My Second Attempt at Presenting - an Improvement

Yay! Improvement is good, right? 

NOT ME! - Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash

BEFORE

What I would change

1. Slow down

Wait for the audience to catch up

2. Focus the presentation

I think my presentation was too broad. I threw ideas into the slideshow as they entered my brain. 

3. Practice with my co-presenter

4. Ask for less time. 

One hour was too long. I was tired and could feel myself starting to 

What might a revised presentation look like?

• Divide the ideas into three sections - what we do for students, what we do for teachers (to use), and what we aspire to do.
• Slow down - explain more. 
• Give more concrete examples.

The Venn Diagram of an Inclusion Coach

I wonder what it would be like if inclusion teachers meet with the coordinators. 

Hear me out - I think inclusion teachers are really coaches. 

As an inclusion teacher and coach (inclusion coach?) I see things in the classroom that can help teachers. I see tweaks that teachers can make such as: shorter lectures, improved slide design, more scaffolding, etc. 

But where does the inclusion support end and the curriculum support begin? What does the Venn Diagram look like for this?

Scaffolding in Inquiry

I was able to catch a few minutes of the Toddle webinar, "Designing authentic inquiry with Tonya Gilchrist" today and I came away with a nugget I want to share with the teachers at my school. 

Teachers often overestimate how much prior knowledge or skills the students bring to a lesson. One teaching technique I am trying to emphasize is for teachers to go slowly, break down tasks, and give scaffolds to students.

In the webinar, Tanya shared how this might look in an inquiry-based writing program. 

The flow of her lesson (for a school she was not working at) was:

1. Find out what is being taught. This class was learning about self-management skills.
2. Connect the learning to a big idea. Here the class was already learning about self-managing.
3. Give them a sentence stem and have them complete it.
4. Give more scaffolds.