Your Teacher Persona Freshmen Boys God bless their hearts Why Engagement Love kindness What is the opposite of love Discipline is hard warmth is easy and both are necessary cf WarmStrict ID: 581425
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Engagement & Your Teacher Persona
Freshmen Boys – God bless their heartsSlide2
Why Engagement?
Love
=
kindnessWhat is the opposite of love?“Discipline is hard, warmth is easy, and both are necessary.” (cf. Warm/Strict)Teachers who care enough to correct are the ones who care. Those who don’t care enough to correct don’t care enough. We care enough about kids to fight for their engagement and to guide them along the right path even as they stray.Talk is cheap, and attention spans are short. Now what?Slide3
Engagement Tricks for your Tool Belt
Rigor
Challenging questions
Teacher PersonaJoy Factor peppered into lessonMr. WhitleyCreate your own persona and PRACTICE!Connections to scholars livesVideos for instructionInternet Memes in lessonsCompetitionRewards and consequencesSlide4
One note before we proceed
“Eighth graders are crazy, and ninth graders are just big 8
th
graders.” ~ an administrator said this that one time… I can’t whenFocus of the day – freshmen boys givin’ you the blues?We need to keep all scholars engaged; however, as you train yourself to engage 14 year old boys, you will also learn how to keep all other high schoolers engaged (my opinion, but I’m convinced it’s true).I’ll share tricks I learned from Tindley Prep teachers, so a few items will be boy-centric.
Practicality – I want these tips to be as useful as possible… for Monday!Slide5
Rigor
Examples from taxonomy videos
Ms.
Verrilli – 12th grade – LiteratureMr. Rector – 7th grade - MathSlide6
Teacher PersonaSlide7
Teacher Persona – The Why
Mr. Whitley’s persona and experience
How he grew so quickly
Why a personaHow do you act differently in these situations?In a job interviewIn front of your kidsOn a date with your significant otherIn Wal-MartAfter being pulled over by a copIn a graduate classAt church (as applicable)In a parent meeting
Alone
Teaching twenty-four freshmen boysSlide8
Teacher Persona – The Why
“Teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theater
.” ~
Gail GodwinTheater matters when you teach…But this quotation ignores the fact that we can prepare the theatrical component of teaching, so teaching is more than ¼ preparation. It’s all preparation.You need a teacher persona, and you have to practice one to develop one.Slide9
Teacher Persona – The What
Examples of Personas
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http://youtu.be/fyQhFpXCOmMDaniel Day Lewis – Personal Life VS…http://youtu.be/Oi-VHXpNauM?t=2m59sDaniel Day Lewis – There Will Be Bloodhttp://youtu.be/_
9k6Mf-FfXQ?t=1m00sSlide10
Teacher Persona – Testify!
Ms. Chambliss
Ms. BlackwellSlide11
Teacher Persona – The HowSlide12
Teacher Persona – Example
Background:
Grew up in
a hyper-strict religious community. Loves rules. Obsesses about rules. Fanatical about following the rules. Will exercise the demons out of your soul if you can’t follow the rules.Slide13
Teacher Persona – Example
Pastime
:
Following rulesFinishing work on timeSounds made:Hallelujer!Eghghghghghgh!Aye-yai-yai-yai-yaiWhat you used to do when people disrespected you
:
Scholar elbow (Jimmy-
Snuka
-style off the top rope)
“My rebukes will upper-cut your psyche so hard that your id will be touching your super ego.”
“I will Darth Vader your trachea.”Slide14
Teacher Persona - Practice
Spend
7
minutes developing your persona.After 420 seconds, we will partner practice.Then we will film you.If you doubt yourself, just remember the wisdom of Henry Ford:“If you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.”Slide15
Teacher Persona – To conclude
“Teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theater.” ~Gail Godwin
Yes, but…
Teaching is still 100% preparation. It all depends on how we prepare.Slide16
Engagement by Connecting to Scholars’ Lives
Humorous and or interesting
videos
resonate with boys.Videos are best when they connect content to your scholars’ experiences.Alexander Hamilton was an OGhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNFf7nMIGnEToo Late to Apologize – Declaration of Independencehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZfRaWAt\BVgSlide17
Engagement by Connecting to Scholars’ Lives
Internet memesSlide18
Math MemesSlide19
Reading MemesSlide20
Teacher MemesSlide21
_____________ Meme
Brainstorm three different lessons to which this meme could apply.Slide22
Engagement through Competition(35 seconds)Slide23
Engagement through Competition
Keep Score
If…
Everyone begins the Do Now silently within 30 seconds We start the independent practice by 9:15You get more points than I do ThenYou don’t have to do numbers 11 and 12 on the homeworkWe can watch the 2014 slam dunk contestWe can watch the trailer for Interstellar (Ride Along, Transformers, The Hobbit, The Interview, Exodus… whatever interests the scholars).
How do I know what interests the scholars?
ASK THEM! (conversations, surveys, dabble in their culture)Slide24
Why Engagement?
Scholars who learn at the edge of their seats are the ones grow the most.Slide25
Work Time
Rigor
: Add 10 rigorous questions to Monday’s lesson plan.
Rigor through questionsRigor through discuss habits you teach scholarsEngagement: Add 5 pieces of engagement to Monday’s plan. You can get engagement through…rigorous questionsyour teacher personaconnections to scholars’ livesVideos that relate to contentInternet memesCompetition
“If we start the Do Now silently in 30 seconds, I’ll take one questions off the homework.”