Learning new things helps you and helps improve the program by increasing capacity and agility to meet requirements.
Sometimes learning isn’t easy, it’s work especially when you have to figure it out yourself. Once you understand it and can use it, others can learn from you.
From Math Helper to Community Organizer
From the Harvard Education Letter. Identify key factors in leadership development. Teacher Evie Stone stopped offering rewards to her students in order to encourage leadership. George St. Clair
http://www.hepg.org/hel/printarticle/524
This link is a really interesting case study in use of Socratic method (questions) to teach something the students already know but don’t know they know. That this can be applied to binary numbers with third graders is nothing short of miraculous. But it also illustrates how knowledgeable the teacher must be to deconstruct the learning into a series of incremental questions that lead the students to understanding. If you get bored reading the entire script, at least read the introduction, the first part of the actual session, and skip to the end where the writer summarizes his experience. I can’t emphasize this article enough as adding insight to adult staff in the use of leading questions. Bill Roberts
http://www.garlikov.com/Soc_Meth.html
This is the companion piece on . I suggest reading the previous before you read this. He was asked to reflect again on his experience, and this is that reflection. FYI, I had an interesting email exchange with the writer of these two pieces last year. He’s been a lifelong student/user of socratic method, as is pretty obvious from the first piece I posted. This is not easy stuff to do, but worth doing or trying to do when appropriate. Bill Roberts
http://www.garlikov.com/teaching/smmore.htm
Management by Walking About
This issue about the SM in camp sitting back and smoking his/her pipe bothers me. While it is true that in a youth-led program, the adults should be in the background, they should never be that far in the background IMO. So I am reposting these links David Stein put up last year. From my perspective, after thinking about the topic again this past weekend, I like the idea of “management by sneaking around”…. Bill Roberts & David Stein
www.economist.com
Instructional Objectives
This is more material I posted last year that might be of help to this year’s adult and youth staff. Bill Roberts www.answers.com
This article is worth reading by anyone conducting staff development activities. And be sure to follow the link in the third paragraph to one piece of research behind the columnist’s conclusion. Bill Roberts
This is more material might be of help to adult and youth staff. Bill Roberts
Models — Instructional Design The Taxonomy Table — Faculty Resources — OSU Extended Campus — Ore
oregonstate.edu
Writing Instruction Objectives and Tests
This is more material I posted last year that might be of help to this year’s adult and youth staff. Don’t be put off by the word “test” in the headline. Bill Roberts
George St. Clair emailed this to some of us involved in leadership development. I thought I would post it here and give it a bit broader distribution
http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/108008/chapters/Describing-the-Habits-of-Mind.aspx
Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner. Our 175,000 members in 119 countries are professional educators from all levels an… Bill Roberts & George St. Clair
I recommend this web site to your attention. A terrific collection of links to resources, much of it leadership development related. Bill Roberts
www.pinetreeweb.com
