Morning Procedures:
1.Welcome to Model teaching!
2.Greet Linda.
3.Greet two other people.
4.Find a place to sit.
5.You will find breakfast in the Cafe.
6.We will begin at 8:30.
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Model Teaching Week
June 2010
Stage 1- Co-Teaching
HET: Jill Hay
K-1 Mrs. Hinz & Ms. Francis
2-3 Small Group, Mrs. Vaniman & Mr. Houser
2-3 Mrs. Lance & Ms. Mauldin
4-5 Mrs. Braddy & Mrs. Auchenpaugh
Stage 2-HET: Linda Jordan
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College Credit for this week
Lewis and Clark University
3 Credits
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Today’s Time Lines
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8:00-8:30 Breakfast
8:30-9:00 Linda
9:00- 9:20 Classroom Visit (Environment)
9:20-12:00 Linda
12:00-12:45 Lunch-on your own
12:24-1:00 ILP/Co-Planning
1:00-2:30 Linda
2:30-3:00 3rd Classroom Visit
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CLASSROOM:
WELCOME:
OBSERVATIONS
(3 visits today)
DAY ONE
THE BRAIN
What’s New?
P.E.R.K. & CLOSURE
LEARNING IS A
PARTNERSHIP
BETWEEN BODY
AND BRAIN
Stage 1: Review
Stage 2 Preview
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Strategies
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Meet the Jordan Men
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Classroom Observation Procedures
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Enter silently
Remain silent
Take notes
Leave silently
Take a Post-It-Note
Leave questions and appreciations for
the teachers you observe.
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CREATE A NAMETAG
• Write your name on the name tag lines
Name
• Draw a circle and divide it into 4 parts
Name
• Draw a square next to the circle
Name
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CREATE A NAMETAG
Name
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Number your circle 1,2,3,4
Listen to Linda for further instructions.
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Model Teaching Week
• Honoring the teachers of teachers
– They are not perfect
– They are models
Scenario:
First day of school
Superintendent, principal, 20 parents drop by
to watch you teach
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HET Stages
• Stage One: Physical and Emotional
Environment
• Stage Two: Mini-themes, Creating
Yearlong Theme Map, Being There
• Stage Three: Yearlong Theme Map
Created, Writing Key Points and Inquiries
• Stage Four & Five: Refinement
Evaluate your teaching….Where are you?
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The HET Model
Creating Context
Biology of
Learning
Instructional
Strategies
HET Conceptual
Curriculum
Growing Responsible
Citizens
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Definition of a Model
One definition of “model” is:
“Worthy of replication”
ITI, as a brain-compatible model of
education, is being replicated with
success throughout the United States
and in other parts of the world.
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Highly Effective Teaching CYCLE
Graphic by Dean Tannewitz, Susan Kovalik & Associates
Comprehensive
Research
Meaningful
Assessment
Rigorous
Curriculum
Powerful
Lesson Design
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HET HISTORY
1978~ Susan Kovalik- US gifted programs
1984- present~
Brain research– integrated curriculum connection
ITI The Model, Exceeding Expectations, etc.
1992-1999~
Slovakia connection
1999~ Accepted in the Catalog of School Reform
as a replicable model
2008- Changed to Highly Effective Teaching
Partnership with International Center of Leadership
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in Education
Goals for the week. . .
EVERYONE will:
• Experience a brain-compatible
environment
• Network with other teachers in a
similar grade level/position
• Begin to develop a Year Long Theme
• Increase the number of teaching
strategies in your bag of tricks
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SENSE OF BELONGING
ACTIVITY
Find your Circle 2 Buddy
Introduce yourself to each
other
Find three things you have
in common
Be ready to share these with
the group
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Book Focus:
Instructional Strategies
Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites
by Marcia Tate
Skim the book
Share with your elbow partner what you find
fascinating, validating (I already do that)
and interesting.
4 Strategies per day
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Strategy 1
Brainstorming and Discussion
• Brainstorm a list of questions prior to reading or
a unit of study (skim chapter)
• Learning clubs (families) stop and discuss
• Bloom’s Taxonomy
• Have students create questions
• Use sentence starters
• Think, pair, share
• Wait time
• Debate
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Bloom’s Taxonomy Using Technology
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Strategy 2
Drawing and Artwork
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Personal Pictionary
Design a book jacket
Posters
Draw math problems
Draw or label part of what they are learning
Design a mural based on what they learned
yesterday
• Symbols to help recall information
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Strategy 3
Field Trips (Being There)
• 20 Senses
• Levels the playing field
• Real World application of
knowledge/skills
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OUR “20” SENSES
Sight
Hearing
Touch
Taste
Smell
Balance-Movement
Vestibular
Temperature
Pain
Eidetic Imagery
Magnetic
Infrared
Ultraviolet
Ionic
Vomeronasal
Proximal
Electrical
Barometric
Geogravimetric
Proprioception
Visible Light
Vibrations in Air
Tactile Contact
Chemical Molecular
Olfactory Molecular
Kinesthetic Geotropic
Repetitious Movement
Molecular Motion
Nociception
Neuroelectrical Image Retention
Ferromagnetic Orientation
Long Electromagnetic Waves
Short Electromagnetic Waves
Airborne Ionic Charge
Pheromonic Sensing
Physical Closeness
Surface Charge
Atmospheric Pressure
Sensing Mass Differences
Sensation of Body in Space
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Strategy 4
Games
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Use current games and remake them
Make original games
Charades
Wheel of Fortune
Loop Game
Bingo
Pictionary
Engage the Brain Games
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playwithyourmind.com
Playing brain games exercises your cognitive
abilities and improves your brain fitness
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Word Games
Logic Games
Typing Games
Math Games
Search Games
Memory Games
Focus Games
Mouse Games
Card Games
Multi-Tasking Games
Spatial Games
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Memory
Eye-Hand
Coordination
Visual-Spatial
Problem Solving
Attention & Focus
Processing Number
Word Tease
Blankout
Word Toggle
Word Grid
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Memory Game
Schedule Memory
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Iconic Memory
Game
Color Codes
Word Order
Color Match
Spatial Memory
Object Memory
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“A journey of a thousand
miles begins with a
single step.”
~ Confucius ~
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Change
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Teacher Rant
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LEVELS OF USE
LEVELS
NON-USE
ORIENTATION
PREPARATION
When learning a new
strategy, process, or skill
INDICES
No action taken—user doesn’t know about it.
User has just acquired or is acquiring information
and is exploring it.
Preparing to use it, finding out more, gathering the
necessary materials, and getting organized.
MECHANICAL USE Use requires focus day by day on steps involved.
ROUTINE USE
REFINEMENT
INTEGRATION/
COLLABORATION
RENEWAL
Use has become routine and comfortable for the
user. If changes are made, they are convenient.
User makes changes to improve the process and
outcome for students.
Deliberate effort is made to collaborate with others
to achieve broader changes.
All refinements possible have been made, user now
seeks more effective alternatives, new approaches,
and abandons the old in favor of the new.
Return to Non-Use and the cycle begins again
—Karen Olsen, The Mentor Teacher Role, 1989
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Brain Snack
Throughout the day we will stop for a “Brain Snack”
• These will be opportunities to:
– Reflect on Learning
– Provide Movement
– Anchor Learning
– Check on Understanding
Turn to a neighbor and share something
you have already heard that either
validates your current practice or that
challenges you to improve your current
practice.
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Brain Updates
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Environmental Factors Affecting the
Growing Brain
Emotion
laden
messages
Greater stress,
threat, and
violence
Less physical
activity, more TV
Rapidly
changing inputMTV
Variation in
family pattern
Diet, nutrition,
and drugs
—David Sousa, 1998
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Brain Geography…
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Communication of Neurons
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Photograph of NEURONS
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Lobes of the Brain
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Amygdala
•The psychological sentinel of the brain because it plays a
major role in the control of emotion.
•It is connected to many parts of the brain and plays a critical
part in learning,
cognition and emotional memories.
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Hippocampus
•It helps us remember events in recent past, as well as
responsible for sending new information and experiences
to be stored in the cortex in long-term memory.
•Critical to learning and memory formation.
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Reticular Activating System
•The RAS receives information from all over the body and acts
as a central, initial regulator for attention, arousal, sleepwakefulness and consciousness.
•It filters out distractions or trivial sensory information.
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Mirror Neurons in the Brain
A new class of brain cells -- mirror
neurons are active both when people
perform an action and when they watch it
being performed.
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What is an Educator to do?
• Reduce Stress
– Build Relationships
– Teach coping skills
• Academic
– Learn the current brain research
– Teach real life applications of content
– The Brain Compatible Classroom
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Brain Events: Let’s Get Going!
• BAW: Brain Awareness Week-sponsored by
the Dana Foundation, BC, and SfN; 2nd week
in March.
• Visit the following web sites:
– Dana
– Neuroscience for Kids
– SfN
– Brain connection
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Brain Clips-YouTube.com
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Secrets of Einstein’s Brain
Parts of the Brain
Brain Plasticity
Brain Anatomy & Functions
Men’s Brains/Women’s Brains
Regions of the Brain
Carl Sagan: The Human Brain
Still on My Brain -Justin Timberlake
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Lectures: Topic? The Brain
• Academic Earth: Marian Diamond: General Human
Anatomy- 36 lectures (Lecture 2-brain)
http://academicearth.org/courses/general-humananatomy
• 50 Fascinating Lectures About the Brain
http://tinyurl.com/ykp3udb
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Resources
• Brain Connection: dedicated to providing accessible,
high-quality information about how the brain works and
how people learn. ttp://brainconnection.positscience.com/
• Sharp Brains: a leading market research and advisory
services firm covering the growing cognitive fitness
market. http://www.sharpbrains.com/
• Dana Foundation: supports brain research
through grants and educates the public
http://www.dana.org/Default.aspx
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Resources
• Society for Neuroscience: advance the understanding
of the brain http://web.sfn.org/
• Brainy Kids: part of the brainconnection website
http://www.dana.org/resources/brainykids/
• Neuroscience for Kids: facts, games, contests
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neurok.html
• NIH: National Institute of Health: curriculum
http://tinyurl.com/yavjpwh
• Brain Line: 3D Brain http://www.brainline.org/
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How did you do with….
…Firing? (Thinking)
…Wiring? (Learning)
How will you use this information
to inform your practice?
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Stage One Review
• Physical and Emotional Environment
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Mastery/Application
Adequate Time
Absence of Threat/
Nurturing Reflecting
Thinking Enriched Environment
Bodybrain
Compatible
Movement
Elements
Meaningful Content
Immediate Feedback
Choices
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Collaboration
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Brain Compatible Element
Enriched Environment
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We are the only species
that creates the
environment that
creates who we become!
Land of Childhood
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EE p.7.16
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LIFELONG GUIDELINES/LIFESKILLS
CONCEPT~
INTERDEPENDENCE
GOING BUGGY!
TOPIC: INSECT
MONARCH BUTTERFLY
HABITAT
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Uncluttered… But Rich
 Wall displays reflect the itinerary
for the topic
 Print and non-print materials
support the content being learned
 Real objects are available
 Aesthetically pleasing
 Seating is arranged in clusters
with easy access to work tools
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Immersion Area
Student
Level
Yearlong Theme
WALLS
AND
DISPLAYS
8 Smarts
Lighting
Plants
Clutter Free
Music
Lifelong Guidelines
FEELING
“Tone”
2 - 3 Color Flow
Social
Action
Key Points
“Homey”
Touches
LIFESKILLS
Agenda
Theme
Connections
Collaborative
Groups
SPACES
Flow
Environment
With
Purpose and
Pattern
Town Hall and
Meeting Area
Water
Technology
Resources
Print & Real
Procedures
Spaces
Quiet Spaces
“Australia”
“Prime Real Estate”
For Direct Instruction
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Baskets
MATERIALS
“Skill Supports”
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Brain Compatible Element
Absence of Threat
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Absence of Threat
• Absence of threat does not mean
absence of challenge or lack of
consequences for misbehavior or
bad choices.
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It does mean lack of real and
perceived threat to physical and
emotional safety.
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Lifelong Guidelines
Trustworthiness: To act in a manner that makes one
worthy of confidence
Truthfulness: To act with personal responsibility and
mental accountability
Active Listening: To listen with attention and intention
No Put-Downs: To never use words, actions and/or
body language that degrade, humiliate, or dishonor
others
Personal Best: To do one’s best given the
circumstances and available resources
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INTEGRITY: To act according to what’s right and wrong
INITIATIVE: To do something because it needs to be done
FLEXIBILITY: The ability to alter plans when necessary
PERSEVERANCE: To keep at it
ORGANIZATION: To work in an orderly way
SENSE OF HUMOR: To laugh and be playful without hurting others
EFFORT: To do your best
COMMON SENSE: To think it through
PROBLEM SOLVING: To seek solutions
RESPONSIBILITY: To do what’s right
PATIENCE: To wait calmly
FRIENDSHIP: To make and keep a friend through mutual trust and caring
CURIOSITY: To investigate and seek understanding
COOPERATION: To work together toward a common goal (purpose)
CARING: To show/feel concern
COURAGE: To act according to one’s beliefs
PRIDE: Satisfaction from doing your personal best
RESOURCEFULNESS: To respond to challenges in creative ways
CREATIVITY- …to generate ideas; to create something original or redesign
through imaginative skill
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Procedures
Written procedures list the agreed-upon behaviors
related to a regular school or classroom routine.
When developing procedures…
 Use easily read letters
 Support with an illustration
 Use two colors for one chart
 Have students help create
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Agendas
Agendas give students the security of knowing what is
coming for the day and a tool for planning and organizing
their time to meet the day’s objectives.
Mapping A Story
Morning Business
Munch a Snack
Mental Notes
About Today
Marvelous Monday
Moving to Specials
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Mapping Our
Neighborhood
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Classroom Set Up
• Where in the World?
– Stewardship
– Leadership
– Citizenship
• Australia
• How are you Smart?
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Where are you?
• What parts of Stage 1 are your strengths
and your challenges?
• Create an action plan for how you will
ensure that Stage 1 is solidly in place.
• Share your plan with your Circle 4 buddy.
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Stages Two & Three Preview
• Stage Two: Mini-themes, Creating
Yearlong Theme Map (Curriculum
Mapping), Being There
• Stage Three: Yearlong Theme Map
Created, Writing Key Points
and Inquiries
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K-W-L
• On the 3 X 5 cards write down what you
know about stages 2 and beyond on one
side and what you want to know on the
other.
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Curriculum vs. Lesson Planning
Curriculum:
State standards
What the students will know, understand,
be able to do at the end of the lesson
Used for assessment
Lesson Plan:
Teacher chosen activity to assure the
students learn the curriculum
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HET Vocabulary
A yearlong theme serves as a framework for content
development.
Organizing
Concept
(BIG IDEA)
Kid Grabbing
Title
(KID GRABBER)
Pattern
Shaper
Rationale
(WHY TEACH THIS?)
Component
(MARKING PERIOD)
(ORGANIZER)
Topic
Key Points
Inquiries
(AREAS WITHIN
COMPONENT)
(PATTERN
DETECTION)
(PROGRAM BUILDING)
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HET VOCABULARY
• Kid Grabbing Title
– Fun titles to hook students
• Concept
– Big Idea
– Creates an address in the brain to send
learning to
• Rationale
– Why teach this, this way?
– Justification to: teacher, students, parents,
administration
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HET VOCABULARY
• Year Long Theme
– Curriculum Map, pacing guide
• Component
– Marking Period
• Key Point
– Standard in kid language
– Conceptual, Significant Knowledge, Skill
• Inquiry
– Activity students do to learn the Key Point
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Treasures Within
•Lifelong
Guidelines
•LIFESKILLS
•How We Learn
Location:
Classroom
Treasures of Our Water
MICHIGAN’S
TREASURES
Treasures of Our Heritage
•Treasures of the
Creek
•Riding the River
•Great Lakes & Great
• Ships
•Nature’s Balance
Location: Detroit River,
Blakely Creek
Treasures of Our Land
•The Three
Fires
•Pondering Plants
•Voyages
Digging for Treasures
•Fertile Fields
•Culture Clash
•Sifting Through the Soil
•Grazing Through
•Our Place in
•Iron Country
the
the
•More Underground
Grass
Universe
Treasures
•Green Gold
Location:
•Simple MachinesLocation:
History
Complex Work
Farm/Forest
Museum
Location: Schoolyard
Organizing Concept for the Theme: Knowledge is wealth and there are treasures to
be found everywhere
Rationale: We treasure and help preserve what we understand.
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Hospital
City Council
From Our
Perspective
From the
City
My Bodybrain
Procedures
Basic Needs
Lifelong Guidelines
Agenda
LIFESKILLS
Community Building
Florence
City
Government
Raptor Center
County Park
From Boone
County
Citizens:
Trees as Habitats:
Natives
Oak
People from Other Places
Chestnut
International Airport
Tulip
Poplar
Local Businesses
Horse Breeding:
Turfway Race Track
Kentucky Derby
Horse Farm
The World from
Organizing Concept: Diversity
Rationale: Learning about the
Animal Citizens:
• Predators: Owls and Other
Raptors
• Cave Dwellers: Bats
diversity of the people, animals and
plants of our neighborhood and state
can help students understand their role
as a responsible citizen.
Where We Stand
Agriculture
State Universities
and Colleges
From the
State
History of the River:
• Early Settlers
Ecology
• Trappers and Traders
of the River
Cities:
Transportation Routes:
Frankfort - State Capital
* Barges
Lexington - Heart of Bluegrass
* Locks
Louisville - River City
* Highways
Harlan County - Coal Mining
Frankfort
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An effective theme meets the following criteria:
Exciting
Real
World
Meaningful
Concept
Age
Appropriate
Worthy of
Time
Materials/
Being There
Organizer
for
Curriculum
Establishes
Itinerary
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CONCEPTUAL ORGANIZERS for a
YEAR LONG THEME
• adaptation
• communication
• cycles
• development
• economics
• foundation
• identity
• independence
• perspective
• stewardship
• balance
• conflict
• dependence
• diversity
• exploration
• freedom
• interdependence
• justice
• principle
• survival
• cause/effect
• change
• democracy
• duty
• family
• function
• institution
• legacies
• progress
• symbolism
• citizenship
• courage
• discovery
• ecology
• form/func.
• habitat
• judgment
• power
• relationship
• universality
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BODY-MAPPING:
Parts of a Theme
Kid
Grabber
Topics
Keypoints
(point out)
Concept
(body of theme)
Yearlong Theme
By Judy Eacker
SKA Associate
Topics
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ORGANIZING CONCEPT:
CHANGE
Component
Change
Component
Change
Component
Change
Component
Change
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ORGANIZING CONCEPT:
CHANGE
Component
Change
Component
Cycles
Component
Diversity
Component
Cause/Effect
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ORGANIZING CONCEPT:
CHANGE
Change
Topic
My Body
Earth
Materials
Topic
Cycles
Topic
Weather
Diversity
Cause/Effect
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& Inquiries
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Why Integrate?
• To many standards to teach in isolation
• The brain works best and remembers
best with an integrated format
• See the big picture not isolated factoids
• Our world is integrated
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Where to Begin….
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Where To Begin
Mini-Theme
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Start small
Standards
Being There
Concept
Conceptual Key Point (definition of key point
plus a so what.)
6. Kick-off
7. Celebration
8. Guest Speakers
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Science
Grade Level
Math
Topic/Standard
Topic/Standard
Topic/Standard
Topic/Standard
Topic/Standard
Topic/Standard
Being There
Concept
Language Arts
Social Studies
Topic/Standard
Topic/Standard
Topic/Standard
Topic/Standard
Topic/Standard
Topic/Standard
Guest Speakers
Kick Off
Celebration
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Science
Grade
Level: 3rd
Math
Food Chains
Measurement
Water Cycle
Charts & Graphs
Senses
Beach
Interdependence
Language Arts
Social Studies
Adjectives
Economy
Informational reading
Landforms
Poetry
Guest Speakers: Professor, Emily, Park Ranger
Kick Off: Trip to beach
Celebration: Wax museum Projects
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ITI Yearlong Theme Organizer
Grade Level:
Yearlong Theme Title:
Component
Concept
Social/Political
Action
Being There
Experience (s)
Guest Speakers
Science
Social Studies
Writing Skills/
Assignments
Mathematics
Reading
Literature
Technology
Integration with
Concept
Music / PE / Art
Integration with
Concept
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Feedback to Linda
Gifts
Needs
Questions
Ah-ha’s
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MINGLE TO MUSIC
• Stand up and push your chair in (for safety
reasons).
• When the music starts playing, move around
the room.
• When the music stops playing, find a partner
(triads are OK if an uneven number of people
are in the group).
• Follow the presenters directions. Repeat.
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P.E.R.K.
Please bring in a S.A.S.E.
(self-addressed stamped
envelope) by Friday.
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P.E.R.K.
Look through your
EE Book
Find three things
that catch your
interest.
Be Ready to share
what you found
tomorrow.
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End-of the-Day Procedures
• Review P.E.R.K. assignment
w/partner.
• Organize personal materials.
• Tidy up your Learning Club table
and area. Dispose of trash.
• Share an appreciation with your
L.C. Focus on personal/professional
observations.
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“And now here is my secret,
A very simple secret;
It is only with the heart
that one sees rightly,
What is essential is invisible to the eye.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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