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Teaching and Learning Strategies for Success

Teaching and Learning Strategies for Success. Richard D. Jones Senior Consultant International Center for Leadership in Education. Personality. Teaching and Learning Strategies for Success. Richard D. Jones Senior Consultant International Center for Leadership in Education.

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Teaching and Learning Strategies for Success

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  1. Teaching and Learning Strategies for Success Richard D. Jones Senior Consultant International Center for Leadership in Education

  2. Personality

  3. Teaching and Learning Strategies for Success Richard D. Jones Senior Consultant International Center for Leadership in Education

  4. Education Is Important

  5. Small Learning Communities Do Make a Difference • Increased Attendance • Increased Student Achievement • Increased Student Participation • Increased Student and Parent Satisfaction • Increased Positive Student Behavior • Greater Focus on Students’ Interests and Aptitudes • Relevancy Leads to High Achievement

  6. Pitfalls? • Lack of Specific Goals • Unchanged Curriculum • Failure to Address Literacy • Too Much Emphasis on Belonging • Ignoring Staff Concerns • Uninformed Student Assignment • Bad Timing • Focusing only on Teachers

  7. The Status Quo

  8. In schools the status quo persists!

  9. Protect the Status Quo

  10. Improving Student Achievement What are the reasons WHY?

  11. Why?

  12. Why ? Changing Nature of Work

  13. Accelerating Technology

  14. Employment 1970’s High Skill Low Skill

  15. Employment 1990’s High Skill Semi Skill Low Skill

  16. Employment 2010 High Skill Semi Skill Low Skill

  17. 1970’s1990’s2010

  18. Why? Teaching To Standards

  19. Standards are NOT Curriculum

  20. Standards are a common destination

  21. Standards VS. Expectations

  22. Why? An Overcrowded Curriculum

  23. McREL Needed Time 15,465 Hours Available Time 9,042 Hours

  24. Teachers struggling to teach an overloaded curriculum!

  25. Why? Much Teaching Little Learning

  26. Teaching VS. Learning

  27. Why ? Inconsistent Student Achievement

  28. Source: NCES 1999-081R, Highlights From TIMSS

  29. NAEP Reading17 Year-Olds 21 31 Source: US Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. NAEP 1999 Trends in Academic Progress (p. 107) Washington, DC: US Department of Education, August 2000

  30. African American and Latino17 Year Olds Read at Same Levels as White 13 Year Olds Source: Source: NAEP 1999 Long Term Trends Summary Tables (online)

  31. Different Schools – Different Expectations National Reading Test A B C D <D A B C D <D SOURCE: US Department of Education

  32. Why ? Islands of Excellence

  33. 1998 by The Education Trust, Inc.

  34. Professional Learning Community • Shared Values • Collaboration • Reflective Dialogue • Focus on Student Learning

  35. Why ? Prepare for THE test?

  36. NYS Math A Question June 2003

  37. NYS Math A Question June 2002

  38. New SAT - 2005 • More Application • New Writing Section • Expand Critical Reading for Information • More Achievement • Base on three years of Math • Higher Level Math Skills • Less Aptitude • Eliminate analogies • Eliminate simple math reasoning

  39. Why ? Increase Student Motivation

  40. Why Change? • Changing Nature of Work • Teaching to Standards • Overcrowded Curriculum • Much Teaching - Little Learning • Inconsistent Student Achievement • Islands of Excellence • Prepare for THE test • Increase Student Motivation

  41. Rigorous and RelevantLearning

  42. Rigor

  43. Relevance My only skill is taking tests.

  44. All Students

  45. Best Practices

  46. Bringing Best Practices to Scale • Small Learning Communities 2. High Expectations 3. 9th Grade 4. 12th Grade 5. Data 6. Curriculum 7. Relationships / Reflective Thought 8. Professional Development 9. Leadership

  47. Everyone needs support when they take new risks

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