This presentation is used as a guide to facilitate a training identifying challenges in rural education and a plan to improve student achievement in the rural areas.

1. ED 602 – Challenges in Rural Education
Dr. B.J. Kimbrough
L. Yvette Bullard
May 1st, 2021
Professional Development Project
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2. Parameters
• Everyone is a participant.
• Silence technology (cell phones, computers, etc..)
• Minimize side bar conversations.
• Abstain from electronic conversations.
• Respect time.
• Be receptive to learning and others’ opinions.
• Have fun learning together. 

3. Icebreaker
CREATIVE ORGANIZED
LOGICAL INDEPENDENT
CAUTIOUS ENTHUSIASTIC
PRACTICAL IMAGINATIVE
DRAMATIC AGREEABLE
DEPENDABLE LOYAL
SUPPORTIVE PRUDENT
COMPETITIVE PATIENT
CONCEPTUAL EFFICIENT
PERSISTENT DECISIVE
Pick 4 words that best describe you.
Write them on an index card.
ARI-Secondary Team 2010

4. Icebreaker
CREATIVE ORGANIZED
LOGICAL INDEPENDENT
CAUTIOUS ENTHUSIASTIC
PRACTICAL IMAGINATIVE
DRAMATIC AGREEABLE
DEPENDABLE LOYAL
SUPPORTIVE PRUDENT
COMPETITIVE PATIENT
CONCEPTUAL EFFICIENT
PERSISTENT DECISIVE
 Code your words according to their color.
 Pick the color you have represented the most in
your 4 words.
ARI-Secondary Team 2010

5. Perceived Positive
Characteristics
Ambitious
Stimulating
Enthusiastic
Dramatic
Friendly
Imaginative
Creative
Optimistic
Perceived Negative
Characteristics
Obnoxious
Daydreamers
Manipulative
Excitable
Undisciplined
Egotistical
Bored Easily
Exaggerate
THE YELLOW
OTTER
Theme: “The Socialite”
Specializes in: Creativity and Excitement
•Likes enthusiasm and humor
•Needs time to socialize/must show
interest in them
•Allow for creativity, use games
•Needs compliments
•Likes stories
•Must provide focus
•Not inclined to do homework
ARI-PAL Networking 2009-10

6. Perceived Positive
Characteristics
Industrious/Task
Oriented
Persistent
Serious
Orderly
Cautious
Organized
Thorough
Perceived Negative
Characteristics
Critical
Indecisive
Stuffy
Picky
Moralistic
Over Analyzer
Perfectionistic
THE BLUE
BUSY BEAVER
Theme: “The Thinker”
Specializes in: Accuracy and Achievement
•Needs thorough and accurate data
•Likes facts, not opinions
•Well prepared lessons
•Very smart, but tend not to lead
•Loves research
•Reads all the instructions
•Expectations need to be clearly stated
•Tends not to break rules
•Enjoys problem-solving
•Work at slow pace, check and recheck
their work
ARI-PAL Networking 2009-10

7. Perceived Positive
Characteristics
Supportive
Dependable
Respectful
Willing
Agreeable
Loyal
Patient
Peacemakers
Perceived Negative
Characteristics
Conforming
Unsure
Dependent
Awkward/Indecisive
Sensitive/Easily hurt
Easily taken advantage of
Don’t want to rock the boat
Holds feelings inside
THE GREEN
GOLDEN
RETRIEVER
Theme: “The relationship specialist”
Specializes in: Support and Cooperation
•Love personal stories
•Must appeal to their
emotions
•Need warm fuzzies
•Need to establish a relationship
with them
•Love class discussion
ARI-PAL Networking 2009-10

8. Perceived Positive
Characteristics
Independent
Practical
Decisive
Efficient
Strong-willed
Competitive
Confident
Perceived Negative
Characteristics
Dominating
Harsh/Insensitive
Pushy
Tough
Stubborn
Impatient
THE RED LION
Theme: “The Doer”
Specializes in: Positions of Command and Authority
•Does not tend to like group work,
enjoys independent work
•Loves organization, give them
leadership roles
•Likes to take notes, materials to
read later
•Important that things begin and
end on time
•Provide situations-let them come
up with situations
•Enjoys challenges, avoids
relations
ARI-PAL Networking 2009-10

9. Agenda
• Standard 5—Professionalism To increase the achievement of
all students, teachers engage in continuous learning and self
improvement; collaborate with colleagues to create and adopt
research-based best practices to achieve ongoing classroom
and school improvement; and adhere to the Alabama Educator
Code of Ethics and federal, state, and local laws and policies
• Outcomes: Educators will discuss research about challenges
in rural education and developed a road map that will result in
positive change for students.
• Before Strategy: Quick Write
• During Strategy: Jot Notes Graphic Organizer
• After Strategy: Change Graphic Organizer

10. Think-Pair-Share

11. Before Strategy: Quick Write
What are some of the challenges in rural
education that effect increasing student
achievement?

12. Before Strategy Revision
Read the following article:
Five issues rural schools face and some solutions
Code the text
Revise your Quick-write response

13. Code the text
• Directions: Read the text carefully, and use
the following code to engage with the text
# - agree with the text
• - disagree with the text
? – if you have a question about the text

14. Before Strategy
• Share your findings from coding the text with
a colleague.
• After discussing the information, revisit your
quick write response and add new
information.

15. The What
• Challenges that hinder improving student
achievement in the rural areas are the
following:
• Poverty
• Underfunding
• Academic Performance
• Teachers
• Broadband

16. During Strategy: Jot Notes
• Jot Notes
• Purposes: (1) organize information; (2) engage
with text/lesson; (3) summarize information
• Procedure-These are really the same as margin
notes. Usually bulleted notes, the types of
information may include brief notes about the
important points in the text, sketches of the
images that are constructed, connections to the
text, questions about the text, and/or first
reactions to the text.

17. After Strategy: Map Strategies

18. The How

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