While Black women outperform all demographic groups in college enrollment and make up the majority of Black individuals who obtain bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees, they are still statistically and narratively experiencing outcome inequalities in the areas of political representation, economic/family stability, professional/business development, health and educational achievements in comparison to Black males, White females and White males respectively. This session explores the implications of these outcomes and suggests techniques to proactively address them in educational settings.
The purpose of this presentation is to discuss current educational trends in curriculum design and instruction that supports and enhances the achievement of students of poverty. In reviewing current literature and best instructional strategies of practitioners, we will suggest recommendations for improvement and changes applicable to 21st century teachers.
Students throwing paper airplanes in the classroom is usually frowned upon. However, schools are clamoring to have their students do just that as part of Boeing South Carolina's DreamLearners program. What better way to provide a rich engineering experience for teachers and students that to participate this program! This experience will generate interest, curiosity, and motivation towards moving into the direction of producing students who will not only be able to succeed in an ever-changing technological society, but contribute to it, as well.
In this session, you can expect to hear teachers sharing how their use of counter narratives (conversations surrounding social injustices or "taboo topics") in their classrooms/schools has given them purpose and hope in the midst of an unjust and unapologetic school system that seems to favor some over others. Participants will have the opportunity to live through the experiences of these teachers as they uncover the struggles, challenges, and triumphs they've encountered while advocating with and for their children. With so many teachers secretly believing that poverty is an unchanging state of being, all children need to come in contact with educators who empower, not define them.
This session highlights real issues teachers face when teaching students living in poverty and provides strategies for success for both students and teachers. This session helps you connect, engage, and increase student achievement, by using strategies and techniques that foster a growth mindset, creates a risk-tolerant culture for learning, and ways to improve classroom instruction to meet the particular academic needs of students.
Do you believe that all students can learn? Why and under what conditions might students choose to engage in collaborative work to meet desired learning outcomes? What motivates students to expend the energy needed to master core knowledge and skills? Academic mindsets are the attitudes and beliefs that compel students to engage in deeper learning, produce high quality work, and develop the necessary character traits to be high successful. Learn what the academic mindsets are and how Irmo Middle School is using them to engage and motivate all students in order to deepen learning and improve learning outcomes.
"The mediocre teacher tells, the good teacher explains, the superior teacher demonstrates, the great teacher inspires." - William Arthur Ward. If you want to take your mediocre blah, blah, blahs and transform them into ways to inspire your students, join us for an interactive, strategy-packed hour. In this session, we will explore the "Sage on the Stage" vs "Guide on the Side" teacher roles. Participants will be challenged to move beyond the traditional and embrace a variety of student-centered instructional practices to best meet the needs of all learners.
Attendees will learn how our school helped to build reading engagement with students at home to increase reading level, fluency, and comprehension.
Participants will learn about the Growth Mindset framework for children in situations of poverty while discussing and modeling strategies that promote a growth mindset culture within their classroom. Participants will engage in literacy based activities that will help students learn that they have the power to "grow" their own brain.
Session attendees will participate in a poverty simulation game that will give them an insight into the lives of families of poverty. When the game concludes, attendees will be provided with strategies to use in the classroom to plan effective instruction with high expectations for children of poverty.