The Power of Process Why the how should drive the what in your classroomDAVID MOSCARELLI

2015 RI TEACHER OF THE YEAR

PONAGANSET HIGH SCHOOL

Who are you?

What age grade level do/will you primarily work with?

How many years of service do you have in the profession?

What’s your definition of success today?

And how will you achieve it?

Kitchen PD – Another Model

MOOCs

Webinars

My Notes from Today

http://ritoy15.weebly.com/

“Eighty percent of the jobs students will fill in the future don’t exist today.”

E. Spiegel, President and CEO of Siemens USA, LinkedIn, (January 27, 2014)

How many of your parents or grandparents had only one or two jobs in their lifetimes?

Adapted from Partnership for 21st Century Skills, FETC Presentation, Orlando, FL 2007

How many jobs will a young person have today between age 18-48?

11.7 jobs

SOURCE: NUMBER OF JOBS HELD, LABOR MARKET ACTIVITY, AND EARNINGS GROWTH AMONG THE YOUNGEST BABY BOOMERS: RESULTS FROM A LONGITUDINAL SURVEY, 3/31/2015

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. - Chinese proverb.

The International Thesaurus of Quotations, ed. Rhoda Thomas Tripp, p. 76, no. 3 (1970).

Learning how to learn

The Good News – In the old days…

“Educational standards are the learning goals for what students should know and be able to do at each grade level.”  http://www.corestandards.org/about-the-standards/frequently-asked-qu

estions/

Standards documents define the goals of

learning, but you shape the process of learning.

“It's what good teachers have always known. That their job is not to teach subjects, but to teach students." - Sir Ken Robinson

The Hazards

focusing on the goal and not on the process of learning

checking off the standard and moving on

not attending to the process

The Goal – Climb Mt. Washington

Multiple paths to the same goalCog railway?Car?Hike?Run?Bike?

Goals set the direction…

but the journey is where much of the lasting, transferrable learning happens.

Simple Classroom Example

Students can:use flashcards to studycreate flashcards to studycreate and share flashcards to

share with other classmates

Same goal (learn terms), but the different processes yield very different learning gains

Value Added Skills Use – knowledge only Create – knowledge plus reflection &

critical thinking Create and Share – knowledge,

reflection & critical thinking plus responsibility, communication and potentially collaboration

Shifting Context Online

Quizlet will require slightly different skills, increased collaboration, etc.

Public audience?

“…the essential skills for success in today’s world, [are] critical thinking, problem solving, communication and collaboration.”

http://www.p21.org/storage/documents/P21_Framework_Definitions.pdf

Learning Skills• Critical Thinking• Creative Thinking• Collaborating• CommunicatingLiteracy Skills• Information Literacy• Media Literacy• Technology Literacy

Life Skills• Flexibility• Initiative• Social Skills• Productivity• Leadership

Workforce Survey:

“Are They Really Ready to Work?

Why 21st Century Skills?

Released October 2, 2006, by The Conference Board, Corporate Voices for Working Families, Partnership for 21st Century Skills, and the Society for Human Resource Management.

Source: www.p21.org/storage/documents/FETC%20Orlando.ppt

Why 21st Century Skills?

• What skills are most important for job success when hiring a High School graduate?

Work Ethic 80%

Collaboration 75%

Good Communication 70%

Social Responsibility 63%

Critical Thinking & Problem Solving 58%

Source: www.p21.org/storage/documents/FETC%20Orlando.ppt

Why 21st Century Skills?

• Of the High School Students that you recently hired, what were their deficiencies?

Written Communication 81%

Leadership 73%

Work Ethic 70%

Critical Thinking & Problem Solving 70%

Self-Direction 58%

Source: www.p21.org/storage/documents/FETC%20Orlando.ppt

Examples of Better Process Learning

Consuming vs. Creating or Curating Content

Accessing vs. Evaluating Information

Cookbook vs. Inquiry Lab

Solving Familiar Problems in Familiar Ways vs. Unfamiliar Problems in Non-conventional Ways

Learning how to learn

Additional Benefits

You can better answer the question “Why are we learning/doing this?”

inherently leads to increased differentiation

Is there a lack of control in this?Every learning goal can be

achieved through many different paths.

Meet them where they are

Is there time for this?

Not always.

Is Content Not Important?No, but a lot of content

can be easily obtained in the 21st century.

“…working far too hard to create really good rememberers [or Googlers].”Tom Rademacher, 2015 MN ToY

Shift the focus from just knowing what to knowing how.

How can you begin?

How to begin? Stop TalkingTeachers talk 70 to 80

percent of the time and most of this talk produced the lowest levels of student engagement.Hattie, Visible Learning for Teachers

Where am I on this meter?

How can you begin?

Change how students interact with existing content assignments

Encourage reflection

How can you begin?

Be cognizant of DOK levels

Don’t necessarily teach the way you were taught

How can you begin?

Have students self-assess & report out as formative assessment

Use high quality performance assessments

Are You a Learner Too?

In 10 years you will be expected to use tools that haven’t been invented, to teach in ways we can’t imagine now.

As an educator you share the journey

Be reflectiveBe attuned to your own process

Your Routes

Take risksMake mistakesLearn from the process.

You Are Not Alone

Who are your guides on the journey?Use the people around you!

Never stop learning!

Advice from 23 Years of Learning

Celebrate the small victories.Focus on yourself, your students

and your classroom for the first few years.

Master your core and keep trying new approaches…but don’t drive yourself crazy

Don’t work harder than your students

Relationships

Relevance Rig

or

Advice

Remember just how important you are

Thank you.