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Colorful Teaching: Connecting with Learners Through Visible Thinking

Explore True Colors personality traits, use Visible Thinking Routines to engage students, and discuss perspectives for effective teaching in diverse classrooms. Learn how to connect with students based on their personality traits and viewpoints. Develop strategies to create an inclusive and engaging learning environment.

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Colorful Teaching: Connecting with Learners Through Visible Thinking

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  1. RCS New teachers academy, 11.21.13

  2. 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

  3. Connector –Table Talk Cards Work with a partner Choose a prompt Share with your partner

  4. 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.

  5. TrueColorsPersonalityTest Mary Miscisin

  6. 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

  7. 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?”

  8. 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?

  9. 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…

  10. Learning targets - reviewed

  11. 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

  12. Next Session: December 12th Dr. Jay Marx, Oakland Schools Quality Consultant, Guest Speaker “Social Justice and Your Classrooms”

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