Daggett System for Effective Instruction

It’s About the Relationships!

Paul D. Nussbaum, Ph.D., ABPPClinical Neuropsychologist and Senior

AdvisorOf Brain Science for ICLEwww.paulnussbaum.com

drnuss@me.com(412) 471-1195

“Ability to compete in the interconnected global economy is primarily leveraged by technical innovation and a highly skilled workforce. A more rigorous and more applied curriculum is needed to drive both levers.”

– Daggett, 2011

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Most Research on Education indicates:

No single variable has more impact than teaching.

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Hattie’s Visible Learning

OSynthesis of our 800 meta-analyses on achievement

OAnalyzed 200,000 effect sizes (relative impact of one factor vs. other factors)

O52,637 studies with 50 million students reviewed

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Hattie’s Visible Learning

OEffect size = identifies influence on learning

OEffect size of 1.00 school districts = 2 years of annual growth

OMost variables in schools have effect size +.3 to +.4

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Noteworthy Effect Size = (Hattie)

Formative evaluation +.90 ~1.7 yrs. Growth

Providing feedback +.73 ~1.44 yrs. Growth

Student-Teacher relationships

+.72 ~1.44 yrs. Growth

Prior achievement +.67 ~1.24 yrs. Growth

Socioeconomic status +.57 ~1.14 yrs. Growth

Peer tutoring +.55 ~1.13 yrs. Growth

Teaching test taking +.22

Reducing class size +.21

Charlotte Danielson’sFramework for

TeachingO Research-based components of

teachingO Focused on student success – study

Five key themes revealed1. Leadership2. High Expectations33 Relationships4. Student Opportunities5. Professional Culture

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System Support for Teachers

OWhat goes on between the teacher and student is critical to high level learning

OOrganizational-wide commitment is at the heart of Daggett’s System for Effective Instruction

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Neuropsychology of Relationships

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Neural Evolution Survival

O We do things togetherO We learned to love, communicate,

empathizeO We care and supportO We need each otherO We shape each otherO Brains thrive with socialization

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Basics of Your BrainYour Cortex

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Your Emotional Brain

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Neurochemistry of Relating

OxytocinSerotoninDopaminePositive Feelings

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Gender and Relationships

O Females more verbal

O Females more social

O Females more nurturing

O Females more empathetic

O Females manage stress better

O Males more task oriented

O Males focus on solution

O Males more visual

O Males isolative

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Brains and gender

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How do teachers and students relate?

Critical FactorsOTeenage BrainOGenderOTechnology (Immigrants versus Natives)OStudents perceive world differently vs. Teachers

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How Can We Relate?How Can We Relate?

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Ideas – brain to brainIt takes work

O Listen and be heardO Communicate needsO Make content personalO Music fuels dialogue – get into the student’s

worldO Educate consequences of relatingO View non-verbalsO Recognize your own strengths/weaknessesO Use technologyO Use gender to helpO Build trust

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Virtual Society

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“We dare not lose the necessary chemical and spiritual connection born from one human relating to another.”

- Nussbaum, 2012

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Paul D. Nussbaum, Ph.D., ABPPClinical Neuropsychologist

and Senior Advisor Of Brain Science for ICLE

www.paulnussbaum.comdrnuss@me.com(412) 471-1195

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