"Feels Like Learning"
Culture Mastery™
Teachers will be able to:
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Understand their classroom as a system
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Manage with Knowledge
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Establish a common Aim and Core Values
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Gather and utilize feedback
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Monitor enthusiasm and perceived learning
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Improve the classroom culture with students
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Students begin their education with a tremendous amount of enthusiasm, yet by eighth grade they are at the bottom of a downward slide in enthusiasm.What is to blame and how do we reverse the downward slide of enthusiasm?
Culture Mastery is a foundational workshop that establishes a culture of Quality Management/Continuous Improvement in the classroom.
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Creates an understanding of the classroom as a system
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Models a management style that removes barriers and fear to manage people and learning - not just behavior
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Develops common aims for the classroom
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Establishes core values to move away from an extrinsic consequence based classroom
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Enables teachers to break out of the limiting "Plan Do" mentality and utilize feedback loops for improvement
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Shows what data to collect and utilizes data to monitor progress and improve in any aspect of the classroom
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Enables teachers and administrators to monitor and document student, class and school progress
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Utilizes an effective method to collect the input and feedback necessary to to create an environment most conducive to learning
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Allows teachers and students to test hypothesis for improvement
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Establishes and maintains better relationships with students through building mutual trust
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Engages students as partners in the classroom improvement process
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Utilizes good psychology to restore and maintain student enthusiasm
Culture Mastery allows teachers gets to the heart and soul of why they started teaching in the first place - helping students improve.
"When you don't give input it feels like school - surfacy and uninvolved. When you do give input it feels like learning."
Student,
California
"Culture Mastery has been my favorite part of the Gateway to Mastery program because it gets to the heart and soul of the classroom and school - relationships and school culture."
Teacher
Arkansas
"This has changed my way of thinking. There is emotion and feeling behind the data."
Teacher
Texas
"I feel that this philosophy will help me change the focus for my students and myself and will be a solution to what I’ve been witnessing in my classes.
I need to examine my system to improve student’s learning."
Teacher
Ohio
"It is important to have the interaction, the give and take and the working together. Teachers have to know how students feel.”
Student
California