Seeing Every Student
Session Description:
This session will provide educators with various sometimes stolen, often borrowed but always attributed techniques for connecting with students. With a mild focus on Language Arts, this session will examine the importance and possibilities of fostering a classroom culture that values both community and individuality while encouraging risk-taking and transferring ownership of learning to students.
Outcomes:
- Learners will gain strategies for building social ties in classroom setting.
- Learners will analyze examples of academic work increasing student ownership of learning.
- Learners will examine resources available for creating authentic learning experiences.
- Learners will be exposed to personal professional development opportunities.
- The opportunities will include web-based and non-web-based resources.
Book Pics
Strategies:
Social:
Affirmation (
Personal Greeting at the Door
Daily Good News
High-Grade Compliment
Essential 55
Academic:
Digital:
Our Class Blog (http://leadthechange.blogspot.com/)
Darren's Class Blog (http://am40sw07.blogspot.com/)
Darren's Ole Tango (http://oletango.blogspot.com/) - Though it wasn't mentioned directly in the presentation, this is a great site to help introduce blogging, podcasting and the like to a classroom.
Analog:
Students Teaching Rubric (Student Teaching Rubric.doc,
Pigman Exam (The Pigman.doc, The Pigman.pdf)
Monster Exam (One Monster of a Test.doc, Monster Test.pdf)
Web-Based Resources:
Freedom Writers Foundation
Blogger/Wordpress
pbwiki/wikispaces
Slideshare
Teachertube
November Learning
Contact Information:
e-mail: zachary_chase@sarasota.k12.fl.us
blog: http://phoenixchase.blogspot.com
address: Phoenix Academy, 1085 S. Shade, Sarasota, FL 34237
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