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Lisa Durff

Teach Kindness | Practical Theory - 0 views

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  • Create spaces for students and teachers to know each other over time.
  • Create more opportunities for students to feel part of a community in their classes.
  • implify the grading systems and do away with individualized class rank.
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  • Have students identify and solve real problems.
  • Create channels for positive interactions between home and school.
  • Have shared spaces
Lisa Durff

School conditions matter for student achievement, new research confirms | Chalkbeat - 0 views

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  • The study found that if a school improved from the 50th percentile across the study’s four measures of school climate (leadership, expectations, relationships, and safety) to the 84th percentile, teacher turnover would decline by 25 percent
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When Kids Have Structure for Thinking, Better Learning Emerges | MindShift | KQED News - 0 views

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  • Some teachers discuss metacognition with students
  • “When we have a rich meta-strategic base for our thinking, that helps us to be more independent learners,”
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Teaching Gratitude | Teacher Prep Tech - 0 views

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    "Here are a few ways to teach gratitude in your classroom:"
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Lisa Durff

Should the U.S. Follow South Korea's Education System? - WSJ.com - 0 views

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      Lisa Durff on 06 Aug 13
       
      A closely guarded market! When 5 Americans (me among them) went to Korea to teach English we had to declare we were tourists at the border.  We were indeed volunteers.
  • South Korea has dramatically improved its education system over the past several decades and now routinely outperforms the U.S.
  • South Korean 15-year-olds rank No. 2 in the world in reading
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  • 93% high-school graduation rate
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      BUT they are ready for? factory jobs. The desks are typically nailed down in rows and teachers expected to lecture for 3 hours. I disrupted that idea rather quickly and my grammar class performed super well.
  • In South Korea, if parents aren't engaged, that is considered a failure of the educators, not the family.
Lisa Durff

Free Technology for Teachers: Screencast-O-Matic - A Great Tool for Creating Screencast... - 0 views

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Free Technology for Teachers: Seven Good Sources of Writing Prompts - 0 views

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20 Google tools teachers should try (and how to use them in classrooms) - Daily GeniusD... - 0 views

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