2. The Artisan Approach: Capitalize on your talents and manage around your non-talents

3. A Primer on Talent
Neural nature
Traces
Types
Themes

4. Non-talent? Get a little better Get a partner Make a support system
Overwhelm NT with T
Just don’t do it

5. Connection
Teaching new curriculum by identifying and “building on” past learning and experience

6. Mental Models
Employing images, sensory representations, symbol systems, and creative processing methodologies to create mental frameworks for learning

8. Personal Relevance
Linking new learning to students’ survival and/or immediate well-being

9. Locale Memory
Teaching to the brain’s 3-dimensional, spatial memory system

10. A Logic Model Theory in use…
Way of thinking…
Rationale…

11. Life
(as a school administrator)
Brevity
Fragmentation
Diversity

12. Leverage
Mechanical advantage
Effect size

13. Teaching Quality
Content knowledge
Pedagogical skill
Compelling nature

14. Coaching & Feedback Pattern recognition Retrieval fluency
Coaching & feedback skills

15. School Culture
Attracts talent
Repels problems

16. 30 Second Feedback
Cushion Teaching Learning + Tag

17. 5 Minute Feedback
Discussion
Theme
Cushion Teaching Learning + Tag

18. Creating an Artisan Culture What is an Artisan Teacher?
The opportunity to work with other talented artisans
The opportunity to work with administrators who can develop artisans’ talents.
What is an Artisan Teacher?
An Artisan is part scientist, part artist, part skilled laborer. An Artisan is a craftsperson… one skilled in the applied arts.

19. Performance Feedback
Increasing student persistence by delivering abundant, immediate, and specific knowledge of results

20. Overt Responses
Obtaining “proof of learning” from students during instruction

21. What is an Artisan? What is an Artisan Teacher?
An Artisan is part scientist, part artist, part skilled laborer. An Artisan is a craftsperson… one skilled in the applied arts.
What is an Artisan Teacher?
An Artisan is part scientist, part artist, part skilled laborer. An Artisan is a craftsperson… one skilled in the applied arts.

22. A Primer on Talent
Neural nature
Traces
Types
Themes

23. Neural Pruning
Paring back of connections to create useful neural networks… birth through age 22.

24. Talent Friendly Characteristics:
Value
Appreciate
Recognize
Develop

25. “Never, never, never give up!”
Agree or disagree?
“Never, never, never give up!”
Winston Churchill

26. A Logic Model for turning teaching talent into student achievement

27. Agree or disagree? “Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration”
Thomas Edison

28. Agree or disagree?
Q: How do you get to Carnegie Hall? A: Practice, practice, practice.

29. Conscious Attention
Gaining, keeping, and applying the learner’s finite attention span to the intended curriculum

30. The Artisan Approach: Capitalize on your talents and manage around your non-talents

31. Chunking
Dividing the learning into small, discreet “packets of information” to avoid memory overload and enhance recall

32. The Information Processing Model
Sensory
Register
Working
Memory
Long-Term

33. Neural Downshifting
Controlling the learning environment so as to keep students’ brains engaged in higher order thinking

34. Enriched Environments
Modifying the classroom’s physical and social/emotional attributes to enhance attention, effort, persistence, and achievement

35. Practice
Improving recall and application through skillful rehearsal, repetition, drill, study, and review

36. 23 Principles of Learning Themes of Talent

37. The Elements of Temperament:
Dominance, Influence, Steadiness,
Conscientiousness

38. Teacher Efficacy
Content knowledge
Pedagogical skill
Compelling nature

39. First-Time Learning
Capitalizing on the brain’s tendency to attend to, process deeply, and remember well, learning it regards as new, original, or novel

40. Success
Employing the frames of aptitude, persistence, perception, prior experience, value, and consequences to maximize student effort

46. It’s all based on Talent

47. 7 Tools Training 30 second feedback 5 minute feedback
Reflective planning
Positive reinforcement coaching
Instructional coaching
Small group coaching
Teaching studies

48. Creating an Artisan Culture What is an Artisan Teacher?
Artisan teachers seek employment at schools that have these two characteristics…
[from exit interviews of “migrating artisans”]
What is an Artisan Teacher?
An Artisan is part scientist, part artist, part skilled laborer. An Artisan is a craftsperson… one skilled in the applied arts.

49. Efficacy
A sense of profound satisfaction that comes from successfully applying one’s talents to a difficult task.

50. Elements of Efficacy Knowledge
Skill
Compelling Nature

51. Clear Learning Goals
What would I like my students to know and be able to do in the next 20 minutes?

52. Congruency
Matching activities, information, questions and responses precisely to the clear learning goal

53. LCS Creating the Learning Centered School

54. Diagnosis
Determining what students are next ready to learn

55. Task Analysis
A sequential “roadmap” to the clear learning goal

56. Mid-Course Corrections
“Having a lesson plan but not believing it”

57. What is an Artisan Teacher? What is an Artisan Teacher?
An Artisan is part scientist, part artist, part skilled laborer. An Artisan is a craftsperson… one skilled in the applied arts.
What is an Artisan Teacher?
An Artisan is part scientist, part artist, part skilled laborer. An Artisan is a craftsperson… one skilled in the applied arts.

58. 6 Big Ideas Clear Learning Goals Congruency Task Analysis Diagnosis
Overt Responses
Mid-Course Corrections

60. For more information on the five Artisan principles, visit www
For more information on the five Artisan principles, visit
Click on “The Artisan Teacher”
Then, the Artisan Teacher printable brochure (.pdf)