Gwendolyn M' Hollis

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Mission Possible!
Teaching is the most important profession in
the world!
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Three things that make a difference

• YOUR Attitude
• YOUR Relationships
• YOUR Approach

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Attitude

• The best teacher you ever had
• Positive state of mind
• You are the filter
• Leadership
• Motivation
• Self-discipline
• TGIM
• Thank God Its Monday!!!
• Books to read
• Teaching Matters by Todd Whitaker
• How Full is Your Bucket by Tom Rath and Donald O.
  Clifton, PhD
• Mums the Word A Mothers Lessons in Leadership
  by Steve Gilliland

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How do you want them to see you?

• As the scientific expert?
• The hip dude who knows algebra inside out?
• The toughest but best chemistry teacher on earth?
• The drill sergeant grammarian?
• The stand-up comic who happens to know all about
  history?
• The serious student of literature?
• The hard-boiled journalist?
• The tough but tender coach?
• Louanne Johnson, Two Parts Textbook, One Part Love

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Meet some of your students
Little Johnny
Pre-occupied Penny
Daydreaming Darla
Distant Danny
Chatty Patty
Frustrated Frank
Bored Bryan
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Relationships

• 40 Developmental Assets
• Personal Interest
• Seek first to understand
• Care enough to know
• Team Building
• Reproach
• Relational trust

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Approach

• Salesman
• Democracy
• Why?
• Flow
• Covering curriculum is not teaching
• Rewards of success vs. Penalties of failure
• State of mind
• Neuroscience and learning

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• Desire gt Hope gt Action
• Durable Motivation
• John Parks Le Tellier

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Resources

• Two Parts Textbook, One Part Love by Louanne
  Johnson
• What Great Teachers Do Differently by Todd
  Whitaker
• Quantum Learning and Instructional Leadership in
  Practice by John Parks Le Tellier
• Building Classroom Relationships, Educational
  Leadership, Volume 61, No. 1, September 2003,
  published by ASCD
• The Essential 55 by Ron Clark
• 40 Developmental Assets www.search-institute.org
  
• Mums the Word by Steve Gilliland
• Teaching Matters by Todd Whitaker and Beth
  Whitaker
• Winning Strategies for Classroom Management by
  Carol Cummings
• The First Days of School by Harry Wong and
  Rosemary Wong
• Activating the Desire to Learn by Bob Sullo
• Getting to Got It by Betty K. Garner
• How Full is Your Bucket by Tom Rath and Donald O.
  Clifton, PhD
• Classroom Instruction that Works by Marzano,
  Pickering, and Pollock
• Best Practices to help At-Risk Learners by
  Franklin Schargel
• Difficult Conversations by Stone, Patton, and
  Heen
• www.ascd.org

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Contact Information

• Gwen Perkins
• Associate Principal
• Denton High School
• 1007 Fulton Street
• Denton, Texas 76201
• 940.369.2000
• gperkins_at_dentonisd.org