10. BECAUSE:
THINKING PATTERNS ARE UNIQUE
BEHAVIORS ARE LEARNED
WE NEED GIFTED LEARNERS
IT’S FUN TO LEARN
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11. BECAUSE:
THINKING PATTERNS ARE UNIQUE
BEHAVIORS ARE LEARNED
WE NEED GIFTED LEARNERS
IT’S FUN TO LEARN
and unfortunately because of this......
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13. “The whole art of teaching is
the art of awakening
the natural curiosity
of young minds
for the purpose of satisfying it
afterwards.”
Anatole France
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14. IS IT POSSIBLE
there is a
learning strategy
that would create
Passionate and Purposeful
LEARNERS?
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15. A put it in your pocket.
pull it out anywhere, anytime
strategy that creates
AUTONOMOUS LEARNERS
That would
be wild!Tuesday, December 16, 14
27. How might your students
wonder in your
classroom?
•class wonder journal
•individual wonder journals
•wander walk
•wall of wonder
•wonder space - topical table
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32. ...AN INVESTIGATION
Read closely. Make logical inferences
Summarize key supporting details and ideas
Analyze how events and ideas develop and interact
by analyzing a variety of text structures
Integrate knowledge and ideas from diverse media
and formats
Read and comprehend complex literary and
informational texts independently and proficiently
Evaluate the validity of reasoning within texts
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33. ...AN INVESTIGATION
Read closely. Make logical inferences
Summarize key supporting details and ideas
Analyze how events and ideas develop and interact
by analyzing a variety of text structures
Integrate knowledge and ideas from diverse media
and formats
Read and comprehend complex literary and
informational texts independently and proficiently
Evaluate the validity of reasoning within texts
ELA STANDARDS
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34. 21st Century Standards
Build understanding across and among
core subjects and 21st Century themes
Emphasize deep understanding rather than
shallow knowledge
Engage students with real world data,
tools, and experts
Allow for multiple measures of mastery
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35. Math Standards
Make sense of problems and persevere in solving
them
Reason abstractly
Construct viable arguments and critique the
reasoning of others
Use appropriate tools strategically
Attend to precision
Look for regularity in repeated reasoning
Look for and make use of structure
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36. The AHA Network...deep thinking because of movement,
chaos and intermingling of people and ideas...sharing
mistakes, combining thoughts and lingering over time.
Steven Johnson, TedXTuesday, December 16, 14
37. What would you
like to ivestigate?
How will you get started?
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38. How will your students investigate
in your classroom?
•www.Brainpop.com Fab Five Facts
•Youtube A-Z Book
•ted talks for kids Top 10 List
•visual thesaurus.com I have, Who Has?
•www.wonderopolis.org Paragraph/essay
•Read, Read, Read flow chart
Pre-Assess your high ability students
and command rigor
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39. Where is this
in your schedule?
Genius Hour
20% Time
W.I.L.D. Wednesdays
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44. Through
Six Thinking Hats
Red: through lens of Emotion
Yellow: through lens of Positivity
Blue: through lens of Manager
White through lens of Information
Green through lens of Creativity
Black through lens of Negativity
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47. “Listen to Learn”
moves us to Synergy.
We are more than the
sum of our parts
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48. In what ways do you
Listen to Learn?
Reflection? music? art?
relationships?
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49. How might your
students listen to learn?
•Art or music connection
•interview an expert
•quotes collage wordle.net
•reflection journal
•learning loop
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52. students are challenged
to move from
scholar to activist
to answer the question:
“How will you change
or change the world
because of what you know?
Tuesday, December 16, 14
53. students are challenged
to move from
scholar to activist
to answer the question:
“How will you change
or change the world
because of what you know?
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54. Every high ability student celebrates
all the questions
all the effort
all the thinking
all the listening
by taking on the challenge
to share what they know!
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57. Let’s dance!
Create an analogy for the
type of dance you will
perform as you go W.I.L.D.
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58. What might this dance of
discovery look like for your
students?
•letter to the editor
•keynote at the staff meeting
•press conference
•service learning
andraka vs. wwii thank youTuesday, December 16, 14
59. A Way of Learning
No Boundaries
No Penalties
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60. A Way of Learning
No Boundaries
No Penalties
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61. A Way of Learning
No Boundaries
No Penalties
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62. Are you wild enough to differentiate
for your high ability students?
We hope you will go wild...
in your planning
in your environment
with your schedule
with your homework assignments
with your curriculum
in your leadership at school
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63. “Tell me what it is
you plan to do with
your one WILD and
precious life?”
Mary Oliver
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