Interested in student-driven classrooms? Join Dr. Nancy Sulla @nsulla (author of Students Taking Charge, Its Not What You Teach But How, Building Executive Function: The Missing Link to Student Achievement, and more) and educators from all over in #LATICchat on Thursday nights at 8pm ET. We hope to bring together a community of educators to share insights, stories, examples, pictures from their classrooms, and more. We welcome all educators to join; no need to be running a #LATIC classroom.
Welcome to a very special #LATICchat tonight as we discuss Dr. Nancy Sulla's @nsulla new book: Executive Function: the Missing Link to Student Achievement
I1 - Consider if you're teaching adjectives ... are the prereqs really just nouns and description ... or maybe skills such as categorizing, same & different, persisting, thinking about multiple concepts simultaneously? Without those skills, who can learn? #LATICchat
I1 - Better books and better lessons will not produce true learning unless students have the executive function to make sense of those lessons and materials. #LATICchat
A2: I do this in preparation for a #LATIC workshop: I "walk" through the day visually, anticipating, questioning, planning... it works! Have shared this with my daughter before a school presentation... success! #LATICchat
I2 - watch the Olympics this winter; the skiers regularly visualize at the start of the run ... get kids visualizing how to complete a division problem, read a graduated cylinder, or any other skills you typically demonstrate. #LATICchat
I never thought of using this but do want to try now as goal setting for their day. I feel that visuals are key for students to grasp a concept, so I love to have many around my room. I can imagine it being just as beneficial mentally #laticchat
demonstrate a skill, have them close their eyes and you walk them through it, have them open their eyes and hear/see it one more time, and then let them roll! #LATICchat
So many ways to help young Ss! Graphic organizers, cues, & structures. Give them choices and ask, which do you want? Have them set an easy, 10-minute goal & then celebrate success. Have them be responsible for moving their name from one area to the other for attendance #LATICchat
I3. Thankfully @LauraPappas22 helped me so much the other day for S who need help building EF skills- I will impliment goal charts for students to receive rewards for work completion and setting timers for themselves #LATICchat
I3 - Help students manage behavior through If ... Then statements ... If someone makes a joke to distract me, then I will ...
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I3. Cause and effect can also be tied to our last ALU about what would happen if pollinator continued to become extinct. Once students discovered that chocolate would disappear they had such a felt need to continue to work to learn more on how to save bees!! #LATICchat
I4 - Learning is social! Collaboration takes it to a new level ... must create together ... must reach consensus ... must all sign off that this is their best idea. #LATICchat
I4 - Collab requires seeing multiple sides to a situation, being open to others' points of view, maintaining social appropriateness, and overcoming temptation. Good EF skills to have! #LATICchat
I4. Collaboration allows S to see in new ways they may not have without that peer as well as felt heard. We have hand signals in my room for production conversations such as "new idea" or "building upon others" #laticchat
A5: You may recall a favorite hashtag of mine: #UseTheRubric ... it's not just because I love rubrics for clarity; doing so builds EF and brains! #LATICchat
I5 - Empowering students (even the youngest) to take charge of their own learning builds so many EF skills. We need to stop doing things for Ss because we think they can't! #LATICchat#EF_empowerment
So true, Steven. Ts are intentional about academic content ... we need to be intentional about building 40 executive function skills through structures and facilitation (and minimally through activities.) #LATICchat
A4 collaboration helps to deepen understanding and further learning. Ss need to hear many voices not just the Ts because in the real world they will have to interpret situations from many sides. Ss need to learn how to foster relationships to grow #LATICchat
A6: This is why it's so critical to have problems create a felt need for students to learn content and creatively find solutions! The more they solve, they build greater efficacy! #LATICchat
A6: Ss do pretty amazing things when we start to look at learning and design thinking through the lens of "How might we" The undefined experiential experience cultivates these skills and develops the dispositions Ss need to build EF. #LATICchat
A5 empowerment comes from students being engaged. Engagement is grown from honing Ss ef skills to maximize learning. Ts need to require more than compliance if they want to build empowered learners #LATICchat
Yes yes yes ... no more mere compliance! It robs students of growth opportunities. It is disrespectful to them! Engage and empower them toward efficacy! #LATICchat
I8 - In #LATIC, T facilitation might just be the most important thing you do. And so many opps to build exec function! Ask about perspectives, goals, what it takes to persist, creating mental images, and more! #LATICchat
A7 leadership is born when Ss feel empowered. Building ef skills brings Ss to a place where they have ownership of their learning. There is something magical that happens when Ss see that knowledge is power. They start to believe that they can change the world #LATICchat
