Transform Your Teaching Practice with Mind In the Making.

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Welcome

• Transform Your Teaching Practice with Mind In
  the Making.
• Presented by Diana Abel
• Robin Ocheltree
• Rene Manning

A Maricopa Community College
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What Is Mind in the Making?

• Mind in the Making (MITM) is an unprecedented,
  collaborative effort to communicate the science
  of early learning to the general public, families
  and professionals who work with children and
  families.

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MITM Learning Modules for Early Childhood
Educators

• A 12-part facilitated learning process
• Complements existing curricula
• Focuses on what research tells us about early
  learning and how to use this knowledge in every
  day practice

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MITM Learning Modules for Early Childhood
Educators

• Designed on the research-based principle that
  teaching practice improves when educators
• are engaged in understanding their own and
  children's learning
• are mindful of their own teaching practice and
• Have a working knowledge of the science of early
  learning and are able to translate this knowledge
  into their teaching practice.

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Core Principle Teachers Using the Modules work
with Learning Partners and Learning Groups
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Core Principle The Modules are not training,
but rather a facilitated learning process
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Core Principle Videos are used to capture
research on early development and learning and to
depict day-to-day interactions between children
and adults
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Core Principle The Modules are intended to
complement and/or enhance existing curricula and
training materials.
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Module Components

• The Modules begin with a brief introduction video
  that provides an overview of the research that is
  at the core of the Early Learning Modules.

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Module Components

• Research Summaries/Review
• Learning Goals and Objectives
• Tasks Outcomes For Teachers/Caregivers
• Get Ready!
• Did You Know?
• What Do You Think?
• What Do You See?
• What Can You Do?
• Quotes
• Moving On and Doing More

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Module One Beginning A Learning Adventure

• Teachers will understand that
• What teachers do with children can have a
  lifelong impact.
• Intentional teachers are best able to foster
  learning in others.

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Module Two Essential Connections

• Teachers will understand that
• Human connections are essential to learning.
• The process of moving in and out of synchrony
  (synch) with others is the foundation of human
  relationships.

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Module Three How Learning Begins

• Teachers will understand that learning begins
  when children are able to control their
  attention, behavior, and emotions enough to focus
  on other people.

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Module Four SEI Together Social, Emotional,
and Intellectual Learning are Inextricably Linked

• Teachers will become more aware of how social,
  emotional and intellectual learning work together
  and to use this knowledge in teaching.

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Module Five SEI Together Understanding
Temperament

• Teachers will understand that effective teaching
  requires becoming aware of the role that
  temperament and goodness of fit play in child and
  adult behavior and learning.

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Module Six SEI Together Building Confidence and
Competence

• Teachers will understand that children receive
  powerful messages about themselves from the ways
  that adults respond to and interact with them.

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Module Seven SEI Together How We Learn to Know
Others' Thoughts and Feelings

• Teachers will understand that one of the most
  important building blocks in early learning is
  for children to become able to take the
  perspectives of others. Researchers call this
  theory of mind.

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Module Eight SEI Together How to Use Language
and Literacy Skills to Create Meaning in
Experience

• Teachers will understand how to use language to
  promote language and literacy skills in children.

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Module Nine SEI Together Encouraging
Curiosity and Problem Solving

• Teachers will understand that children are
  motivated by inborn curiosity and an innate drive
  to figure out how the world works.

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Module Ten SEI Together Memory and Learning

• Participants will understand the role of memory
  in early learning.

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Module Eleven SEI Together Stress and Learning

• Teachers will understand how stress can affect
  childrens growth and development and how
  teachers can help children learn to manage stress.

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Module Twelve SEI Together Creating Communities
of Learners

• Participants will understand the importance of
  teaching others what they have learned and of
  being connected to people, organizations, and
  resources that help them continue to learn about
  teaching.

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National Dissemination

• 2007
• Mind in the Making Learning Modules have been
  launched in
• Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Mexico,
  North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Rhode
  Island.

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2008 New Partnership Sites
Arizona

• Rio Salado College