1856-1924

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The End Product FirstSummative Assessment

• http//www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey
  8715d5e00a638a427890

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The Strength of the way

1. Honor our past and reminisce in its beauty.
2. Acknowledge the present It is what it is!
3. Work for the future! It is there that success can
   be found
   

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Video Games Have Changed the world

• New Studies show that intelligence can increase.
• We were trained to be linear learners.
• Our students are trained to multi task and jump
  around.

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What is new!

• The day of the.
• SCREENAGER

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Their eyes are trained differently!
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Visual Tracking

• ___________________________
• ______________US_____________________
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How they read are different

• We love black text!
• The primary reading color of this generation is
  red, pink, and green.

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The battle in the ring

• DFL VS. DSL

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Todays Learners have a different language!

• D igital
• F irst
• L earners

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We are.

• D igital
• S econd
• L earners

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In this conflicthere is the problem

• Of s national survey of high school seniors
• 39 believe their school work helps prepare for a
  career.
• 28 believe that school work is meaningful
• 21 believe it was interesting and invigorating.

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We look for an answer

• We want it to happen .
• But We Just Cant See!

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Death by Teaching

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vC-S54bbX6eA

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If you continue to be a life long learner

• Our students will soar and fly like underdog

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SUCCESSFUL TEACHING POINTS

• Catch Up
• Play a video game
• Teacher Tube

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2. TEACH TO THE WHOLE MIND

1. Colors and Projects that they have a choice.
2. You use an overhead when they have an IPHONE!

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3. LITERACY IS NOT ENOUGH

1. Prosumers not Consumers
2. Media Fluency
3. Writing in other medians

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4. SHIFT THE INSTRUCTIONAL APPROACH

1. Discovery learning
2. The movie and you know the ending.
3. Let them create it is more meaningful and
   memorable

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5. LET THEM ACCESS INFORMATION NATIVELY

• A) Digital devices exceeding TV

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6. LET STUDENTS COLLABORATE

1. What do they do in business?
2. Wright Patterson AF Base

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7) CREATE REAL TIME PRODUCTS

1. Magazine
2. Advertising brochure

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8)RE-EVALUATE EVALUATION

• A) Summative vs. formative

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Web Sites

• http//videos.howstuffworks.com/howstuffworks/54-h
  ow-money-is-made-video.htm
• http//nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html
• http//grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/bod
  yparts.htm
• http//eyewitnesstohistory.com/eyindx.htm
• readplease.com
• K-12music.org
• http//efieldtrips.org/support/whatIs.cfm

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Differentiation

• Differentiation is a teaching concept in which
  the classroom teacher PROACTIVELY plans for the
  diverse needs of students.

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Six Facets of True Understanding

• Explanation
• Interpretation
• Application
• Perspective
• Empathy
• Self-Knowledge

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Grading

• We grade against standards, not the routes
  students take or techniques teachers use to
  achieve those standards.

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HW

• If a student does none of the homework yet earns
  an A or a Bon every formal assessment, what does
  he or she earn on the report card?
• If a student does all the homework, yet bombs
  every assessment isnt that a red flag that
  something is amiss?

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Equalizer

• Equalize the influence of the F

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Practical Strategies

• http//www.internet4classrooms.com/di.htm

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The Greatest Teacher

• A six minute positive example of how to
  differentiate!
• http//www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey
  0013367f24e0b1fa7594

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Are you the rubberband man?
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August 25, 2008

• 800 1000 A.M. Cafeteria - Differentiating
  Instruction in a Digital Age Mr. Manley
• 1010 1100 601 - All Language Arts and
  Intervention Staff Administering Aims Web -
  Tina McMullen All other staff work in your
  rooms
• 1105 1200 Station
• EX At 1105 Grade 7 is in Lab A, Grade 8
  Conference Room A, Grade 6 Assessment Map
  together in your wing and Hearts work on computer
  for classroom web sites.
• 1200 100 LUNCH
• 100 155 Station
• 200 255 Station

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August 25, 2008

• Description of Each Station
• Station 1 Lab A Mr. Manley - Data Analysis
• Station 2 Conference Room A Mrs. Warga
  Tribe Time
• Station 3 Grade Level Hall Work on Assessment
  Maps You Pick the room
• Assessment map templates are at Lori Schlueters
  web page at http//www.wbhs.k12.oh.us/hsteachers/l
  schlueter/Webpages/HowToTips.htm
• Station 4 (Take web site sheet from
  presentation, 22) and examine at least two web
  sites and examine how you can incorporate this
  site into your classroom and differentiate
  instruction.
• If these sites dont work for you, go to the
  informational management site and look for
  standards based lessons to use in your classroom.
• http//ims.ode.state.oh.us/ODE/IMS/Lessons/

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August 25, 2008

• Station Rotation
• Grade 7 1,2,3,4
• Grade 8 2,3,4,1
• Grade 6 3,4,1,2
• Hearts - 4,1,2,3

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August 26, 2008

• 800 1100 - Cafeteria Everyone is a Reading
  and Writing Teacher Dr. Carroll Brunner, MCESC
• 1115 1200 - Damascus Friends Church LUNCH
• 1215 1255 LAB A ESIS The Parent Module
  Len Slack
• 100 155 Final Station Grade 8 Lab A,
  Grade 6 Conference Room, HEARTS Assessment Maps,
  Grade 7 on your own.
• 200 300 Conference Room A - Intervention
  Staff Meeting
• You work as a group with Assessment Maps and
  Tribe Calendar. Your timeline for TRIBE time and
  Maps will be completed by 300 P.M. on Tuesday.
  Your maps should be tweaked from previous work.
  Talk with your colleagues and make adjustments
• Please make sure that you sign in and please
  request LPDC credit if needed.

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September 2, 2008

• 800 945 High School Auditorium - General
  session for all in the district
• 945 1230 Work in your rooms and LUNCH on your
  own
• 1230 - 215 Cafeteria General Faculty Meeting
  on Procedures
• 215 300 ON YOUR OWN
• Welcome Back Staff Students

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Thats All Folks

• Th-Th-Th-Th-Th-Th-Th-Th-Th-Th-Th-Thats all folks!

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