answer questions for chapter 8
posted by Barney Slowey at 1:15 PM
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
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- Name: Barney Slowey
- Location: Rice Lake, Wisconsin, United States
I am going into my 44th year in education with 17 years as a high school history teacher, 5 years as a middle school English teacher, and 11 as an administrator. My admistrative jobs included principalships at every level as well as a director of instruction job. Since leaving the system I have devoted my time to work with teachers through graduate classes, insevices, mentoring for two years with teachers in Osceola implementing Brain Based Learning through Multiple Intelligences. This summer I will be co-facilitating a seventh Masters Program with a laptop community in Rice Lake Kimberly and Pulaski.
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1 Comments:
Hi all...again your responses have set off many ideas that conjure up in this old brain...I don't know if any of you have ever had an inservice by Corwin Kronenberg...He does many different versions of giving students responsibility and gets many invites to do classroom discipline...We had him into our school one year and because I had heard him before I wanted to get the staff to look at turning over some of the power to kids thus thinking they would adhere to rules they made more readily than those we made...We implemented the plan during the 3 day inservice of kids I told you about...His plan in a nutshell goes like this...First you create a class mission statement by allowing the kids to respond on post its to the question "what are here for"...like Julie said there were a couple of goof balls that had crazy things but by and large they were serious...a group is then set up to take these suggestions and create a mission statement for the class...They turned out to be super...Then the kids respond to "whats my(teacher) job?"...and they do the same thing...another group will take that and list the teachers job on poster board...Then they write down on post its the answers to what is their job?...and ano the rest of the kids take that and create a sign with what is the kids jobs...They decorate and label the three signs and we placed them on the wall...Discipline issues were minimal because they made the rules...We had each classroom with these signs on the wall...most were almost identical...The teacher just had to point usually to a student who was breaking the rule and it usually stopped......If you want more information give me a note on my email...Before I forget Please read "Entertaining an Elephant"...It is magnificent andwill take you 45 minutes to read...really powerful...every teacher should read it...I've done study groups with it and teachers came away with new insights...I can't remember if we did it this summer... Alice did we do it during your session...I know I tried to do it in a one hour session and it didn't work well ...tried to jig saw it and it just wasn't enough time...Julie brought up Alfie Kohn and I had a chance to sit in a two day workshop he gave this summer and it was fascinating...makes one think and has the research there to back him up...he has a new book i just bought called 'THE HOMEWORK MYTH"...He says in the book exactly what I have been thinking the last 40 years...it creates issues for kids, families fight, all kids don't go home to places where they can do it and certainly many adults in their homes couldn't help them...I know in our home with 2 people with 2 Masters degrees plus the battles raged on about worthless worksheet and redundant math problems,etc...Alfie also indicates much research that says it doesn't help achievement and infact its a detriment in some grades...definitely not good in elementary and middle and helps a little in High school...Of cours we are not talking about going with mom and dad to the store and doing math, or nutristion...attending a city council meeting for social studies, etc...I think Pat mentioned something about teaching middle school kids relevant stuff about what they are going through in those years...certainly the health curriculum should be geared to that but I think reading about these things in English makes more sense than reading Shakespeare( I think Shakespeare should be done not read anyway...sorry Gary)...I like Alice's ideas on the book bin and some of this literature can be in the bin...Science curriculum could also benefit kids at this time...Lots of ways to do it...many simulations from Interact cover this kind of stuff..If you have never been on their website take a look...www.teachinteract.com...In 1972 the administration of our school allowed some staff to look at new schedules...so we went all over and created a quarter block schedule...this was in '72...think about the risk the Supt and Pricipal took allowing us to do that...(I had great models for administators...allowed us shared decision making before it was fashionable) anyway now I had to teach in 90 minute periods and it completely transformed my teaching to active learning...the connection is that I discovered Interact simulations and they helped me launch into active learning and they included the multiple intelligences before Howard Gardner came out with them..Now they have them for every subject and all grade levels...If you get on the websites and want to know more about them and how they work give me another email...you want to transfer power to your students and make them responsible for their own learning this will help you get started or offer another way for you to expand to...I hate this term"at risk" but those kids that struggle with the verbal linguitic and math/logical emphasis in school like these simulations because they use their intelligences and they do the others too but those activities are now palatable ...enough for now...Have a great weekend and go Packers!
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