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The Atlantic Online | January/February 2010 | What Makes a Great Teacher? | Amanda Ripley - 2 views

  • This tale of two boys, and of the millions of kids just like them, embodies the most stunning finding to come out of education research in the past decade: more than any other variable in education—more than schools or curriculum—teachers matter. Put concretely, if Mr. Taylor’s student continued to learn at the same level for a few more years, his test scores would be no different from those of his more affluent peers in Northwest D.C. And if these two boys were to keep their respective teachers for three years, their lives would likely diverge forever. By high school, the compounded effects of the strong teacher—or the weak one—would become too great.
  • Farr was tasked with finding out. Starting in 2002, Teach for America began using student test-score progress data to put teachers into one of three categories: those who move their students one and a half or more years ahead in one year; those who achieve one to one and a half years of growth; and those who yield less than one year of gains. In the beginning, reliable data was hard to come by, and many teachers could not be put into any category. Moreover, the data could never capture the entire story of a teacher’s impact, Farr acknowledges.
  • They were also perpetually looking for ways to improve their effectiveness
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  • First, great teachers tended to set big goals for their students.
  • Great teachers, he concluded, constantly reevaluate what they are doing.
  • Superstar teachers had four other tendencies in common: they avidly recruited students and their families into the process; they maintained focus, ensuring that everything they did contributed to student learning; they planned exhaustively and purposefully—for the next day or the year ahead—by working backward from the desired outcome; and they worked relentlessly, refusing to surrender to the combined menaces of poverty, bureaucracy, and budgetary shortfalls.
  • When her fourth-grade students entered her class last school year, 66 percent were scoring at or above grade level in reading. After a year in her class, only 44 percent scored at grade level, and none scored above. Her students performed worse than fourth-graders with similar incoming scores in other low-income D.C. schools. For decades, education researchers blamed kids and their home life for their failure to learn. Now, given the data coming out of classrooms like Mr. Taylor’s, those arguments are harder to take. Poverty matters enormously. But teachers all over the country are moving poor kids forward anyway, even as the class next door stagnates. “At the end of the day,” says Timothy Daly at the New Teacher Project, “it’s the mind-set that teachers need—a kind of relentless approach to the problem.”
  • are almost never dismissed.
  • What did predict success, interestingly, was a history of perseverance—not just an attitude, but a track record. In the interview process, Teach for America now asks applicants to talk about overcoming challenges in their lives—and ranks their perseverance based on their answers.
  • Gritty people, the theory goes, work harder and stay committed to their goals longer
  • This year, Teach for America allowed me to sit in on the part of the interview process that it calls the “sample teach,” in which applicants teach a lesson to the other applicants for exactly five minutes. Only about half of the candidates make it to this stage. On this day, the group includes three men and two women, all college seniors or very recent graduates.
  • But if school systems hired, trained, and rewarded teachers according to the principles Teach for America has identified, then teachers would not need to work so hard. They would be operating in a system designed in a radically different way—designed, that is, for success.
  • five observation sessions conducted throughout the year by their principal, assistant principal, and a group of master educators.
  • t year’s end, teachers who score below a certain threshold could be fired.
  • But this tradition may be coming to an end. He’s thinking about quitting in the next few years.
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    "This tale of two boys, and of the millions of kids just like them, embodies the most stunning finding to come out of education research in the past decade: more than any other variable in education-more than schools or curriculum-teachers matter. Put concretely, if Mr. Taylor's student continued to learn at the same level for a few more years, his test scores would be no different from those of his more affluent peers in Northwest D.C. And if these two boys were to keep their respective teachers for three years, their lives would likely diverge forever. By high school, the compounded effects of the strong teacher-or the weak one-would become too great."
Peggy George

Celebrate 2012 - Classroom 2.0 LIVE Year-End Review - Classroom 2.0 LIVE! - 0 views

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    Celebration of the 4th anniversary of our Classroom 2.0 LIVE webinars. We shared an Animoto, Lino.it and Wordle to enjoy a trip down memory lane for 2012 and to say thanks to ALL who were a part of our webinars whether as a participant or presenter! The show was very interactive and fun, and participants were invited to share favorite tools, tips and blog links during the session with an opportunity to enter several raffle ticket drawings for prizes. We even played a live Jeopardy game. The bonus Livebinder for this show includes the blog URLs for all of the 2012 presenters as well as any personal/professional/classroom blog URLs that were posted in the chat during the session.
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    Classroom 2.0 LIVE annual year-end review, January 5, 2013. A really fun session and the bonus of the blog URLs for all of our 2012 presenters on one page! Watch the Animoto for a quick review of all of the topics and presenters.
Peggy George

Day 26: Tag, you're it. - Teach42-Steve Dembo - 0 views

  • Not every blog employs tagging, nor would I say that it’s absolutely required, but understanding how tags work and what they can do for you is certainly knowledge that every blogger should possess.
  • a tag is a keyword that you create that serves as an identifier or link for the purposes of searching and/or filtering. By strategically tagging your posts, you provide visitors yet another way to filter through your entries without creating 100’s of categories
  • If you blog regularly about mobile devices in education, by adding those tags along with your name and your blog name to your posts you create ways for you to be associated with those topics in searches.
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  • Another purpose for tagging is to add in the keywords that you may not have mentioned in your post.
  • it has become common practice for people to use unique tags to track posts revolving around an event or topic.
  • So long as everybody that posts about that conference includes that tag, then sites like Hitchhikr will be able to aggregate them together.
  • So what’s the challenge? Simply this, KNOW thy tagging system.
  • Do you tag your posts? How do you decide what tags to use? Have you ever found particular benefit to tagging, or is it just a habit at this point? When you visit somebody’s blog and want to explore, do you head off to the categories or the tags first?
  • the tag cloud on the sidebar of my blog is not only a place or visitors, but a vehicle for finding my OWN posts when trying to find one from a remote location in a hurry.
  • Tags and categories on blogs are about making it easier to find posts on your site plus also give the reader an indication of what you write about. Provided your tagging is good your reader can locate the most appropriate information better than using the search widget.
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    Not every blog employs tagging, nor would I say that it's absolutely required, but understanding how tags work and what they can do for you is certainly knowledge that every blogger should possess. At it's most basic level, a tag is a keyword that you create that serves as an identifier or link for the purposes of searching and/or filtering. By strategically tagging your posts, you provide visitors yet another way to filter through your entries without creating 100's of categories.
Peggy George

Radical Family Workbook: Activity Journal for Kids, Teens and Parents | Radical Parenting - 6 views

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    Radical Parenting teens and I put together a workbook with 30 days (or weeks or months) worth of activities for families with kids of all ages!" This is an incredibly valuable tool/resource for parents and kids to learn together. 30 sessions worth of challenges and activities to help your family re-start, re-energize and re-connect. In each session, families will get a set of challenges, materials and action steps to do for about 30 minutes. Families can work through the Radical Family Workbook at their own pace! You could do a session every day or one every three months! This is for families with children of all ages. Younger children can even participate in many of the activities and family bonding times.
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    outstanding resource for parents and kids!
Peggy George

Lisa's Lingo: Best Day Ever! 3 Skype Calls - 1 views

  • three Skype calls, all with a purpose, and one was quite exceptional.
  • middle school teacher in Connecticut
  • looking for elementary students to critique songs his students were creating about the Oregon Trail. How serendipitous it was that we are studying the Oregon Trail now.
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  • we Skyped with his class so they could find out what kind of songs our students liked.
  • all week, the students have been brainstorming ideas in the Google doc.
  • speak with some of my students who are researching the government of Canada and various provinces there. She explained how the government works and gave a clear explanation of a Parliament. She then answered questions about Canadian homes, her house (she was in her home while Skyping with us) and any pets she might have. She even sent us pictures of her cats
  • third Skype call was with my Teachers Are Talking
  • the most impressive use of collaborative technology I've ever seen in my room. Today was the day that we skyped with our writing partners.
  • So at 1:00, each child opened up their document and found that their partner was editing also
  • et up a computer with Skype that we placed in a corner of the room. One group at a time sat at the Skype computers and discussed their story.
  • principal was invited in to witness this project
  • inspired enough to say we need to find grants to give us enough money to buy 1 to 1 laptops for our classroom.
  • Maybe one of the most impressive bits to all of this is that the technology held up it's end of the bargain. I hope I have permission to use this post in my pursuit of Skype. My district is currently blocking it.
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    Lisa Parisi's blog post about a collaborative writing experience. Today was the day that we skyped with our writing partners. Brian Crosby and I started a collaborative writing project based on the book The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, by Chris van Allsburg. We partnered up our students on individual stories from the book. Their assignment is to create an original story based on a picture and a title. After enlisting Christine Southard for this project, we then duplicated it for 8 other teachers. Each story is going to be written and edited in a Google doc. It will then be published in our Class Booktalk Wiki, where VoiceThreads will be available for the students to compare story versions.
Peggy George

Classroom 2.0 LIVE-Resources for 10-10-09-Weebly for Educators - 4 views

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    "Resources for Classroom 2.0 LIVE show on October 10, 2009 Special guest: Dan Veltri Topic: Weebly for Educators"
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    "Resources for Classroom 2.0 LIVE show on October 10, 2009 Special guest: Dan Veltri Topic: Weebly for Educators"
Peggy George

Classroom 2.0 LIVE-Resources for 11-14-09-Creating Widgets for Instructional ... - 5 views

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    "Resources for Classroom 2.0 LIVE show on November 14, 2009. Special Guest: Buffy Hamilton Topic: Creating Widgets for Instructional Purposes"
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    "Resources for Classroom 2.0 LIVE show on November 14, 2009. Special Guest: Buffy Hamilton Topic: Creating Widgets for Instructional Purposes"
Peggy George

Classroom 2.0 Live January 2012 - LiveBinder - 8 views

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    Livebinder created to compile all of the links for the weekly Classroom 2.0 LIVE webinars for the month of January.
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    We create a new Livebinder for each month to share the links from each of the weekly webinars. Click on the tab for each topic/presenter to see the links for that session.
Peggy George

Global Education Conference Gl.am links for 9-11-10 - 4 views

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    "Gl.am link for resources for Classroom 2.0 LIVE show on September 11, 2010. Special Guests:Steve Hargadon, Lucy Gray, Julie Lindsay Topic: Global Education Conference"
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    Lots of great links for you to learn all about the upcoming Global Education Conference, Nov. 15-19, all FREE and online. It's going to be a fantastic learning experience with something for everyone--even student voices will be part of it.
Peggy George

Classroom 2.0 LIVE-Resources for 02-27-2010-Interactive Math Activities for K... - 2 views

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    "Resources for Classroom 2.0 LIVE show on February 27, 2010. Special Guest: Colleen King" Math Playground, Math Apprentice and much more for K-8 math teachers
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    Fantastic online, interactive resources for K-8 math teachers!
Peggy George

Cooney Center Prizes for Innovation in Learning on gl·am - 2 views

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    Resources for Classroom 2.0 LIVE show on March 20, 2010 Special guest: Carly Shuler Topic: Cooney Center Prizes for Innovation in Learning
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    Resources for Classroom 2.0 LIVE show on March 20, 2010 Special guest: Carly Shuler Topic: Cooney Center Prizes for Innovation in Learning
Peggy George

Steve Hargadon: The New Teacher 2.0 Network, a Sweet Contest, and a Free Workshop - 4 views

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    "Teacher 2.0 is a community for educators to talk with each other about their personal and professional growth. While Classroom 2.0 (http://www.classroom20.com) has been extremely successful and now has over 56,000 members, the focus of Classroom 2.0 is really around the use of social technologies and the Web in the classroom, and would not necessarily be the right place to talk about reigniting career interests and passions. It seems to me that a more focused community could help provide value for talking about how the Internet, Web 2.0, and social media are providing personal and professional opportunities--and that I can bring in guest speakers for webinars on these topics."
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    An awesome group created by Steve Hargadon and just getting started as a place for all of us to really focus on our own personal/professional growth as educators. Get singed up (free) and start contributing.
Peggy George

Science NetLinks: Resources for Teaching Science - 4 views

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    Providing a wealth of resources for K-12 science educators, Science NetLinks is your guide to meaningful standards-based Internet experiences for students
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    Great science resources for K-12.
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    I am impressed with the quality of lessons, so much provided to help the teacher use the resource in their classroom.
Peggy George

Tools for Building Your PLN - LiveBinder-Tim Wilhelmus - 9 views

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    Excellent Livebinder with resources for rationale for building a PLN, tools and ways to find other educators to connect with.
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    Great Livebinder with resources for building PLNs-created by Tim Wilhelmus.
Peggy George

classroom20live02282009 - ShareTabs - Steve Hargadon/Rick Ruden - 0 views

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    Sharetabs for Classroom 2.0 LIVE, February 28, 2009, Steve Hargadon and Rick Ruden introduce LearnCentral Beta site and some of the upcoming resources for educator networking and curriculum sharing using Elluminate. Steve also presented how Ning can provide a network for collaboration with other educators and students.
Peggy George

Photographic Dictionary - 8 views

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    "photographic dictionary illustrates over five thousand common words with beautiful photos, and has many more common words sorted into categories. Short, simple language definitions Familiar categories Make lists for quizzes and puzzles Learn English as a second language (ESL) Find rhymes for common words 'Stock' images by category"
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    Amazing site with photos that are mainly using Creative Commons Share Alike licensing. Fantastic resources for ESL and creative writing!
Peggy George

Moodle Mayhem gl.am links for Classroom 2.0 LIVE-7-17-10 - 4 views

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    "Resources for Classroom 2.0 LIVE show on July 17, 2010. Special Guests:Miguel Guhlin and Diana Benner Topic: Moodle Mayhem"
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    Excellent links for resources for using Moodle-includes all links shared during the show.
Peggy George

Featured Teacher: Karen McMillan/McTeach on gl·am - Link Group Service - 4 views

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    "Resources for Classroom 2.0 LIVE show on October 9, 2010. Special Guest: Karen McMillan/McTeach Topic: Featured Teacher"
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    Resources for Classroom 2.0 LIVE show on October 9, 2010. Special Guest: Karen McMillan/McTeach Topic: Featured Teacher Excellent tips and resources for student projects and web 2.0 tools for middle schoolers. Learn about Book Whisperer, paper blogs to get students started blogging, homework dropbox, portaportal, google apps, quizlet, geo teachers, only2clicks and much more!
Peggy George

Classroom 2.0 LIVE-Resources for 02-13-2010-Edmodo:Microblogging in the Class... - 5 views

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    "Resources for Classroom 2.0 LIVE show on February 13, 2010. Special Guest: Jeff O'Hara"
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    Classroom 2.0 LIVE-Resources for 02-13-2010-Edmodo:Microblogging in the Classroom. This was a great show that answered lots of questions about Edmodo! It is a fantastic tool specifically designed for educators with many special features in a secure environment--no student email addresses required.
Peggy George

Earthcast 2010 on gl·am - Classroom 2.0 LIVE links for 3-27-10 - 1 views

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    "Resources for Classroom 2.0 LIVE show on March 27, 2010 Special guests: Matt Montagne and Earthcast 2010 Team Topic: Earthcast 2010"
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    "Resources for Classroom 2.0 LIVE show on March 27, 2010 Special guests: Matt Montagne and Earthcast 2010 Team Topic: Earthcast 2010. Some great resources for Eath Day activities and curriculum materials.
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