Principles of 21st Century Teaching

Featuring Never Work Harder Than Your Students

by Robyn Jackson and Classroom Habitudes

by Angela Maiers

Facilitated by Sherry Crofut

This Week’s AgendaNever Work Harder Than Your

Students: Preface and Introduction

•Introductions•Millennials•Self Assessment

Using Voki in the Classroom•Create a Voki to share your

introduction.http://voki.com

•Post your Voki on the Voki introduction page.

In what ways do you already get to know students better?

•Student of the Week•Lunch with the Teacher•______________

Great work! So why read these books?•We can all move closer to having a master

teacher mindset:1. Start where your students are.2. Know where your students are going.3. Expect to get your students to their goal.4. Support your students along the way.5. Use feedback to help you and your students

along the way.6. Focus on quality rather than quantity.7. Never work harder than your students.

Oregon Trail to Civilizationsthe digital landscape

Baby Boomers (1941-1960) discovered the “new world” Generation X (1961-1976) became the pioneers Millennials (1977-Present) are the settlers, the new society

Post to the wiki discussion: What has NOT changed?

Consider any family of immigrants. Who learns the language first? Who adopts the aesthetic, cultural, and spiritual values of the new country? The children, of course…well, welcome to the twenty-first century.We are all immigrants in a new territory.

Douglas Ruskoff, in Playing the Future,1999; p. 4

Today’s Students

Are connected

Crave feedback

A few more labels…• The Net Generation• Nexters• Screenagers• Generation Y or D or M• Echo Boomers• My Space Generation• Millennials – Educause/Oblinger• Clickerati – Idit Harel, MaMaMedia• Digital Natives – Marc Prensky

How well do you speak the language?

Think in paper Use email Work independently Step by step Text focus One at a time Deliberate speed

Think digitally Use txt msg & IM Work collaboratively Random access Graphics focus Multi-tasking Twitch speed

The Immigrant Accent The Native Speakers

Taken from presentations by Marc Prensky

The Pew Info•There is a widening gap between

techno-savvy students and their schools

•Many schools and teachers have not yet recognized – much less responded to – the new ways students communicate and access information over the Internet

•Students want more and more engaging internet activities at school that are relevant to their lives

The Gift•It’s not so much what you do, as how you

think.•Pay attention to the principles rather

than the strategies.•Shift the focus from trying to manipulate

students to learn to showing them how to learn and helping them see the value in learning.

•You become a master teacher by thinking like a master teacher thinks.

Watch Robin’s interview Part 2: The gift of teaching http://www.ascd.org/Publications/Books/ASCD_Talks_With_an_Author.aspx

Self-Assessment

Please take the self assessment in the Never Work Harder than Your Students book on pages 7-25.