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Jill Bergeron

Science for Kids - 0 views

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science chemistry life science physics earth science STEM

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  • Jill Bergeron on 14 Feb 14
     
    Science resources for IPS.
Jill Bergeron

Teaching Empathy: Turning a Lesson Plan into a Life Skill | Edutopia - 0 views

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empathy edutopia SEL social emotional learning

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  • academic rigor, with its unflinching emphasis on measurable success, seems strangely at odds with emotional intelligence, a soufflé of moods and feelings.
  • Designed around cooperative learning, your lesson plan can actively foster class-wide feelings of cohesiveness, collaboration and interdependence -- without sacrificing instructional time or learning goals.
  • In cooperative learning, students work together, think together and plan together using a variety of group structures designed along an instructional path.
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  • Cooperative learning creates what Daniel Goleman calls "cognitive empathy," a mind-to-mind sense of how another person's thinking works.
  • The better we understand others, the better we know them -- pointing toward (among other virtues) greater trust, appreciation and generosity.
  • Dispatching students into "groups" with the hopes they'll become more empathetic carries the same potential for success as trying to hit a dartboard while blindfolded
  • o harness the power of cooperative learning as a tool for building empathy, teachers need a specific strategy, a best practice that works
  • Created in 1971 by psychologist Elliot Aronson (1) to defuse his volatile fifth grade classroom, the jigsaw method (2) has a long track record of successfully reducing classroom conflict and increasing positive educational outcomes. As an empathy builder, it also opens doors of opportunity.
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      Jill Bergeron on 12 Feb 14
       
      How jigsaw groups work
  • The fluid movement, flexible groupings and redistribution of responsibility force kids to be more actively engaged in what and how they learn.
  • jigsaw learning flows freely between group members. Familiar roles change, too.
  • Teachers re-outfit themselves as sideline reporters, monitoring, questioning and analyzing the action, while the quickest and slowest students suddenly discover themselves in supporting and leading roles they never quite imagined.
  • Creating points of contact between students who would otherwise not interact delivers a humbling but elevating awareness of the "other."
  • the hard currency is active listening, or the art of thinking about what the other person is saying.
  • And because each student has a purpose (a teaching role) and something valuable (new and necessary information), every learner is regarded as an asset, not a liability
Jill Bergeron

Why Do Teachers Quit? - Liz Riggs - The Atlantic - 0 views

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teacher retention turnover

shared by Jill Bergeron on 02 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Ingersoll extrapolated and then later confirmed that anywhere between 40 and 50 percent of teachers will leave the classroom within their first five years
  • ut, turnover in teaching is about four percent higher than other professions.
  • Why are all these teachers leaving—or not even entering the classroom in the first place?
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  • “Teachers in schools do not call the shots. They have very little say. They’re told what to do; it’s a very disempowered line of work.”
  • if you want to have a family, or you want to have some leisure time, you know, how do you sustain that?”
  • many young teachers soon realize they must do overwhelming amounts of after-hours work. They pour out emotional energy into their work, which breeds quick exhaustion. And they experience the frustrating uphill battle that comes along with teaching—particularly in low-performing schools.
  • What people are asked to do is only the kind of thing that somebody can do for two or three years; you couldn’t sustain that level of intensity throughout a career,” said Thomas Smith, a professor at Vanderbilt University’s education school.
  • Many of them cited “personal reasons,” ranging from individual stress levels to work-life balance struggles.
  • “What many of them working in high-need schools told me, however, was that being successful at school directly conflicted with being successful husbands and fathers. While this is certainly true of any occupation, most occupations don't leave your children asking you, ‘Why do you go to more basketball games of the kids at school than mine?’"
  • Higher pay doesn’t necessarily lead to a better retention rate, though.
  • Most teachers sounded simply frustrated, overworked and underpaid—sentiments that are certainly echoed in the research. 
  • “Those schools that do a far better job of managing and coping with and responding to student behavioral issues have far better teacher retention,”
  • “Respected, well-paid lines of work do not have shortages,”
  • If the overall attractiveness of teaching as a profession gets better, the best teachers will enter the profession, stay, and help increase the effectiveness of schools.
  • Jill Bergeron on 02 Jan 14
     
    Article refers to research on why teachers are apt to quit.
Kimberly Marlow

Digital Citizenship: Responsible Technology Use in the Classroom - 1 views

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digital citizenship InternetSafety

shared by Kimberly Marlow on 14 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • Fifty-one percent of 16 year olds share their age/birth date with others Seventeen percent of teens keep their social network sites public and 19 percent only have some privacy settings enabled Twenty-nine percent of kids between five and 11 years old believe they are anonymous online Only a little over 50 percent of children age nine to 12 know how to block unwanted messages Nine percent of nine year olds share their email passwords and 24 percent of 18 year olds do the same Seventeen percent of male and 23 percent of female users would share inappropriate pictures online
  • Jill Bergeron on 14 Mar 14
     
    A round up of digital citizenship resources and stats.
Gayle Cole

Kids Building Things - 0 views

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tinkering maker movement afterschool

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  • Gayle Cole on 26 Sep 13
     
    after school program ideas from John Berger
Gayle Cole

Here's What A Constantly Plugged-In Life Is Doing To Kids' Bodies - 0 views

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technology health ergonomics

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  • Jill Bergeron on 06 Nov 13
     
    Great article on risks of overuse of media. Also offers targeted solutions for these problems.
Jill Bergeron

5 App and Mobile Use Guides for Parents | Edutopia - 0 views

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parents apps parenting parent CATIE common sense

shared by Jill Bergeron on 26 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • 75 percent of children 8 years old or younger had access to a "smart" mobile device at home
  • For teens, mobile use is near ubiquitous; almost 80 percent own a cell phone and three-quarters use mobile devices to access the internet, according to findings from a 2013 Pew Research survey.
  • Jill Bergeron on 26 Jan 15
     
    Resources for parenting with technology.
Jill Bergeron

What's Up with STEM for 2015? | MiddleWeb - 0 views

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STEM STEAM science math technology

shared by Jill Bergeron on 26 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • Remember, STEM as originally conceived is intended to get kids up to speed on science and math using an engineering design approach, emphasizing teamwork and real-world problems.
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      Jill Bergeron on 26 Jan 15
       
      This is a great summary.
  • STEM lessons don’t necessarily teach the specific content in math and science – they may apply content that has already been taught. The key point is whether a STEM program applies math and science concepts to solve an engineering challenge and provide students with opportunities to integrate learning.
  • At first glance, it appears that deciding what a STEM program should look like is an ongoing conundrum for the K-12 education world.
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  • Maker projects, however, are not intended to substitute as STEM programs. They frequently accomplish Criteria #2 and #3 and touch on other criteria to some degree. But their goals and focus differ from STEM.
Jill Bergeron

Parenting With Dignity - Reasons why punishment doesn't work - 0 views

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parenting punishment consequences

shared by Jill Bergeron on 26 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • Punishment will be considered to be any artificially created consequence for a given behavior.
  • Any time that one attempts to change a child's behavior the child will resist.
  • Add punishment and you will insure more resistance to change.)
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  • When a parent resorts to punishment both the parent and the child begin to pay attention to the punishment
  • the child is not engaged in creating a new thought process that will bring about better decisions and outcomes next time.
  • A child sent to his/her room will seldom or never think about how to behave properly but rather will think about how unfair his/her parents are or some equally negative idea.
  • It becomes a game of not getting caught.
  • Punishment traps the "punisher" into maintaining the punishment schedule. "You made the rules, now you must enforce them."
  • Punishment does not teach accountability.
  • As parents we need to point out the negative consequences inherent in their negative behavior, we do not need to create new ones.
  • We can serve as a big help to our children if we help them foresee potential problems and the natural consequences of some of their possible decisions.
  • The error comes when we think that the punishment has taught the child what to do in the next situation.
  • It has taught the kid NOT to do something… but it has not taught them what to do! That is our job as parents… teach them what to do and how to decide to do it!
  • Jill Bergeron on 26 Mar 15
     
    Another take on parenting and punishment
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