Learning Coach Meeting

1. Learning Coach Meeting January 11, 2013

2. Move from: PSD’s Commitments to Inclusion • The idea of fixing students to improving environments • Dependence on staff (teachers and EA’s) to a focus on independence • “Special Ed” to ALL students being special • A deficit model of thinking to a strength based model of thinking • Having high expectations for some to having high expectations for ALL

3. Today’s Agenda • Share an experience • Identify obstacles to learning • Identify habits of mind • Critique a lesson

4. Share an Experience Criteriafor a meaningful experience. The experience: • Is beneficial to others (others might learn an effective strategy, or a “what not to do”) • Helps explore your understanding of the role of a learning coach Tell which of the “commitment to inclusion” statements are championed through this experience, and articulate the alignment between the experience and the commitment statement.

5. Strengthening Inclusive and Instructional Practices Infusing a new role into the system is a complex endeavor and an enormous opportunity • Finding the “essence” is of primary importance

6. Coaches plant seeds in the system • Learning takes root in professional conversations and sprouts everywhere-

7. Learning is cultivated and nurtured • Coaches are like gardeners

8. Learn To Learn • The number one characteristic of people who will be successful in the 21st century are those who know how to learn

9. What is the business of education? • To cultivate deep-seated and effective habits of beliefs; • To develop open minded preference for grounded conclusions • To ingrain appropriate methods of inquiry and reasoning • Without habits of this sort, one is not intellectually educated. John Dewey, 1909, How We Think

10. Metacognition • Self-awareness • Self-reflection • Self-monitoring • Self-management • Self-evaluation

11. Obstacles to Learning • Identify your obstacles • Share 2 obstacles with a partner. How do we create a learning culture in which people become public and reflective learners?

12. Habits of Mind • Identify two of your own strengths and share these with an elbow partner

13. Today’s Invitation • Put your own learning first • Be willing to admit what you don’t know • Contribute your thinking, ideas, and partial understanding • Consider perspectives that differ from your own

14. Guided Reading • During guided reading we want the children to use and practice strategies they already know to tackle text they do not know and are in the zone of proximal development.

15. Setting the Context Finding the Main Idea • Using text features to help anticipate what you will be learning about • Pulling out important ideas from the text • Noticing “repeaters,” emphasized ideas

16. Critique the Lesson • View part of the guided reading lesson. • Look for: • What is powerful about the lesson? • What could be improved? • Share with elbow partner.

17. Principles of Learning Summary All read “Entity” and “Incremental” Theories Read ONE of: 1. Socializing Intelligence 2. Academic Rigor AND Clear Expectations 3. Accountable Talk 4. Self-Management

18. Evidence-Based Lens • Observing the same clip through the lens of the principles of learning.

19. Be prepared to share: • What elements of the principle did you notice? • How might the principle have been further embedded into the lesson?

20. Jigsaw Sharing • Explain your learning principle • Share: • What elements of the principle did you notice? • How might the principle have been further embedded into the lesson?

21. Paying it Forward What are some ways you could share your new learning with teachers at your school(s)? Go to: Reachingallstudents.ning.com – Learning Coach – Pay It Forward

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