We hope you can share this information with a local school... In this document is a lot of info that might be shown to a principal/headmaster. We'd like to train teachers with a series of workshops or lectures.
We have started a consulting group called Visual and Active -- the techniques of the vibrant tutor need to be expanded and brought into the classroom. In the USA, we offer to give a course or mini workshop in "How to use the Internet in the classroom" and there will be teachers who are "technophobes" who ask for our help in these topics:
TECHNOLOGY How to Make a Free Web Site (using the free site Sites Google.com)  Introduction to MP3 Players (CD for the audience: Highlights from the Internet) True or False: The Urban Legends Game for Shaper Minds -- Was an alligator found in a New York sewer? Can a Gasoline Boycott force gas prices down? Come test your ability to sniff out what's right and what's not.  How to Use Facebook, Youtube and Myspace Safely (handout with recommendations) 200 million people check their pages on social networks. Learn how to participate in the "email of the next century." Views From Above (handout with recommendations). Have you ever wondered how the Earth looks from space? Interactive quiz will determine if you are a competent interpreter of satellite photos.  What’s Special About a Mac? (Handout: key features found on a Macintosh). Learn more about Apple computers. Hands-on demonstration lets you compare a PC to a Mac. 
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We are visual and active teachers. We are available to train other teachers in a "revolutionary" way of teaching. Actually, it is the old style of teaching. It's called "Ask the student what he wants to learn, then teach that subject (by asking the student to discover and explore what he wants to learn), guide him with questions, and then check the student's understanding, not by writing but by asking him to talk about it." It is an old way of teaching and it means the teacher is a facilitator.
Some teachers fear this method. "It's too much work," they tell us. "I have to have 25 plans, one for each student." Yes, it is more work, and yet it is easier for some teachers because the work becomes joyful and more interesting.
We invite you to watch a video about a remarkable school (Search on youtube for “Dennis Littky Small School.”) Many of the techniques that I use are also used at that school. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEgTB1tuKkM If you sit with a good teacher and listen to her tell stories, that's the way to learn. She asks questions, she answers questions, she entices you with another story and the learning continues. That's the way we have organized the "Visual and Active" method of teaching and training. Our group has several training workshops – and we can present information to your teachers about other learning methods (tell us what you want to communicate and we will create a workshop to meet your needs). We hope someday to charge for this course, but for now we need to gather feedback and make the workshop well-known.
There is no charge for the workshop at present. We ask some assistance with the cost of housing the workshop leaders, some food would be nice and compensation for the DVDs and CDs that we give at the workshop. It will be nice if the participants can be paid for their time spent listening to us.
We are on youtube and we encourage you to share this information with other teachers and principals/headmasters and parents. I also provide FOLLOWUP by Skype or Email to find out how the procedures are being implemented. You can learn more by going to www.visualandactive.com
ACTION REQUESTED: Please pass this email message to a principal or a teacher. We believe this method can provide valuable new procedures for many schools and many subjects. We have worksheets and quotations to help people become better teachers and consumers of education.
Here are some of the READINGS: http://sites.google.com/site/visualandactive/Home/about-us/thats-edu-tainment/readings
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IMPORTANT QUOTE 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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEgTB1tuKkM The New Three Rs, a visit to Dennis Littky's school PART 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snW5xkyBFvI Littky's school Part 2
Get the Littky Book, The Big Picture http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Big-Picture/Dennis-Littky/e/9780871209719/?itm=2&usri=1 Read these pages: page 34- quote by Robert Reich, the former Secretary of Labor pages 66-70 school size pages 86-92 discipline  pages 113-114 real work <<<<< Dennis Littky Page 116 the formula that Bill Gates used in his Feb. 2005 speech to Governors at the Naitonal High School Summit. pages 152-162 grades? no, narratives pages 162-168 Tests? no, exhibitions
If you know someone who can translate pages, please show them www.visualandactive.com and our courses about "that's Edu-tainment" – If you know a principal or director of a school who wants to transform the school's teachers, tell us... We can create an excellent workshop... Our Workshops: Visual and Active Educational Consultants Yuzenas, Bohnsack, Kayman, Harris, Lloyd, Elcome, Filho da Silva, Sutherland, Schiano, McCrea and Associates +1 (954) 646-8246
LITTKY BOOK scribd.com/doc/16340634/plitqi-Chapter-5-passions
FREE BOOK thelearningweb.net/learningrevolution1999.html
A lot of our work is based on Dennis Littky's book, The Big Picture, 
here are some youtube links
1. Dennis Yuzenas, master teacher, Edu-taining" teacher using Computer Assisted Instruction, Bak Middle School of the Arts, West Palm Beach, FL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnR_nCakIKk  Dennis Yuzenas, Florida
2. Tour of Littky School The New Three Rs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEgTB1tuKkM
3. Littky Method (Big Picture Learning) Powerpoint on Youtube... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDIKiHs2d-Y
4. Steve McCrea talks about the New Three "Rs" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvKCCQ2p2q4
5. Make a Portfolio of your Child's work and prepare for a GREAT application for university. Dennis Yuzenas tells you what you need.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJzLQiWmRwQ
6. The Parent CD part 1 How can parents participate? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0Rxyv6by88
What do you want in your school? The Parent CD part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qcBn-5ImNU
Inspiring READINGS http://sites.google.com/site/visualandactive/Home/about-us/thats-edu-tainment/readings
================ BuildingInternationalBridges.org TheStudentIsTheClass.com <<< please click and make an old man happy. We recommend http://www.thestudentistheclass.com/ to
taxpayers -- if you want your tax dollars spent on public education
to go farther, if you want the graduation rate to go from 70% to 95%,
click on http://sites.google.com/site/thestudentistheclass/ Qualified By Experience qbeglobal.net PASS THIS MESSAGE TO PARENTS, TEACHERS and TEENAGERS in your life: Dear Parents, Teachers and Students I'm writing to you because I want to compile a book of funny stories from English Language classes -- and I want to inspire young people to become Conversation Assistants in our classes. Teachers: what moves you? What inspires you to keep teaching? What funny jokes did you hear in class? Students: what words are funny to you? What do you remember from class?
Parents: What do you remember from your days in school?
TEACHERS and PARENTS Please ask students in your class to look at the following links..
Can you pass a message to young people in your life or neighbors? http://sites.google.com/site/distortthenet (Make an old man happy by clicking on his blog about education) and http://www.verycoolsites.com and http://www.isawitonyoutube.com I hope their friends will pass me some cool sites. thanks...
(Here's the idea: we have over 700 names of students and teachers in my email addresss book. What are the best 1000 websites that this group can assemble? what ESOL stories and jokes can we tell? Let's put the funny stories into www.BiggerThanBrazil.com. If the book actually makes money, we'll share the proceeds. We'll email everyone with the assembled list of sites.)
SMALL SCHOOLS BOOKLET http://sites.google.com/site/findasmallschool/home/in-praise-of-small-schools FOR TEACHERS: The Red Pencil by T. Sizer
http://plant-trees.org/about/cooling.htm this explains the program ... We developed the program with the Trees for the Future organization GlobalCoolingCenter.com
www.plant-trees.org is the website of the organization... I'm listed as a consultant on this page: http://plant-trees.org/contact/staff.htm
Steve the DVD Producer: to see the filmbaby location (an excellent way to sell DVDs), see this link http://www.filmbaby.com/films/1389 about SKYPE and about San Miguel de Allende: http://www.filmbaby.com/films/1657
In short, we are available to visit a school and give a presentation to teachers, parents, students, almost any audience.
Wherever we travel, we carry our CDs and DVDs, each associated with the topics listed above. We also give talks centered around the quotes that are listed on www.visualandactive.com ("readings"). We are looking for invitations to speak. We will pay for our air flight, traveling and teaching/speaking, and we need to video record our talks and the interactions. Then we can post on our website that we traveled to India or California or Italy to give training sessions. If we can sleep on a couch, that would be great and keep our costs down. We are thinking of ways to build our reputations as trainers and advocates of active methods in and outside the classroom. We want to introduce ebooks -- 201 ebooks on one CD and every student gets to take one home.
Can you arrange for an invitation to a school in your city? That's our dream. We are ready to travel – please help us get invitations to speak.
Thank you,
Steve McCrea (and the Visual and Active team) FreeEnglishLessons.com VisualandActive.com | Our Team: Yuzenas, Bohnsack, Kayman, Harris, Lloyd, Elcome, Filho da Silva, Sutherland, Schiano, Lott, McCrea and Associates We might be in your city.... and we are available to speak to students, teachers, principals and parents. Please write to us and give us an invitation to come to one of your schools. 1+ 954 646 8246 (SMS) mobile  <<<< Skype in the classroom Teachers, Students and Parents 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  In May 2008, 8 million users In December 2009, 16 million users  By the way... Learn more about tree planting at GlobalCoolingCenter.com  We sponsor trees to offset the carbon emissions of our travel. Trees for Travel. QBE Seminar Workshops and Master Mind Groups We run a series of Seminar Workshops and Mastermind Groups to meet demand. Come and join us at the next event:
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