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Roland Gesthuizen

A Sociological Eye on Education | The worst eighth-grade math teacher in New York City - 168 views

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    'Abbott, who teaches mathematics to seventh- and eighth-graders at the Anderson School, a citywide gifted-and-talented school on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, received some startling news. . she was the worst eighth-grade math teacher in New York City, where she has taught since 2007'
Roland Gesthuizen

City Teacher Data Reports Are Released - SchoolBook - 36 views

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  • The rankings stem from a desire by policy makers to find an objective way to distinguish between effective and ineffective teachers, untainted by the subjective judgment of individual evaluators, like school principals.

  • Critics also say there are aspects of a child’s life — or distractions on test day — that the numbers cannot capture: supportive parents, a talented principal, the help of a tutor, allergies or a relentlessly barking dog outside the classroom.

  • there are schools where students are taught by multiple teachers, making it difficult to figure out the weight of their individual contributions
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  • The union has warned that the result will be sweeping, with good teachers steering clear of grades that have standardized tests, parents’ attempts to switch their children to other classrooms, low morale among teachers and worse.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 25 Feb 12
     
    After a long legal battle and amid much anguish by teachers and other educators, the New York City Education Department released individual performance rankings of 18,000 public school teachers on Friday, while admonishing the news media not to use the scores to label or pillory teachers.
Roland Gesthuizen

In 50 Years A Lot Has Changed In School | WeKnowMemes - 116 views

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 23 Jan 12
     
    In 50 years a lot has changed in school 1961 Whats the meaning of these marks. 2011 Whats the meaning of these marks.

Roland Gesthuizen

Recognising the obviously incapable « newteachersblog - 52 views

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 30 Oct 11
     
    The new chief inspector for schools has indicated he intends to improve quality and standards by singling out weaker teachers - it was "pretty straightforward" to identify teachers who were "obviously incapable" he said. Is it?
Steve Ransom

Science teachers at Loxahatchee middle school strike back against hands-on labs - 106 views

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    Just plain sad.
Roland Gesthuizen

Montgomery County, Md., Sets Example With Teacher Evaluations - NYTimes.com - 42 views

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  • a major failing of Race to the Top’s teacher-evaluation system is that it is being imposed from above rather than being developed by the teachers and administrators who will use it
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 06 Jun 11
     
    The Montgomery County Public Schools system here has a highly regarded program for evaluating teachers, providing them extra support if they are performing poorly and getting rid of those who do not improve. The program, Peer Assistance and Review (PAR) uses several hundred senior teachers to mentor both newcomers and struggling veterans. If the mentoring does not work, the PAR panel - made up of eight teachers and eight principals - can vote to fire the teacher.
Maureen Greenbaum

Optimism Bias: Human Brain May Be Hardwired for Hope -- Printout -- TIME - 62 views

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shared by Maureen Greenbaum on 04 Jun 11 - No Cached

  • manipulated positive and negative expectations of students while their brains were scanned and tested their performance on cognitive tasks. To induce expectations of success, she primed college students with words such as smart, intelligent and clever just before asking them to perform a test. To induce expectations of failure, she primed them with words like stupid and ignorant. The students performed better after being primed with an affirmative message.

    Examining the brain-imaging data, Bengtsson found that the students' brains responded differently to the mistakes they made depending on whether they were primed with the word clever or the word stupid. When the mistake followed positive words, she observed enhanced activity in the anterior medial part of the prefrontal cortex (a region that is involved in self-reflection and recollection). However, when the participants were primed with the word stupid, there was no heightened activity after a wrong answer. It appears that after being primed with the word stupid, the brain expected to do poorly and did not show signs of surprise or conflict when it made an error

Tracy Mendham

How Little Sleep Can You Get Away With--New York Times - 68 views

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  • Tracy Mendham on 16 Apr 11
     
    Over several days of 6 hours of sleep or less, attention and performance steadily declined among subjects in the studies. The evidence indicates that we can't get away with as little sleep as many of us think we can, without sacrificing cognitive performance and safety.
Javier E

Barry Sanders, Matt Biondi, and the Tiger Mom - James Fallows - Culture - The Atlantic - 36 views

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  • What Chinese parents understand is that nothing is fun until you're good at it.'"

    An interesting idea, but is it true? Are activities only fun when we get good at them? And, conversely, does that mean that if we're good at something, it must also be fun--at least at some level?
  • research by Mihaily Csikszentmihalyi (of "Flow" fame) regarding what makes an activity fun. "The place where people are most engaged in an activity," McCann says, "and where they're having the most optimal experience, is where the challenge is about equal to your ability." 
  • "People are motivated by different things," explains Dr. David B. Coppel, a clinical and sport psychologist at the University of Washington. "There are some individuals who are process oriented, and some who are outcome-oriented. Individuals who are absorbed in the experience of being active or competing can have a great experience even if they don't win. But for those who derive their success and pleasure from successful outcomes, winning is more important."
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  • The best results, McCann says, have to come from an internally motivated sense of fun and love of what you're doing.
Carl Bogardu

Teamly: individual productivity and team performance management software for businesses - 30 views

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    Team software to help teams stay on track
Kelvin Thompson

Quality Rubrics / Home - 69 views

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    Quality Rubrics Wiki
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