ANNOUNCEMENT (show this page to your Principal or your favorite teachers who want to expand / enhance / add to their teaching methods) Visual and Active Teaching “That’s Edu-Tainment” This dynamic workshop motivates teachers and guides them to include visual and active methods in their lessons. The workshop lasts 45 minutes, 90 minutes or a half-day. Free DVDs included References Howard Gardner (Reframing Intelligence) Neil Postman (Teaching as a Subversive/Conservative Activity) Dennis Littky (The Big Picture) Littky on NPR Bill Gates (National High School Summit speech) Alison Gopnik (The Teacher as Coach) Malcolm Gladwell (Blink) Lois Hetland, Steve Seidel, J. Walters (Portfolio Practices, Project Zero)
Marshall Thurber (Positive Deviance) posdev.net Dr. W. E. Deming (Quality and distortions in a system) Dr. Nancy Snyderman (Two-Brain Theory) Thomas Hoerr (Building a Multiple Intelligences School) Dan Pink (Free Agent Nation, A Whole New Mind, The MFA is the New MBA) Thomas Friedman (The World is Flat) Dennis Yuzenas (WhatDoYaKnow.com) Follow up: At three intervals, the participants will be contacted and/or visited (at the option of the participant): Within 7 days: an email message and a phone call Within 30 days: a phone call and/or physical visit to the classroom to see how methods have been implemented and to provide suggestions Within 90 days: phone call and/or physical visit to the classroom (for additional tips). No pressure, no results; know pressure, know results. This workshop delivers … To find out more, contact 954 646 8246 (954-OH-MUCHO) The Visual and Active “Edu-tainment” Team: Yuzenas, Schiano, Filho da Silva, Lloyd, Elcome, McCrea and Associates ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frequently Asked Questions Before the workshop: teachers read the "readings" page on my website During the workshop 1. Welcome and the reading of "the five questions" 2. Participants stand and paraphrase two of their favorite quotes and describe their feelings about the quote and tell the group "one new procedure that I will bring to my classroom to inject the spirit of the quote" into the classwork. 3. Suggestions about "how to put these quotes into action" are written on a sheet. 4. The compiled sheet is emailed to VisualandActive@gmail.com for follow-up The workshop can take as little as 30 minutes or as long as 90 minutes, depending on the amount of material the staff has consumed (if they visit the website ahead of time and watch the two 10-minute videos, then they are able to complete the workshop more quickly.) Followup within 7 days of the course, each participant receives an email message (from VAA) and/or a phone call (according to the wishes of the participant) asking about the implementation of the suggestions. within 30 days of the course, a second call and/or email checks on progress. within 90 days of the course, a third-up follow call and/or email is made to each participant. Our Workshops: "That's Edu-Tainment!" Visual and Active Educational Consultants Yuzenas, Lloyd, Elcome, Filho da Silva, Schiano, McCrea and Associates VisualandActive.com (VAA) VisualandActive@gmail.com +1 (954) 646-8246 ======================================== Second Project: Preparing Your Students for Projects By Dennis Yuzenas, M.Ed. ================ DRAFT Prepare Your Students for Projects Table of Contents or Prepare Your Classroom For Projects
A word to the reader
Chapter 1 Reset Your Mindset – A discussion of paradigms
Chapter 2 Guide to the DVD (Reset Your Mindset) (transcribed script)
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Chatper 4 A Guide to the DVD (That’s Edu tainment) (Transcribed script)
---------------------------------------- Chapter 5 The Project-Based Curriculum: How to Set up the Classroom to Build the “Cooperative and Creative Culture” A Classroom That Works (by Dennis Yuzenas)
Chapter 6 Project-based Curriculum: The first four days Videos taken August 17-20, 2010 (with transcribed script: read this script and your students will be motivated to learn through project-making)
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Contact Us
Appendix
Forms and samples of Student work
Fix Your School (a method to improve schools from outside -- a manual for Families) -------------------------------- Return to Home
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Your Mindset By Yuzenas and McCrea The Readings: Before you take the seminar, watch the videos on the home page and the video below and read the quotes from a variety of sources. Then you will see how the pieces knit together to form the Visual and Active "edu-taining" method. ========================== THE VIDEO COURSE: part A-1 part A-2 part A-3 Part B-1 Part B-2 =========================== See our workshop for parents: Fix Your School (and Get Your Kid Into a Great University)  A Visual and Active teacher in action Students in an edu-taining classroom  A teacher after class talking about something in a visual and active manner...  Learn about our workshop for parents (and teachers and principals) called "Fix Your School." ADDITIONAL MATERIALS: The Learning Web The LearningWeb.net ABOUT THE AUTHORS Gordon Dryden Dr. Jeannette Vos START HERE: Excerpt from the Table of Contents Chapter eight: The teaching revolution 200 The seven keys to effective teaching: the proving grounds to reinvent school 1. The best “state” 201 Orchestrating the environment 202 Setting the right mood and getting students’ attention 203 Early activity is vital 204 The right brain wavelength 206 Break down the learning barriers 208 Encourage personal goal-setting and learning outcomes 208 Try visualizing your goal 209 Trigger the emotions 209 2. The presentation: through exploration and inquiry 209 Positivity and linking are the first principles 209 Getting the big picture fast 210 Involve all the senses 211 Step out of the lecturing role 211 Plenty of role playing and “identities” 211 Organize plenty of “state changes” 212 The Lozanov concerts 212 3. Thinking about it, and deep memory storage 214 4. Activate to draw out the learning 215 5. Apply 216 6. Review, evaluate and celebrate 216 7. Holographic and holistic teaching 218 Transforming and entire school 218 Chapter nine: The high school revolution 222 New recipe for secondary school reform: to learn it, do it— in real-life partnerships How the best schools succeed 224 1. Captivate the students with real-world interests 225 2. Assign academic work worthy of being showcased 225 Business-school partnerships 226 Singapore shows the way 227 Project-based learning takes off 228 Start with hands-on experience 229 Setting up school companies 230 Integrated studies use the world as a classroom 234 High school business courses 234 Now do you see why a visual and active teacher needs to buy this book? BUY IT  Quite possibly the second-best book about education in print (the first is Dennis Littky's The Big Picture) bigpicture.net ------------------------------------------------------- |