1. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person
or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting
for. We are the change that we seek.”
…President Barack Obama, 21st Century Skills
Topic 3: Let’s
Hear it for
The Kids
Why do kids misbehave?
How can we give students
a voice?
SIDES: Strategic Instructional Design to Engage Students
TEAMS: Together Everyone Achieves More Success

6. Compare and Contrast
The Rowdy
Classroom
The Engaged
Classroom

7. The Rowdy Classroom
Intervention Required Immediately:
How many inappropriate behaviors?
Why are these kids misbehaving?
What is the learning task?
What instructional strategies do you see being used?
What would you do? (if you were the sub the next day)
How will you give these students a voice?

8. The Engaged Classroom
What are the students doing?
What is the teacher doing?
How have these students been given a voice?
Where would you rather teach?
Where would you rather learn?

10. www.speakout.alberta.ca

12. 1st Things 1st
1. Alliterative Name Tags
2. Team Name/Team Cheer/Team Action
3. Team Building Activity #1: The Team Tower

13. Getting Down to
Business
The Four Big Questions

14. Getting Down to
Business
The Five Stages
1)Brainstorm
2)Share
3)Cluster
4)Name
5)Vote

18. Grade 6
Grade 5
Grade 4
Grade 3
Grades 1-6

20. 1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
Why are these
rated as less effective?
Do we abandon these or
just do them better?

21. Least
Helpful
2nd
3rd
4th
5th

22. I look forward to going to school……
Grade 7
Grade 9
Grade 11
Grade 12

23. Very Often
Often
Sometimes
Very Seldom
Secondary
Elementary

24. 1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
Why are these
rated as less effective?
Do we abandon these or
just do them better?

25. Least
Helpful
2nd
3rd
4th
5th

26. It’s easy to ask the questions……
It’s how we respond to this data in making
instructional design decisions
1. All schools held a Speak Out run by the students
themselves
2. All schools studied student engagement as a professional
development practice
3. All schools were required to provide an action plan in
response to this data
(part of the annual school improvement plan)
4. All students (and teachers) were learners for life
5. All students were engaged and excited to learn
“We’ve only just begun......to learn”
What if…..

27. "The good teacher unconditionally accepts students as they
are, and expects them to become all they can be".
***Holly Holland
Students are part of the TEAMS
in our schools
TEAMS
Together Everyone
Achieves More
Success
How do we involve students in helping us to
manage the learning environment?
How do we build a community of learning?
How do we give our students a voice?

28. The Freedom Writers
The Freedom Writers Website:

30. Choices:
Integrated
Themes
Student
Government
Peer
Support
Student
Performances
Clubs and Sports

31. “If we want to have engaged brains in
the classroom, we have to have an
interactive environment” …
Spencer Kagan
“Fairness is everyone getting
what they need in school”
…Martha Kaufeldt
“Artful teaching is a love triangle
between the students, the teacher,
and the content
***Carol Ann Tomlinson
“Are we training kids to write tests for
life, or are we training kids for the
tests of life”
***Art Costa
“The primary purpose of assessment is to
inform teaching and learning
***Faye Brownlie
“The more content is manipulated, the more
likely it is understood and remembered."
***Janet Allen
“’At risk’ students are those who leave
school before or after graduation with
little possibility of continuing learning”
…Roland Barth
The most powerful single influence
on student achievement is feedback.
***John Hattie
"The ability to creatively handle
change will be the most sought after
skill in the new millennium."
***Alvin Toffler
“Teachers must make every effort to
know the learners in order to meet
their diverse needs”
***Gayle Gregory
It Takes a Whole Village to Raise a Whole Child

32. Architects of Change
(as recorded by Monte Selby:
www.monteselby.com
For all the right reasons come take a little time
Share your commitment with thousands who find
That together we learn, we support and we dream
We design and we plan and more children succeed
Chorus: In our hearts; a mission to embrace
We can look down the road to a future
Draw a blueprint that guides us today
Join the vision of leaders becoming
The Architects of Change
For all the right reasons bring colleagues and friends
Overwhelmed by the worries, the issues, the trends
We’re all looking for answers for our cities and towns
To lay strong foundations, let’s start building now
Repeat chorus: