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Applying an Optimal Learning Model to Your Teaching Session 2

Applying an Optimal Learning Model to Your Teaching Session 2. Transforming Our Teaching Through Reading/Writing Connections. Agenda. Engage, Reflect, Assess Read Observe Discuss Try it/Apply it Wrap/Up. Reflect. Meet and Greet

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Applying an Optimal Learning Model to Your Teaching Session 2

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  1. Applying an Optimal Learning Model to Your TeachingSession 2 Transforming Our Teaching Through Reading/Writing Connections

  2. Agenda • Engage, Reflect, Assess • Read • Observe • Discuss • Try it/Apply it • Wrap/Up

  3. Reflect • Meet and Greet • Review with your vertical team what you tried and applied from last session

  4. Discuss Professional Reading • “Making Professional Development a Priority” (Conversations, pp. 520-527) • Discuss the article and points that your felt affirmed your thinking.

  5. Goals for the Session • Explore your own beliefs about teaching and learning • Begin to understand the Optimal Learning Model as an instructional frame work for real-world learning • Begin to think about and apply the Optimal Learning Model in daily instruction • Understand the importance of demonstration

  6. View Video and Take Notes • Turn to the Notecatcher on page 5. • Take notes as you watch the video • Think about • What did you see in the video that made an impact on you? • What key teaching practice aligns with your core beliefs about teaching? • What is you understanding of the OLM?

  7. Achieve a Deeper Understanding • Turn to the Optimal Learning Model p. 2-6 • Turn-and-talk: share with a partner a real-world example of learning a skill or how to do something where the OLM can be used to describe how you were taught. • Share your stories with the whole group

  8. Try It/Apply It in your classroom Planning for application for next session: • Read #7 • Choose Option 1 or Option 2

  9. Wrap-Up • Read before the next session “Apply the Optimal Learning Model” (Teaching Essentials excerpt, pp. 88-94 • Meet with your grade-level teams to revisit the video on the website, plan together and try out using the Optimal Learning Model as you plan your lesson format. • Bring samples of your lesson plans and samples of your student’s work to share with your vertical team.

  10. Session Evaluation • Session 3, October 8, 2008 • Revised Early Release Calendar • Revised Evaluation Schedule/Letter (focus of observation and evaluation) • Exit Card/Evaluation

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