Student projects, products and performance need to be at the center

3. Student projects, products and performance need to be at the center of the classroom, with students sharing their work with an audience of significance.

4. When students have a real audience for whom their work might matter, the classroom becomes a place of energy and purpose.

5. The Montillation of Traxoline It is very important that you learn about traxoline. Traxoline is a new form of zionter. It is montilled in Ceristanna. The Ceristannians gristerlate large amounts of fevon and then bracter it to quasel traxoline. Traxoline may well be one of our most lukized snezlaus in the future because of our zionter lescelidge. Directions: Answer the following questions in complete sentences. What is traxoline? Where is traxoline montilled? How is traxoline quaselled? Why is it important to know about traxoline?

6. Wrong to Better Let’s not “do the wrong thing better.”* *From Buckminster Fuller

7. Let’s change the conversation.

11. Three Words that Change the Conversation • Wonder • Error • Justice

12. Wonder A teacher’s job is to keep it alive. The central aim of education is to “free the mind through the discipline of wonder.” Mortimer Adler, How to Read a Book,1940

13. Error • Error = Errant • 500 years ago, an errant was a person embarked on a searching journey, a journey for the truth. • A teacher’s job is to challenge students’ thinking and recognize the power of error in learning.

14. Justice A teacher’s job is to • foster it, • uphold it, • enhance it, and • act on behalf of those whose rights to a full education may be in jeopardy.

15. Five Teaching Principles that Change the Conversation • value students’ points of view • structure lessons around big ideas • address students’ suppositions • pose problems of emerging relevance • assess learning within teaching

16. “Neurons that fire together, survive together and wire together.” From: The Developing Mind: Toward a Neurobiology of Interpersonal Experience, 1999 David J. Siegel, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry UCLA Medical School

17. Slpeling is Ipmorantt The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid! Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?

18. The Three Most Important Factors in Changing the Conversation About Education • Instruction • Instruction • Instruction

19. Seek and value students’ points of view Sounds simple? What story do the next two slides tell you?

22. Two Coins

23. Structure Curriculum Around “Big Ideas” • Big Ideas need to be debated in many contexts.

24. No matter where we stand on the Earth, we always see the same side of Earth’s moon.Please explain.

25. ADAPT CURRICULUM TO CHALLENGE STUDENTS’ SUPPOSITIONS • When teachers design lessons that provoke students to confront their initial suppositions, teachers maximize the likelihood of student learning.

27. POSE PROBLEMS OF EMERGING RELEVANCE • Posing problems of emerging relevance and searching for windows into students’ thinking can create a classroom setting in which the teacher and the student jointly search for meaning and create new knowledge.

30. These fish!! • What is going on here? • What can you do to find out?

31. Assertion: The simplest sounding questions are often the richest in teaching and learning possibilities. The simplest sounding questions often require some type of technology to answer.

32. Social Studies Topic:The Pacific Rim and Globalization

33. Information • The countries surrounding the Pacific Ocean are called the Pacific Rim. Many of these nations are part of a consortium called the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperative, or APEC. • APEC Members are: Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, United States

34. Big Ideas • The Pacific Rim countries play a key role in the globalization of our world. • Globalization has many definitions. Some scholars see it as a force that involves international trade, investments and flow of money. Others see it as a set of social and cultural threads that are expanding our ability to communicate. • Globalization is a controversial issue. Some see globalization as good. Some see it as bad.

35. Questions • When did globalization begin? • What’s good and bad about globalization for democracies? • What’s good and bad about globalization for workers and business owners? • What’s good and bad about countries exporting and importing goods? • What’s good and bad about the internet for how countries communicate?

36. Relationships Around the Rim

37. Lesson Plan: Using the following 6 words, write a brief history of Trading with Tools and Technology SandalsStirrups, Sails, IndustryStandards, Subsonic JetsThe Send Button

38. Lesson Plan • Begin your challenge by mapping the continents on your Clementine. Locate the Pacific Rim nations, and then locate which nations are part of APEC and which are not. Do you see any patterns? • Carefully peel your Clementine to transform your Clementine globe into a map. Do you see any patterns?

39. Curious and Uncertain • A piece of information and a good question help us become both curious and uncertain, and this is always the road that opens us to the surprise of new insights.

40. ASSESS STUDENT LEARNINGWITHINTHE CONTEXT OF TEACHING • Guide students in their search for meaning through NON-JUDGMENTAL assessment. • Use performance tasks as teaching tools, NOT additions to the curriculum … if there is time.

43. Example Performance Task from New York State Assessment

44. How many busses does the army need to transport 1,128 soldiers if each bus holds 36 soldiers? 31, remainder 12

45. Our Quest in the Classroom • Helping students look at their worlds … with wide awake eyes