TAPPING STUDENT EFFORT

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TAPPING STUDENT EFFORT

• Increasing Student Achievement

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• Stephen G Barkley
• Executive Vice President
• Performance Learning Systems
• 6227 Lower Mountain Road
• New Hope, PA 18938
• 888.424.9700
• sbarkley_at_plsweb.com
• www.plsweb.com

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• How does your school staff define student
  achievement?

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TOUGH CHOICES OR TOUGH TIMES

• Those countries that produce the most important
  new products.depend on a deep vain of
  creativity that is constantly renewing itself,
  and on a myriad of people who can imagine how
  people can use things that have never been
  available before, create ingenious marketing and
  sales campaigns, write books, build furniture,
  make movies and imagine..

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TOUGH CHOICES OR TOUGH TIMES

• This is a world in which a very high level of
  preparation in reading, writing, speaking,
  mathematics, science, literature, history, and
  the arts will be an indispensable foundation
• comfort with ideas and abstractions is the
  passport to the good life, in which high levels
  of educationa very different kind of education
  than most of us have had are going to be the
  only security there is.

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STUDENT CHANGES

• What are the changes in student behavior,
• performances, choices, effort, etc. that you
  believe are precursors to the improvement in
  student learning that you seek?

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WHAT DO YOUR STUDENTS BELIEVE?

• Ability
• Effort
• Degree of Difficulty
• Luck

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EFFORT

• Time
• Persistence----Patience
• Practice
• Repetition of Success

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TEACHER CHANGES

• 2 What changes must occur in
• individual staff/teacher practices to
• generate the changes we seek in
• students?

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Providing Pictures of Success

• Goal setting
• Updraft/Downdraft

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Getting Started
Cost
Payoff
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Manageable Task

• Learning Style
• Differentiated
• Assessment for Learning (Feedforward)

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LIVE EVENT LEARNING
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• Content
• intended
• -incidental

Activity
Process Skills -briefed -debriefed
Live Event
Activity
Activity
Assessment
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EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS

• Absence of Threat
• Meaningful Content
• Choices
• Adequate Time
• Enriched Environment
• Collaboration
• Immediate Feedback
• Mastery (Application)
• Kovalik and
  Olsen (2006)

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APPLIES TO STAFF