Orange County Reading Association’s 47th Annual Fall Conference *Educators/Administrators * Student Teachers Saturday, October 23, 2010 Cal State University, Fullerton Titan Pavilion 800 N. State College Blvd. Fullerton, CA 92834 Lisa Michelle Dabbs, Educational Coach & Consultant @teachingwthsoul on Twitter New Teacher Survival Kit & How to Build Your Personal Learning Network (K-12)

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New Teacher Survival Kit
How to build your Personal Learning Network
Welcome!
Presented by Lisa Michelle Dabbs M.Ed.

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Introductions
Who am I?
Why are we here today?
What do we hope to accomplish?

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Teacher tool box
Many tools to choose from…
Let’s use them wisely!
New Teacher Survival Kit

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Know Your Limits, Set Goals,
Guided by Your Philosophy

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Level the Field
Equity means giving kids what they need.
Not a one size fits all…

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Adapt the material to fit your students
Adapt

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Assess
Measure/assess in a
variety of ways
In one word…what must assessment be?

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Positive lens
Look for strengths in kids and
build on them!

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Have fun!
• Get excited about your lessons!
• Share enthusiasm with your peers 

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Don’t take on too much!
Raise your hand if you have this problem!

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Develop Parent Allies & Communicate Often
A Parent is a child’s first teacher.
Be Respectful of this important relationship…
Keep parents in the loop!

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Take care of yourself!
•Eat healthy
•Exercise
Check out #temt webpage on Twitter
http://twitterexercisemotivationteam.blogspot.com/

13. Ask for Help!
http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/newteacheradvice
(wallwisher is an online board maker or tool to share
resources, ideas, thoughts on a particular topic)

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Mentoring & Coaching
New Teachers
How should we support
New Teachers?

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“Behind every successful person, there is
one elementary truth: somewhere,
somehow, someone cared about their
growth and development.
This person was their mentor”
-Dr Beverley Kaye, Up is Not the Only Way, 1997

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•Appreciate the role of mentor, coach, trainer
•Understand the benefits of a mentor/coach approach
•Outline the characteristics of an effective mentor/coach
For your consideration…

17. Think of one or more important mentors in your life…
Mentors
What story can you share about the relationship(s)?
Share them on the wallwisher 
http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/newteachermentor

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Training-Coaching-Mentoring
Training – “The provision of opportunities for people to gain
NEW knowledge and skills”
Coaching – “The support and guidance given to allow people to
use their EXISTING knowledge and skills more effectively to
improve performance”
Mentoring – “Mentoring is about helping people develop more
effectively. It is a relationship designed to build confidence and
help the learner take increasing initiative for his/her own
development”

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Trusted Listener
Assessor
Problem Solver
Advocate
Facilitator
Collaborator
Mentoring roles you may play…

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New teachers need help in:
• Instructional strategies
• Obtaining resources
• Classroom management strategies
• Working with parents
• Managing the school day
• Functioning within the school district

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Five Critical Mentoring & Coaching Practices
• Maintaining & Enhancing Self-Esteem
• Active/Empathetic Listening
• Describing Specific Behaviours and Impact
• Providing Recognition
• Providing Feedback to Improve Performance

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Mentors Give Feedback:
• Creating personal awareness of areas requiring development
• Ownership of the ongoing personal assessment to identify
teacher development needs
• Teacher (mentee) takes Personal responsibility for the quality
of the work being produced

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Agreeing How You Wish to Work Together
•Respect – Respecting and valuing each other’s contribution
•Communication –Taking time to actively listen to each other
•Trust – Being open, honest and approachable
•Attitude – Being positive and focused
•Support – Showing compassion and sincerity
•Diversity –Acknowledging the right to individual thought

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http://www.edutopia.org/groups/new-teacher-
connections
328 members and growing!
Groups provide Connections!

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New Teacher Chat-Wednesday 4pm PST/7pm EST
http://newteacherchat.wikispaces.com/

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Ultimately it’s for them!

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How can we take these
tools
and Ideas
to a Global Community?

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Building your own
PLN…
How should I start?

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L earning
N etwork
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What is a
PLN?

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Some see it as
something that builds…
Others see it as
something that grows…
Either way the process
requires planning…

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question…
What ideas do I have to offer?
What can I learn from others?
How can I connect?

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Your PLN includes all the
different people and
websites you use in
order to collaborate,
communicate and learn.
From social networking
to bookmarking, the
avenues of sharing ideas
across the web are incredible!
I Love my
PLN!

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Who needs a
PLN?

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For people in the field of
education this is amazingly
supportive!
It will provide opportunities to
discuss and improve the
ways they use instructional
strategies and incorporate
web 2.0 tech practices in the
classroom.
Anybody who wants to learn and teach others
in a global web community.

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Sounds interesting…
So where do I
start?

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Twitter
“Tweet-tweet”
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1. JoinTwitter !
• Fast and easy way to
communicate ideas
• News and blog post updates
• Arranged by most recent
tweet
• Use TweetDeck or Hootsuite
when you are comfortable

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My Twitter site http://twitter.com/teachingwthsoul
@Teachingwthsoul is my handle!

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Twitter is a social networking, Micro-Blogging service.

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Blogging & RSS
Blogger, Edublogs,
Wordpress platforms
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2.Start a Blog!
use RSS (real simple syndication)
• A blog is a website with
regular entries of commentary
• Write your own blog
• Subscribe to RSS feeds
(a format for delivering regularly
changing web content)
• Contribute to discussions
• Comment on blogs…

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2.Blogging with Wordpress

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3
Social
Bookmarking
Using Delicious

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3.Social Bookmarking
• Share great links
• Store web bookmarks of websites,
resources
• Tag websites for easy searches,
and sharing
• Add people & network

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3.Social Bookmarking

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Podcasts, Webcasts
& Webinars
iTunes, YouTube,
Slideshare, Animoto
Elluminate, Adobe Connect
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4.Podcasts, Webcasts &
Webinars
• Watch, Listen and Learn
• Save and subscribe to channel users
such as YouTube
•Collaborate with others
• Make your own!

48. 4. Webcast & Webinars
http://teacherbootcamp.edublogs.org/

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4. Webcast with YouTube

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Wikis &
NINGs
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5.Wikis and NINGs
• Wikis are simple web pages
• They allow for joint editing
• Nings are online platform to create,
customize, share a social network.
• Create a profile
• Join an online community specific to your
interests or profession

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5. EduPLN NING site

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5. Wikispace for #ntchat

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6 Chat
Education chats
# discussions
Skype
Gmail chat

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6.Chat
• Communicate quickly
and for free
• Video or type chat
• Send images and video
• Participate in discussions on
twitter using a hashtag (# )
• Join #edchat or #nchat

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6. Edchat example…

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… Some Final Thoughts

58. A PLN is not a thing or a
process. It’s transforming the
way you connect to the world.
And ask yourself this
question…
How will your PLN
experiences make you a
better teacher?

59. Thank you!
Twitter handle @teachingwthsoul
Blogging at
http://teachingwithsoul.com
Many Thanks to http://www.edutopia.org