1. Special thanks to the teaching staff of Male School
Thanks for your commitment to teaching and learning!
From Good to Great!
Think WinWin

2. Who are we?
Who are you?
• Thumball Toss
• One Minute Interview

3. What is good teaching? How do we move to great teaching?
What is good learning? How do we move to great learning?
How do we learn to teach better so that kids will learn better?
How can you tell? What is your proof?
What are your needs? How can we help?

4. What I Know
What I Want
to Learn
What I Have
Learned

5. Think WinWin
Working Interactively
Winning Independently
“many poor learners can be turned around if we just
acknowledge differences amongst them and re-educate
ourselves on how to help them succeed.” We, as
teachers, are the ones to change.

6. Why?
Think
Pair
Share
Compare

8. What are our targets?
1. To examine our instructional strategies so that we
will improve student learning and student
engagement
2. To examine our feedback and assessment practices,
and to determine how to effectively utilize feedback
that will improve student learning.
3. To build a professional learning community of
individuals at Male School who will work together to
further Male School
4. To create a personal goal for the remainder of the
school year that will improve student learning.
Today‟s Agenda:
Morning Tea: 10:00 a.m.
Expert Hotline: 11:30 a.m.
Lunch: 12:00 p.m.
Afternoon Tea: 3:00 p.m.
Departure: 3:30 p.m.

9. Commercial Breaks
10:00 a.m.
Planning: Backwards by Design, Learning Outcomes,
Daily Lesson Planning/Schemes
11:00 a.m.
Assessment for Learning (Feedback, Pre-assessment
Post Assessment)
1:00 p.m.
Classroom Management/Strategies and Cues
2:00 p.m.
Inquiry Based Learning Through Critical
Thinking/Questioning
3:00 p.m.
Character Education/Counselling

10. Planning
Classroom Management
Service Learning
Special Education
Assessment/Questioning

11. Introduction:
Anticipatory Set:
Bridging:
Objective/Learning Outcome:
Body of Lesson:
Instructional Input/Modeling/Checking for Understanding
(What the teacher will do)
1.
2.
3.
Learning Activity/Guided Practice/Independent Practice
(What the student will do)
1.
2.
3.
Conclusion:
Closure (Review, Homework, Early Finishers):
Evaluation/Assessment:
Adaptations/Modifications

16. The Learning Pyramid
• We Learn……

17. What does the research say about
how our students learn?

18. We All Learn Differently
• Multiple Intelligences
• Learning Styles (Visual, Auditory,
Tactile/Kinesthetic)
• Brain Differences
• Gender Differences

19. MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES
19
VERBAL/LINGUISTIC
(WORD SMART)
Sensitivity to the sounds, rhythms,
and meanings of words and language,
both written and spoken.
LOGICAL/MATHEMATICAL
(NUMBER SMART)
Capacity to deal with numbers,
formulae, abstract patterns and
inductive/deductive thinking.
VISUAL/SPATIAL
(PICTURE SMART)
Reliance on sense of sight and
ability to visualize; includes ability
to create mental images.
BODILY/KINESTHETIC
(BODY SMART)
Ability to deal with and
control body movements
and handle objects skillfully.
MUSICAL/RHYTHMIC
(MUSIC SMART)
Capacity to recognize and
produce tonal patterns, sounds,
pitch, rhythms, and beats.
INTERPERSONAL
(PEOPLE SMART)
Has to do with
person-to-person
communication and relationships.
INTRAPERSONAL
(SELF SMART)
Relates to self-reflection, metacognition,
awareness of one’s own feelings and
internal states of being.
NATURALIST
(NATURE SMART )
Appreciation for nature and
ecological issues; recognizes
patterns in organisms & in nature.

20. The Brain…..
5 Principles of the
Brain Friendly Classroom

22. Instructional Methods for Success
• Teaching others/Cooperative Learning (Stand up,
Sit Down, Round Robin, Numbered Heads, Jigsaw,
etc.)
• Games (Jeopardy, Hollywood Squares, Toss, The
Puzzler, Front Page Challenge, Spelling Baseball/
Hockey, Pictionary, Cherades, Slap Happy)
• Team-building energizers/Team Encouragers
• Debates
• Field Trips, Festivals, Fairs
• Simulations
• Storybook Theatre/Reader‟s Theatre/Role
play/Skits/Drama
• Service Learning
• Songs/Rhymes/Raps
• Projects
• Visuals/Graphics/Mindmaps (Visual Learners)
• Storytelling (Auditory Learners)
• Hands on Learning (Tactile Learners)
• So many others

24. Lunch: EXIT CARD
3 Things I have learned so far today:
• 1. ____________________________________________________
• 2. ____________________________________________________
• 3. ____________________________________________________
2 Things I wish to try in my classroom:
• 1. ____________________________________________________
• 2. ____________________________________________________
•
1 Question you have about this topic:
• 1. ____________________________________________________

26. The Engaged Learner…

27. 20 Instructional Strategies
Graphic Organizers
Writing and Reflection
Brainstorming
Field Trips
Metaphors and Similes
Visuals
Movement
Humor and Celebration
Music, Rhythm, Rhyme and Rap
Cooperative Learning
Problem Based Learning
Role play/Drama/Charades
Work Study/Action Research
Technology
Visualization
Games
Storytelling
Manipulatives/Models
Mnemonic Devices
Drawing and Artwork

29. • Positive Interdependence
• Face to Face Interaction
• Individual Accountability
• Interpersonal and small
group skills
• Group processing
Cooperative Learning: key ingredients*
*from the research of D.W.
Johnson and R. Johnson

31. The Team Wheel: Effective Teams
(MacMillan, 2001)
Common
Purpose
Crystal
Clear
Roles
Accepted
Leadership
Effective
Processes
Solid
Relationships
Excellent
Communication

32. For Your Consideration…
• Be a TEAM of teacher learners. Form study groups where you examine and learn
about good teaching through reading, talking, observing, and setting
goals. Share your successes and struggles with each other, with us (email),
and with other educators. (TEAMS: Together Everyone Achieves More Success)
• Celebrate learning (academic skills, technical skills, leadership skills, teamwork
skills, personal management skills) both with students and with staff
• Let students know the objectives of the learning (write on board, make posters), and
identify the learning target (Essential Learning Outcomes). These should be also
clearly visible in your lesson plan
• Let students know the evaluation criteria for their work ahead of time and give
them opportunities to do their work over
• Choose one new instructional strategy to learn during this year and do it well
• Examine questioning strategies to increase engagement of ALL students.
• Utilize other assessment approaches besides tests (e.g. exit tickets, projects,
checklists, thumbs up/thumbs down, portfolios, highlighting errors, rewrites, written
comments, stickers, etc.). Emphasize feedback and how to improve versus grades
• Emphasize the importance of a literacy rich primary program (ECD, Class 1, 2 and 3)
so that ALL students will be successful readers. These classes should be the smallest
in the school. Build a literacy center full of reading books and manned by a volunteer,
staff member or provide release time for a teacher. Build literacy into all subjects.

33. For Your Consideration…
• Utilize Multiple Intelligence strategies to best meet the needs of ALL your
students; celebrate this diversity of classroom learners.
• Assist the slow learners by putting them near the front of the class (close to the
teacher), and with peers who will help them learn. Consider modifying your lesson
for them (e.g. do less questions). DO NOT single out their lack of achievement, but
encourage ALL signs of learning progress. DO NOT label students based on
achievement, but other names (Team Kenya, Team Kilamanjaro, Team Nairobi, etc.)
• Maximize learning and teaching time. Re-examine the structure of your
learning day as there are many breaks that can detract from teaching and learning.
Have focused chunks of time (e.g. eliminate a few breaks and allow students to have
water bottles in the classroom, take attendance when kids are working, )
• To engage students, utilize less “teacher talk”; use the 1/3 (teacher directed)
+ 1/3 (teamwork directed) + 1/3 (independent student work) = one lesson
• Consider looping where one teacher teaches the same group of children for 2
years. Examine your timetable to reduce transitions/disruptions for students.
• Empower the students to make choices and take advantage of the character
building opportunities and responsibilities they have at school
• Utilize Note-Making versus note-taking as this improves learning and thinking.
Encourage students to “summarize” their notes
• Practice/Review new concepts (5 minutes after, 5 hours later, and 5 days later)

34. For Your Consideration…
• Utilize cooperative learning strategies to bring kids together to learn (this
is not the same as group work – examine the research)
• As teachers, use break time to plan, mark, and engage in professional
development (e.g. share ideas). Anytime you are with students, you must be
focused on TEACHING.
• Encourage students to speak up and avoid repeating their answers; have them
repeat it and loud enough so all of the students can learn from each other. DO
NOT discourage students if they give wrong answers, and ask all students (even
those whose hands are not raised)
• Encourage “critical thinking” versus rote memorization and repetition; this is
best accomplished through learning activities that demonstrate learning (posters,
speech, role-play, etc.)
• Integrate Kenyan culture into their learning as much as possible so they can
feel proud of themselves. Think “themes” instead of “subjects” and create topics
which integrate all of the core subjects (“Growing Gardens = Growing Children,
The Career of Life, Our Big Beautiful Brains, etc.)
• Decorate walls with pictures, color, student work, charts, maps, etc. (visually
stimulating)
• Continue to show your joy for teaching which will encourage the students‟ joy for
learning. Learning that is fun will encourage students to learn for a lifetime
Enjoy the journey
that is teaching and learning!!!

35. The Dream
Imagine a school where you become a better
teacher just by being part of the team
Imagine a school where you become a better learner just by being
part of the team
Imagine that you had the capacity to lead individual, and and
system change

36. Great Teaching = Great Learning:
Think WinWin
What “WinWin” idea will you take with you today to help better
meet the needs of your learners?
When will you accomplish this?
How will you accomplish this?
How will you know if you were successful?
Brent Galloway, Red Deer College
brent.galloway@rdc.ab.ca

37. Wise Words
“The person who does the talking, does the
learning”
The most powerful single influence on
student achievement is feedback.”
John Hattie
“All young people in our society are at risk
…Dr. Richard Brokenleg
“It is easier to build strong children,
than it is to repair broken men”
Michelle Borba
“People learn by what they do, not
by what they are told”
…Pat Wolfe
“Are we training students to write tests for life,
or are we training students for the tests of life”
….Art Costa
“ Learn by Doing “
4H Motto
“It takes a whole village to raise a child”
….African proverb
“Provide accurate, immediate and
honest feedback to your students – tell
them the truth in a loving way”
Dr. Douglas Reeves
“The brain holds onto information that is
„relevant‟. Thus, when teaching new
information, „hook‟ it onto prior learning and
experiences”
…Marian Diamond

38. What is your dream for Male School?
My dream is __________________________
What is your plan?
I Will________________________________

39. Continue to
make beautiful
music together
Best of luck
The Team from RDC