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How do you define Joyful Learning? Handout: Verbal and Visual Word Association Share with an elbow partner Do you have a memory of a learning experience
How do you define Joyful Learning? Handout: Verbal and Visual
Word Association Share with an elbow partner Do you have a memory
of a learning experience that brought you joy? What elements of the
experience made it joyful?
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Engaging Minds in the Classroom: The Surprising Power of Joy
Michael Opitz and Michael Ford acquiring knowledge or skills in
ways that cause pleasure or happinesswhat we are suggesting is that
wrestling with new ideas and taking risk to learn new content
requires persistence and the willingness to work through
difficulties as they arise: through this experience, students
experience joyful learning.
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JOY-O-METER Where are you at? Where are your colleagues at?
Where are your students at? 01234 Joyless Rarely Joyful Somewhat
Joyful Mostly Joyful Joyful, Joyful!
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We take Joy in Create Joy statements with students Specifically
connect Joy statements with writing We take joy in
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Challenge and Engagement
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Vygotsky- Zone of Proximal Development
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JUDY WILLIS Jay McTighe Video Clip
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Neuroscience research connects to joyful learning In our
research based, data and assessment driven educational system,
leveraging the research on how the brain learns will help inform
our conversations and prevent bad translations of COMMON CORE
STANDARDS RESPONSE TO INTERVENTION WE DONT HAVE TIME FOR.
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The Neuroscience of Joyful Education When students are engaged
and motivated and feel minimal stress, information flows freely
through the affective filter in the amygdala and they achieve
higher levels of cognition, make connections, and experience aha
moments. Judy Willis: The Neuroscience of Joyful Education,
Educational Leadership
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Lost in translation Unfortunately, the current emphasis on
standardized testing and rote learning encroaches upon many
students joy. In their zeal to raise test scores, too many
policymakers wrongly assume that students who are laughing,
interacting in groups, and being creativeare not doing real
academic work. Judy Willis: The Neuroscience of Joyful Education,
Educational Leadership
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HANDOUT
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RAD-Judy Willis Three Important Neuroscience Concepts to
Consider
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I will strive to create a classroom in which CCSS are
implemented in creative and novel ways so that the information is
transmitted through my students reticular activating system.
Promote engagement! Reticulum/Amygdala/Dopamine
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Content Area Writing-Daniels, Zemelman, Steinke Expressive
writing can have a positive affect on health: Lowers stress Better
working memory Reduction of psychological symptoms Reference from
:Rochester Psychiatric Center- Positive Health Effects of
Expressive Writing Writing has healthful benefits
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Ban Dr. Seuss Day?? A Teachers Manifesto in a Time of
Standardization
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Frame the Conversation Teachers: Use the neuroscience research
on learning and the brain. Its powerful! Students: Teach them the
how the brain works so they can self advocate- Its powerful! Judy
Willis website: http://www.radteach.com/
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Handout- Judy Wallis What You Should Know About Your Brain
Empower students too!
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Leverage the Neuroscience Research on Learning and the Brain
Inform the conversations Promote joyful learning and connection to
improved student outcomes Promote student self-advocacy
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Joyful Learning Framework Engaging Minds in the Classroom: The
Surprising Power of Joy Michael F. Opitz, Michael P. Ford ASCD 2014
Handout: Lets look at the framework and then apply elements to
student writing!
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Photographs by Lewis Hines of Child Labor
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Who Is In Our Classroom?
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Primary Source Documents
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CCSS-Grade 8 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.8.2 Write
informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas,
concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and
analysis of relevant content CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.8.2
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.1 Cite specific textual evidence to
support analysis of primary and secondary sources.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.1 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.2 Determine the
central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source;
provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior
knowledge or opinions. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.2
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What kinds of writing do we ask students to do that meets
criteria in the Joyful Learning Framework and connects with CCSS
standards? Give-one-Get-one Activity 10 minutes APPLICATION
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Jog the Web
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Jog the Web-Resources for Non-fiction Non-fiction reading
resources on the web- elementary Non-fiction reading resources on
the web: 6-12 primary sources on web Common Core Resources Compiled
by Sharon Daly
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Wrapping Up
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Where does this lead us? Personal Take-Aways
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Standards of Joy
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Make a Joyful Learning Quotes Poster Take your quote and paste
it ON!