Susan Kovalik, Inc. - Educational References and Materials



		Model Teaching Week

There is no substitute for a being there experience.
A Week-long Workshop
Developed by Susan Kovalik & Associates
(Basic format designed for 50 participants)

Change is seldom easy. It seems much more possible when those involved share a clear picture of what it is they are trying to achieve. This intensive and often magical week provides those pictures of how the parts and pieces of ITI work together in the classroom.

For each group of 50 participants, a multi-age classroom of your students is teamed with an experienced ITI teacher. While that teacher creates an ITI classroom experience for the students, an SK&A associate provides the information and tools required for your teachers to move into Stages 2 and 3 of the ITI Classroom Stages of Implementation. Participants alternate between observing in the ITI classroom and attending sessions with the associate that expand their professional knowledge base along with their capacity to provide bodybrain-compatible learning opportunities. Participants have daily opportunities to debrief with the ITI teacher and time to interview the students near the end of the week.

Specific content for the workshop will include:

Specific content for the week emphasizes using community locations as the starting point for creating curriculum that is naturally integrated. Skills that are often the target of standardized measures are taught in relation to the real-life location and topic under study. Participants write key points and inquiries that often become the backbone of a component. The yearlong theme and its essential construction are introduced as tools for creating integrated curriculum. Perhaps most important of all, new pictures of what is possible create vivid mental images and become tools to guide the conversation and forward progress.

Required Texts:

Exceeding Expectations:
A User's Guide to Implementing Brain Research in the Classroom
by Susan Kovalik and Karen D. Olsen

This exciting book describes the brain research base for the ITI model and provides hundreds of curriculum and instruction practices for acting on it. Organized by the ITI Learning Principles and the ITI Stages of Implementation, it is designed to be used as a handbook to guide a step-by-step implementation of ITI. The book replaces ITI: The Model, which is no longer in print. (419 pages.)

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Your Personal Handbook
for Implementing the ITI Model
by Karen D. Olsen

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