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Classroom Management:Under-Resourced Learners

Ground Rules

Take responsibility for your own learning. Participate. Ask questions. Listen to learn. Respect participants

and presenter. Honor time limits. Silence cell phones (including texting)

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1. Understand resources needed for success in school.

2. Determine what resources can be developed in our classroom(s) and/or school(s) for under-resourced learners.

3. Understand the 8 strategies identified to boost student achievement according to the text.

Goals

What does Under-Resourced Mean?

• Terminology from the United Nations

• Students who do not have access to a number of the resources necessary for school success.

(For our session)

• Purpose: What resources can we develop in our classroom or school?

Why look at resources? They tell us where to make interventions.

Where do we start with interventions?We work from strengths.

Why look at relationships first? Because they are a primary motivation for learning.

Strategy #1: Assess Resources Of Individual Students To Determine Interventions

Elementary• Draw a picture• Tell Stories• Do Journal Writing

Secondary• Share experiences• Have individual conferences• Write about oneself. (some fill in the blank examples)

How do you determine resources?

Seven Characteristics of Relational Learning

Strategy #2: Build Relationships of Mutual Respect with Students

“Children don’t care how much you know until they know how

much you care.”

(as viewed by students) Teacher calls students by name. Teacher uses courtesies. Students use courtesies with each other and

with teacher. Teacher calls on all students. Teacher gets into proximity of all students –

daily. Teacher greets students at door. Teacher smiles at students. Classroom has business – like atmosphere. Grading/Scoring is clear and easily

understood. Students may ask for extra help from teacher.

Mutual Respect

Mutual respect is taught, it is earned, it is reciprocated, and it is insisted upon by the teacher. However, students will not automatically respect a teacher just because he/she insists upon respect. It also must be earned.

Leads to greater academic success

Increases classroom and school attendance

Lowers incidents of fighting, bullying, and vandalism

Student - School Connectedness

Language allows a person to…..

Share understandings, experiences, and information with others

Build social capital, express thinking, and organize personal experience

Strategy #3: Teach Formal Register and Story Structure

1. Frozen - language that is always the same

2. Formal - the standard sentence syntax and word choice of work and school.

3. Consultative – formal register when used in conversation

4. Casual – Language between friends (400-800 word voc.)

5. Intimate – language between lovers or twins

Registers of Language (Joos, 1967)

Word Know

Think I Know

Have Heard

Guess Definition

saline X A liquid for contact lenses

A salt solution

Vocabulary Development

Word Web

Knowledge Ratings

Formal –Register Story Structure

beginning plot end

Casual- Register Story Structure

Part of an episode Audience participation ______

Story Structure

Focuses on the learning partAbstract Representational is the paper world or

world as represented on a computer screen

Examples: Words represent a feeling, but they are not a feeling. Numbers represent an amount, but they are not the actual item being counted.

Strategy #4: Teach Tools for Negotiating the Abstract Representational World

Situated Learning

Learning is always contextualized and relationship-based

Ex. Laughter is used to lesson conflict

School Learning

Decontextualized and abstract

Laughter during conflict is viewed as disrespectful

Hidden Rules of Learning at School

1. Mental Models2. Vocabulary – the “what”3. Direct Teaching the Processes- the

“how”4. Having the Students Develop

Questions5. Relational Learning6. (Secondary) Content Availability

Six Key Issues

Relationships of Mutual Respect with Students

A Systems Approach in the Classroom and on the Campus

Administration Support

Strategy #5 Teach Appropriate Behaviors and

Procedures

Relationships of Mutual Respect with Parents

Classroom and Campus Procedures

Mediation and Consequences

Strategy #5 Teach Appropriate Behaviors and Procedures

Adult Voice and Reframing

Strategies for the 10% of Students Who Cause 90% of the Problems

An Understanding of the Law of Truly large Numbers

Strategy #5 Teach Appropriate Behaviors and Procedures

Schools must have a systematic process for keeping track of student learning.

Strategy #6: Use a 6-step Process to Keep Track of Every Student’s

Learning

Process 1: Gridding individual student performance

How are our individual students performing against a larger population?

What does a student actually get the opportunity to learn, and how much time does he/she get to learn it?Process 2: Establishing a relationship

between content and time

Process 3: High-Quality Instruction – Teaching

What was the quality of teaching?

How do we know they are learning?Process 4: Measuring the Learning –

Formative Assessments

Process 5 : Interventions• Is there a relationship issue?• Is there an issue with the paper world?• Is it a resource issue?• Is there a skills issue?• Is there a biochemical issue?• Is there a curriculum issue? (was it actually taught)• Did the student have enough time to learn it?

What do you do when they did not learn it?

Process 6: Embedding these processes into the schedule so that professional time is devoted to it.

How do you make sure this process occurs on

a systematic basis?

Where there is little respect for parents, there is little respect for students.

Strategy #7: Build Relationships of Mutual Respect with Parents

Strategy #8: Develop Community Collaboration Models to Address

Under-Resourced Situations

1. Understand resources needed for success in school.

2. Determine what resources can be developed in our classroom(s) and/or school(s) for under-resourced learners.

3. Understand the 8 strategies identified to boost student achievement according to the text.

Revisit Goals

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