How to make an interesting and EFFECTIVE lesson plan: Include the instruction of "Please point to seven things..."

An interesting lesson plan. .. ask students to take a photo and then POINT TO and describe SEVEN things that they notice in the photo.

Richard E. Clark of USC pointed out that this procedure often gets people to write MORE and to write more complex sentences with more details.    (Why?  Because you have asked for a specific number of things to comment about).  The instruction about "POINT TO" is important, too, for stimulating the focus on details.

Highland Park High School is profiled in a video by Erik Friedl about Personalization of Learning, Personal Learning Plans and Portfolios

Click here to see the video

Enrique mentions Will Sutherland  of QBE Academy in England
www.QBEAcademy.net

YOUTUBE videos for Will

Mario Llorente in Miami, with his ABC Dominos project  
Youtube.com/ABCDominos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ1d8HiqZvA&feature=c4-overview&list=UURt2LXGFL4LWrXk4Uhy8Lpg

Some notes from the video interview with Enrique Gonzalez

The elements of success are simple

Be on time

Respect others

Learn

Our job as teachers is to make the learning exciting.

Le gusta la aprendizaje

One of the students says, "Over here, people don't judge you by the way you look and act.  They think of you as students.  We're all seen here as students."

Enrique says, "Every student has special needs."

"They listen"

How?  We set up a personal learning plan for each student.

We find out who the individual is.

Here are some other videos with Enrique

Nightingale Middle School

Enrique's first video at Highland Park (For the Love of Learning)

Personal Learning Plan
drives projects into the Portfolio

Click here to see the video

BigPicture.org

See some other videos by Erik Friedlwww.Youtube.com/aiglon27

www.QBEAcademy.net

Teen Brain Camp is offered free online and in a face-to-face course at Broward College

The TeenBrainCamp.com website

www.TeenBrainCamp.com

It's an SAT test prep course with extra skills to pick up including website making and how to use the latest insights from Dan Pink, Malcolm Gladwell and Daniel Amen to building the 12 Global Skills needed in the 21st Century (Tony Wagner's list of seven survival skills).

Steve's talk about the brain