WORKSHOP PRESENTER - NORTH CAROLINA
MOVEMENT STRATEGIES IN THE GARINGER CLASSROOMS
It should be just as natural for a math teacher to use movement in the classroom as for a physical educator to have students skip count. (Eric Jensen – Jensen Learning)
Research has indicated that movement in the classroom grows brain cells. Attend this session to learn movement strategies like “The River Dance “(student named), Alphabet Soup, Meet and Greet, Snowball, Red Light /Green light and many more that will assist you in having more engaging classes. This session will continuously incorporate movement activities; it will not be a “sit and learn” presentation. “Let’s move it to learn it.”
Presenter C. Gildharry
Room 202
I started incorporating movement to learn in 2008 after attending an Asia Society workshop in which participants were engaged in stations/movement activity. I was extremely captivated by the excitement and engagement levels that the adults displayed while participating in this activity and thought to myself, “I can’t wait to use this with my students!” Immediately after I returned to work, I implemented my first gallery walk activity, which I called “ Walk Around”, and my students gave me goose bumps as I watched the level of engagement and discussions that took place. Students were deeply engrossed in conversations during which they communicated their thoughts about the topics at their stations and provided feedback to their peers.
Gallery walk (Walkaround) was by far my favorite movement strategy. As the years went by, I added more strategies, some that I created, some I gained from a PEAK training I attended and some my wife Melanie Gildharry shared with me that she gained from SIOP workshops she attended. She also encouraged me to attend SIOP training. I wanted to share these awesome meaningful strategies with the staff members I worked with, so I was given the opportunity to facilitate my first PD in November 2011. I have included the PowerPoint slide that I used then, but it was very short as the participants wanted to engage in all the strategies during this time. To hook participants and include some movement to start off the training, I played the song "I like to Move It, Move It." After the short presentation, we spent the rest of the time implementing all of the strategies in the agenda. The picture above shows teachers engaging in line dance.
Gallery walk (Walkaround) was by far my favorite movement strategy. As the years went by, I added more strategies, some that I created, some I gained from a PEAK training I attended and some my wife Melanie Gildharry shared with me that she gained from SIOP workshops she attended. She also encouraged me to attend SIOP training. I wanted to share these awesome meaningful strategies with the staff members I worked with, so I was given the opportunity to facilitate my first PD in November 2011. I have included the PowerPoint slide that I used then, but it was very short as the participants wanted to engage in all the strategies during this time. To hook participants and include some movement to start off the training, I played the song "I like to Move It, Move It." After the short presentation, we spent the rest of the time implementing all of the strategies in the agenda. The picture above shows teachers engaging in line dance.
PARTICIPANTS FEEDBACK
RUBRICS, common core standards and grading workshop
I presented on the above topics, and in this picture, I was interacting with teachers as they participated in learning station activities, but took a quick moment to smile even more as this picture was being taken.