Welcome to
TEACHER
TOOLBOX
Summer, 2011
Diane Cepela
Professional
Development Alliance
Welcome to
TEACHER TOOLBOX
2011
•You need:
•A notebook, pen and paper
•A dollar bill (or a rich
friend)
•A blue card
•A name tag
•A positive attitude and an
open mind…
Let’s make a dent
in the universe.
Steve Jobs
Getting Started
What Are We Doing Today
•Sign in and pick up handouts.
•Take a seat – any seat
•Grab some chow.
•We will examine the syllabus and discuss grades
today.
•Today’s Goals:
•Getting to know you
•Establishing routines and procedures
•Learning how you learn
•Today’s Journal Question: What three great
ideas do you want to remember from today?
•If you need to pay, John will stop by today.
Taking Care of You
First
•Fed, watered, slept
•Exercised, spiritual needs,
stress
•8 hugs a day
•Found the gift?
I have learned that when I am
really tired and grumpy - if I take
two miniature marshmallows,
stick one up each nostril, and
then try to blow them out – I
don’t feel so bad after all.
11 year old boy
Taken from the book “Things I’ve
Learned From Life”
Anchor Activities
If you finish your work early, some work to
think about.
• Alternative assessments – the
computers are always working.
• Online quizzes – there are learning
styles, multiple intelligences, and adult
ADD quizzes – you know who you
are.
• There are also some excellent internet
sites for learning and physical
disabilities – can you find one?
• Journal entry – is there something you
want to remember but the end of the
day is too late? Write it now!
Teacher Tool Box –
The Beginning
Learning
Styles
Classroom
Management
Computer
Fun
Travel
Motivation
Reading
Learning How You
Learn
• Participate in the webquest for the
different kinds of learners suggested
below. The webquest site was up and
running this morning. The site is
called “So You’re Gifted… A
Webquest of Self-Discovery”.
http://www.adifferentplace.org/gifte
dwebquest.htm.
• We will be looking at all parts today
except the Evaluation.
• Take at least one test on the Process
page.
• Look at Learning Contract and start
thinking about what you need to do!
Think, Pair and Share
• Divide into teams of two. Everyone
is given the same material to
read/do.
• Read assigned material.
• Open discussion regarding material
read.
• Guided discussion – teacher gives
specific questions/ideas that are to be
discussed.
• Teacher Clarification.
• Culminating project.
• Metacognition.
Each One, Teach One
(Jigsaw for larger groups)
• Groups of 2-4. Each person in group is
given a different group of material to
read/do.
• Read/do material assigned.
• Expert groups – find ONE person in the
room who has read the same material as
you –
• Open discussion
• Guided discussion
• Check.
• Return to home team and teach your team
what you learned about your material in
guided discussion.
• Teacher Clarification.
• Culminating project.
• Metacognition.
It is the 97th day of
your seventeenth
year of teaching. A
day like all others and that’s the
problem.
One Computer Classroom
Scavenger Hunt
• Play with http://www.google.com
• Click on “More”, click on “Map”,
then click on “Satellite”.
• Type in the address of your school.
• Find your school and zoom in to see
your school up close.
• Type in your address and zoom in to
see your house.
• Now under “Traffic” find Bicycle.
Find directions on your bicycle to the
nearest ice cream or donut place.
• On a blue card write some
possibilities you see in this website
• Anchor Activity: How else is “Big
Brother” watching you? What other
internet sites have your personal
information online?
Characteristics of
Effective Classrooms
• Aligned Classroom Curricular
Design
• Effective Instructional Strategies
• Positive Classroom Management
Robert Marzano, 2003, What Works in
Schools
Categories of Instructional
Strategies that Affect
Student Achievement
• Identifying Similarities and
Differences (1.61)
• Summarizing and Note Taking
(1.00)
• Reinforcing Effort and Providing
Recognition (.80)
• Homework and Practice (.77)
• Nonlinguistic Representations (.75)
• Cooperative Learning (.73)
• Setting Objectives and Providing
Feedback (.61)
• Generating and Testing Hypotheses
(.61)
• Questions, Cues, and Advance
Organizers (.59)
Cerebrum
Thinking, memory, speech
and muscular movement
• Frontal Lobe – Self Will –
personality
• Cerebellum – coordinating
movement – golf swing, drinking
from a cup
• Brain Cells – 100 billion synaptic
connections at birth (200 billion
conception to 4 months). Neurons
have up to 10,000 dendrites =
synaptic connections. Adult human
brain can generate new neurons in
the hippocampus (emotion to create
meaning.
"Be who you are and say
what you feel, because
those who
mind don't matter and
those who matter don't
mind."
~ Dr. Seuss
Windows of Opportunity
A Child’s Brain Matures
Structure/Age
Motor Development
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1
0
X X X X X X X
Emotional Control
½X ½
Vocabulary
½X X X X X X
Language
X X X X X X X X X X X
Math/Logic
Instrumental Music
X X X X
X X X X X X X X
This chart shows sensitive periods for learning. One can continue learning even after the window has
closed, however, the skill level will not be as high. Some areas are not as plastic – for example if the perfect
brain doesn’t receive visual stimuli before the age of two, it will always be blind; no words before the age of
ten, the person will never learn a language.
Information Processing
Model
5 Senses Past Experiences
Self- Concept
Sense/Meaning
Immediate
Memory
Out
Out
Working
Memory
Out
Long
Term
Memory
Retention Rate after 24
Hours Using These
Teaching Strategies
Lecture
Reading
5%
10%
AudioVisual
Demonstration
20%
30%
Discussion Group
50%
Practice by Doing
Teach Others/Immediate Use of Learning
75%
90%
Your Magnetic Personality
What is –
One Talent You Have?
One Personality Trait That You Offer?
One Gift That You Bring?
HOW TO WEIGH YOURSELF CORRECTLY…
•Optimistic people live longer, have fewer
illnesses, miss fewer days of work, and are in
general overall better health. If you pretend
you are optimistic, you can become
optimistic. Then you too will have better
health.
•Stress is estimated to cost the economy over
$200 billion annually. Humor is a powerful
antidote to stress
•Put humor into your physical environment –
it will filter into people’s awareness.
•Use humor as a tool not a weapon. Watch
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your life.” Tom Peters
Jerry’s
“Joy Grants”
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Follow a child
Relax, breathe
Build a fort with a blanket
Live Juicy: are you dry and tired?
Imagine yourself magic
Eat mangoes naked
Delight yourself first , others will
follow
• Plant I’m possible gardens
• Make signs that say YES! And post
them all over the office
• You are enough, you have enough,
you do enough
Do things upside down and backwards
More fun things to
do
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Have more fun than anyone else
Hang around with only positive people
Don’t think about yourself around other people
The sole cause of unhappiness is that we do not
know how to stay quietly in our own room, so –go to
your room.
Find a place to escape reality
Sleep
Go where you’ve never been
Be like Gilda Radner – base your fashion sense on
what doesn’t itch
Treat yourself
Live like you have nothing to lose
Don’t wait until a funeral to forgive or tell someone
how much you care
Let go – you are not the boss of the universe
Know what matters and don’t be bothered by the
rest
If it’s happening – learn from it
Throw your arms open wide
Learn magic
Always, always
• Use Colors and Pictures
• Print – use capitals for major
headlines, lower case for rest. ALL
CAPS IS THE SAME AS
YELLING!!!
• Markers and big paper when
possible
• Alone, group, alone…
• Write and talk
• Music
• Hands-on
• Connect to their life
Reading
• Learning to Read – phonemic
awareness, phonics, fluency,
vocabulary
• Reading to Learn –
comprehension, summarizing,
inferencing
• Test Taking Strategies.
Math
• Basic Computations and Facts –
understanding why and
knowing implicitly that 2 + 2 =
4
• Applications to higher order
math (algebra, geometry,
calculus)
• Real life applications
• Test taking strategies
Reading to Learn
• Read to infer / interpret / draw
conclusions
• Support arguments with
evidence
• Resolve conflicting views
encountered in source
documents
• Solve complex problems with
no obvious answer
(College Knowledge, Conley, 2005)
One foot in front of
the other.
That’s all.
The Master’s
Rules
• Everyone wants to go to heaven
but no one wants to die to get
there. You can’t avoid the need
to study either.
• You cannot know too much.
Don’t worry about burning out.
Learn it all, and no matter what
they ask, you’ll know it.
• Cry if it makes you feel better,
but after you finish crying, get
back to work.
• The three keys to success are
preparation, preparation, and yes,
preparation.
Alfred Jenkins who for the last 28 years has tutored more than 2000
aspiring African-American lawyers in passing the tough California law
exam.
Learning
Styles
Classroom
Management
Computer
Fun
Travel
Motivation
Reading
The size of the
line is directly
related to the
size of the
answer.
If only the finest birds in the forest
dared to sing
How quiet the forest would be
If only the best readers dared to
read,
How ignorant our country would be.
If only the best singers dared to
sing,
How sad our country would be
If only the best athletes engaged in
sports,
How weak our country would be.
If only the best could ever try,
Where would you and I be?
William Purkey
Date_______
Today’s Journal
Q:
A:
• Simplicity, Clarity , Priority
(p. 20 Focus, Schmoker)
Getting Started
What Are We Doing Today
•Sign in and pick up handouts.
•Take a seat – we start and end the day with your
home team.
•Grab some chow.
•Today’s Goals:
•One computer classroom.
•We will be continuing on the Marzano theme
using Webquest to learn about learning styles.
We will take a look at Webquests also.
•We will also add to our activity idea box.
•Get ready! We have a busy day planned!
•Today’s Journal Question: In what three ways
did we address what Marzano says is effective
teaching today?
•Take a minute and look at the “Anchor
Activities” Poster.
Getting Started
What Are We Doing Today
•Sign in and pick up handouts.
•Take a seat – we start and end the day with your
home team.
•Today’s Goals:
•Jigsaw
•Marzano with non-linguistic representations
and Reinforcing Effort and Providing
Recognition
•Inspiration
•Wiki
•Time to work on projects
•Get ready! We have a busy day planned!
•Today’s Journal Question: Application – How
will you use today's ideas in your classroom next
year? Give at least 3 examples.
Getting Started
What Are We Doing Today
•Sign in and pick up handouts.
•Take a seat – we start and end the day with your
home team.
•Grab some chow.
•Today’s Goals:
•One computer classroom.
•Finish Multiple Intelligences.
•Poverty in Education
•Today’s Journal Question: What you have
heard today that makes you think differently
about poverty?
•Extra Time - “Anchor Activities” Poster.
Getting Started
What Are We Doing Today
•Sign in and pick up handouts.
•Take a seat – we start and end the day with your
home team.
•Grab some chow.
•Today’s Goals:
•One computer classroom.
•Finish Poverty in Education
•Bloom’s Taxonomy
•Wrap Up
•Today’s Journal Question: How will you use
Teacher Tool Box strategies in your classroom?
•Extra Time - “Anchor Activities” Poster. Finish
projects.
Your head is
like a bad
neighborhood
– don’t go in
there alone.
Anchor Activities
What To Do When You Have Extra Time
•Sign in and pick up handouts.
•Take a seat – any seat
•Grab some chow.
•Today:
•Getting to know you
•Establishing routines and procedures
•Learning styles
•Today’s Journal Question: What three great
ideas do you want to remember from today?
•If you need to pay, John will return around 9:00.
He is located by the fish tank.
Where do
you find
your JOY?
Free Stuff!
It is the 97th day
of your
seventeenth year
of teaching. A day
like all others –
and that’s the
problem.
KID HUMOR
VS.
ADULT HUMOR
Two Types
of Humor:
Freud – all humor
is either
aggression, sex or
aggressive sex.
Marvin Minski –
humor is about
things you can’t
say like….
In the depths of
winter, I finally
learned that
within me there
lay and invincible
summer.
Albert Campus
I am a great
believer in luck
and the harder
I work the
more I have of
it.
Stephen Leacock
To the world you
may be one person,
but to one person
you may be the
world.
The most promising words ever written
on the maps of human knowledge are
terra incognita – unknown territory.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Frequent
Breaks
Nourishment
and
Nutrition
Movement
Ritual
See, Talk,
and Do
Music
Ownership
Praise
Where do
you find
your JOY?
Session I: Individual
Career Plan/Portfolio
Development
Session II: Parents as
Partners in Career
Development
Dr. Toni Tollerud
Northern Illinois
University
Diane Cepela
815.744.8334
dcepela@pdaonline.org
Summer 2003
Learning Center 1
• Working with a partner find out your own
learning style by taking one of the online
tests available.
• Start with a google search. In quotations
(“”) type “learning styles test”.
• Go to either the LD Pride site or Abiator’s
Online learning Styles inventory.
• LD Pride – click on learning styles, scroll
down and take the learning styles test.
• Abiator’s Site – on the left look for the two
learning styles tests and take one.
• If time take the multiple intelligence test
on LD Pride.
Learning Center 2/4
• Read the assigned article.
• Discuss with your team your feelings about
the article. You may not have enough time
to finish your article, now and will
complete it at homework time.
• In your journal, write how you can use
your new information form the article in
your classroom. Divide your information
into what you do now, and what you need
to do next year.
• If you do not finish, we will have time at
the end of the day to finish. Agree with
your team if you will discuss the article at
the end of the day or at the beginning of
tomorrow.
Learning Center 3
• Make your “Sharing a Good Feeling” necklace.
We will be using this necklace for the rest of our
time together to reinforce good feelings.
• Cut a piece of 3/16 nylon rope into a 4 foot length.
Measure carefully – we want to be sure to have
enough for everyone.
• Using the colored yarn, make a tassel. You may
have done this as a child but if not –Wrap your
choice colored yarn around the blue card – width –
ways. You may use as many colors as you choose.
Do at least 50 wraps – one complete circle is a
wrap. Tie off the top by taking a piece of yarn and
threading it between the blue card and the yarn on
one side. Now tie this yarn piece in a tight knot. At
the opposite end of the yarn you just tied on, cut
through the bottom of all the wrapped yarn.
• Using a single piece of yarn, tie the tassel to the
nylon rope.
• Whenever you feel like it, you may give away one
of your yarns to another member of the class. It can
be for anything you like as long as it is positive.
Computer Center 1
• Visit “The Webquest Page at San
Diego State University”
• Browse through the webquests
available for your subject, your age
group.
• Select one webquest that you can use
in your classroom.
• Print out the webquest selected – just
the explanation page.
• Share your find with your group.
Explain possible changes you would
make so that the webquest best
meets the needs of your curriculum
and students.
Computer Center 2
• Read “Some Thoughts About
Webquests”.
• Answer the bulleted points that you
feel you can from the reading on the
webquest worksheet. Some things
will have to wait until you go on
line.
• Build in a walk with your group
outside. During this walk, discuss
one thing you have learned, one
thing you are grateful for, and one
thing you promise.
Computer Center
• Practice using the Smart Board.
• Orient the board using the 9 touch points
• Open Notebook and practice writing
directions.
• Change your directions into typed format.
• Practice on more than one slide then
change from one slide to the other.
• Practice using Inspiration –Rapid fire for
brainstorming - on the Smart Board.
• Play. Discover one more thing you can do
with the Smart Board.
• Let everyone participate!
One Computer Classroom
Computer Center
• Play with http://www.unitedstreaming.com
• Use dcepela as your user name and cepela1
as your password.
• Type in a keyword and find a portion of a
video to preview. S=Stream, D=Download,
and A=Add to Playlist.
• “Streaming” is when you play a video over
the internet. If too man do this at once, you
can shut down our system Please – for
today, only the people at the one computer
can stream.
• On a blue card write some possible concerns
you have about unitedstreaming.com as a
learning tool.
• Anchor Activity: Look at the tools under
“Learning Tools”. What else can you use
from this website?
Learning Multiple
Intelligences
• Take the MI test at Http://www.ldpride.net
• Each One Teach One:
• Read the descriptions of each of the MI’s
from David Lazear – he is one of the early
protégés of Howard Gardner. Google
search for MI then look for Multiple
Intelligences Revealed! http://www.multiintell.com/MI_chart.html. OR
• Read from Use All Your Smarts: Multiple
Intelligences for Diverse Library Learners
at
http://www.lesley.edu/faculty/kholmes/pre
sentations/MI.html
• Follow Each One Teach One Directions.
First Challenge – Brain
Research Overview
• You will work with your partner.
• Do a Google search for “Adventures in Neuroanatomy:
Parts of the Nervous System” or go to
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/nsdivide.html.
• Read through the top part of the Webquest. You may look
at any extra information you want by clicking on the
topics that are in blue/purple.
• Focus on the information after the title “Brain Structures”.
Read.
• We will discuss what you have read after 20 minutes.
• Use Mind Mapping/Graphic Organizer, map the
information found under Brain Structures. Include each
part of the brain, and each function for each part of the
brain.
• Add to your Map two important parts – the Corpus
Callosum and the Amygdala. Include their functions also.
• Metacognition: How does this activity support different
parts of the brain?
PDALAB Folder
To copy to folder:
• Click on Save As
• Click on Desktop
• Double Click on PDALAB
• Double Click on Teacher Tool Box
• Type in your name and what it is and Save.
To Open (find your stuff on any computer
in the PDA):
• Click on Desktop (or it is there).
• Click on PDALAB
• Double Click on Teacher Tool Box Folder.
• Your stuff should be there.