operation catch up (old training series)
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Operation Catch Up
Teacher Training
Agenda
• Background/Overview• Your Role• Research: Behavioral Learning• Curriculum• Session Structure• Techniques• Troubleshooting
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Background
• 4th Pres history with Sterling Gym• Desire to go beyond “maintaining”• Moving beyond homework• Clint approaches YouthBASE & Sterling Gym• Sterling Gym provides: facilities, children• 4th Pres provides: teachers & time• YouthBASE provides: technical assistance
YouthBASE
• 501(c)3 Nonprofit• Incorporated in 2006• 3 Core Service Areas:
– Direct-service– Training– Consultation
• Multi-source Funded
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Overview
• Purpose– Moving beyond homework and targeting the root problem.
• General Method– Targeting critical, foundational academic skills– Targeting children most in need of those skills– Delivering research-based intervention
• General Goal– Improvement in target academic skills– “Getting back on the train”– Realistic – not changing the entire academic profile
• Target Skills– Math computation fluency
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Your Role
• Work with a small group of students using specific techniques.
• Forming relationships with kids to build trust and facilitate learning.
• Communicate with YouthBASE about any needs or issues.
• Change a child’s life!
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Research: Behavioral Learning
• 4-Step Process:– Introduction/Explanation– Modeling/Demonstration– Role Play– Performance Feedback
• Can teach addition, volleyball, cooking, etc.!
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Characteristics of Effective Instruction• Clear & direct language• Immediate error correction• Sufficient time in each behavioral learning stage• Engaging & stimulating• Developmentally/instructionally appropriate• Sequenced• “Brisk” pacing• “Wet” learning• Positive• Review materials “folded in”• Appropriate amount of new information• Multi-modal & multi-sensory• Others?
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Curriculum
• Addition & Subtraction Together
– Fact Families
• E.g.,: 4+7=11, 11-7=4, 11-4=7• Builds cognitive connections between similar “facts,”
instead of just teaching random facts.
• Older kids – multiplication/division
– 5x4=20; 20/5=4
• First session
– Intro to/Review of Fact Families
• Each subsequent session
– Standard “Session Structure”
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Session Structure
• (5 Min) Intro to New Families (& Modeling)– Flashcards
• (20 Min) Practice Activities (& Feedback)– Your choice of instructional techniques
• (5 Min) Review of Previous Skills (with new skills)– Flashcards or similar with new
and old facts
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Instructional Techniques
• Flashcard (or PowerPoint) Drill• Flashcard Competitions
– Team– Round Robin– Individual
• Worksheet competition• Memory/Concentration• “Cover-Copy-Compare”• Peer Tutoring• Ball Toss• Game Conversation• “Sand/Crayon/Left Hand/Hand Stand”
Writing• “Act It/Stuff It/Mold It”
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Troubleshooting
• Non-interest• Little retention• Growing within-group differences• Behavior problems• Too little time
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Questions or Thoughts?
Feel free to contact YouthBASE anytime!
Bobby [email protected]
(864) 477-9638
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