plant the seed, reap the lesson: engaging students to receive your instruction
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Plant the Seed, Reap the Lesson: Engaging Students to Receive Your Instruction. by Simon Moore, EMT, MHA English Language Arts Health Academy Coachella Valley HS. sometimes you don’t know… -Zoe. Brief background. Raised in Pomona Worked 15 years in Emergency Medical Services (EMS) - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Plant the Seed, Reap the Lesson: Engaging Students to Receive Your Instruction
by Simon Moore, EMT, MHAEnglish Language Arts
Health Academy
Coachella Valley HS
sometimes you don’t know…
-Zoe
Brief background
Raised in PomonaWorked 15 years in Emergency Medical
Services (EMS)BA English ULVMS Health Services Admin. CSUSBMarketing & Business Development for AMRRecently completed a feature film entitled Parts
of Disease Into 7th year teaching HS in Health Academy
sometimes you don’t know…
The Deeper Message
How do your students feel about your class?
Do they ditch your class, yet attend others?Is your room depressing?Do you have long, creepy nose hairs no one mentions?
Objectives
Teachers will understand the “Code of Student Understanding”
Teachers will Create a Personal Teacher Mission Statement
Identify and target market under-achieving students
Activity
IDENTIFY complications to the learning environment.
Teachers will BRAINSTORM problems students create during the delivery of their lesson.
-Fabiola
Know Your Personality Types
1. Extrovert?
a) Outer world
i. True (what you see is what you get)
ii. A show (there’s something else)
2. Producer? Academically, they get results
3. Non-producer - Academically, they low-perform
Know Your Personality Types1. Introvert?
a) Inner world
i. True (what you see is what you get); they’re just shy
ii. A show (they really have issues); they’re quiet, they just don’t know the answer
2. Producer? Academically, they get results
3. Non-producer - Academically, they low-perform
Code of Student UnderstandingWhat all Teachers Should Know About Their Students
1. Like teachers, students report to class with problems and needs.
2. Just because it’s important to the teacher, students don’t always care.
3. Students have an extremely UNCLEAR perception about their future, what they want & what they will do later.
Code of Student UnderstandingWhat all Teachers Should Know About Their Students
4. Most students – and even adults – want to have FUN, and take every opportunity possible to make every situation entertaining.
5. Students only spend approximately 5 hrs. / week with the teacher, leaving 163 hours of PERSONAL time. Impacting the child 3% of the time will render LIMITED results.
Code of Student UnderstandingWhat all Teachers Should Know About Their Students
6. Collectively, most students don’t personally attack teachers. Remember, students want to have FUN [Teachers interfere with the students’ FUN].
7. Students are not much different from teachers. Most teachers were [some still are] just like the students. Students litter, talk when others are talking, are tardy, disorganized & break rules. DIFFERENCE: Teachers have a little more control.
“It’s hard to concentrate”
-Fabiola
Code of Student UnderstandingWhat all Teachers Should Know About Their Students
8. Many students are disconnected with teachers & learning. They believe teachers and education are only meant to harass the students until the students are 18. Afterward, the information is invalid and magical opportunity doors open.
If Teachers ignore these Obstacles, they will become frustrated, Lessons won’t stick and
students will hate the class.
Checklist of Teacher – Student Engagement:
Create a Personal Teacher Mission Statement.
Statement should validate education and your commitment to student learning
What is Your Personal Mission Statement?
Moore Teaching Focus:
Engage all students with the constant validation of EDUCATION via Common Core Standards and real-
world scenarios
Checklist of Teacher – Student Engagement:
Learn all student names within 2 -3 weeks.
Take notes, sketch likenesses that identify student to commit to memory
Maybe student reminds you of another student, actor, or character you once knew
Checklist of Teacher – Student Engagement:
IDENTIFY historically under-achieving students.
ESTABLISH rapport with the studentASK student (1 on 1):
“related to my class, what do you struggle most with?”
“what do most dislike about school?”“would you like to earn / learn /get out of my class?”
Checklist of Teacher – Student Engagement:
EMPHASIZE your attention to them
Checklist of Teacher – Student Engagement:
POST grades weekly
SPEAK with them about their grade
Have Fun (we shouldn’t hate our job)
Be human and vulnerable, at times
Bottom Line:
If they know you care …
-they care
If they care
-They will learn
Summary
Understand and PREPARE for the “Code of Student Understanding”
Create a Personal Teacher Mission Statement
IDENTIFY and TARGET market under-achieving students
end
Open Discussion
Simon Moore, EMT, MHA
English Language Arts
Health Academy
Coachella Valley HS