reaching the non traditional student (pdf)
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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.TRANSCRIPT
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About Michael
PodcasterTech Coach
Co-Founder
Father to typical and
special needs kids
Co-Founder
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Connecting Stories• 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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Connecting
Results: http://tinyurl.com/L2sharing
Tinyurl.com/L2connecting
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InnovativePD.com/outlier/
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Special Education Network in Asia (SENIA)
Senia.Asia
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Social Media
• #Learning2
• @autismpodcast
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SocrativeM.Socrative.com
Room name: michaelboll
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Exit Ticket Before Break
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!!Final question: What suggestions do you have for improvement?
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Class DojoClassDojo.com
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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
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Check for understanding?
• Box A Totally get it
• Box B: Mostly get it
• Box C: Sort of understand
• Box D: Clueless
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Dr. Ross Greene, Author of The Explosive Child
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Thoughts on Dr. Greene’s ViewsM.Socrative.com (Room name: michaelboll)
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Ability Performance
Typical Student
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A discrepancy between ability and performance
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Ability Performance
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Buddy Chat
• Describe some of the non traditional students/outliers that you have come across
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Start with you• Visual Learner
• Auditory Learner
• Kinesthetic Learner!
• Multimodal Learner
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InnovativePD.com/LearningStyle
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Learning Style Assessment #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?
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http://www.innovativepd.com/learningstyle2
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Me
Explanation: http://www.innovativepd.com/LS2explained
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Inventory of Learners
• What is our inventory of learners?
• Who are the non traditional learners?
innovativepd.com/LSinventory
http://tinyurl.com/l2results
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Feedback TimeM.Socrative.com
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“What we found was that most students WANT to be standing, to be moving. They don’t want to sit still — it’s against their nature. We are the
ones who teach them to be sedentary. Perhaps even more important was that the heavier children — those in the 85th percentile for weight based on age and gender — burned 32 percent more calories standing than
heavier children that used a traditional seated desk.”
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Feedback TimeM.Socrative.com
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Customized and adaptive (individualized) learning
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Horizon ReportMany interna*onal schools in Asia are star*ng to use learning management systems and applica*ons that have built-‐in analy*cs to track student learning progress and behavioral pa:erns, making it easier to iden*fy 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 implementa4ons are distant.
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Speed Geek Template
• Product Name
• 30-60 second explanation of what it does (elevator pitch)
• Three positives
• Three concerns
• Questions?
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Study RoomGetStudyRoom.com
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Blend SpaceBlendSpace.com
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What type gamer are you?Innovativepd.com/BrainHex
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Gaming and motivation Internal v. External
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IncentivesThe non traditional student may not be motivated by
traditional means
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Class DojoClassDojo.com
Mozilla Open Badges Project
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Concordia PD IncentivesFood Chain. Better than Harry Potter?
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Design the perfect classroom
Take what you have learned today and design the perfect learning environment.
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
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Break into groups by learning styles• Active
• Reflective
• Sensing
• Intuitive
• Visual
• Verbal
• Sequential
• Global
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SEQUENTIAL AND GLOBAL LEARNERS
!Sequential learners tend to gain understanding in linear steps, with each step following logically from the previous one. !Global learners tend to learn in large jumps, absorbing material almost randomly without seeing connections, and then suddenly "getting it."
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!Active learners tend to retain and understand information best by doing something active with it--discussing or applying it or explaining it to others. !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; "Let's think it through first" is the reflective learner's response. !Active learners tend to like group work more than reflective learners, who prefer working alone. !
ACTIVE AND REFLECTIVE LEARNERS
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!Sensing learners tend to like learning facts, intuitive learners often prefer discovering possibilities and relationships. !Sensors often like solving problems by well-established methods and dislike complications and surprises; intuitors like innovation and dislike repetition !Sensors tend to be more practical and careful than intuitors; intuitors tend to work faster and to be more innovative than sensors.
SENSING AND INTUITIVE LEARNERS
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Feedbackinnovativepd.com/L2feedback