1. ECE 366 / 566 Reports from the Field 11/14/2007

2. Learning Contracts Explored and Explained

3. Themes – extracted from your Learning Contracts  Organization  Special Needs Students  DAP  Communication  Community Involvement  Teaching Philosophies  Classroom Management  Lesson Plans  Classroom Design  Professional Development

4. Themes, part 2  Student Motivation  Classroom Managing  Student Organization  PPR  Disabilities  Parents  TAKS

5. Themes distilled into 6 groups Student Motivation DAP The Child and Her Family Special Needs Communication Professional Development

6. Student Motivation  Choice  Interest  Purpose –Multiple Intelligence –Student Centered Learning –Reward Systems –Transitional Methods –Routine – what’s next –Positive Reinforcement

7. Developmentally Appropriate Practice  NAEYC (July 2007) –Professional Development. Revisiting the NAEYC Position Statement on Developmentally Appropriate Practice: Update  Teaching Philosophies  Classroom Design  Classroom Managing  Teacher Organization  Student Organization  Lesson Plans  TAKS

8. The Child and her Family  Parents  Siblings  Extended Family  Caregivers  Communication

9. Special Needs Students

10. Communication  Parents  Community Involvement

11. Professional Development  PPR  EC-4 Gen  ESL  Bilingual

12. Glad Grads Reporting In  Pam Bratton & Angela Hill – Community Involvement  Leah Gore – Lesson Plans for Uninteresting Topics  Jennifer Helge – Centers & Communication  Jill Stone – Make a Difference by Going Back to Basics Future Glad Grad Experts: Angel Case, Jessica Duckworth, Karen Jolly, Stephanie Mexia and April Morris

13. Questions?  How did the Learning Contract affect my learning?

14. Questions?  What am I still curious about?

15. Questions?  How can I best proceed from here?

16. Questions?  What are my biggest problems, stumbling blocks, impediments to learning?

17. Questions?  This experiment in education has been –A failure –A work in progress –A success for some –A success for all

18. Questions?