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Our "Digital Portfolio" and "That's Edu-tainment" workshops need to be translated into other languages. We are looking for translators and TRAINERS... We can teach you and then you can become a VISUAL and ACTIVE teacher trainer (VATT -- certification) We are "edu-tainers"
The "back to basics" movement and the focus on standardized tests ("drill-and-kill") have brutalized schools. The students aren't having fun, the teachers aren't having fun. There is another way. -- Dennis Yuzenas
(Their feedback has helped to guide this course)
Presentations "Reset the Mindset" -- a workshop that helps participants see how their training limits what they see. If you think that the sun travels around the Earth, you ignore data that suggests another arrangement. (Performances of Understanding)
Recommended ways to collect data
Teachers are lucky. We have an opportunity every time we begin a class to start again.
We can create a new world, an alternative to the "real world" in our classroom. It is a place of hope, support, dreams and potentials. We can put inspiring quotations on the walls, on stickers that we put in the students' books, on desks, under chairs, over the door.
I awake at dawn with a winged heart and I give thanks for another day of living. -- Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese philosopher
 Send us photos of you at work in your visual and active classroom. When you catch your students in "flow" and oblivious to time, take a photo and share it with us. What conditions created the focus?
(based on Visual and Active principles)
Dennis Yuzenas talks about the biggest problem in many schools (Why do students drop out?)
The Visual and Active Team
We are "Edu-Tainers"
Yuzenas, Elcome, Lloyd, da Silva, Schiano, McCrea and Associates <<< do you want to join our team?
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LINKS that we like
Sites such as
Click HERE to see more SEE THE FREE WORKSHOP "That's Edu-tainment" A part 1 A part 2 A part 3 Part B-1 Part B-2 Part B-3 Part B-4 Part B-5 One of the most powerful essays/compositions or arguments that you will ever read begins with these words: Chapter 1. The Real Goals of Education ~ John Dewey When I watch kids walk into the building on their first day of school, I think about what I want them to be like when they walk out on their last day. I also think about what I want them to be like on the day I bump into them in the supermarket 10 or 20 years later. Over the course of three decades watching kids walk into my schools, I have decided that I want them to
AUTHOR: Dennis Littky Book: The Big Picture Or go to the Visual and Active Channel Contact Steve McCrea if you want this lecture and workshop delivered in your school. You have permission to download these videos from youtube (using www.zamzar.com) and show these videos as a training program for parents, teachers and students. Why not download the first chapter of The Big Picture? | MEDIA TOUR This web site is located at
QBESchool Curriculum (what should students study?) Structure of QBESchool website for curriculum --- QBESchool.com MORE READINGS VisualandActive.com (Consulting) List of skills (that we aim to inculcate in the students) CVs of Dennis, Will and Steve List of our approved mentors Students will use this list to find their current mentors List of REQUESTED mentors (we have asked these people to serve) (with a contact form to allow people to volunteer their time and get listed on the page -- students will use this list to cultivate new virtual mentors) List of the Corlette Principles (and procedures under each principle) The curriculum (divided by the Corlette principles) Traditional Curriculum format (organized by subject) Introduction Description of the Public Use of this website = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = *** INVITE US TO YOUR SCHOOL ***
FREE SEMINAR << SEE IT NOW >> Here is an excellent site http://www.thelearningweb.net/ Here is the free 1999 book, excellent quotes
FindASmallSchool (a review of current readings about small schools)
VeryCoolSites.com <<< materials for studying,
including the GetAheadBook.com
We need CONVERSATION ASSISTANTS at our school
Take the FREE ONLINE course to become a
We publish our books at AuthorHouse.com and we recommend that you get your students' work published there. Ask for Dan Heise and you'll get marketing guidance at the start of the bookmaking process.
WELCOME: Thank you for visiting our website.
FIRST-TIME VISITORS
Our Workshops
That's Edu-Tainment (Visual and Active Training for teachers)
Fix Your School (and Get Your Kid Into a Great University) (for parents)
Testimonials (What do some students say?)
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Educators should:
personalize education and work to individualize instruction;
enable students to develop and use their areas of strength;
view students' parents as partners and educate them, too;
offer an environment that supports faculty growth; and
demonstrate that students are prepared for the future.
Becoming a Multiple Intelligences School
Thomas Hoerr Read these words in: Bulgarian Czech French German Italian Korean Japanese Portuguese Russian Spanish =============================================
FUTURE PAPERS
by Steve McCrea and Jair
For TESOL
(Collaborative paper about the use of V and A techniques in a Digital Classroom equipped with Internet and an electronic whiteboard).
Draft notes for VATT
This page explains "How to use the Visual and Active method in a Portfolio"
Send questions to VisualandActive@gmail.com
Holders of the VATT Certificate
Dennis Yuzenas
Cary Elcome
Anthony Lloyd
Steve McCrea
Patrick Q
George Schiano
Jair Filho da Silva (Florianopolis, Brazil)
"How do I earn this VATT certificate?"
If your students walk into class
and ask, "What new surprises
do you have for us today?"...
If your students refuse to skip school...
If your students say,
"I don't want to be sick,
because I don't want to miss ANYTHING!
This is my FAVORITE class!"...
...then we want to hear from you
-- tell us your secrets.
What motivates you?
What impels you to create
an interesting environment
for learning,
bonding,
creating,
exploring and
discovering new things?
VisualandActive@gmail.com
A Visual and Active Project
WE CAN USE SKYPE IN OUR CLASSROOMS... But first... We can ask our students to create a short video, THEN upload the video, THEN ask the other students (in another country) to watch the videos. ... THEN we can talk again on SKYPE. Help us translate some of the pages
of this site into other languages
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