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INTASC I watched a few clips from a movie called //To Sir with Love//.MR. Thackeray is a new teacher at a school and when he enters the school, he notices a lot of chaos in one of the classrooms and the attitude in the teacher's lounge is kinda nonchalant. When he meets his first class, he notices that they too appear to be pretty lackadaisical. He takes attendance and calls on some of his students to read aloud. They appear to all have different reading levels. We ended the clip with a quotable quote of "It seems that you know so little, and are so easily amused, that I can look forward to a very happy time. "

Power Teaching  INTASC 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9 add the wording for at least two of these Clip #1 Power teaching. Class?? Yess? Teach! Ok! This all seemed very fun and energetic, but also chaotic. I wasn’t exactly sure the point of “power teaching” except that the kids may be more engaged, but what are they learning? I think this kind of teaching will take a certain kind of personality and a lot of practice! Clip #2 How to begin whole brain teaching Those kids were fully engaged and ready to learn. I would like to see how this is used during regular classroom instruction or is it just for teaching rules? Wow! Crazy stuff! Clip #3 Whole Brain Teaching (Power Teaching) Lesson 1 That clip made more sense. This guy is kinda crazy, but I kind of love him. This sounds like a very fun way to manage your class. I would like to try it with my AfterSchool program. Clip #4 Power Teaching lesson 2 I’m really liking this idea and I’ve started to think about how I can apply this to program. I really think my kids will like it and I think it’ll be more effective than raising my hand and waiting or using “match in the gas tank” “boom! Boom!” Clip #5 Power Teaching lesson 4 Great way to review and enforce the raise your hand for permission to speak, rule 2. I’m excited to learn more!

Biffle Clips lessons 5-8 INTASC Standards: 1-Content Pedagogy" The teacher understand the central concepts, tools of inquiry, and structures of the discipline he or she teaches and can create learning experiences that make these aspects of subject matter meaningful for students. 5-Motivation and Management, 4- Multiple Instructional Strategies- Teacher understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies to encourage student development of critical thinking, problem-soling, and performance skills.

Lesson 5; rule 3- break rule 3 first then if someone breaks rule 3, I'll say "rule 3" then we all say rule 3 together and repeat what it is. Lesson 6; rule 4 - make smart choices
 * Explain rule
 * practice breaking it
 * practice following it
 * sometimes you CAN break rule 3 and when you can, a green post it note will be next to it on the board so that you know it's ok to be up and about
 * follow rules by breaking the rules because you asked them to
 * student engagement is what Power Teaching is all about
 * rule 4 teaches moral reasoning for all facets of life.
 * All philosophers agree about making smart choices.
 * Talk one-on-one with a student. Don't give them an audience
 * What happened? oh,ok, I see, I understand
 * What were your choices? oh uh huh,ok
 * What were some smart choices? ok, ok
 * What were some foolish choices? oh, yes, I see
 * Use this as a teachable moment to talk about making smart choices.

Lesson 7 rule 5 Keep your dear teacher happy
 * Never get in a back and forth with a student; arguing
 * arguing isn't making me happy, so that's breaking rule #5
 * Bringing a branch into class does not make me happy! nope! nope!
 * When you're learning, I'm so happy!

Lesson 8
 * Class? YES! Is an attention getter
 * use a variety because we use it so often
 * linked concepts
 * use class? yes! to review concepts- it's a win-win
 * Rules with gestures
 * illustrations to accompany rules. Hang them in the classroom as refrence

I've started using Power Teaching in my AfterSchool program with my kinder 1st and 2nd group. There are about 40 kids in this group. I've just used Class? YES! and Teach! OK! with them but, they seem to do alright with it. It is harder to teach a concept to a large group, at tables, in the cafeteria. Mostly I use class? yes! to get their attention and direct them to something new or to lay out the rules for the session. I then have them turn to a partner and tell them what I just said. They seem to enjoy it and I even heard a few of the girls using it in their group while they were reading (I can't tell if they were making fun of me or not:)). Recently, I had everyone in the cafeteria (about 85 students, k-6th grade) and I was using a hand signal to get everyone's attention when one of the first graders said "Miss Lacey! Do Class? yes!" So I did, and they K,1,2 group was very excited to show off the new lesson and so I used them to Teach! OK! how we do that to the older students. On Friday, I had one of my staff watch the introduction clip to Power Teaching and she asked me "but what is it used for? What is his point? What are we trying to do with that?" I realized I need to get a better grasp on it than just the attention getter part, so that I can clearly answer that question for her and my other staff, and the children. So, I've watched those clips a couple of more times this weekend and I think we'll be able to progress to scoreboard this week.

Observations INTASC Standards:

Surface learning = learning for right now Deep learning = comprehensive knowledge Anderson turns Blooms noun descriptos words into verb descriptors, which are action words SKA= Skill, Knowledge, attitude
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1a Cognitive- intellectual domain affective- how do they feel? psycho motor- can they do it? How can we use these levels and this information to prepare our syllabus/ assignments

Blooms-1950 vocationalism Vella- needs assessment sound relationships sequence & praxis theory & practice actively engaged respect immediacy clear roles teamwork engagement accountability
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The Easy Teacher INTASC Standards:2- Student Development, 4- Multiple Instructional Strategies,5- Motivation and Management, 7- Planning


 * What a cool teacher!
 * How can she anticipate everything that will be happening in her class? It feels like the first chapter was scripted, like she knew how the students would respond and what they would ask and she knew exactly what to say, when to move on, how to be a little mysterious and especially, engaging.
 * Mrs. Mack is extremely organized
 * This must not be her first rodeo
 * Who did she have to mentor her?
 * How does she tie everything together so well?
 * Can she be this engaging EVERY class or does she just have this bag of tricks for her first lesson/ unit/ day of class?
 * It is my dream to be able to be as engaging and dynamic an instructor as Mrs. Mack. I hope to be able to be organized and focused enough to see the big picture. I want to make my classroom a cooperative, experiential learning environment and that's what it seems Mrs. Mack has done here. She has made quite an impression on her students.

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