June+1,+2009

Developmental Designs

June 1, 2009

//The Advisory Book// by Linda Crawford
[|Origins a Website for Educators]

Opened with CPR : Greeting; Share -Ideas Post it Activity -Daily News

This program may need to be "redesigned" every year.


 * //St. Charles Parish has trained the bus drivers and cafeteria workers in Developmental Designs. This program should go outside of the classroom into the whole school community.//**

**7 Developmental Needs of Young Adolescents** 1. Positive social interaction with adults and peers. 2. Structure and clear limits. 3. Competence and achievement 4. Creative expression 5. Physical activity 6. Meaningful participation in their families, schools, and communities 7. Self-definition (know who they are) Ideas:

Students should walk to the right up and down the stairs. It takes 6 weeks to form a new habit.

As teachers and classes, we will go through planning, working, and reflecting conversations. The most important part is the reflecting.

Tell the students which social skills they will use in an activity. As teachers we should monitor activities and behavior of students.

Y Chart uses looks like, sounds like, feels like.

Thumbs up for consensus. Mid-way means I can leave whith what ever comes around. Thumbs down means I need more information or explanation.

Teach guidelines on how to respond to a question.

Having a team use the same signals will help present a united front for the students and will be easier for students to remember.

Activity: Examining the textbook:Find three topics that interest you and mark with post-its.Find two organizational tools that the author/s put in the book for you to better understand the content and mark with post-its.If finished early, read a section that you marked.High-five share partner.

Game time: Use games as problem solving activities. Teach circle up. Play safe. Play fair. Games can be used in CPR and at other times. What a great way to prepare students for Environmental Leadership Training at MO!

Developing Goals: We developed goals, wrote them on puzzle pieced, and reflected on them. We developed guidelines for acceptable behavior for our groups. This process can be used in class/advisory. A contract can be signed by the students and teacher. Is this signing of a contract what we do with the Honor Code?

Activity: After reading about the emotional, physical and social development of each grade level, we drew pictures to reflect the information we gleaned. Everyone had a different color marker to be sure that all are participating. We weren't sure of who was the reporter so all kept aware of the information to be shared. We then did a carousel to see what other groups developed.

Tonight we shall read pages 60 -68 on Goals and Declarations and pages 25 - 57 on Advisory.