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Achieving Excellence for Your Students. Techniques and Concepts to Enhance Your Effectiveness in the Classroom. System Teaching. 96% chance of completing ANY project if you have a system 4% chance without one (E. Deming) Teach the system for Reading Teach the system for Writing
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Achieving Excellence for Your Students Techniques and Concepts to Enhance Your Effectiveness in the Classroom
System Teaching • 96% chance of completing ANY project if you have a system • 4% chance without one (E. Deming) • Teach the system for Reading • Teach the system for Writing • 20/80 rule - Ask yourself always, “What 20% of work with give me 80% results?” • Systemize your classroom
Model of Excellence • Most students have little understanding for what is excellence in the quality of work expected • Teachers must be a model of excellence • Teachers must show examples of excellent work • Teaching the system for learning allows students to duplicate excellent performance
ADDED VALUE • Students need a reason to leave the comfort of their homes and continue coming to school • You are that reason ……… • Every day ask yourself, “What added value can I give to my students that will have them planning with enthusiasm to come back?”
Added Value cont…. • #1 Reason students leave school – Isolated Learning • #1 reason for staying in school ---Bonding with teacher • Create activities in which the students begin bonding with you and fellow classmates • Read to your students!!! Poetry, Literature, • Great stories… Create visuals
Visualize • The brain remembers a picture more than 1,000 words • Visual learning is the #1 way students learn… eyes take in 100 million bits of data per second • Kinesthetic Learning is # 2 …Skin takes in 10 million bits of data per second • Auditory is 3rd… Ears process 10 thousand bits of data per second
Visuals cont…. • Create graphs and charts for your systems • Reading to your students helps to create visuals • Venn diagrams, process charts, mind mapping, T charts, pert charts are all excellent tools for visualizing • Pictures create great discussion activities
Learning is an Emotional Experience • Create an environment that is non threatening and secure • Reason – 3 parts of the brain • Emotional • Thinking • Reptilian • Ask yourself, “Do I feel threatened or Insecure?” • Every thought goes through the emotional part of the brain first • Thoughts are real
System for Reading • Sight Vocabulary (5 Words) • Phonics • How words are Constructed • Prefix….Root Words…..Suffix • How sentences are made……especially Prepositional Phrases • Graphics for Retention • Read To your Students
System for Writing • Writing is the #1 activity that stimulates every part of the brain, reading is #2 • Right brain is creative and the left brain is analytical • Stay right brain when mapping your ideas and free writing • Organizing your paper uses both R & L sides of the brain • Rewriting and editing are left brain analytical skills
Activities • Read Education of Little Tree aloud • Writing exercise to ease fear • Graph a reading activity • Bring music into the classroom • Discuss, discuss, discuss • 10 minute group exercises • Know every student’s name using alliterations • Create a rotating classroom… computer work, individual work, group work, teacher contact
Your Attitude is Everything • Thoughts are real • Brain can’t distinguish conscious from unconscious • Visualize the perfect you everyday and you will be that person • Create success files for students • 5 Characteristics of wonderful teachers