Tech Mentors' Retreat - Day 3

25 teachers from UWCSEA learn about coaching & mentoring

  1. Missed our tweets from the Tech Mentors' Retreat yesterday? check out Day 2: sfy.co/1291 #uwctech (urgh, typos!)
  2. Bill & Ochan Powell kicking off day 3 of Tech Mentors' Retreat. Strategy: move w/ music then when the music stops answer a question #uwctech
  3. Feedback on the Feedback in classroom to show seriousness of the initial collection of feedback #uwctech
  4. Responding to a video of a lesson, practicing giving feedback. #uwctech
  5. Also from Mindset by Carol Dweck RT @klbeasley: "Praise effort, not talent" - Bill Powell #uwctech
  6. Important to remember... Praise is also evaluative. Be careful with how you use it. Says "I'm sitting here in judgment". #uwctech
  7. we can encourage without praise. Be careful with praise. #uwctech
  8. "The cardinal rule of praising kids is to praise them for things that they have control over" Bill Powell #uwctech
  9. The purpose of all assessment is to develop self assessment in the learner #uwctech Bill Powell
  10. "In formal settings praise can be manipulative. In informal settings praise is very important." #uwctech. Ive never thought of it that way
  11. data, followed by mediative questions - good way to structure 'feedback' #uwctech
  12. Evaluative feedback should move to descriptive feedback… #uwctech
  13. Final Word activity, models for poor readers what good readers do #uwctech http://pic.twitter.com/SmTQEy0j
  14. When designing a mentor identity- we want to be the person that people want to learn from. Bill Powell #uwctech
  15. Interesting idea: we need to consciously design ourselves as people that others will want to learn from #uwctech
  16. Noah Katz, talked to us about Visual Literacy.
  17. Visual literacy: the ability to make meaning from images & the ability to make meaningful images. #uwctech

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Keri-Lee Beasley

International school teacher, Digital Literacy Coach at UWCSEA East in Singapore, ADE , PYP Workshop Leader, food enthusiast

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