MODEL SCHOOLS

CONFERENCEJune 2011

By Kristin Rowe

LEGO SERIOUS PLAY Skills Needed in the 21st Century

Creativity and Innovation skillsCritical thinking and problem solving skillsCommunication skillsCollaboration Skills

SYSTEMATIC CREATIVITY IS:

Using logic and reasoning…

Along with creativity and imagination…

To generate ideas and artifacts that are new, surprising, and valuable.

Lego is an advocate of active, Creative and Collaborative learning

HOW LEGOS HELP: Building representations of ideas,

problems, and knowledge with LEGO bricks makes them concrete

Students are giving their hands something to work with, and their brains something to remember

HOW TO IMPLEMENT IN CLASS

Ask parents for donations of LEGO bricks If class funds are available, use them to

purchase what is necessary Use during writing/reading to create

pictures that students can use as story starts

Use the creations to get ideas on how to write a story-tell class about it orally first

Website: http://www.legoeducation.us

MOVEMENT Brain research says that we need to get

up every 10 minutes and be active to get our blood flowing to our brain.

Make sure to give students time in class to do this.

Brain Gym http://www.braingym.org/ http://esl.about.com/od/englishlessonpla

ns/a/braingym.htm

EFFECTIVE CLASSROOM TEACHERS

Chelonnda Seroyer, a high school teacher, was by far the most inspirational presenter

Follows book The First Days of School by Harry Wong

Her PowerPoint is linked below: http://teachers.net/wong/FEB05/

7 QUESTIONS TO ANSWER THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL Am I in the right room? Where am I supposed to sit? Who is this teacher as a person? Will this teacher treat me fairly? What will we be doing this year? How will I be graded? What are the rules of the classroom?

**I will create a PowerPoint on myself to answer the 3rd question and present on first day of school.

COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS

I will use the Quadrant D Vocabulary List in my classroom to get my students ready for the “Next Generation Assessments”.

This is on pg. 77 of the link below: CCSS

9CCSS-BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND.ppt

RIGOR AND RELEVANCEQUADRANT D MOMENTS

Rigor and Relevance QuadD.pdf

I will hold “Expert Centers” where students will take a mistake they had on a test and have an expert teach them how to solve it. (Math tests, etc.)

I will use current events. 2 paragraphs-First is the summary and the second tells about the similarities and differences to concepts students have learned in curriculum that year.