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RCS New teachers academy, 11.21.13. Learning targets for today. Connector Use Visible Thinking Routine: Sentence – Phrase – Word to dialogue about important concepts from The Energy Bus Determine your True Color and learn more about your personality trait through talking to others.
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Learning targets for today • Connector • Use Visible Thinking Routine: Sentence – Phrase – Word to dialogue about important concepts from The Energy Bus • Determine your True Color and learn more about your personality trait through talking to others. • Think about the learners in your classrooms and their True Colors. How does that impact your teaching? • Use a Visible Thinking Routine: Circle of Viewpoints to gain another perspective. • Strategy Harvest
Connector –Table Talk Cards Work with a partner Choose a prompt Share with your partner
The Energy BusVisible Thinking Routine Sentence, Phrase, Word • Sentence that was meaningful to you, that you felt captures the core idea of the text. • Phrase that moved, engaged, or provoked you. • Word that captured your attention or struck you as powerful.
TrueColorsPersonalityTest Mary Miscisin
Determine Your True Colors • Look at the Colored Set of Four Cards, Front and Back • Which ones do you relate to most? Trust your gut, and quickly rank your dominating colors from 4 (most like you) to 1 (least like you) • Now rank each succeeding row on the chart from 4 (your natural self) to 1 (least natural for you), based on the descriptions by each box • Add up each columns to get your Primary True Color • Read more about your Primary True Color on the handout
Dividing Into Color Groups • In groups of 3 or 4…discuss the following and share out with the whole group: “What do the other color groups need to know about us?” and “What color group gets under our skin the most and why?”
True Colors in the Classroom… • As a teacher, classrooms include learners from each color group Blue, Orange, Gold& Green • Think about what this means for: • My students (how do they perform, what kind of learner are they…) • How I interact and plan instruction? • How do my students interact with each other?
Circle of Viewpoints Consider your personality trait as a teacher and choose a True Color trait of a student: • “I am thinking of a student in my class who is…(gold, orange, green, or blue).” • “I think that…(take on the viewpoint of the person you identified above and how they might view school, your classroom, etc.).” • “I wonder…(ask a question from that same student’s view about the class, your teaching style, etc.).” Share…
Strategy harvest • Humor - goanimate • Connector – getting all voices in the room (table talk and choices) • Visible Thinking Routine: Sentence – Phrase – Word • True Colors – Personality Trait Tool • Group Dialogue • Visible Thinking Routine: Circle of Viewpoints • Learning Targets
Next Session: December 12th Dr. Jay Marx, Oakland Schools Quality Consultant, Guest Speaker “Social Justice and Your Classrooms”