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Inviting 'The Fred Method' Into Your School

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Pennsylvania Convention Center, Terrace Ballroom Lobby, Table 25

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Tracy Andrews

Teacher

Wilmington Area School District
@Tracyteach1

Tracy is currently a 1st grade teacher for the Wilmington Area SD. She has 33 years of experience with children from birth to 6th grade. Her passion is integrating developmentally appropriate STEAM and Technology into the everyday activities of an elementary classroom. She is a Google Certified Educator, Seesaw Ambassador, 2021 KTI star, and has served as a Lead Learner at the KTI Summit. She enjoys working with teachers as much as children, and the joy that comes from sharing ideas, resources, and collaboration!

Dr. Jennifer Toney

3rd Grade Educator

Sharpsville Area School District
@JENTONEY
@jentoney15

Jennifer Toney is a #PAProudEducator and member of the Keystones Technology Innovators Star: Class of 2019 who teaches in Western Pennsylvania. She is a third grade English Language Arts teacher where she focuses on digital and analog blended learning approaches to all things literacy in her departmentalized, gamified workshop classroom. Her scholarly interests include multimodal composition in the elementary classroom, blended learning approaches to literacy workshops with young learners, and English Language Arts curriculum development in the K-5 setting. Learn more about Jennifer by visiting her website: https://sites.google.com/view/jennifertoney/biography or contacting her on Twitter: @JENTONEY.

Session description

We'll share how we became inspired by “The Fred Method" and returned to our schools to implement it in our communities. This will be an interactive discussion about the core elements of Mr. Rogers' blueprint for making learning an active and engaging experience. Authentic examples will be shared.

Purpose & objective

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Outline

This will be an interactive discussion covering the following points:
Why is each of the following important? How do we develop them in children? How are they seen in our classrooms?

Curiosity 10 min discussion
Think back, for a moment, to what made you curious as a kid. What kinds of things made you light up as a learner?
Respond thoughtfully to questions
Love what you do
How might we create more opportunities for us — the adults — to indulge our own curiosity in front of kids?

Creativity 10 min discussion
love your creative passion in front of learners
Are there ways you’ve been able to gift them time and space for reflection?
DEFAULT MODE: Where do you do your best thinking?
power of play
P.44 “creativity wanes as kids approach middle school” Why do you think this is? How can we change this?
P.46 Do you believe we are in a creativity crisis?

Communication 10 min discussion
Make yourself available — and approachable — as a deep listener for the kids in your care
What are some of the things you do to speak lovingly to learners?
Deep Listening vs Loving Speech
Simple Interactions- we can become more intentional about how we approach kids.

Working Together 10 min discussion
Are there ways that you help ensure that everyone speaks up and everyone gets to be heard?
What role does leadership play in the psychological safety of a team member's performance?
Designing collaborative activities

Learning and Growing 10 min discussion
How do you expose your students to new experiences?
Have any of you ever made a mistake — maybe something that embarrassed you or made you feel terrible — only to have that mistake unexpectedly celebrated?
Remake Learning Days was founded to bring families and kids together to sample new ways of learning in comfortable, low-stakes environments.

Connecting 10 min discussion
Empathy deficit– In what ways do you teach your students about empathy?
The Platinum Rule on page 195 “Do unto others as THEY WOULD HAVE YOU DO UNTO THEM?”
How is it that you learn what kids dream about but never talk about? Journaling, or through projects that they get to design, or through art they get to make ….

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Supporting research

"When You Wonder, You're Learning" By Gregg Behr and Ryan Rydzewski
https://remakelearning.org/
Gregg Behr and Ryan Rydzewski

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Session specifications

Topic:

Communication & collaboration

Grade level:

PK-5

Skill level:

Beginner

Audience:

Library media specialists, Principals/head teachers, Teachers

Attendee devices:

Devices useful

Attendee device specification:

Smartphone: Android, iOS, Windows
Laptop: Chromebook, Mac, PC
Tablet: Android, iOS, Windows

ISTE Standards:

For Students:
Empowered Learner

Students articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies leveraging technology to achieve them and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning outcomes.

For Educators:
Collaborator

Use collaborative tools to expand students' authentic, real-world learning experiences by engaging virtually with experts, teams and students, locally and globally.

Designer

Design authentic learning activities that align with content area standards and use digital tools and resources to maximize active, deep learning.

Inviting 'The Fred Method' Into Your School

, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Terrace Ballroom Lobby, Table 25

Presenters

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