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Chris Harrow

Devlin's Angle: The difference between teaching and instruction - 0 views

  • I quickly figured out how to play that game successfully – success in that case being measured by my being able to solve under exam conditions, problems like the ones the teacher had shown us and we had practiced in class and done for homework.
  • In fact, you can’t separate real teaching from learning. They are simply two perspectives of the same human interactive process.
  • For whereas technology can provide instruction and can provide teachers and students with resources to assist them, what is cannot do on its own is teach them.
Chris Harrow

A teacher explains why she gave up a career she loved | Get Schooled - 1 views

  • I would like to go back some day when the system finally figures out how lucky it is that people are willing to teach.
  • I cannot ignore that I am leaving a profession I love dearly. Everyone in my family has been part of public education. I viewed it as a calling. I guess now the call has changed its tune.
  • I have decided to quit teaching. Maybe not forever, but definitely for a year or two. This is not a decision I came to lightly, and I did not feel triumphant in it at all. To be frank, I had never felt more defeated in my life.
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  • I thought schools were about learning, but it’s become more about numbers and appearances than learning. When it reached the point that I dreaded getting up and going to work in the morning, it was time to leave. Teaching is not a job you can do well if you don’t love it.
Robert Ryshke

Teach For America Met With Big Questions In Face Of Expansion - 1 views

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    MIAMI — In a distressed neighborhood north of Miami's gleaming downtown, a group of enthusiastic but inexperienced instructors from Teach for America is trying to make progress where more veteran teachers have had difficulty: raising students' reading and math scores.
Chris Harrow

Dear Governor: Lobby to Save a Love of Reading - SchoolBook - 0 views

  • By asking young students to spend time taking tests like this we are doing them a double disservice: first, by inflicting on them such mediocre literature, and second, by training them to read not for pleasure but to discover a predetermined answer to a (let’s not mince words) stupid question.
  • Literary texts, whether by A.A. Milne or Leo Tolstoy, always admit multiple interpretations — and the greater the work, the more robust the tension among these readings, and the graver the loss in trying to reduce the work to a single idea.
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    While focused on teaching reading to elementary students, the points raised here apply also to mathematics teaching ... reducing everything to a single way and a single answer is stifling, minimizing, and counterproductive.
Robert Ryshke

Creative Teaching - 3 views

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    Creative Teaching provides useful tips, suggestions, lesson plans and worksheets to creatively teach children at the elementary- and middle-school grade levels, along with suggested resources for parents and teachers. The information and materials cover content areas including reading, writing, math, science and social studies. We hope you find these useful in both classroom and homeschool environments.
Beth Holland

Webinar Series - 0 views

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    EdTechTeacher has a great lineup of free, live, webinars this spring: Teaching Physics with Technology, Ken Davis to talk about Teaching History, Carla Beard to talk about Building a Community of Readers, and more. Their archived recordings are also available from this page.
Chris Harrow

Story Telling, Teaching, and Mathematics « Mr Honner - 0 views

  • a surprising source of mathematical problem-solving and teaching
Chris Harrow

Freakonomics » The Way We Teach Math, Sciences, and Languages Is Wrong - 4 views

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    why the inertia to making needed changes in pedagogy?
Robert Ryshke

Eric Mazur on new interactive teaching techniques | Harvard Magazine Mar-Apr 2012 - 1 views

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    In 1990, after seven years of teaching at Harvard, Eric Mazur, now Balkanski professor of physics and applied physics, was delivering clear, polished lectures and demonstrations and getting high student evaluations for his introductory Physics 11 course, populated mainly by premed and engineering students who were successfully solving complicated problems. Then he discovered that his success as a teacher "was a complete illusion, a house of cards." THIS IS A MUST READ ARTICLE!
Robert Ryshke

The Center for Teaching Daily - 0 views

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    A personalized newspaper built from articles, blog posts, videos and photos selected by Center for Teaching.
Robert Ryshke

Main Page - Emerging Perspectives on Learning, Teaching and Technology - 0 views

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    This book is listed as an official publication of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology. Click here to see their publications. If you have adopted one or more chapters of this book for your class, I would like to know about it! Please use this form to let me know how you are using it. Homepage looks like a good site for resources on important topics in teaching, learning, and technology
Chris Harrow

Are Independents Just Partisans In Disguise? : It's All Politics : NPR - 0 views

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    I wonder how we could use this in classrooms where we're attempting to teach our students to be open to new ideas and perspectives.
Chris Harrow

Seth's Blog: The new lazy journalism - 1 views

  • The hard part of professional journalism going forward is writing about what hasn't been written about, directing attention where it hasn't been, and saying something new.
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    The great challenge for journalists is also the challenge for educators. We do need to look for the new ways to learn and share and reach each of our students. We cannot afford to teach the same old stuff in the same old way and expect that to be sufficient for our new students in this new time. Thanks to Bo A. for the lead to this article.
Robert Ryshke

Asking good questions, is the practice relevant - 1 views

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    While this research is interesting and may have something to say to all educators, I can't imagine teaching without the art of "asking good questions." Good questions ignite critical thinking on the part of students.
Robert Ryshke

What makes a brilliant teacher? - 0 views

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    While watching a brilliant teacher in action, you too may have wondered: "What is it that makes them excellent?" Do we, as an educational community actually realise what makes a true teacher? Is it purely down to perfect pedagogy, rigorous planning and assessing, diligent resource making and clever behaviour management; or is there something more?
Chris Harrow

f(t): This Logic Game Needs a Name - 3 views

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    A spectacular (yet-to-be-named) game for teaching formal logic!
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    Looks like an interesting game. All the information is there so the students need to use the cards to come up with an "answer" to a problem OR construct their own problems. I like this kind of game for learning. Are you familiar with SET. Not the same, but similar idea. Bob
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    Absolutely! SET rocks. Lots of possibilities with that. As long as we're posing excellent games, I think Blockus is magnificent!
Robert Ryshke

Humanities teachers using Inquiry-based teaching - 0 views

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    Asking good questions is a big part of a strong inquiry-based lesson. Check out how history teachers do it.
Chris Harrow

Explore Mars, Inc. Launches the 2011-2012 Mars Education Challenge- ExploreMars.org - 0 views

  • MEC asks science educators who teach grades 7-12 to develop inspiring ways to fit Mars science and exploration into their “every day” classroom lessons – such as biology, chemistry, physics, geology, etc.  MEC empowers teachers to create lessons that will enable educators to teach these topics in new and interesting ways by using Mars as an example.
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    Curriculum challenge for Science teachers in grades 7-12.
Chris Harrow

dy/dan » Blog Archive » The Comprehensive Math Assessment Resource - 3 views

  • If you'd like to see assessment amount to more than a meaningless exercise in classroom control, if you'd like to see cheating drop and confidence rise, if you'd like to see a higher correlation between the grade you feel a student deserves and the grade on that student's transcript … … take something from this page.
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    A collection of truly insightful musings on assessment, whether you teach math or something else.
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    Chris, I definitely think this process for assessment could be utilized in other disciplines quite easily. The idea of student ownership is a huge factor for motivating students. The parent involvement seems to be a positive aspect, too. Thank you so much for keeping us all aware of innovative practices happening in education. Karen Anderson
Robert Ryshke

Videos § Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning - 0 views

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    In addition to those shown on this page, you can find topical videos on these other pages of the Bok Center site:
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