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New Teacher Orientation
“In order to TEACH the child,
we must first REACH the child”
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Dare To Be DIFFERENT
Meeting the Learning Needs of All Students
Knowing the Learner
Directions: Go to the corner with the object that is most like you
as a learner.
•Discovery learning
•Adaptive environment
•Analyzing concepts
•Various manipulatives
•Deep exploration
•Choice of activities
•Discussions
•Spontaneity
•Focus on details
•Extensions to activities
•Ownership
•Personal freedom
•Organization
•Comfortable environment
•Structure
•Encouraging atmosphere
•Visual directions
•Supportive grouping
•Clear closure
•Safe climate
•Sequential learning
•Respectful colleagues
•Clear procedures
•Empathic listeners
•Consistent routines
•Sensitive peers
•Clear expectations
Knowing the Learner
•Variety of resources
Learning Style of Beach Balls
Strengths
Experimentation
Risk taking
Adventurous
Intuitive/Insightful
Creative
Spontaneous
Attitudes
Don’t like step-by-step directions
React to internal and external rewards
Want to improve things for society
Needs
Guidelines
Boundaries
Expectations
Standards
Parameters
Help in Focusing
Preferences
Stimulus-rich environment
Options and alternatives
Interesting and exciting learning
Strengths
See the big picture
Home in on main points
Learn from lecture and reading
Think in abstract terms and language
Analyze theories and information
Thorough logical learners
Can delay gratification
Attitudes
Don’t like to waste time “pooling
ignorance”
Don’t like inquiry
Needs
Help in working with others
Help in organizing time and bringing
closure
Preferences
Vicarious learning
Simulations
Analytical thinking
Expert information
Feedback that will improve grades
Knowing the Learner
Learning Style of Microscopes
Learning Style of Clipboards
Strengths
Precision and accuracy
Striving for perfection
Practicality
Compliance with teacher
Sensory responsive
Externally motivated
Delay gratification
Attitudes
No news is good news
Serious about their work
Require feedback
Needs
Real experiences
Concrete examples, not theory
Structure
Procedures, routines
Directions
Preferences
Precise, useful feedback
Recommendations
Appreciate privacy
Learning Style of Puppies
Strengths
Empathic
Intuitive
Subjective, abstract, affective
Read between the lines
See the gestalt
Attitudes
Internal motivation
Self-monitoring toward personal criteria
Require rationale for learning
Can block out stimuli
Needs
Opportunities to work with others
Time for self-reflection
To connect with teacher and peers
Rationale for learning
Preferences
Subjective versus abstract
Personal incentives, encouragement
Choice of learning environments
+“If an educator keeps using
the same strategies over and
over and the student keeps
failing,
who really is the slow learner?”
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New Teacher Orientation
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The Power of One (Ms. Presson)
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Teacher’s Toolbox (Dr. Hickman)
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21 Century Teaching (Byrd)
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What Great Teacher’s Do Differently (Ms. Connor & Ms.
Mounie)