What do I teach

"The power of knowing, in that first two seconds, is not a gift given magically to a fortunate few. It is an ability that we can all cultivate for ourselves." --Malcolm Gladwell.

What does it mean to make an "intentional decision?"

How is teaching like improvisation?

How often are we provided time to "rethink your teaching self so that you can more easily redirect your fiction teaching?" (p. 3)

spontaneous is not about random.

Try the "Yes And" activity with reading.

Improv and Education

• training
• rules
• rehearsals

What is thin slicing? "refers to the ability of our unconscious to find patterns in situations and behaviors based on a very narrow slice of experience" (M. Gladwell)

Do you agree with Gladwell when he says, "you need to know very little to find an underlying signature of a complex phenomena."

Four steps in the decision-making process

• Look at the notebook entries and name what the reader can already do.
• Listen to conversations and Mae what the reader can already do.
• Identify the type of thinking each reader is mostly doing.
• Decide what type of thinking to teach next.

"three-phase model for literacy instruction"

• Suface learning
• deep learning
• transfer
• (Fisher, Frey, and Hattie, 2016)

What was the last teaching decision you made and how did you make it?

How are you as a decision maker?

• Forager
• Online Shopper
• autopilot

What is your teaching

How do we break