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Greenville County is Putting Inspiration in the Classroom

Greenville County is Putting Inspiration in the Classroom. Integrating Inspiration Educational Edition Software in our SC Curriculum Standards. Toni Norris, Instructional Coach, The School District of Greenville County. What is Inspiration ?.

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Greenville County is Putting Inspiration in the Classroom

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  1. Greenville County is Putting Inspiration in the Classroom Integrating Inspiration Educational Edition Software in our SC Curriculum Standards Toni Norris, Instructional Coach, The School District of Greenville County

  2. What is Inspiration? • INSPIRATION is a visual learning tool that, provides students a way to develop and organize ideas. • INSPIRATIONprovides teachers a tool to meet the needs of visual learners using a variety of visual thinking techniques. • INSPIRATIONprovides teachers and students a way to create, graphic organizers, timelines, and concept maps easily on the computer and use them projected on a screen or TV. • INSPIRATION can also be used on the overhead projector as a transparency, or as an activity sheet used at student desks. .

  3. Inspiration is a user friendly software package designed for integration in all subject areas • Concept Mapping • Webbing • Planning • Graphical Organizing • Brainstorming • Teacher Planning

  4. Why Should I Use Inspiration?

  5. Organize Ideas for Learning

  6. Concept Mapping • Builds relationships between ideas • Two or more concepts are linked by words that describe their relationship. • Can take new information and link it to prior knowledge.

  7. What is a Concept Map?

  8. Concept Map

  9. Webbing • Visual map that structures information into major topics and supporting details. (Main Idea/Topics and Sub Topics) • Helps students learn to organize and prioritize concepts and information • Very useful for analyzing stories and characterization • Webs helpful when teaching the economic, or political policies of a ruler

  10. Webbing with Inspiration

  11. Character Web from Catcher in the Rye

  12. Inspiration Diagram View

  13. Inspiration, Moving to Outline View Endangered Species Stack I.Food Chain II.General Information about your species III.Habitat IV.Picture of Species V. Bibliography Card VI. Take Action About your species VII.The Future of your Species VIII. Miscellaneous Thoughts A.The Story of your Species B. Each Bubble shown is a card in this HyperStudio project. Click on a bubble and then the upper right red square to see suggestions for what should go on the card. Click Here

  14. Planning • Clarify objectives and define the work • Idea mapping • Pre-writing phase helps students to clarify their thoughts and create clear concise writing. • Idea mapping before a project helps students visualize the steps and the required information necessary to complete the assignment.

  15. Book Report Directions

  16. Research Project

  17. Teacher Planning • Organizing • Prioritizing • Communicating • Thematic Units • Long Range Plans • Open House • Technology Planning

  18. PTA Open House

  19. Substitute Teacher Lesson Plan

  20. Student Planning Template

  21. Inspiration for Pre-Writing Click Here

  22. InspirationWriting Circular Stories

  23. Graphical Organizer • Cause and effect diagrams • Identify main characters, setting, problem, and solution to a story • Timelines • Sequence of events • Genealogy • Branches of government

  24. Forms of Water Outline View

  25. Civil War Timeline

  26. What Are the Benefits to Teachers and Students?

  27. Addition Math Web

  28. Timeline

  29. Brainstorming • Generate fresh ideas • Develop thoughts • Discover themes, patterns, and solutions • Fast exercise in word and idea association utilizing keywords, symbols, colors and graphics to form nonlinear networks of potential ideas and observations. Brainstorm

  30. Inspiration Provides Templates • In the software • On the website

  31. Templates in Inspiration KWHL

  32. Templates in Inspiration Causes of the French Revolution Outline View

  33. Templates in Inspiration

  34. Templates Made in Inspiration Click Here Click Here

  35. Inspiration Meets the Standards Lessons written by teachers to meet curriculum standards.

  36. Science Standards Click Here

  37. Language Arts Standards

  38. Inspiration Great Ideas for the Classroom Classroom Ideas Using Inspiration For Teachers by Teachers Subjects Include: Language Arts, Science, and Social Studies, K-12

  39. Greenville County Provides Inspiration Training to Teachers • Classes offered to teachers, free of charge • Six contact hours, typically from 4:00-7:00, two days • Licensed copy of Inspiration given to participating teachers

  40. While participating in the class…. • Teachers will each complete a concept map using the templates. • Teachers will each complete a concept map from scratch in outline and diagram view. • Teachers will create lessons incorporating Inspiration and share them with the class. • Teachers will go to the Inspiration Website to find subject specific examples, locate additional templates, and other resources.

  41. Visit the Inspiration Website • Free trial software • Resources for using Inspiration in the curriculum • Lesson plans http://www.inspiration.com

  42. Kidspiration • Primary Grades • Special Education Kidspiration Demo

  43. Handouts and Materials can be located at www.greenville.k12.sc.us/league Click on Instructional Coach Thank You

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