Brain Based Reform

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Brain Based Reform

• Chapter 25

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Key Issues

• Outcome standards distress?learners must test
  well
• Increasing accountability for teachers without
  giving them the training, resources and support
• Less homogeneous classes (language, SES, included
  students diverse class) require the teacher to
  prepare at many different levels at the same time
• Many teachers leaving, new teachers without
  experience arriving?requirements for good
  teaching are more difficult now
• Changes at the present time are band-aids
• and do not rely on proven research practices

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God grant me the serenity To accept the things I
cannot change The courage to change the things I
can And the wisdom to know the difference
Make schools more like real life Integrate
curriculum Incorporate real problems Organize
simulation actiivities Supply plenty of novelty
and feedback Seek student cooperation by earning
their interest and respect
Authentic school reform must be committed to long
term, personal, systemic and organizational
change
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Fatal paths to avoid
Better Teacher Training
Hi stakes testing
Achieve Outcome Based Standards
Incorporating 100 curriculum Mandates
Multiple Assessment Methods





Teacher Control
Non-developmental Testing Standards
Bureaucracy vs. students
Rigid Teacher Evaluations



Punishment
Lectures
Gifted Programs


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Involving Learners in the Reform

• Student input incorporation
• Reorganize classroom routines (more group work)
• Elicit learner goals?review and revise frequently
• Keep focus on learner goals
• Environment responsive to student needs
• Use emotions, novelty, and enthusiasm
• Incorporate student values autonomy,
• peer approval and personal responsibility
• Teacher to teacher support networks
• Bottom up administrative approach

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Steps in Transforming Your School

• Assess existing culture
• Build a collective vision
• Establish a learning climate
• Encourage personal mastery
• Promote team learning
• Systems thinking is everyones business
• Nourish the dream!!!

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