The AHA! Model
Analyzing Human Activities™...
Brings fun and excitement into your teaching!
Incorporate the innovative AHA! Model into your daily schedule so that students understand what is taught and are excited and engaged in the learning process! You will become energized when you see your students become successful learners.
Hands-on teaching strategies!
Differentiate the curriculum using ready-to use strategies that you can immediately use with your students. A broad range and variety of strategies such as cooperative learning, compacting and application of multiple intelligences will help you meet the needs of all your students.
Helps your students make connections to other content areas!
Students have long term memory for real world application and performance on state and national exams when they learn content by actively engaging in higher order thinking skills rather than memorizing information for the “test on Friday.” The AHA! is an interdisciplinary model that assists your students in understanding how the disciplines are related and interconnected.
Explores ways to build student achievement and motivation!
Differentiating the curriculum by integrating media, literature, fine arts, cultural literacy, social studies, science, and mathematics creates an environment where students are successful.
Integrates character education into your curriculum!
Teaching students “to do the right thing when no one is looking” is woven into specific content areas and activities for critical and ethical thinking.
Applies creative thinking skills to academic content!
Stretch your students to think divergently so that they become lateral thinkers and problem solvers rather than just sequential thinkers.
Provides opportunities to develop communication skills!
Uses the unique student I-Search Research project so that students will learn to make decisions, solve problems and communicate with others.
Uses a thematic approach to teach broad concepts!
Less can be more when using a theme to anchor concepts. Authentic learning happens when your students learn concepts that are connected rather than a multitude of facts that are isolated.
17 reasons that teachers love the AHA! Model™…
The AHA! Model™ is an integrated, interdisciplinary, differentiated curriculum model that ...
- Uses activity-based / project-centered learning
- Raises test scores and AYP
- Includes cooperative learning opportunities with multiple intelligences
- Provides experiences that are meaningful
- Addresses attitudes and values using an integrated character education model
- Encompasses the use of music, dance, drama/theater, art and multi-media in the content areas
- Anchors differentiated strategies to a social studies theme
- Develops critical thinking skills in creativity, moral & ethical reasoning and higher level academic skills
- Improves communication skills as the teacher moves from the "sage on the stage" to "guide on the side"
- Integrates math with science, literature with history and the AHA! brings it all together
- Teaches self-evaluation through formative and summative assessment utilizing peers and traditional evaluation
- Incorporates local, state and national standards in every lesson and every activity
- Uses learning styles of students to differentiate activities
- Builds authentic RtI in daily lesson planning
- Creates a foundation for smaller learning communities and professional learning teams
- Connects rigor, relevance, and relationships as on-going themes in lesson planning
- Motivates the unmotivated at-risk student, reluctant learners and students with IEPs
