New Teachers - Day Two

Day two - we have everyone back - plus one.  Today we are focusing on instructional routines and brain based learning. The objectives include:

• learning brain based strategies
• identifying strategies to boost retention
• applying active participation techniques to engage more students

We strongly believe that schools need to develop and use a common language of instruction.  Our training stresses the importance of naming the strategies, describing the strategy, and determining how (and when) they can be used.

Today Lenny will be providing some really good content on brain based learning; with most of it based on David Sousa's work.  See Lenny's Brain Based Wiki for more resources.

Some of the strategies we will demonstrate today include:

• Give one, Get one
• Clock Partners
• State Changes 
• Response Boards
• 5-4-3-2-1 Countdown - to refocus the class
• Interaction Sequence

More information and strategies can be found on our Craft Knowledge Wiki.

Lynne will provide training on how to use twitter and the subsequent clients and how to use hashtags as a search tool.

The agenda for the day can be found on the EIS13 Wiki.

Clock Partner Discussions

Table Discussions

Lenny demonstrating how to group students