This year is a tough year to squeeze in any additional Professional Development. So, I created a mini-pamphlet and shared it with the science department. In it, it has mindset ideas and messages to independently reflect on. Traditionally, February can prove to be a rough month. Pressure gets higher and everyone seems tired. Maybe the weather has something to do with it... while it is getting lighter a little each day, February is really when Houston has it winter. Spring is near my friends! And as one AP reminded me, "we have 66 more days left this year". Y'all, ONLY 66 more days to make an impact.
I digress... I made the pamphlet to provide information I would of normally delivered in a PD session... This way, however, teachers can peruse at their leisure and pick up pieces as they need.
In the pamphlet I reminded the dept. of the work of John Hattie, because it really comes down to being efficient with the time we have with students and the time we have to plan for our students. Hattie's work is grounded in using the most effective strategies intentionally to gain accelerated learning. That's the heart of what we are doing. To get students to retain, maintain and apply greater amounts of their learning in short amounts of time. It's not about doing a 3o minute activity in 15 minutes, but, in that 15 minutes, utilizing amazing strategies that help make memory get encoded into long term memory. Make learning sticky!
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What I really like about this clock-face, is all of the strategies mentioned are influenced by teacher actions and aid in development of teacher to student relationships. Which we all know is the heart of learning.
Remember, John Hattie completes a meta-analysis of hundreds of instructional strategies every year and ranks them according to their effectiveness and influence on student growth. One years input yields one years growth. A hinge point of .4 equals one year growth. We should strive to use strategies that are effective in providing at least one years growth or more!
For more information, see Hattie
(DO NOT let the second most influential strategy called "Self-Reported Grades" turn you off... most people see that as kids grading themselves... nope...
John Hattie explains that....
"Children are the most accurate when predicting how they will perform, if I could write my book Visible Learning for Teachers again, I would re-name this learning strategy “Student Expectations” to express more clearly that this strategy involves the teacher finding out what are the student’s expectations and pushing the learner to exceed these expectations. Once a student has performed at a level that is beyond their own expectations, he or she gains confidence in his or her learning ability."
Below is a list of 12 influential teacher moves and their effect size. What is amazing, is the moves are very low gradient. They can easily be inserted into your pedagogy. With intentionality, they can be ingrained in your habits quickly. I saw Wes Kieschnick present this piece and it was amazing. "Clock Face" is an old Quantum Learning strategy that uses places in the room to become a clock face to hang memory on. It's very much like a peg system, where you tag a memory in a specific place to help retrieve it. Add movement and stories to the peg and you just added more memory tags. It's a great strategy!
John Hattie explains that....
"Children are the most accurate when predicting how they will perform, if I could write my book Visible Learning for Teachers again, I would re-name this learning strategy “Student Expectations” to express more clearly that this strategy involves the teacher finding out what are the student’s expectations and pushing the learner to exceed these expectations. Once a student has performed at a level that is beyond their own expectations, he or she gains confidence in his or her learning ability."
Below is a list of 12 influential teacher moves and their effect size. What is amazing, is the moves are very low gradient. They can easily be inserted into your pedagogy. With intentionality, they can be ingrained in your habits quickly. I saw Wes Kieschnick present this piece and it was amazing. "Clock Face" is an old Quantum Learning strategy that uses places in the room to become a clock face to hang memory on. It's very much like a peg system, where you tag a memory in a specific place to help retrieve it. Add movement and stories to the peg and you just added more memory tags. It's a great strategy!
What I really like about this clock-face, is all of the strategies mentioned are influenced by teacher actions and aid in development of teacher to student relationships. Which we all know is the heart of learning.
Next week, I will share another piece of the Pamphlet I created... until next time!
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