Principles of 21 st Century Teaching

1. Principles of 21st Century Teaching Featuring Never Work Harder Than Your Students by Robyn Jackson and Classroom Habitudes by Angela Maiers Facilitated by Sherry Crofut

2. This Week’s Agenda Never Work Harder Than Your Students: Preface and Introduction • Introductions • Millennials • Self Assessment

3. Using Voki in the Classroom • Create a Voki to share your introduction. http://voki.com • Post your Voki on the Voki introduction page.

4. In what ways do you already get to know students better? • Student of the Week • Lunch with the Teacher • ______________

5. Great work! So why read these books? • We can all move closer to having a master teacher mindset: • Start where your students are. • Know where your students are going. • Expect to get your students to their goal. • Support your students along the way. • Use feedback to help you and your students along the way. • Focus on quality rather than quantity. • Never work harder than your students.

6. Baby Boomers (1941-1960) discovered the “new world” • Generation X (1961-1976) became the pioneers • Millennials (1977-Present) are the settlers, the new society Oregon Trail to Civilizationsthe digital landscape Post to the wiki discussion: What has NOT changed?

7. Consider any family of immigrants. Who learns the language first? Who adopts the aesthetic, cultural, and spiritual values of the new country? The children, of course…well, welcome to the twenty-first century.We are all immigrants in a new territory. Douglas Ruskoff, in Playing the Future,1999; p. 4

8. Today’s StudentsAre connectedCrave feedback

9. The Net Generation • Nexters • Screenagers • Generation Y or D or M • Echo Boomers • My Space Generation • Millennials – Educause/Oblinger • Clickerati – Idit Harel, MaMaMedia • Digital Natives – Marc Prensky A few more labels…

10. The Immigrant Accent The Native Speakers How well do you speak the language? • Think in paper • Use email • Work independently • Step by step • Text focus • One at a time • Deliberate speed • Think digitally • Use txt msg & IM • Work collaboratively • Random access • Graphics focus • Multi-tasking • Twitch speed Taken from presentations by Marc Prensky

11. There is a widening gap between techno-savvy students and their schools Many schools and teachers have not yet recognized – much less responded to – the new ways students communicate and access information over the Internet Students want more and more engaging internet activities at school that are relevant to their lives The Pew Info

12. The Gift • It’s not so much what you do, as how you think. • Pay attention to the principles rather than the strategies. • Shift the focus from trying to manipulate students to learn to showing them how to learn and helping them see the value in learning. • You become a master teacher by thinking like a master teacher thinks. Watch Robin’s interview Part 2: The gift of teaching  http://www.ascd.org/Publications/Books/ASCD_Talks_With_an_Author.aspx

13. Self-Assessment Please take the self assessment in the Never Work Harder than Your Students book on pages 7-25.