1. Think back to when you were in school. Picture the most disengaged student in your class. What is this person doing/not doing? Why? Me in grade 2

2. Remembering back.way back ..what did you like to build/design when you were younger? ..what kind of play did you engage in when you were younger? .how would you describe your best learning experiences? how would you describe your worst learning experiences? .what motivated you to learn? Me in grade 6 3. Young Architects Engaging Adolescent Male Students in the Middle Years Classrooms of the 21st Century Used with permission, Clive School WinWin Program, 2002 4. I was a middle years student (grade 6-8) I was a middle years teachers (grades 6-9) Father of two boys who experienced challenges/opportunities in the middle years Administrator of K-9 schools who designed WinWin Program for unsuccessful students (mainly boys) Administrators Book Study Group: Boys and Girls Learn Differently AISI Coordinator (Strategic Instructional Design to Engage Students) Coordinator/Instructor for UofA Middle Years Education Degree at Red Deer College Chairperson of Education And now a doctoral student At risk students are those who leave school before or after graduation with little possibility of continuing learning Roland Barth Retrieved from http://www.michaelgurian.com/ My Background 5. Retrieved from What did you do in school today?, Canadian Education Association, 2009 Grade 9 -12 students What happens here? What happens here? 6. What is happening here? 7. Current Canadian research on student education states that students start to become intellectually disengaged in the middle years of their education (What did you do in school today. 2009). Intellectual engagement: A serious emotional and cognitive investment in learning, using higher-order thinking skills (creating, analysis, evaluation) to increase understanding, solve complex problems or construct new knowledge (What did you do in school today, p. 8. Turn & Talk at Tables Hypothesize: 1. Why do students start to become disengaged starting in the middle years grades? (Grade 5, 6, 7) 2.What leads disengaged students to drop out of high school? 3.How do we re-engage those students who were disengaged learners in high school? Me in grade 4 9. ANOTHER TYPICAL DAY OF LEARNING CALVIN??? 10. Learner Centeredness does not just take place in Kindergarten Classes; It is mindset as to how we approach teaching and learning for ALL LEARNERS 11. What could RDC do to increase student satisfaction? Develop a learning-centered ethos Focus on engaged learning Focus on developing a sense of community 12. Todays Targets: 1. I will build a greater understanding as to what it means to be a learner-centered instructor 2. I will construct my own evidence as to how to engage and empower learners through research-proven instructional design practices. 3. I will design a plan as to how to provide learning opportunities for my students that allows them to build, design and construct evidence of their learning. 13. Young Architects What ideas do you have to build/assess 21ST CENTURY SKILLS in your curriculum? How will you design TEAMS, SIDES and COMMUNITY into your curriculum? How will you give your students VOICE and CHOICE in their learning? Brent Galloway Chairperson, Bachelor of Education Program Red Deer College | 100 College Boulevard | Red Deer | AB | T4N 5H5 work 403.357-3634 | 14. A few personal caveats about learner-centeredness It is not about lowering expectations for students It is not about eliminating all learning tasks that students dislike doing (e.g. exams) It is not about less accountability for students It is not about being accessible to students 24/7 It is not necessarily about the instructor working harder than the student It is not about viewing curriculum in the same way that we have done in the past ..but it is about being responsive to the learners needs, involving them in course/classroom decisions, using research-proven practices to design powerful learning experiences, and making decisions that are made in the bests interests of our students. 15. Curriculum in the 21st Century Whats up? What is old becomes new again Instructional Design in the 21st Century: What would John Dewey think? 16. Shifting Curricular Paradigms Traditionalism Progressivism 17. Art Phys-ed and Health Science Social Studies Mathematics Language Arts Music Curriculum in the 20th Century The Old Model 18. Digital and Technological Fluency Communication Social, Cultural, G lobal and Environmental Responsibility Creativity and Innovation Critical Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision Making Collaboration and Leadership Lifelong Learning, Personal Management and Well-Being Curriculum in the 21st Century The New Model 19. Shift Happens. 20. Are you ready..for change? Are you ready..to change? Again? 22 21. An Old and Familiar Tune Or a A New Song Which song are you singing? Is it time to change our tune? If so, why? Learner-Centered education is NOTa new concept 22. 3Rs x 7Cs = 21st Century Skills Critical Thinking Creativity and Innovation Collaboration/Teamwork and Leadership Cross-Cultural Understanding Communication/Media Literacy Computing/Digital Literacy Career and Learning Self-Reliance **(Trilling & Fadel, 21st Century Skills) 23. Curriculum: The Future, You and Your Students What kind of curriculum experience will you design? Will your curriculum address the issues, problems and critical themes of today? Will your curriculum plan inspire, motivate, and engage students? Will your curriculum allow for collaboration? Will your curriculum meet the needs of the 21st century learner? Will your curriculum demonstrate creativity and innovation in teaching and learning? What is engaged learning? Not sure? Just ask the students? 24. TEAMS: Together Everyone Achieves More Success 25. Education Speak Out 26. At risk students are those who leave school before or after graduation with little possibility of continuing learning ***Roland Barth 27. Interview Skills for Education Students 29 28. S I D E S Strategic Instructional Design to Engage Students Tate Marzano Bennett Silver FLOW = Engagement 29. 20 Instructional Strategies To Engage the Learner Graphic Organizers Writing and Reflection Brainstorming Field Trips Debates Visuals Movement Humor and Celebration Music, Rhythm, Rhyme & Rap Cooperative Learning Problem Based Learning Role play/Drama/Charades Summarizing and Note-making Technology Visualization Games Storytelling Manipulatives/Models Mnemonic Devices Drawing and Artwork By Marcia Tate 30. Flow Theory Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1990) uses the word flow to describe learning activities that have as their primary function the provision of enjoyable experiences (p. 72). When one is in the flow zone, a students skill level is matched with the level of challenge in the activity, so that a student experiences positive emotions rather than those such as anxiety or boredom, and becomes fully invested in the activity. 31. Project-based Learning Inquiry Learning Problem-based Learning Community Service Learning Self-directed Learning Context-based Learning 32. Constructivism requires us to give up control and share it with the students 33. A BetterModel Instructor Student Instructor Student New Model 34. Think/Pair/Share/Square/Compare What is role of my students? What is my role as instructor? Which instructional strategies will help my students direct/control their own meanings and their own learning? How will I assess this constructed learning (tests, projects, service learning, presentations, final exams) How else can I give control/ownership to students in my courses? How can I empower them? How can I capture their voice? What are the challenges in giving up control? How am I a Learner-Centered instructor? How am I NOT a Learner-Centered instructor? 35. Are we teachers? Determining the learning destination Creating questions that foster inquiry Designing units, backwards Determining assessment evidence Recognizing the benefits of performance criteria or are we designers? Architects of instruction? Facilitators of learning? 36. What if..? ..our curriculum topics were centered around a big problem that needed to be solved through collaboration and inquiry? ..we replaced course disciplines with problems/themes/issues? .we assessed students based on projects that they created vs. tests created by others? we had more student learning take place outside of the college classroom (e.g. workplace, online)? .our students created their own evidence of learning that was used to make a difference in the real world? 37. Resources: 21st Century Skills by Bernie Trilling & Charles Fader Better Learning Through Structured Teaching by Douglas Fisher & Nancy Frey Beyond Monet by Barrie Bennett & Carol Rolheiser Classroom Instruction That Works by Robert Marzano, Debra Pickering, and Jane Pollock Never Work Harder Than Your Students by Robyn Jackson Sit and Get Wont Grow Dendrites: Professional Learning Strategies to Engage the Adult Brain by Marcia Tate The Strategic Teacher by Harvey Silver, Richard Strong, & Matthew Perini