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Brent Loken - Innovative Educator and Change Agent

'The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.'Bill Beattie

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Teacher Resources

 

GSP Help Videos: These videos will help as you learn how some basic and advanced features of GSP. Please send me questions if you would like some more tutorials posted.

 

Golden Ratio Video: This video was made by myself while on a trip to Chicago. I shared it with my students via a video conference while introducing a unit on Phi.

 

Exhibitions: MORE VIDEO LINKS TO BE POSTED SHORTLY

What does an exhibition look like? This video was taken from an 8th grade Exhibition. The students had to build a digital portfolio of their work from 8th grade and use this work to answer the question: "How are you prepared to be a responsible 21st Century Citizen." We used 8 Habits of Mind to as a basis for developing this citizenship.

Part I

Part II

 

Exhibition Video #2: This exhibition is from Hsinchu International School. Students in the 8th grade had to demonstrate samples of their work throughout the year which exemplified the HIS Student Outcomes

 

Exhibition Podcast: This podcast was created by the International School of Dhaka and features interviews with 10th grade students about their exhibitions

 

Podcasts:

Ted Sizer-An interview with one of the greatest minds in education today. This is not to be missed.

Debra Meier-Ms. Meier was one of the influences behind the small schools movement. Her influence on educational reform has been immeasurable.

Alfie Kohn- Alfie is one of the most well spoken critics of the current educational system. This podcast is sure to give you some things to think about.

 

Differentiation Resources:

1. What does a differentiated classroom look like? Watch this video to see what actually happens in a differentiated classroom. Watch how students and the teacher interact and how the classroom is managed.

Differentiation Video

2. Differentiation lesson plans:

- Systems of Equations

-Non-linear Functions

 

 

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