Iowa Department of Education 21st Century Skills - 0 views
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Friedman
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(1) critical thinking and problem solving; (2) collaboration and leadership; (3) agility and adaptability; (4) initiative and entrepreneurialism; (5) effective oral and written communication; (6) accessing and analyzing information; and (7) curiosity and imagination.
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I think these are all great...but think back to the '5 essential characteristics' and formative assessment, etc. How will we be able to "assess" these skills? It's tough to assess these soft skills, in my opinion.
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Yes, these are definitely broad topics. What underlying, assessable skills make up these survival skills?
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Iowa - 21st century curricula | Dangerously Irrelevant - 7 views
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The ICC is definitely working hard to get us where we need to go. We need to get our staff, school board, and community to understand that doing nothing is not an option.
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We also need to be very supportive of each other during this process. It will definitely be a change for many (most?) teachers. We need to celebrate our successes and build upon them. We also need to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it when things do not turn out how we hoped/planned.
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The change can be the toughest part, sometimes it is just a different way of doing things can make the biggest impact.
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I know I should be more positive, but I am still not sold on it. I don't have the answer,and agree we need to do something, but I don't know if this is it. Time will tell.
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With the research that shows the importance of building student creativity, it is concerning to see so many districts eliminating or de-funding arts programs.
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While watching the video, I had kind of an a-ha moment (many of you have probably reached this point years ago). I imagined the schools of long ago -- think one room prairie school houses. For many kids this was the only place they would see books or be exposed to anything beyond merely existing. At some point, school and home began switching places. As stated in the video, without allowing the new available technology into the classroom and teaching them how to manage it, school will become a one room schoolhouse and home will be the place they can explore the world and expand their intellect. What we need to work for is a seamless meshing of the two. They come to school to get inspired and motivated to continue learning on their own time.
21st Century Technology Literacy - 1 views
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One of the things I notice is the use of the generic terms. Sometimes my staff gets so caught up in the "tools", ie specific software, they over look the big picture.
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With technology the 'tools' seem to change so quickly - that is where 'looking at the big picture', 'being willing to adapt to new changes, and 'the process of learning about technology' becomes important.
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Collaborate with peers, experts, and others using interactive technology
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Some times we forget that technology items - computers, overhead, SmartBoard - are all tools to help us help our students. There is a whole new realm of literacy as mentioned, technology literacy, for both teachers and students. One overarching literacy principle is how to decide which tool to use when and what skills are needed to carry out the work.
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I like this vision that we are striving for. Today's students need technology knowlege and skills. All students will be able to make individual contributions if we keep this goal. Tehnology has changed the way we work today and how we have our relationships.
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I totally agree. We always need to be looking at the big picture because the tools in our tool box change so often.
Iowa Department of Education | Formative Assessment Resources | Assessment, Students, L... - 0 views
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formative assessment resources to be used by DE/AEA to support districts.
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Formative assessment articles that will be used by DE/AEA to support schools in developing understanding and implementation of ICC's 'assessment for learning' essential characteristic. **Many links aren't working; I have hard copies of articles. Some can be found by Googling, too. A good place to start, I guess.
Teachers.Net Gazette October 2002 - HARRY & ROSEMARY WONG: EFFECTIVE PRACTICES APPLY TO... - 0 views
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Teachers put off dealing with non-emergency situations and needs until students are working
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I like to say, "let's talk about it later..." It gives students a chance to cool down and me a chance to think about it...as well as keeps the class moving forward.
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This is a great idea! How much of my class time is spent with students telling me "I forgot my book" or "I had pizza last night" or other things that may be interesting, but not relevant to what we need to do!
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I agree. A lot of time during class is spent on nonrelevant discussion. We need to refocus to keep the class flowing.
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High school and middle grade teachers have bellwork/warm-up/sponge activities on the board or overhead projector so students get to work as soon as they enter the classroom
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If you haven't thought about a bell-ringer, you should. It gets the students working right away and gives you time to take attendance and do other things for the first few minutes. It may seem like "busy work," but you'll eventually figure out how to use the bell ringer to maximize your instruction, too.
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Objectives for the day are displayed on the board
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I can go either way on this one. I used to post objectives, but students didn't really get into it. Instead, I post a bulleted list of the day's activities on the board, i.e. 1) Discuss HW 2) Go over quizzes 3) Circumference of Circles 4) Area of Circles This takes away the "what are we doing today?" questions and gives students an idea of what to expect for the day. It also establishes a nice routine, helps you metacognitize before the day, and provides a 'back-up' in case you freeze. It's not uncommon for students to say, "hey..weren't we supposed to go over our quizzes?!" when I've mistakenly moved on.
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Harry Wong - okay, so this isn't ICC, but it does talk a lot about effective practices. If you haven't read "The First Days of School," you should. If not, check out this website. It summarizes lots of the main points. I'll mark it up with what I see as the most important points.
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I think this is a good way to keep parents informed on what their child is going to be working on. This can help promote interaction between parent and child.
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Wong on effective classroom practices.
The Edjurist - Information on School and Educational Law - Blog - Outliers = ... - 0 views
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a mile wide and an inch deep
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I'm interested to see the opinions of those in the ICC group regarding this book. I have not read it, but I know Gladwell had one of the keynotes at NECC this year and Outliers is brought up fairly often by my colleagues. It's definitely a book I'd like to read at some point, if only for the sake of seeing what all the fuss is about.
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Kentucky Core Group - 6 views
Angela Cunningham (@kyteacher on Twitter) created a Diigo group for discussing the Kentucky Core Content. Could be interesting to see what similarities/differences there are with the ICC. http://...
Creating a Passion for Learning: My Response to the Fordham Report - 1 views
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What I will say is that any comparison of the Iowa Core to the Common Core is not an apples-to-apples comparison. The Iowa Core is not standards and benchmarks and has never pretended to be.
Changing Iowa: Foundations of the Iowa Core - 3 views
gwaea - EduVision - 8 views
AEA 267 News » Blog Archive » Are students learning? How can parents know? - 4 views
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Clear achievement targets or criteria for success are provided to students and parents in student friendly language before instruction begins. Doing so informs students what is expected of them upfront. Imagine how difficult it would be for a young person to build a log cabin for the first time without a picture, and then get graded on how similar their log home is to the picture they did not get to see. That would not be fair. However, providing clear achievement targets to students and parents before instruction begins can be a very efficient, effective, equitable formative assessment strategy.
The Changing Face of Education in Iowa: Working ahead? - 10 views
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The first barrier is even having the option to test out of units in the first place.
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I might substitute the word "time" where Evan writes "effort"
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To a large extent, time is a function of effort. Those things we deem worthy of our effort seem to find plenty of time to get done.
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It's amazing how we find time to do things we like to do. A readjustment of priorities by any teacher is never a bad thing.
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Local control or Iowa Core? « Des Moines Register Staff Blogs | desmoinesregi... - 5 views
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