Principles of 21 st 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 Agenda Never Work Harder Than Your Students: Preface and Introduction Introductions Millennials Self Assessment

Using Voki in the Classroom Create a Voki to share your introduction. 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 Civilizations the digital landscape  Baby Boomers ( ) discovered the “new world”  Generation X ( ) 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  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 AccentThe 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

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