Skills for a Lifetime: Teaching the Habits of Success
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Transcript of Skills for a Lifetime: Teaching the Habits of Success
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Skills for a Lifetime:Teaching the Habits of
Success
Connections ConferencePheasant Run ResortSt. Charles, Illinois
March 16, 2011
Lois BarnesSREB/HSTW
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Welcome!
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Do Now! Draw a Pig!
Use a pen or pencil and the page in your handout to draw a pig. Draw the entire pig, not just the head.
Do not glance at others’ drawings! You will have a couple of minutes to draw
your pig.
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High Schools That Work (HSTW)
The largest and oldest of SREB’s school improvement initiatives1987 – 27 sites2010 – 1,000+ sites in 30+ states
Additional initiativesMaking Middle Grades Work for
middle grades schools• 1998 – 25 sites; • 2010 – 450+ sites in 22 states
Technology Centers That Work for shared-time technology centers
• 2010 – 150+ sites in 15 states
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High Schools That Work
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HSTW Key Practices
High expectations
Program of study
Academic studies
Career/technical studies
Work-based learning
Teachers working together
Students actively engaged
Guidance and advisement
Extra help Culture of
continuous improvement
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Session Objectives
Explain the six habits of success that all students need to learn
Describe and practice a variety of strategies for teaching those habits.
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Essential Question
Why and how do we need to help students learn the habits of success?
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If the pig is drawn:
Toward the top of the paper, you tend to be a positive, optimistic person. Toward the middle of the paper, you tend to be a practical, realistic person. Toward the bottom of the paper, you may look at the pessimistic side too often. Facing left, you tend to believe in tradition, are friendly and remember dates, including birthdays. Facing right, you tend to be innovative, creative, energetic and active, but perhaps forgetful. Facing forward, looking at you, you tend to be direct, enjoy debating different ideas and viewpoints and are at ease with ideas and discussions. more……=>
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If the pig is drawn: With many details, you may be analytical, careful, thoughtful and deliberate in making decisions. With few details, you may be ruled by emotion more than by thought, enjoy risk taking and prefer action as opposed to planning. With four legs showing, you tend to be secure, self-confident, well-grounded and loyal to your ideals. With fewer than four legs showing, you are seeking or are experiencing a period of major change in your life. With small ears, you may not be as good a listener as you would like to be. With large ears, you are a good listener.
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Teambuilding
“What’s in a Name?”
Lois Barnes
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Jigsaw ReadingThe Habits of Success
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Skills for a Lifetime: Teaching Students the Habits of
Success
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• Section 1: The case for teaching the habits of success — research supporting the need•Section 2: Approaches for teaching the habits of success — three examples from successful schools•Section 3: Model lessons and activities — tools teachers can use now to embed the habits into their classrooms
Three sections to walk schools through a process for creating their own system to teach the habits of success:
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Jigsaw Reading - The Habits of SuccessRead the following excerpts:
#1’s – “Chapter 1 –Connecting High School to Students’ Talents, Interests….
#2’s - “The Case for Teaching the Six Habits of Success” and habits 1 and 2
#3’s – Habits 3 and 4 #4’s – Habits 5 and 6
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Creating Positive, Productive Relationships
Two central principles: “One, positive change cannot occur in isolation. In order for children to feel supported, the whole class, as well as the teacher, must be cheering for them, and believing transformations can occur. And two, classroom power has to be shared among its members. Children are more likely to work hard at learning if they’re included in the process of running the classroom and making decisions.” Adults set the tone for the class, but students have a voice…”
From: Belonging: Creating Community in the Classroom
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Creating Positive, Productive Relationships – Four Key
Topics
Getting to Know Each Other Involving Students in
Extracurricular Activities Understanding How Families
Support Academic Success Team Building
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Creating Positive, Productive Relationships -
Strategies Journaling “Check In” Message Center “Worst Case
Scenario” (Analyze This)
My Motto Cooperative
Learning Teamwork
Strategies Please and Thank
You – How to Ask, How to Appreciate
Teamwork Scoring Guide ( see handout)
Administrative Speeches
Formal Introductions
Extra Curricular Fairs, Participation
Intro to Conflict Management
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Learning to Study, Manage Time and Get Organized -
Strategies Study
Environment Agenda Planners
(handout pp. 5-6) Agenda Reviews “Check-In” Where Is It?
Backpacks, Notebooks, Lockers
Two-Column (Cornell) Note-taking
“Study Buddies” Teaching Test Prep Tips for Taking
Notes Class Performance
rubric/checklist Teaching Test Types Listening
Skills/Habits
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Improving Reading and Writing Skills
Literacy Skills
ReadingWritingSpeakingListeningObserving
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Literacy Across the Curriculum
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A Baker’s Dozen of Literacy Strategies Any Teacher Can – and Should – Use
1. Double entry or two column notes 2. Admit slips/Exit slips3. ReQuest4. Interactive CLOZE5. Anticipation Guide/ Pre-learning
Concept Checks6. Jigsaw reading7. Paired Reading8. GIST9. KWL charts 10. Graphic organizers (i.e. Frayer)11. Riddle Me12. RAFT13. Readers Theater 22
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Improving Mathematics Skills
Focus on:Active Student ParticipationDevelopment of number and operation sense in mathematicsThe use of many representations in developing knowledge and skillsHelping students learn to communicate about mathematicsThe use of graphing calculators and computers in mathematics learning
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Goal Setting and Planning - Strategies
Journals Agenda/Planner Check In Sports Analogies: “Goal Line” “Half Time in the
Locker Room” “Score!” weekly
celebrations
SMART Goals Being WISE Goal Grid Create Class Goals Career Planning
and College Planning Activities
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Sample Journal Prompts – Goal Setting
There is only one thing that feels worse than being ready and not having opportunity knock…and that’s having opportunity knock and not being ready.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
If you wait to do everything until you’re sure you’re ready, you’ll probably never do much of anything!
If you can DREAM it, you can DO it. –Walt Disney We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is
nothing but a habit. – Aristotle The future depends on what we do in the present. –
Mahatma Gandhi Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall,
don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. – Michael Jordan
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you
Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.
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Being WISE about Goal Setting
A goal doesn’t do the actual work for students ; it just helps them focus. Have students work in teams to brainstorm personal traits that help people reach their goals. Discuss ways of staying on track with goals.Students can create a master list and their own acronyms as a mnemonic device. One example is WISE:
»Will power » Initiative »Stamina »Enthusiasm!
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GOAL GRIDACADEMIC GOAL WEEK _________Write your goal and be able to prove it is . . .Specific I will _________________________________________________Measurable by _________________________________________________Action-Oriented by _________________________________________________Realistic _________________________________________________Timetable within _________________________________________________
This is what I will add: This is what I will give up:
This is my support system: This is my reward:
…and this is the motto that will inspire me when I want to give up:
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Accessing ResourcesOn-Campus Resources:College/career center, testing centerCounseling officesMedia CenterComputer labsDistance Learning LabHomework or Learning CenterIn-school suspension and/or alternative programsPeer tutoringPeer mediationHealth clinic, school nurseSchool Resource Officer
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Accessing ResourcesCommunity Resources
100 Black Men of America
ASPIRA (Puerto Rican and Latino Community Technology Centers)
Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
Boy Scouts of America
Faith-based organizations’ programs
GREAT (Gang Resistance Education and Training)
INROADS Junior Achievement Kiwanis La Raza (mentoring
and tutoring for Hispanic youth)
Lions Club Museums Upward Bound YMCAs/YWCAs
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http://publications.sreb.org/2010/10V25_Skills_for_a_Lifetime_Intro.pdf
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Ordering Skills for a Lifetime
Foreword and Introduction are available at www.sreb.org
Printed copies cost $12 each or $10 each for orders of 10 or more. They can be ordered:
• online — (www.sreb.org)• by phone —(404) 879-5536•by e-mail — [email protected]
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Thank you for participating!
Enjoy the conference!
Lois BarnesSREB/[email protected]