This is our staff blog where our departments will collaborate around ideas and thoughts that will improve teaching and learning and increase teacher capacity to lead in our school.
The video points out that as the world changes, the students change, education changes, and the way we teach the children needs to change along with it. We can use PLCs at DMHS to create strategies to increase student engagement and learning. We can use PLCs to share ideas and evaluate best practices.
Rogers and Sams: Collaboration helps people work smarter, not harder, maximize strengths while minimizing weaknesses. Coming up with multiple solutions to a common problem. More heads are always better than one when coming up with ideas and solutions. One common goal being worked toward by a group of people. No one feels alone in this battle there is always someone to bounce ideas off of, pick you up when you are down, and celebrate successes.
Vicky and Joseph Trying to present the information in a way that will get the students engaged. Thinking of different ways to get the same concepts taught but in different ways. PLC's - will allow teachers of common areas of discipline to collaborate, sharing ideas. I would like to see more collaboration between, Math, science and Technology, Butler and Hill. This sounds like STEM but would allow the entire school to have in on the act.
I've always loved Ken Robinson ideas that education should not be based on the old-school academic mindset of the past 200 years. Students' learning should not be based and measured by their ability to think like an academic destined to write the next great literary theory. The greatest obstacle to this revolution are the mindsets of the people who have already learned and succeeded in the current system. The people who have already graduated high school and college and were successful in the old academic structure are the ones who oppose a more divergent-thinking based model. This old academic-based structure is definitely a creative buzzkill The students' worth should not be based on their ability to solve a math problem or see the deeper meaning in Shakespeare. If we are to teach the whole child we should rethink the "standards" that we are holding the students to. Common core was originally designed to allow more creative-based thinking, but it is measured by the same old tests as the old curriculum. Cassie & Jeff
This video really applies because our kids are so addicted to the technology and hyper-active surrounding in which they find themselves; it should be out job not to drug them, but to channel that excess "ADHD" energy into the structured learning environment. We can break down that 90 min class time into 15-20 minute chunks, all dealing with the same concept(s). This still works with their habits of disassociation from extended tasks while actually keeping them on task and focused. *Think reverse psychology!
staten, sparks It is giving us a viewpoint of how students learn in todays society. Obviously, methods have evolved with our changing society / culture by trying to meet everyone's educational qualities for the future in what we did in the past. Concluding from the video, we need to improve or reassessing how we present and address the needs of students in today's world for the 21st century. Everyone in all departments should be on the page or one accord as it relates to meeting the 21st century needs of our students with no exceptions.
That we cannot continue to think traditional and that we need to embrace new ideas and methods of teaching and collaborating. What works for one generation may not work for the next because we continue to grow and therefore our methods should conitnuue to grow and push the envelope of our comfort zones.
Barbara Woodcock & Becky Burris
ReplyDeleteThe video points out that as the world changes, the students change, education changes, and the way we teach the children needs to change along with it. We can use PLCs at DMHS to create strategies to increase student engagement and learning. We can use PLCs to share ideas and evaluate best practices.
Rogers and Sams: Collaboration helps people work smarter, not harder, maximize strengths while minimizing weaknesses. Coming up with multiple solutions to a common problem. More heads are always better than one when coming up with ideas and solutions. One common goal being worked toward by a group of people. No one feels alone in this battle there is always someone to bounce ideas off of, pick you up when you are down, and celebrate successes.
ReplyDeleteVicky and Joseph
ReplyDeleteTrying to present the information in a way that will get the students engaged. Thinking of different ways to get the same concepts taught but in different ways.
PLC's - will allow teachers of common areas of discipline to collaborate, sharing ideas.
I would like to see more collaboration between, Math, science and Technology, Butler and Hill. This sounds like STEM but would allow the entire school to have in on the act.
I've always loved Ken Robinson ideas that education should not be based on the old-school academic mindset of the past 200 years. Students' learning should not be based and measured by their ability to think like an academic destined to write the next great literary theory.
ReplyDeleteThe greatest obstacle to this revolution are the mindsets of the people who have already learned and succeeded in the current system. The people who have already graduated high school and college and were successful in the old academic structure are the ones who oppose a more divergent-thinking based model.
This old academic-based structure is definitely a creative buzzkill The students' worth should not be based on their ability to solve a math problem or see the deeper meaning in Shakespeare. If we are to teach the whole child we should rethink the "standards" that we are holding the students to. Common core was originally designed to allow more creative-based thinking, but it is measured by the same old tests as the old curriculum.
Cassie & Jeff
Emily & Tara -
ReplyDeleteThis video really applies because our kids are so addicted to the technology and hyper-active surrounding in which they find themselves; it should be out job not to drug them, but to channel that excess "ADHD" energy into the structured learning environment.
We can break down that 90 min class time into 15-20 minute chunks, all dealing with the same concept(s). This still works with their habits of disassociation from extended tasks while actually keeping them on task and focused. *Think reverse psychology!
staten, sparks
ReplyDeleteIt is giving us a viewpoint of how students learn in todays society. Obviously, methods have evolved with our changing society / culture by trying to meet everyone's educational qualities for the future in what we did in the past. Concluding from the video, we need to improve or reassessing how we present and address the needs of students in today's world for the 21st century. Everyone in all departments should be on the page or one accord as it relates to meeting the 21st century needs of our students with no exceptions.
That we cannot continue to think traditional and that we need to embrace new ideas and methods of teaching and collaborating. What works for one generation may not work for the next because we continue to grow and therefore our methods should conitnuue to grow and push the envelope of our comfort zones.
ReplyDelete