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Don’t Worry! The first 30 years of teaching are the hardest!

Don’t Worry! The first 30 years of teaching are the hardest!. Mega Conference July 17, 2008. Hueytown Middle School Demographics. Enrollment – 785 Free/Reduced Lunch – 41% Teacher Units – 51.5 Ethnicity – Caucasian (66%) African American (33%) Other (1%) Suburban School

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Don’t Worry! The first 30 years of teaching are the hardest!

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  1. Don’t Worry! The first 30 years of teaching are the hardest! Mega Conference July 17, 2008

  2. Hueytown Middle School Demographics Enrollment – 785 Free/Reduced Lunch – 41% Teacher Units – 51.5 Ethnicity – Caucasian (66%) African American (33%) Other (1%) Suburban School Three Elementary Feeder Schools

  3. Getting To Know You

  4. Fourth Little Pig

  5. Teaching to Reach ALL Students • What is Differentiated Instruction? • Take a couple of minutes and write your own definition of Differentiated Instruction. Give an example of DI that is used in your school. • Share your definition at your table. • Using the chart paper, write one definition of DI from your table and display on wall.

  6. What Is Differentiated Instruction? It’s teaching so that “typical” students; students with disabilities; students who are gifted; and students from a range of cultural, ethnic, and language groups can learn together, well. Not just inclusion, but inclusive teaching!

  7. Differentiating Instruction Is Not A Idea

  8. After 3 Days, Students Will Retain: 10% of what they read 20% of what they hear 30% of what they see 50% of what they see and hear 60% of what they study 70% of what they speak 90% of what they do 95% of what they sing

  9. Video ClipDigestive Rap

  10. Poverty matters Students who enter school from family backgrounds of poverty Begin behind May never catch up Have most difficulty with reading Reading difficulty carries over to literacy difficulty in other subjects

  11. Poverty matters Cumulative Vocabulary Children from professional families 1100 words Children from working class families 700 words Children from welfare families 500 words Vocabulary in Beginning Reading

  12. Poverty matters

  13. LEDGUSILAITEIVE YSHOOZ At a recent gathering at the Capitol here in Madison, a number of ledgusilaiteive yshoos wur dhyscust. All dellt with tuhrizuhm in Wisconsin. Klyph Kharlsuhn, who onze a small phische pharm nier Wabeno, lead the phyte for tacks braxe for stayt bisnusmuhn hooze prauphutz halve bin sclascht beakuz uv the enuhrjee chrysesse. Other cimullerlee kuhnsyrnde sytazunze joined hymm in demanding immediate rheleaph phor such pursonze.

  14. LEGISLATIVE ISSUES At a recent gathering at the Capitol here in Madison, a number of legislative issues were discussed. All dealt with tourism in Wisconsin. Cliff Karlson, who owns a small fish farm near Wabeno, lead the fight for tax breaks for state businessmen whose profits have been slashed because of the energy crisis. Other similarly concerned citizens joined him in demanding immediate relief for such persons.

  15. Assessing Interest and Learning Profile

  16. Addressing Diverse Learner Needs

  17. Movie Clip Little Big League

  18. Case Studies Case Study #1 Case Study #3 Case Study #4 Case Study #5 Case Study #6 Case Study #7

  19. Animal Cell Podcast

  20. An appropriately differentiated classroom offers different routes to content, activities, and products in a response to differing learner needs.

  21. “One-size-fits-all” instruction is not a good fit for many learners in an academically diverse classroom.

  22. Teachers in appropriately differentiated classrooms continually study their students.

  23. In an appropriately differentiated classroom, all learners focus much of their time and attention on key concepts, principles, and skills identified by the teacher as essential to growth and development in the subject. – but at varying degrees of abstractness, complexity, open-endedness, problem clarity, and structure.

  24. Good teaching is predicated upon a teacher’s clarity about what a learner should know,understand, and be able to do as a result of a given learning experience and set of learning experiences.

  25. Now It’s Your Turn Choose a standard/topic/activity from your subject area and develop a lesson plan using the template provided for differentiation.

  26. Differentiating C.A.P.

  27. Flexible grouping enables all learners to work in a wide variety of configurations and with the full range of peers, while targeting specific learning needs.

  28. Movie ClipFather of the Bride

  29. Setting Up a Differentiated Classroom • Students • Classroom Norms • Grading • Parents

  30. Student Sees…. • Traditional Classroom • Differentiated Classroom

  31. Classroom Norms….. • Traditional Classroom • Differentiated Classroom

  32. Grading….. • Traditional Classroom • Differentiated Classroom

  33. Parent Sees….. • Traditional Classroom • Differentiated Classroom

  34. Bowl-A-Fact 10 8 9 5 6 7 1 2 3 4

  35. Simple Truths of ServiceInspired by Johnny the Bagger

  36. ReferencesASCD, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development Blanchard, K. & Glanz, B. (2005). The Simple Truths of Service. Simple Truth Distributors Celsi, T. (1990). The Fourth Little Pig. Austin: Steck-Vaughn Company Hart & Risley (1995). Poverty Matters.Knill, O. (2006, March 31). Mathematics In Movies. Retrieved 6/2/08, from http://www.math.harvard.edu/~knill/mathmovies/ Tomlinson, C. A. (1999). The Differentiated Classroom. Alexandria: ASCD Publications.

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