Take a look around the modern classroom today and you may find a batch of students all learning in a similar way and succeeding. However, look a little deeper and you will find the outliers; students who are either blazing past everyone or struggling to keep up. Today, like never before, we have a better understanding of how these students function, what drives them and how we can assist them.
This workshop focuses on how to both identify your unique learners and design a program to improve their ability to succeed.
6. Connecting Stories
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• Goal: Connect mini-stories in
an interesting way
• Example: Yesterday I shared a
tuk-tuk with a Russian tourist
• I had Russian vodka for
breakfast, but thought it was
water
• I took a water taxi along the
river
• Have someone keep notes on
the stories to repeat later
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Exit Ticket
Before Break
M.Socrative.com (Room
name: michaelboll)
Final question: What
suggestions do you have for
improvement?
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The Plan
• Working assumption
• Learning styles
• Sensory integration
• Customized and Individualized
Learning (SpeedGeek)
• Game based learning
• Incentives
• Design a learning space
17. Check for understanding?
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• Box A Totally get it
• Box B: Mostly get it
• Box C: Sort of understand
• Box D: Clueless
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23. Ability Performance
A discrepancy between
ability and performance
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Buddy Chat
• Describe some of the non traditional
students/outliers that you have come across
25. Start with you
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• Visual Learner
• Auditory Learner
• Kinesthetic Learner
• Multimodal Learner
InnovativePD.com/LearningStyle
26. Learning Style Assessment
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#2
Here is another quiz to figure out your
Learning Style.
Are you
• Active or Reflective?
• Sensing or Intuitive?
• Visual or Verbal?
• Sequential or Global?
http://www.innovativepd.com/learningstyle2
28. Inventory of Learners
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• What is our inventory of
learners?
• Who are the non traditional
learners?
innovativepd.com/LSinventory
http://tinyurl.com/l2results
39. Horizon Report
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Many international schools in Asia are
starting to use learning management
systems and applications that have
built-in analytics to track student
learning progress and behavioral
patterns, making it easier to identify
where they need extra help and in
what areas they are excelling.
However, research for this report
indicates that this technology is mostly
in the pilot phase at individual
schools and large-scale
implementations are distant.
40. Speed Geek Template
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• Product Name
• 30-60 second explanation of
what it does (elevator pitch)
• Three positives
• Three concerns
• Questions?
66. Concordia PD Incentives
Food Chain. Better than Harry Potter?
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67. Design the perfect classroom
Take what you have learned today and design the perfect learning
environment.
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Consider these factors:
• Room design and sensory input
• Understanding your different learning types
• Opportunities for customized learning
• The role of game based learning
• Incentives
First: Discuss and report back how you want to tackle the problem
68. Break into groups by learning styles
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• Active
• Reflective
• Sensing
• Intuitive
• Visual
• Verbal
• Sequential
• Global
69. SEQUENTIAL AND GLOBAL LEARNERS
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70. ACTIVE AND REFLECTIVE LEARNERS
Active learners tend to retain and understand information best Reflective learners prefer to think about it quietly first.
"Let's try it out and see how it works" is an active learner's phrase; Active learners tend to like group work more than reflective learners,
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71. SENSING AND INTUITIVE LEARNERS
Sensing learners tend to like learning facts, intuitive learners
Sensors often like solving problems by well-established methods Sensors tend to be more practical and careful than intuitors; intuitors
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