Keynote Speaking Engagement
Let Timothy bring a message of hope and inspiration to your event. Timothy will speak from his heart, his 10000 hours, and his research. Through story, observation, and humor, Timothy will help you see how important your role is in the transformation of student learning, teacher engagement, and education as we know it. At the heart of his messages is a belief that education is all about increasing connections. Connections between people, connections between people, and content and connections between people and their world. Be prepared to be cared for and challenged. Be ready to be inspired and to act upon that inspiration. Contact us to begin the process of bringing Timothy to your event.
Here is a sample list of messages that I am passionate about.
When in the real world are we ever going to use this? You have never taught math or been in a math class if you haven't thought this or heard this. The math class, perhaps more than any other gives us an incredible opportunity to prepare students to be ready for their real-world even if they never factor another trinomial in there lives. (This offering can be presented as a keynote or as a workshop presentation.)
Active Learning. Students sit down too much. Students listen too much. Students are passive too much. Learn to shift the learning experience from passive participation to active engagement. Students should be doing more problem solving than their teachers. Student's should be communicating and troubleshooting more than their teachers.
Teaching Students To Fail. We want our students to be strong problem-solving. Big problem. Many of them are afraid to take a risk. They are afraid of sharing their ideas with others. Frankly, they are scared to face their mistakes let alone share their mistakes with classmates. Problem-solving is about coming up with good ideas. Our brains can not come with good ideas when we are afraid of failing. Teaching students to fail is not a pep talk about getting up again when you get knocked down. Teaching students to fail is empowering them to risk more, to fail more to reach out more, to connect more to learn more.
Making Assessment Matter: When a student scores 76% on an assessment or an entire course, what can we accurately say they can do? What do they still need to work on? How can they improve? How does the assessment process motivate students to learn more? How do we teach students to talk about their learning in terms of what they can do rather than what they got? How do we shift students' focus from getting a specific mark to achieving a high level of understanding?
Stop Teaching Math: Are we teaching problem-solving if we are showing kids how to do problems? Should our major goal in math classes be to follow the leader or to create leaders? Who should be doing the majority of thinking and doing in our math classes? The student of the teacher? Be part of the movement to stop teaching math and instead teach people to do math.