1. June 2011 By Kristin Rowe

2.  Skills Needed in the 21 st Century  Creativity and Innovation skills  Critical thinking and problem solving skills  Communication skills  Collaboration Skills

3.  Using logic and reasoning…  Along with creativity and imagination…  To generate ideas and artifacts that are new, surprising, and valuable.  Lego is an advocate of active, Creative and Collaborative learning

4.  Building representations of ideas, problems, and knowledge with LEGO bricks makes them concrete  Students are giving their hands something to work with, and their brains something to remember

5.  Ask parents for donations of LEGO bricks  If class funds are available, use them to purchase what is necessary  Use during writing/reading to create pictures that students can use as story starts  Use the creations to get ideas on how to write a story-tell class about it orally first  Website: http://www.legoeducation.ushttp://www.legoeducation.us

6.  Brain research says that we need to get up every 10 minutes and be active to get our blood flowing to our brain.  Make sure to give students time in class to do this.  Brain Gym  http://www.braingym.org/ http://www.braingym.org/  http://esl.about.com/od/englishlessonplans /a/braingym.htm http://esl.about.com/od/englishlessonplans /a/braingym.htm

7.  Chelonnda Seroyer, a high school teacher, was by far the most inspirational presenter  Follows book The First Days of School by Harry Wong  Her PowerPoint is linked below:  http://teachers.net/wong/FEB05/ http://teachers.net/wong/FEB05/

8.  Am I in the right room?  Where am I supposed to sit?  Who is this teacher as a person?  Will this teacher treat me fairly?  What will we be doing this year?  How will I be graded?  What are the rules of the classroom? **I will create a PowerPoint on myself to answer the 3 rd question and present on first day of school.

9.  I will use the Quadrant D Vocabulary List in my classroom to get my students ready for the “Next Generation Assessments”.  This is on pg. 77 of the link below:  CCSS9CCSS-BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND.ppt9CCSS-BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND.ppt

10. Rigor and Relevance QuadD.pdf I will hold “Expert Centers” where students will take a mistake they had on a test and have an expert teach them how to solve it. (Math tests, etc.)  I will use current events. 2 paragraphs- First is the summary and the second tells about the similarities and differences to concepts students have learned in curriculum that year.