Thursday, December 11, 2014

I'm Back!!! Thoughts from the Conference

In case you have missed me, I have been at the National Learning Forward Conference in Nashville, TN. I want to share some of the Big Ideas from the conference.

1. Differentiation is not s set of strategies - it is a way of thinking about the classroom.
2. All learners come to the journey of change at very different levels. It is not one size fits all.
3. We learn through our students' learning.
4. We teach for the success of the learners.
5. Teaching is like having a love affair with a rhinoceros. It is difficult to maneuver and figure out.
6. What works with any student works with ALL students if we are providing quality instruction.
7. When children can't do their homework it confirms that they can't do it.
8. We lose 80% of the information taken into the brain within 24 hours if there is no sense of permanency. We must anchor it in rules, relationships, and patterns.
9. We connect something new to something old, something abstract to something concrete.
10. Repetition or practice makes learning permanent. We must make sure we are having students understand/practice correct information.
11. Quality is everyone's responsibility.
12. Talking is thinking.

And many more!!!

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