Joyful Teaching And Learning

How do you define Joyful Learning?Handout: Verbal and Visual Word AssociationShare with an elbow partner

Do you have a memory of a learning experience that brought you joy? What elements of the experience made it joyful?Engaging Minds in the Classroom: The Surprising Power of JoyMichael Opitz and Michael Ford

acquiring knowledge or skills in ways that cause pleasure or happinesswhat we are suggesting is that wrestling with new ideas and taking risk to learn new content requires persistence and the willingness to work through difficulties as they arise: through this experience, students experience joyful learning.JOY-O-METERWhere are you at?Where are your colleagues at?Where are your students at?

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JoylessRarely JoyfulSomewhat JoyfulMostly JoyfulJoyful, Joyful!We take Joy inCreate Joy statements with studentsSpecifically connect Joy statements with writing

We take joy in

Challenge and Engagement

Vygotsky- Zone of Proximal Development

JUDY WILLISJay McTighe Video Clip

Neuroscience research connects to joyful learningIn our research based, data and assessment driven educational system, leveraging the research on how the brain learns will help inform our conversations and prevent bad translations of

COMMON CORE STANDARDSRESPONSE TO INTERVENTIONWE DONT HAVE TIME FOR.

The Neuroscience of Joyful EducationWhen students are engaged and motivated and feel minimal stress, information flows freely through the affective filter in the amygdala and they achieve higher levels of cognition, make connections, and experience aha moments.

Judy Willis: The Neuroscience of Joyful Education, Educational Leadership

Lost in translationUnfortunately, the current emphasis on standardized testing and rote learning encroaches upon many students joy. In their zeal to raise test scores, too many policymakers wrongly assume that students who are laughing, interacting in groups, and being creativeare not doing real academic work.

Judy Willis: The Neuroscience of Joyful Education, Educational LeadershipHANDOUTRAD- What does it mean?Lets fill it in- RAD-Judy WillisThree Important Neuroscience Concepts to ConsiderR- Reticular Activating System-Novelty promotes information transmissionA-Amygdala-Affective filter-Stress free classrooms promote learning and retentionD- Dopamine-Released in our brains through pleasurable associations with learningR- Reticular Activating System-Novelty promotes information transmissionA-Amygdala-Affective filter-Stress free classrooms promote learning and retentionD- Dopamine-Released in our brains through pleasurable associations with learningI will strive to create a classroom in which CCSS are implemented in creative and novel ways so that the information is transmitted through my students reticular activating system. Promote engagement!Reticulum/Amygdala/DopamineContent Area Writing-Daniels, Zemelman, SteinkeExpressive writing can have a positive affect on health:Lowers stressBetter working memoryReduction of psychological symptoms

Reference from :Rochester Psychiatric Center- Positive Health Effects of Expressive Writing

Writing has healthful benefits

Ban Dr. Seuss Day??A Teachers Manifesto in a Time of Standardization

Frame the ConversationTeachers: Use the neuroscience research on learning and the brain.Its powerful!

Students: Teach them the how the brain works so they can self advocate- Its powerful!

Judy Willis website: http://www.radteach.com/

Handout- Judy WallisWhat You Should Know About Your BrainEmpower students too!

Leverage the Neuroscience Research on Learning and the BrainInform the conversationsPromote joyful learning and connection to improved student outcomesPromote student self-advocacy

Joyful Learning FrameworkEngaging Minds in the Classroom: The Surprising Power of JoyMichael F. Opitz, Michael P. Ford ASCD 2014Handout: Lets look at the framework and then apply elements to student writing!

Photographs by Lewis Hines of Child Labor

Who Is In Our Classroom?

Primary Source Documents

CCSS-Grade 8CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.8.2Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant contentCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.1Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.2Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions.

What kinds of writing do we ask students to do that meets criteria in the Joyful Learning Framework and connects with CCSS standards?Give-one-Get-one Activity10 minutesAPPLICATION

Jog the Web

Jog the Web-Resources for Non-fictionNon-fiction reading resources on the web- elementary

Non-fiction reading resources on the web: 6-12

primary sources on web

Common Core Resources

Compiled by Sharon Daly

Wrapping Up

Where does this lead us?Personal Take-Aways

Standards of Joy

Make a Joyful Learning Quotes PosterTake your quote and paste it ON!

QUESTIONS?Sharon Daly- Teacher Workshop GMWP 2014null209279.55