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NEW CONCEPTS IN DJJ SCHOOLSIMPROVING OUR
CLASSROOMS
By Students of Augusta YDC
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Try This

• fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid
  too. Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100
  can.
• i cdnuolt blveiee
  taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was
  rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid,
  aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde
  Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the
  ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng
  is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit
  pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can
  sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae
  the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by
  istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh?
  Yaeh, and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

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A New Way ofTeaching and Learning

• DJJ is about to start a whole new teaching
  concept. (and some of the old too!)
• GPS CAPswhole group instruction
• and assessment
• CAPSindividual instruction
• and assessment
• GPS CAPS SUCCESS IN CLASS

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Math of Life

• School work
• effort
• Career responsibility

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CAPs

• A CAP is a mini-student lesson plan that allows
  the student to learn and grow at his/her own
  pace. A CAP also allows self assessment and
  teacher evaluation through assigned activities.
• A CAP helps the students to break down
  assignments and get a better understanding of the
  lesson, through repetition and pacing.

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Georgia Performance Standards

• What are the Georgia Performance Standards?
• The performance standards provide clear
  expectations for instruction, assessment, and
  student work.
• They define the level of work that demonstrates
  achievement of the standards, enabling a teacher
  to know how good is good enough.
• They allow our teachers to work together and
  set goals for us.

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Georgia Performance Standards CONT.

• The Performance Standards will allow our teachers
  to ask three essential questions
• What do we want our students to learn?
• How will we know when each student has learned
  it?
• How will we respond when a student experiences
  difficulty?

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Direct Instruction

• At the beginning of each class period, the
  teacher will give a review of the previous day
  and a brief introduction of the day's lesson .
• Our teachers will then teach standards based
  lessons from the internet that have been
  written by our teachers for us.
• Whole Group Lessons

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Looking to the Future

• We will be expected to participate every day in
  class discussions as well as assignments. We will
  receive points for our participation!
• We will be monitored and evaluated monthly on
  behavior, academics, and willingness to move
  forward.
• And when we graduate we can work as teacher
  assistants to help our peers.
• When we (students) fulfill these requirements we
  will be rewarded accordingly.

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Bringing DJJ into the 21st Century

• We will now have more resources other than just
  text books and CAPs.
• We will be able to participate in interactive
  lessons on computers, such as essays, articles,
  science experiments, voting and grammar
  corrections exercises.
• And our teachers will now have more advanced
  tools to aid them in teaching our lessons.

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Which one will YOU be?
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• Think,
• Think, Think about it!

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Whos words are these?

• "The true test of the American ideal is whether
  we're able to recognize our failings and then
  rise together to meet the challenges of our time.
  Whether we allow ourselves to be shaped by events
  and history, or whether we act to shape them.
  Whether chance of birth or circumstance decides
  life's big winners and losers, or whether we
  build a community where, at the very least,
  everyone has a chance to work hard, get ahead,
  and reach their dreams.

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Answer

• 44th President of the United States of America,
• Barack Obama

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Mediocre

• Being of no special quality or type average,
  common, commonplace, cut and dried, indifferent,
  plain, ordinary, regular, okay, existing.
• Question Why was Ghandi considered a mediocre
  person during his school days?

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Nonchalant

• Not easily excited, even under pressure calm.
  Collected, cool-headed, detached, even,
  even-tempered, imperturbable, unruffled.
• Question Do you consider your
  attitude toward school work
  nonchalant?

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Noncommittal

• Tending to keep ones thoughts and emotions to
  ones self controlled, inhibited, reserved
  restrained, self-controlled.
• Question Are you noncommittal
  towards your teachers and
  peers? Why?

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REMEMBER

• GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY.
• GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL.
• We make a Living by what we get. We make a Life
  by what we give.