het: highly effective teaching at clarkdale ellen auchenpaugh academic coach september 5, 2013
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HET: Highly Effective
Teachingat Clarkdale
Ellen AuchenpaughAcademic Coach
September 5, 2013
What is HET?OK-12 ModelOFounded by Susan KovalikO30 years agoORural, Suburban, Urban U.S.O InternationalOBrain-Based, Gifted Instruction
The HET Model
1. Intelligence is a function of experience.2. Learning is an inseparable partnership between the brain and body.
Emotion is the gatekeeper to learning and performance
Movement is crucial to every brain function including planning and executing, memory, emotion, language and learning.
3. There are multiple intelligences.4. Learning is a two-step process of developing a pattern and then making it a mental program.
Learning Principles of HET
HET and Common Core
OCommon Core curriculum/standards/WHAT
OHET framework/environment/HO
W
Brain-Compatible Classrooms
O LightingO OrganizationO Colors and PatternsO Wall SpaceO MusicO PlantsO Materials
Flow of ColorO Colors that absorb light rather than
reflect it are more soothing.
O Research indicates that calming colors such as blues, greens and browns invite the brain to focus and reflect.
O Using one main color and one or two accent colors pulls the environment together, minimizes distractions, and provides focus.
“There is no such thing as not paying attention; the
brain is always paying attention to something.”
-Patricia Wolfe
Absence of Threat/Nurturing Reflective
Thinking
Meaningful Content
Adequate Time
Enriched Environment
Immediate Feedback
Movement
Choices Collaboration
Mastery/Application
Bodybrain
Compatible
Elements
“The influence of emotions and hormones on learning is greatest in the elementary and middle school years.”
Judy Willis
Under stress…the brain’s short-term
memory and ability to form permanent new memories is inhibited.
Caine/Caine, Making Connections: Teaching and the Human Brain page 71
When Downshifting Occurs:
O Little or no learningO Increased heart rateO Increased blood pressureO Decreased language processing
Only 6 Hard-Wired Emotions
Angersadness JoyDisgustSurpriseFear
Others, and how to handle them, must be taught.
In order for the brain to become fully engaged and do its most powerful learning, an atmosphere that is free of real or perceived threat must be in place.
Susan Kovalik & Associates
Absence of threat does not mean absence of challenge or lack of consequences for misbehavior or bad choices. It does mean lack of real and perceived threat to physical and emotional safety and creating logical consequences.
Exceeding Expectations 9.13Susan Kovalik & Associates
LIFESKILLSO IntegrityO InitiativeO FlexibilityO PerseveranceO OrganizationO Sense of HumorO EffortO Common SenseO Problem Solving
O ResponsibilityO PatienceO FriendshipO CuriosityO CooperationO CaringO CourageO PrideO Resourcefulness
Trustworthiness Truthfulness
Active Listening No Put-DownsPersonal Best
Lifelong Guidelines:Lifelong Guidelines:
Exceeding Expectations 9.1Susan Kovalik & Associates
Helping at Home: “Target Talk”
O It’s not behavior management, but training.
“You showed the LIFESKILL of __________ by _______________.” rather than…
“Good Job!”
Cross-Lateral Brain Break
O Finger / Thumb Cross-Laterals
O Nose / Ear Switch
“Move the bodyand
engage the mind.”
Movement and Learning
O Movement is crucial to every brain function: planning, memory, emotion, language, learning
O Ability to mimic (powerful for learning) is movement-based
O Brain requires oxygen!
“The body grows the brain.”Carla Hannaford
The cerebellum, which coordinates physical movement, also coordinates the movement of thoughts.
Two Purposes for Movement
#1OReset EmotionsOChange of PaceORefuel Brain
Exercise is associated with:
O Increased math, reading, writing scores
O Positive personal relationshipsO Decreased depression, anxiety,
fatigueO Decreased disruptive behavior
(from Journal of School Health Aug. 1997)
Two Purposes for Movement
#2 Extend Concepts
and Skills(continents,
Bodymapping)
Curriculum:The Heart
of the Matter
Curriculumstarts with
Science and Social Studies,but…
conceptual teaching spans all curriculum areas!
YEARLONG THEME shapes the pattern for the curriculum and the
environment.
Georgia On My Mind
An Old Sweet SongConcept: Cause and Effect
Being There Experience(s): Etowah Indian Mounds
Creek and Cherokee IndiansChanges in Matter
Lifelong Guidelines and LIFESKILLSMy Brain
Multiple IntelligencesNarrative
Other Arms Reach Out to MeConcept: Cause and Effect
Being There Experience(s): Etowah Indian Mounds
Creek and Cherokee IndiansJames Olglethorpe
TomochichiMary Musgrove
EnergyPush and Pull
Response to Literature
Other Arms Reach Out to MeConcept: Change
Being There Experience(s): City HallCivil Rights
Jackie RobinsonMartin Luther King, Jr.
Jimmy CarterGovernment
Motion and Celestial BodiesInformational
Other Arms Reach Out to MeConcept: Cycles
Being There Experience(s): Fernbank Science Museum and Planetarium
Plant and Animal Life CyclesPersonal FinancePersuasive Writing
Organizing Concept: Cause is an initial action that brings about an effect. Every cause has an effect.
ORGANIZING CONCEPT:
Change
Culture
Habitat or Ecosystem
Cause & Effect
CHANGE
Component
Component
Component
Component
Susan Kovalik & Associates
Change
Culture
Habitat
Cause & Effect
Component
Component
Component
Component
My Body Topic
Topic
Plants
Key Points & Inquiries
TopicAncientPeople
More Information?O www.thecenter4learning.com
O Clarkdale’s website
O [email protected] [email protected]
O Exceeding Expectations by Susan Kovalik
It’s All About Brains