Post on 28-Oct-2014
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Teaching Adolescents or
How I stopped worrying and started engaging
Meenoo Ramimeenoo.rami@gmail.com
@meenooramimeenoorami.org
#EDThrive
Rami Advisory - Class of 2015
Information has to make sense.
NB CLA XC BSD VDA BC
or NBC LAX CBS DVD
ABC?
Power of Storytelling
We do not learn alone.
Practice the meta-
cognition techniques.
(now the ears of my ears awake
andnow the
eyes of my eyes are opened)
The first step to success after high school is graduation.
9th grade
10th grade
11th grade
To pass 9th grade, students must:• Earn enough (& the right kind of) credits
To pass 10th grade, students must:• Earn enough (& the right kind of) credits• In some states:
Pass the state test Pass End of Course (EOC) exams in
core classes
To pass 11th grade, students must:• Earn enough (& the right kind of) credits• In some states:
Pass the state test Pass EOC exams in core classes
To graduate, stu-dents must have:• Enough (& the
right kind of) credits
• Passed the state test & any EOC exams
How do we prepare students to successfully navigate this structure?
Goal Set-ting
Connection to Fu-ture
Small Group Activity:
Use student profiles to identify po-tential goals (short and long term) to help your student graduate pre-pared for post - secondary suc-cess.
Potential areas to focus on/include:• Mindset/resilience• Academic skills• Graduation/promotion require-
ments• Socio-emotional skills• Academic behaviors
So what?
to model make learning relevant
find an audience
to empower
http://issuu.com/meenoorami/docs/stash_magazine_final_draft_2
KQED - Do Now
Students respond to current issues
Students as reader/writers of Web
&makers of media
Radio Rookies NYC
provides teenagers with the tools and training to
create radio stories about themselves, their communities and their
world.
Science and Society
Tim Best
Toddlers and Neuroscience
ph.ly/thrive
Meenoo Rami
@meenoorami
meenoo.rami@gmail.com
meenoorami.org
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