Skip to main content

Home/ Social Studies, Human Resources and Adptations/ Group items tagged school-improvement

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
Siri Anderson

Visualizing School Equity | Learning for Justice - 0 views

www.learningforjustice.org/...visualizing-school-equity

Lesson Improvement

shared by Siri Anderson on 10 Oct 21 - No Cached
    • lind_krom
      lind_krom on 10 Oct 21
       
      This connects to 7I. Where the teacher is supporting and expanding expression through speaking, writing, or other media. This is happening through connections and building relationships with other schools in different districts and creating a portfolios about the facilities at the schools. Once these portfolios are exchanged they will then use the insights to create their own Student Bill of Rights. This will allow students another perspective to look at, think about, and reflect on.
    • Siri Anderson
      Siri Anderson on 11 Oct 21
       
      Yes this is 7I
  • Form a partnership with a teacher in another district. You will ask your students to assemble a portfolio documenting the facilities at their school (through lists, narratives or photos); your partner teacher will ask her/his students to do the same. Classes can exchange portfolios. Each class can use the insights from the exchange to draft their own Student Bill of Rights. 
  • 3. Ask to students to present their posters to the entire class. 
    • lind_krom
      lind_krom on 10 Oct 21
       
      This connects to 3G where we are using student's thinking and experiences as a resources in planning instructional activities by encouraging discussion, listening and responding to group interaction, and eliciting oral, written and other samples of student thinking. This will allow students to look at public information on the per-student funding in the best and least funded schools. They will then present their findings to their peers while listening to others findings and thoughts.
  • ...6 more annotations...
  • 4. Circle back to the “Crossing the Gap” story by ask students to vote on the following proposition: An explicit right to equal per-student funding should be added to the Illinois Council of Students' Bill of Rights. Once your students have voted “yes” or “no” to the proposition, ask each group to present their decision, and three reasons supporting it, to the class as a whole. 
    • lind_krom
      lind_krom on 10 Oct 21
       
      This connects to 4E where we understand how a students learning is influenced by individual experiencs, talents, and prior learning, as well as language, culture, family, and community values. This will allow students to look at their findings and how they think they have affected their choices. This will also allow students culture, family, and community values to play a part in their decision making. School and education is very important to different cultures, individual families, and communities. This will affect how students vote. This will also tap into 3G by encouraging discussion and support of the way they have voted.
  • Then have students find the per-student funding levels (listed in dollar amounts) for the best-funded district, least-funded district, and their own district.
    • lind_krom
      lind_krom on 10 Oct 21
       
      This connects to students individual experiences with their own schools funding to see how it affects them,. This will allow them to connect to and build off this scaffolding.
    • lind_krom
      lind_krom on 10 Oct 21
       
      This connects to 4E.
    • Siri Anderson
      Siri Anderson on 11 Oct 21
       
      OK yes
  • Have students create a chart illustrating the funding gap between the best-funded and least-funded districts in the state, along with the per-student funding for their district.
    • lind_krom
      lind_krom on 10 Oct 21
       
      This connects to 7I. Where students will create other media in the form of a chart to expand their learning to see the gap in funding between their school, the best funded school, and the least funded school.
    • Siri Anderson
      Siri Anderson on 11 Oct 21
       
      yes
  • Have students brainstorm a list of useful educational items that could be purchased with the funding gap money for the least-funded district and/or their own district.
    • lind_krom
      lind_krom on 10 Oct 21
       
      This connects to 3G. Students are actively engaging in inquiry by looking at the gap and figuring what they think could be funded in the least funded school. Things that they may use or see as beneficial in their own school.
    • Siri Anderson
      Siri Anderson on 11 Oct 21
       
      The benefit in 3G is to the teacher, when we elicit student thinking it helps us tailor instruction to meet their needs. The standards are teacher standards, not student standards.
  • • learn about inequities in the system and begin to question why those inequities exist by examining the funding gap in their own state.
    • lind_krom
      lind_krom on 10 Oct 21
       
      This connects to 3g. Students will be using their experiences in their school to think about why this funding gap exists . They will then brainstorm ways that they money could benefit the least funded school through oral and written activities.
    • Siri Anderson
      Siri Anderson on 11 Oct 21
       
      I don't see how looking at experiences in their own education will help students understand "why" funding gaps exist.
  • • A large portion of public school funding comes from local property taxes. The funding gap exists when higher tax revenues mean much more school funding is available to wealthy communities than to poor communities.
    • lind_krom
      lind_krom on 10 Oct 21
       
      This could connect to 7I by allowing students to consider if this is fair and how we can look into and prevent this gap in funding. Do they think that this is fair, with wealthy communities paying a higher tax revenue? How do they think they could solve this.
    • Siri Anderson
      Siri Anderson on 11 Oct 21
       
      Standard 7I is about eliciting student communication in written or other forms. I don't see how this demonstrates that.
nikkilh

Dr. Ross Greene - 1 views

drrossgreene.com/lost-at-school.htm

LostAtSchool

shared by nikkilh on 14 Mar 22 - No Cached
    • nikkilh
      nikkilh on 14 Mar 22
       
      Lost at School By: Dr. Ross Greene
  • Lost at School
  • In so many schools, kids with social, emotional, and behavioral challenges are still poorly understood and treated in a way that is completely at odds with what is now known about how they came to be challenging in the first place.
  • ...3 more annotations...
  • A review of ten years of research found that these policies have not only failed to make schools safe or more effective in handling student behavior, but have actually increased behavior problems and dropout rates. Yet public elementary and secondary schools in the United States continue to dole out a whopping 110,000 expulsions and 3 million suspensions each year, along with countless tens of millions of detentions.
  • These kids would like nothing better than to be able to handle the social, emotional, and behavioral challenges being placed on them at school and in life, but they can’t seem to pull it off.
  • Three massive shifts are required: (1) a dramatic improvement in understanding the factors that set the stage for challenging behavior in kids; (2) creating mechanisms for helping these kids that are predominantly proactive instead of reactive; and (3) creating processes so people can work on problems collaboratively.
Bill Olson

Critical pedagogy: schools must equip students to challenge the status quo | Teacher Ne... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...ogy-schools-students-challenge

critical classroom implement doing schools cultural literacy opinion

shared by Bill Olson on 24 Sep 21 - No Cached
  • The pedagogy popularised by E.D.Hirsch, and recently promoted by the likes of Civitas, reduces teaching into nothing more than a bleak transmission model of learning.
  • "cultural literacy".
  • But Hirsch's "cultural literacy" is a hegemonic vision produced for and by the white middle class to help maintain the social and economic status quo.
  • ...8 more annotations...
  • Young people who enter the educational system and don't conform to this vision are immediately disadvantaged by virtue of their race, income or chromosomes.
  • Moreover, teaching a prescribed "core knowledge" instills a culture of conformity and an insipid, passive absorption of carefully selected knowledge among young people.
  • The narcissistic notion that we can help underprivileged students by providing them with teachers who are privileged young graduates from elite institutions is a mistake.
  • Teachers can't ignore the contexts, culture, histories and meanings that students bring to their school.
  • Working class students and other minority groups need an education that prepares them with the knowledge of identifying the problems and conflicts in their life and the skills to act on that knowledge so they can improve their current situations.
  • School leaders have a duty to promote learning that encourage students to question rather than forcing teachers to lead drill-oriented, stimulus-and-response methodologies.
  • Students need the freedom and encouragement to determine and discover who they are and to understand that the system shouldn't define them – but rather give them the skills, knowledge and beliefs to understand that they can set the agenda.
  • The philosophy was first described by Paulo Freire and has since been developed by the likes of Henry Giroux, Peter McLaren and Roger Simon. Critical pedagogy isn't a prescriptive set of practices – it's a continuous moral project that enables young people to develop a social awareness of freedom. This pedagogy connects classroom learning with the experiences, histories and resources that every student brings to their school. It allows students to understand that with knowledge comes power; the power that can enable young people to do something differently in their moment in time and take positive and constructive action.
  • Bill Olson on 24 Sep 21
     
    This article is an opinion piece about why critical pedagogy is important to teach to students. What do you think the best way to support your underprivileged students is?
Kelly Nuthak

Top 10 questions teachers are asked at job interviews | Career advice | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...ob-interview-questions-top-ten

questions interview education

shared by Kelly Nuthak on 10 Apr 22 - No Cached
  • Top 10 questions
  • If I walked into your classroom during an outstanding lesson, what would I see and hear?
  • animated discussions, students clearly making progress as evidenced in oral and written contributions. High quality visual displays of students' work showing progress. High levels of engagement. Behaviour that supports learning."
  • ...12 more annotations...
  • Can you tell me about a successful behaviour management strategy you have used in the past that helped engage a pupil or group of pupils?
  • expect to hear things like: to improve skills and independent learning; to encourage team work; to gain a qualification; for enjoyment (very important, rarely mentioned); to enhance other subjects; to develop literacy, numeracy and ICT skills; to improve career prospects; self discipline; memory development; to encourage life-long learning in that subject.
  • Why do we teach x in schools?
  • If you overheard some colleagues talking about you, what would they say?
  • Why do you want to work in special education?
  • Why do you want to work in this school?
  • We want to see clear indications that candidates have done background work about our school and can talk about why the way we work appeals to them. We'd always want candidates to have visited the school so they should be able to flesh this out with specific examples of what they thought based on their visit.
  • A question that is specific to the candidate's letter of application
  • What are the key qualities and skills that students look for in teachers?
  • "Liking young people. Fairness. Consistency. Sense of humour. Passion for their subject. Good at explaining new concepts/ideas. Able to make the topic or subject relevant. Able to make everyone feel comfortable and confident about contributing."
  • Evaluate your lesson
  • If we decided not to appoint you, what would we be missing out on?
jkolodji

School Improvement Status and Outcomes for Students with Disabilities Study (SWD) - 1 views

www.norc.org/...th-disabilities-study-swd.aspx

Adaptations Siri Alphabet SWD

shared by jkolodji on 04 Feb 22 - No Cached
  • jkolodji on 04 Feb 22
     
    "Outcomes for Students with Disabilities (SWD) "
nikkilh

Southeast Comprehensive Center Information Request.pdf - 0 views

SEL

shared by nikkilh on 12 Apr 22 - No Cached
  • Best Practices, Strategies, and Recommendations for Improving School Climate and Culture
  • ED’s guidance is developed to assist stakeholders with effectively selecting and implementing supports that work to improve outcomes for children.
  • In addition to the four levels of evidence for choosing interventions, the ED guidance document emphasizes that “ways to strengthen the effectiveness of ESEA investments include identifying local needs, selecting evidence-based interventions that SEAs, LEAs, and schools have the capacity to implement, planning for and then supporting the intervention, and examining and reflecting upon how the intervention is working,” as illustrated in the figure from the guidance document (U.S. Department of Education, 2016, p. 3).
Katelyn Karsnia

What is RTI | Three Tiers of RTI | Navigating Education - 0 views

navigatingeducation.com/...03

ABCSoup ED3780 Siri Adaptations RTI

shared by Katelyn Karsnia on 20 Mar 22 - No Cached
  • RTI consists of three tiers, or levels of academic support, which help teachers and schools better identify, target, and support, both students and their individual skill deficits.
    • Katelyn Karsnia
      Katelyn Karsnia on 20 Mar 22
       
      What RTI does to help students in school
  • Tier 1 consists of universal instruction for all students,
    • Katelyn Karsnia
      Katelyn Karsnia on 20 Mar 22
       
      What Teir 1 = universal instruction for all students
  • ier 2 consists of targeted intervention for specific groups of students
    • Katelyn Karsnia
      Katelyn Karsnia on 20 Mar 22
       
      Teir 2 = Targeted intervention groups for specific students
  • ...5 more annotations...
  • between 6% and 15% of students are identified as needing additional support in specific academic domains (reading, writing, math, language, and/or behavior), beyond the standard whole group instruction and support from the classroom teacher.
  • ier 2 interventions can take as long as eight weeks before academic improvement is noticeable
    • Katelyn Karsnia
      Katelyn Karsnia on 20 Mar 22
       
      How long it could see changes in students' academic ability with interventions
  • Tier 3 consists of highly targeted individualized and intensive interventions, and typically consists of between 1% and 5% of students.
    • Katelyn Karsnia
      Katelyn Karsnia on 20 Mar 22
       
      Tier 3 = Highly targeted individuals and intensive interventions
  • RTI Tiers Types of Interventions % of Students Expectations Tier 1 Universal instruction for all students >=80% Children may experience academic challenges or frustration at times, but they can quickly overcome such difficulties with little impact to their overall academic performance. Tier 2 Targeted intervention for specific groups of students 6% – 15% It can take as long as eight weeks before academic improvement is noticeable, and children/students may need to remain at Tier 2 for a bit of time to increase or maintain their growth. Tier 3 Highly targeted individualized and intensive interventions 1% – 5% The specific nature of a child’s difficulty must be more closely examined, which is typically done through formal educational/academic evaluations.
    • Katelyn Karsnia
      Katelyn Karsnia on 20 Mar 22
       
      Statistics about the RTI three tiers
  • Response to Intervention, or RTI, is an approach used throughout the country to meet the ever-changing academic needs of children/students
Siri Anderson

YouTube - How Google Apps is Used in Schools (IS 339) - 0 views

www.youtube.com/watch

google school-improvement urban-education social_studies

shared by Siri Anderson on 15 Sep 10 - No Cached
    • Siri Anderson
      Siri Anderson on 15 Sep 10
       
      This video has some very interesitng comments about changes in individual development and identify. What do you think?
  • Siri Anderson on 15 Sep 10
     
    What do you think? Laptops and google as a panacea for failing schools?
Siri Anderson

Obama: D.C. schools don't measure up to his daughters' private school - 1 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...AR2010092701766.html

school-improvement social_studies teacher_education

shared by Siri Anderson on 28 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Siri Anderson on 28 Sep 10
     
    Obama on education.
chlohawk

With Boys in Mind / Teaching to the Minds of Boys - ASCD - 1 views

www.ascd.org/...teaching-to-the-minds-of-boys

boys boy-friendly tips classroom

shared by chlohawk on 03 Sep 21 - No Cached
  • who's perpetually in motion,
  • ho stares into space,
  • w
  • ...12 more annotations...
  • turns in rushed and sloppy work and receives failing grades.
  • By introducing more boy-friendly teaching strategies in the classroom, the school was able to close the gender gap in just one year.
  • he now understands how relevant this focus on action and heroism is to males, and she sees that letting boys write on these topics has improved their papers.
  • he task-oriented discussion and interaction, the physical movement, and the orientation in space access the boys' neurological strengths, keeping them energized and attentive.
  • Realizing the need for nonverbal planning tools, especially in males, to help bridge the gap between what students are thinking and what they're able to put down on paper, Mrs. Johnston now asks Timothy and his classmates to create storyboards, a series of pictures with or without words that graphically depict a story line. T
  • n her 2nd grade classroom, most of the boys read and write about such topics as NASCAR racing, atomic bombs, and football or about such situations as a parrot biting a dad through the lip. Many of the girls write about best friends, books, mermaids, and unicorns.
  • eachers tended to view the natural assets that boys bring to learning—impulsivity, single-task focus, spatial-kinesthetic learning, and physical aggression—as problems. By altering strategies to accommodate these more typically male assets, Douglass helped its students succeed, as the following vignettes illustrate.
  • One of the primary reasons that some boys getDs and Fs in school is their inattention to homework.
  • parents sign homework assignments.
  • One of the innovations that teachers can use in targeted ways in coeducational classes is single-gender grouping.
    • chlohawk
      chlohawk on 03 Sep 21
       
      How and when can I implement one of these strategies in the first week of school with my boy learners?
  • Quite often, boys do their best work when teachers establish authentic purpose and meaningful, real-life connections.
  • chlohawk on 03 Sep 21
     
    Creating a boy-friendly classroom, increasing experiential and kinesthetic learning opportunities, supporting literacy through visual-spatial representations and more strategies can support our boy learners.
nikkilh

What Is Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA)? | Understood - For learning and thinkin... - 1 views

www.understood.org/...nt-what-it-is-and-how-it-works

AlphabetSoup

shared by nikkilh on 29 Jan 22 - No Cached
  • Functional behavioral assessment (FBA) is a process schools use to figure out what’s causing challenging behavior.
    • nikkilh
      nikkilh on 29 Jan 22
       
      what functional behavior assessment is
  • To help students, schools use a process to identify and understand challenging behaviors, and come up with possible solutions.
  • During an FBA, the school team gathers information and uses it to create a plan to improve behavior.
Siri Anderson

The Answer Sheet - What 'Superman' got wrong, point by point - 0 views

voices.washingtonpost.com/...-superman-got-wrong-point.html

social_studies school-improvement ROI teacher_education

shared by Siri Anderson on 28 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • According to the Department of Education, the country will need 1.6 million new teachers in the next five years. Retention of talented teachers is one key. Good teaching is about making connections to students, about connecting what they learn to the world in which they live, and this only happens if teachers have history and roots in the communities where they teach
  • The film-makers betray a lack of understanding of how people actually learn, the active and engaged participation of students in the learning process. They ignore the social construction of knowledge, the difference between deep learning and rote memorization.
  • Waiting for Superman has ignored deep historical and systemic problems in education such as segregation, property-tax based funding formulas, centralized textbook production, lack of local autonomy and shared governance, de-professionalization, inadequate special education supports, differential discipline patterns, and the list goes on and on.
  • Siri Anderson on 28 Sep 10
     
    Wendy thanks for this link on Facebook. I'm going to see it tonight! I look forward to debate on this topic in the weeks ahead.
Siri Anderson

Frontiers | Could Acting Training Improve Social Cognition and Emotional Control? - 0 views

www.frontiersin.org/...full

Theory_of_Mind SEL theater acting emotional-health 3110-5110

shared by Siri Anderson on 17 Oct 22 - No Cached
  • Goldstein et al. (2013) found that a year of acting practice decreased the use of emotional suppression in children aged 7–10, while adolescents majoring in acting at high school (compared to other art majors e.g., music) used less suppression. Additionally, 4–5-years olds randomly assigned to an 8-week drama condition (compared to block building or reading) showed increased emotional control (i.e., inhibition of affective responses to observed or discussed distress; Goldstein and Lerner, 2018).
  • The ability to represent others' mental states, referred to as ToM or cognitive empathy, plays a critical role in understanding and navigating social situations
Katelyn Karsnia

Summary of S. 6 (94th): Education For All Handicapped Children Act - GovTrack.us - 0 views

www.govtrack.us/...summary

ABCSoup PL 94-142 ED3780 Siri Adaptations 1975

shared by Katelyn Karsnia on 19 Mar 22 - No Cached
  • Education for All Handicapped Children Act
  • Public Law (PL) 94-142)
  • nacted by the United States Congress in 1975.
  • ...6 more annotations...
  • required all public schools accepting federal funds to provide equal access to education for children with physical and mental disabilities.
  • EHA was revised and renamed as Individuals with Disabilities Education Act in 1990 for improvement of special education and inclusive education.
  • PL 94-142 also contains a provision that disabled students should be placed in the least restrictive environment-one that allows the maximum possible opportunity to interact with non-impaired students.
  • The law was passed to meet four huge goals: To ensure that special education services are available to children who need them To guarantee that decisions about services to students with disabilities are fair and appropriate To establish specific management and auditing requirements for special education To provide federal funds to help the states educate students with disabilities
  • amendment to Part B of the Education of the Handicapped Act enacted in 1966.
  • Education for All Handicapped Children Act
nikkilh

Identification | National Association for Gifted Children - 1 views

www.nagc.org/...identification

2e

shared by nikkilh on 24 Feb 22 - No Cached
  • Identification
    • nikkilh
      nikkilh on 24 Feb 22
       
      Identifying 2e Students
  • Gifted learners exhibit different characteristics, traits, and ways to express their giftedness.
  • Giftedness is represented through all racial, ethnic, income levels, and exceptionality groups.  
  • ...2 more annotations...
  • Early identification in school improves the likelihood that gifts will be developed into talents.
  • Because no two gifted children are alike is important to collect information on both the child's performance and potential through  a combination of objective (quantifiably measured) and subjective (personally observed) identification instruments in order to identify gifted and talented students.
1 - 16 of 16
Showing 20▼ items per page