Self-Directed Professional Development Classroom Techniques You Will Use

1. and Self-Directed Professional Development Classroom Techniques You Will Use Presented byNick Hussain who teaches as Hilsman Middle School who blogs at nicholashussain.wordpress.com who can be contacted athussainn@clarke.k12.ga.us Presented for the EDMS student teachers, April 2012

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3. Important Ratio #1 From Dan Meyer, blog.mrmeyer.com/?p=47

4. Increasing your students’ achievement • Identifying similarities and differences • Summarizing and note-taking • Reinforcing effort and providing recognition 45% 34% 29% From Marzano, 2001, Classroom Instruction That Works

5. What my friends think I do. What my mom thinks I do. What society thinks I do. IEPRTI Differentiation Lesson Planning Meetings Data Grading Feedback Assessment Character Ed Technology PBIS Content Professional Development Slices • Perfect the What my students think I do. What I think I do. What I really do.

6. Slices A teacher should be a(n)…

7. Slices • pop-culture scholar • efficient people manager • savvy organizer • eloquent communicator • nurturing caregiver • commanding leader • emotionally secure • individual • discerning psychologist • emergency responder A teacher should be a(n)… • clear writer • confident speaker • lucid thinker • entertainer • graphic designer • lifelong learner Adapted from Dan Meyer, blog.mrmeyer.com/?p=161

8. Slices • pop-culture scholar • efficient people manager • savvy organizer • eloquent communicator • nurturing caregiver • commanding leader • emotionally secure • individual • discerning psychologist • emergency responder A teacher should be a(n)… • clear writer • confident speaker • lucid thinker • entertainer • graphic designer • lifelong learner Adapted from Dan Meyer, blog.mrmeyer.com/?p=161

9. Organization Needs • Student Work • Filing system • Tracking Logs (CYA) • Behavior log • Contact log • Student Notebooks Resources…?

10. Slices • pop-culture scholar • efficient people manager • savvy organizer • eloquent communicator • nurturing caregiver • commanding leader • emotionally secure • individual • discerning psychologist • emergency responder A teacher should be a(n)… • clear writer • confident speaker • lucid thinker • entertainer • graphic designer • lifelong learner Adapted from Dan Meyer, blog.mrmeyer.com/?p=161

11. Adolescent Psychology

12. Adolescent Psychology

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15. Slices • pop-culture scholar • efficient people manager • savvy organizer • eloquent communicator • nurturing caregiver • commanding leader • emotionally secure • individual • discerning psychologist • emergency responder A teacher should be a(n)… • clear writer • confident speaker • lucid thinker • entertainer • graphic designer • lifelong learner Adapted from Dan Meyer, blog.mrmeyer.com/?p=161

16. Self-Directed Professional Development (My beliefs in 2010)

17. Self-Directed Professional Development (My beliefs in 2011)

18. Self-Directed Professional Development (My beliefs in 2012)

19. Reflect on your practice

20. Reflect on your practice

21. Reflect on your practice

22. Self-Directed Professional Development

23. Strategies versus Techniques

24. Classroom Techniques • Stand still while giving directions • Interrupt yourself • Stop discussions just over the hill, not at the bottom of the hill The end of valuable discussion Valuable discussion Gossip and socialization Volume Level

25. Classroom Techniques • Watch as much of the class as possible at all times (“withitness”) • “Break the plane” very soon in each period • Be able to get to every student at all times • Own the room • Proximity control

26. How can you get to this kid? Teacher Desk White Board

27. Teacher Desk White Board

28. How will you interact with your students? Classroom Techniques

29. Important Ratio #2 From Dan Meyer, blog.mrmeyer.com/?p=53

30. Pet Peeves • Walking around during class • Moving desks • Leaving trash on floor

31. Pet Peeves

32. Self-Directed Professional Development

34. Blogs Some of the blog posts I have read recently… • “Putting Happiness First” by a 17thyear elementary teacher 2. “How I Write a PBL Activity” by a 14th year HS science teacher 3. “Surface Area Tin Man Project” by a 3rd year high school math teacher

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43. Q&A • Nick HussainHilsman Middle School nicholashussain.wordpress.com