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Welcome
Transform Your Teaching Practice
with Mind In the Making.
Presented by:
Diana Abel
Robin Ocheltree
Rene’ Manning
A Maricopa Community College
MITM Video Inserted Here
What Is Mind in the Making?
• Mind in the Making
(MITM) is an
unprecedented,
collaborative effort to
communicate the
science of early
learning to the
general public, families
and professionals who
work with children and
families.
MITM Learning Modules for Early
Childhood Educators
• A 12-part facilitated
learning process
• Complements existing
curricula
• Focuses on what
research tells us
about early learning
and how to use this
knowledge in every
day practice
MITM Learning Modules for Early
Childhood Educators
Designed on the research-based principle that
teaching practice improves when educators:
• are engaged in understanding their own and
children's learning
• are mindful of their own teaching practice; and
• Have a working knowledge of the science of
early learning and are able to translate this
knowledge into their teaching practice.
Core Principle:
Teachers Using the Modules work with
Learning Partners and Learning Groups
Core Principle:
The Modules are not training,
but rather a facilitated learning process
Core Principle:
Videos are used to capture research on
early development and learning and to
depict day-to-day interactions between
children and adults
Core Principle:
The Modules are intended to complement
and/or enhance existing curricula and
training materials.
Module Components
The Modules begin with a brief introduction
video that provides an overview of the
research that is at the core of the Early
Learning Modules.
Module Components:
Research Summaries/Review
Learning Goals and Objectives
Tasks & Outcomes For Teachers/Caregivers
Get Ready!
Did You Know?
What Do You Think?
What Do You See?
What Can You Do?
Quotes
Moving On and Doing More
Module One:
Beginning A Learning Adventure
Teachers will understand
that:
• What teachers do with
children can have a
lifelong impact.
• “Intentional teachers”
are best able to foster
learning in others.
Module Two:
Essential Connections
Teachers will understand that:
• Human connections are essential to learning.
• The process of moving in and out of synchrony
(synch) with others is the foundation of human
relationships.
Module Three:
How Learning Begins
Teachers will
understand that
learning begins
when children are
able to control their
attention, behavior,
and emotions
enough to focus on
other people.
Module Four: SEI Together:
Social, Emotional, and Intellectual
Learning are Inextricably Linked
Teachers will become more aware of how social,
emotional and intellectual learning work together
and to use this knowledge in teaching.
Module Five: SEI Together:
Understanding Temperament
• Teachers will
understand that
effective teaching
requires becoming
aware of the role that
temperament and
goodness of fit play in
child and adult
behavior and learning.
Module Six: SEI Together:
Building Confidence and Competence
• Teachers will understand that children receive
powerful messages about themselves from the
ways that adults respond to and interact with
them.
Module Seven: SEI Together:
How We Learn to Know Others'
Thoughts and Feelings
• Teachers will understand
that one of the most
important building blocks
in early learning is for
children to become able to
take the perspectives of
others. Researchers call
this theory of mind.
Module Eight: SEI Together:
How to Use Language and Literacy
Skills to Create Meaning in Experience
Teachers will understand how to use language
to promote language and literacy skills in
children.
Module Nine: SEI Together:
Encouraging Curiosity and Problem
Solving
• Teachers will
understand that
children are
motivated by inborn
curiosity and an
innate drive to figure
out how the world
works.
Module Ten: SEI Together:
Memory and Learning
• Participants will understand the role of
memory in early learning.
Module Eleven: SEI Together:
Stress and Learning
• Teachers will understand how
stress can affect children’s
growth and development and
how teachers can help
children learn to manage
stress.
Module Twelve: SEI Together:
Creating Communities of Learners
• Participants will understand the importance of
teaching others what they have learned and of
being connected to people, organizations, and
resources that help them continue to learn about
teaching.
National Dissemination
2007
Mind in the Making Learning Modules
have been launched in:
Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, New
Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma,
Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island.
2008 New Partnership Sites:
Arizona
Rio Salado College