Teaching Adolescents or

How I stopped worrying and started engaging

Meenoo Ramimeenoo.rami@gmail.com

@meenooramimeenoorami.org

#EDThrive

Rami Advisory - Class of 2015

Information has to make sense.

NB CLA XC BSD VDA BC

or NBC LAX CBS DVD

ABC?

Power of Storytelling

We do not learn alone.

Practice the meta-

cognition techniques.

(now the ears of my ears awake

andnow the

eyes of my eyes are opened)

The first step to success after high school is graduation.

9th grade

10th grade

11th grade

To pass 9th grade, students must:• Earn enough (& the right kind of) credits

To pass 10th grade, students must:• Earn enough (& the right kind of) credits• In some states:

Pass the state test Pass End of Course (EOC) exams in

core classes

To pass 11th grade, students must:• Earn enough (& the right kind of) credits• In some states:

Pass the state test Pass EOC exams in core classes

To graduate, stu-dents must have:• Enough (& the

right kind of) credits

• Passed the state test & any EOC exams

How do we prepare students to successfully navigate this structure?

Goal Set-ting

Connection to Fu-ture

Small Group Activity:

Use student profiles to identify po-tential goals (short and long term) to help your student graduate pre-pared for post - secondary suc-cess.

Potential areas to focus on/include:• Mindset/resilience• Academic skills• Graduation/promotion require-

ments• Socio-emotional skills• Academic behaviors

So what?

to model make learning relevant

find an audience

to empower

http://issuu.com/meenoorami/docs/stash_magazine_final_draft_2

KQED - Do Now

Students respond to current issues

Students as reader/writers of Web

&makers of media

Radio Rookies NYC

provides teenagers with the tools and training to

create radio stories about themselves, their communities and their

world.

Science and Society

Tim Best

Toddlers and Neuroscience

ph.ly/thrive

Meenoo Rami

@meenoorami

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