4. When somebody says that a
student needs to “know”
something ….
They should be asked to add “in
order to …”
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5. The Intentions Of Kids When They
Come To School
• Get Grades
• Serve Time
• Socialize …and not necessarily in this order!
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6. “A teachers’ job is not to teach
kids. A teacher’s job is to create
meaningful, engaging work
whereby kids learn the things we
want them to learn.”
– Phil Schlecty
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7. Stages Of Learning And Growth
Conscious Conscious
Incompetence Competence
Consciousness
Unconscious
Unconscious
Incompetence
Competence
(Start)
Competence
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8. Course
• QPA Regulations ... http://www.ksde.org/Default.aspx?tabid=1787#91-31-31
• (p) "Unit of credit" means a measure of credit that may be awarded to a student for
satisfactory completion of a particular course or subject. A full unit of credit is credit that is
awarded for satisfactory completion of a course or subject that is offered for and generally
requires 120 clock-hours to complete. Credit may be awarded in increments based upon the
amount of time a course or subject is offered and generally requires to complete. Individual
students may be awarded credit based upon demonstrated knowledge of the content of a
course or subject, regardless of the amount of time spent by the student in the course or
subject.
• Our Suggestion ...
• (p) “Unit of credit” means a measure of credit that may be awarded to a student for
satisfactory demonstration of mastery of a set of standards which comprise a "course."
• The individual who validates mastery of the identified standards must be certified in the state
of Kansas in the appropriate subject area.
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9. Driving Exam
Two Parts
– Written Exam … Conscious Knowledge
– Driving … Non - Conscious Knowledge
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10. How Does Learning Work?
• You have a goal (something that you want to happen)
• You have an expectation that a plan of action will
achieve it
• The plan fails (this is what it means to have an
important experience … expectation failure)
• You need an explanation of why your expectation was
wrong (this is called thinking -- or teaching)
• You adapt an old explanation or someone provides you
with a new one
• You create a new expectation and try again …
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11. Student Goals
• Learn
• Get a good grade
• Get into a good college
• Please mom and dad
• Keep mom and dad off their back
• Get a credit
• Get through
• Disrupt
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12. Gallup Found
Half of students are either going
through the motions at school or
actively undermining the
teaching and learning process.
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14. Any real learning experience includes:
• An actual experience
• A story that demands telling about that
experience
• Cognitive processes get honed by the
experience
• Teaching that is done just in time
• Actually accomplishing something …
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15. People Learn in Two Ways
• They learn by doing (try, fail, explain, try
again)
• They learn just in time (try, fail, get help, try
again
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17. We understand and remember the
world in terms of expectations
• We remember expectation failures
• We remember ours (or other’s) explanations
• We alter our memories as a result
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18. Your “Sweet Spot” – Jim Collins
What are you
PASSIONATE
about?
What can What drives
you be the the CASH?
BEST at?
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20. Instead of learning about,
students should be learning the
discipline of …
Howard Gardner - Five Minds For
The Future
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21. In Real Life, as opposed
to School...
learning is about practice
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22. “The future is already here — it's
just not very evenly distributed.”
– William Gibson
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23. Schools Are...
If you asked high school kids to describe
school in one word, what word would they
choose?
Is boredom a desirable condition for
learning to occur?
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