Unit 1A: Becoming an L/T

Capture all with appreciation:

• A Dragon Story
  
• Dye on Learning: The Three Person Problem
  
• Dye on Seeds and Stories: Carefully packaged information
  
• Dye on The Genealogy of Ideas
  
• Dye on The Heart of the L/T Role
  
• Classroom Procedures and Rules development activity
  
• Course Syllabus
  
• Discussions: Why use the Socratic method? Why study literature? What is the point of education?
  

Expand to explore the things you care about:

• Read Teaching and Learning for Exponential Growth (Gong)
  
• *Set up a blog (or journal) to keep a log on your expansions
  
• Watch the online video, Shift Happens: http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=1785&title=ShiftHappens
  
• Take the Learning Styles Inventory Test: http://www.learning-styles-online.com/
  
• Learn about surface vs. deep learning on the following website: (http://www.montclair.edu/academy/Documents/Deep%20and%20Surface%20Learning.pdf)
  
• Learn about your teacher’s teachers: Dillon Inouye, Walter Gong, Stefinee Pinnegar, Arthur Henry King, Paul Hedengren, Patricia Esplin
  
• Interview someone who is a successful learner about his/her learning
  
• Study what your own faith (if you have one) has to say about learning (Are there scriptures, articles, books, or a religious leader that you could draw upon?)
  

Teach and serve for the benefit of others:

• In-class workshop