The Magic Bean

www.toddwhitaker.com@toddwhitaker - twitter

The Students We Want The Least Need Us The Most

Teaching Is Not A

Profession,It’s A Passion.

-Unknown

The Kids In Our Classroom Are Infinitely More

Significant Than The Subject Matter

We Teach.- Meladee McCarty

When It Comes To Complainers Keep In Mind That The

Loudest Barks Seldom Come

From The Smartest Dogs

Think Of The Best Teacher

You Have Ever Had At Any Level

Share With A Partner(s) A Story Or Remembrance You have AS a

Student In Their Classroom

What Characteristics, Adjectives, Phrases, Or Terms Would You Use

To Describe This Person?

Share These With Your Group And Record Your Responses.

Twitter #SED2012

What SchoolsShould Be Doing

What StandardizedTests Measure

What SchoolsShould Be Doing

What StandardizedTests Measure

What SchoolsShould Be Doing

The Higher The Level Of TrustThe Larger The Zone Of Indifference

Zone of Indifference

Level of Trust

3 Emotional ModesBusinessParentChild

Seldom Need To Repair,

Always Working To

Repair

Do Not Use Rewards As A

HammerRewards Can Work

Rather Have a B or a D?

Simonsen Challenge

The Lime Green Ipod

Raise The Praise

Minimize The Criticize

Todd Whitakerwww.toddwhitaker.com

@toddwhitaker

What Great Educators Do Differentlywww.toddwhitaker.com@toddwhitaker - twitter

Great Teachers Are

MadeOne Student

At A Time- Todd Whitaker

The Frog Sheets

-You Will Know-Everyone Else Will

Know-The Mirror

The Ability To Know How We Come

Across

The Best We Know How

-Teachers-Parents

-Students

It’s People, It’s Not Programs

-Great Teachers/Great School

-Poor Lecturer’s Classroom

-Assertive Discipline

-Open Classrooms

Willingness To Accept

ResponsibilityPrincipals – Who Is Responsible For The Climate of Your School?

Teachers – You Give an Assignment and the Students Do Poorly on it

Worst Group Of Students We Have Ever Had!

Great Teachers Do Not Have

RulesDifference Between Expectations

and Rules

Rules Have Consequences – Expectations Do Not

Which Teacher Has More Rules Than Any Other Teacher In Your School. And, They Never Have Enough

10 Days Out of 10

Treat Every Student With Respect and Dignity Every Day, All The Time

How Many Days Out of Ten Do You Want?

You Don’t Have To Like The Students, You Just Have To Act Like You Like The Students

Incredible Ability To Ignore

v.No Ability To

Ignore Whatsoever

5 Things That Help

Praise Work

AuthenticSpecific

ImmediateClean

Private

Make It Cool To Care

Can You Help Me With My Poem?

The Holiday Party For The Day Care

Three Kinds Of Teachers

◦Superstars◦Backbones◦Mediocres

Superstars◦5 to 10 Percent of Faculty

◦Students Would Say It is One of My Best Teachers

◦Parents Request Them

◦Respected By Peers

◦Irreplaceable

Backbones◦80 to 90 Percent of Faculty

◦Do Most of the Work In a School

◦If Two Or Three Leave We Will Probably Break Even In Terms of Talent

◦There Can Be Aspects We Might Miss, Or Might Not Miss At All

Mediocres◦5 to 10 Percent of Faculty

◦Might Be Too Kind of a Word

◦If One of Them Leaves We Are Sure We Can Do Better – Without Even Looking At the Applicants

◦Might Be Nice, Might Be Not Nice

Together

In The Back

Near The Door