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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

20 Hottest Hashtags for Teachers on Twitter - Best Colleges Online - 4 views

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    "As a teacher, continuing education is so important that most school districts require that teachers enroll in some form of coursework on a regular basis to keep their knowledge and skills fresh. And while those courses are essential, staying on top of the cutting edge of educational development is important as well. Through Twitter discussions, teachers can follow the latest in education, whether it's educational technology or new ways to teach math. These 20 hashtags offer teachers a convenient way to become part of chats and discussions that share the absolute latest in education news, resources, and ideas."
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    This is a great compilation of twitter hashtags for educators! My favorites are #edchat and #edapp but they are all great ways to get great information about resources and best practices in education. I also love #eduwin where educators are sharing daily posts about what they are doing to make a difference each day in teaching/learning.
LUCIAN DUMA

Do you want to be a mentor or a learner than you should join TEACHER CHALLENGE #edchat ... - 0 views

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    Teacher Challenge - Connecting teachers through free professional learning .
Peggy George

50 Things Every First Year Teacher Should Know - 2 views

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    Excellent tips for new teachers or for mentors helping new teachers.
Peggy George

Message To My Teacher Friends At The Start of a New School Year. by Mark Nais... - 4 views

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    Great "start of school year" blog post by Mark Naison to help teachers understand and appreciate how important they are.
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    Great inspiring, uplifting message to share with teachers at the start of the new school year.
Dorothy Hastings

Making the Most of Conference Time with Your Kids' Teacher - 0 views

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    There are some things you can do to help make this important meeting a success. Learn how you can make the most of conference time with your kids' teacher. Read First School's latest blog to know more.
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!
LUCIAN DUMA

Teachers you should vote for favorite #edtech20 #edtools in Learning Tools Directory 20... - 6 views

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    Teachers you should vote for favorite #edtech20 #edtools in Learning Tools Directory 2011 make by @C4LPT . I recommand @GlogsterEdu and @SymbalooEdu
LUCIAN DUMA

BLOGGING USING WEB 2.0 AND SOCIAL MEDIA IN XXI CENTURY EDUCATION: Happy #EuropeDay 2011... - 1 views

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     Happy #EuropeDay 2011 teachers around the European Union 
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.
Kerry Adams

23 Excellent Professional Development Tools for Teachers ~ Educational Technology and M... - 0 views

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    Platforms where teachers can connect..
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
  • 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.
  • third Skype call was with my Teachers Are Talking
  • 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.
LUCIAN DUMA

Google Plus, Chrome Apps and Tools gateway to knowledge in #education20: #googleplus is... - 3 views

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    If you want a google plus invitation just leave a comment with your email and I will invite you to try this new semantic web tool and also I will invite you to join #edtech20 teachers circle to collaborate  with 150 teachers worldwide
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    Hi Lucian, I'd be interested in trying google plus. I'm currently taking time away from teaching to raise my kids but plan on being back in education in a few years. my email is edgarcanty@gmail.com Cheers!
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    Hi Lucian - ditto - love to receive an invite to Google+ . I can be reached at pdryden@buffaloseminary.org
LUCIAN DUMA

MY RESEARCH AND TOP 10 WEB 2.0 TOOLS IN XXI CENTURY EDUCATION with http://xeeme.com/Luc... - 3 views

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    Top 10 Big #eLearning eNews for #backtoschool 2012 : GlogsterEDU , EdFuture, CLASS2GO , Stanford University, Google Course Builder , GTA , Google Teachers Accademy, Wiziq Academic , TedEd , TreeHouse, Dell , Dell Social Inovation , StudyHall .Follow https://twitter.com/web20education
Anthony Gagliano

Google Earth Across the Curriculum - 0 views

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    Provides teachers with some ideas for using "Google Earth" in the classroom.
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    Provides teachers with some ideas for using "Google Earth" in the classroom.
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

Glogster Education List on Diigo created by Jim Dachos - 4 views

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    Excellent compilation by Jim Dachos of Glogster EDU resources with examples of Glogs created by teachers and students
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    Excellent Glogster resources and examples of student and teacher Glogs to supplement the presentation Jim did for Classroom 2.0 LIVE!
Peggy George

50 Best Blogs for Education Leaders | Online Universities - 1 views

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    "Whether you want to be a teacher, principal or even an educational policy-maker, learning all you can about the field and how to be a more powerful leader while you're still in college is essential. These blogs will fill you in on the latest news, provide inspiration, and ensure that you are up-to-date with the latest educational technologies so you can be the best education leader you can be."
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    Excellent compilation of great blogs for teachers and administrators! Check them out and subscribe to blogs you like with the RSS feedreader.
Glenn Hervieux

Blended Learning - Denver Public Schools - 5 views

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    Innovative use of blended learning, using a  rotating centers approach: Teacher instruction, Group work, Technology group. They are able to do more differentiated instruction within this model and looks like they're using some digital curriculum or an LMS. 
LUCIAN DUMA

Blog post Top 10 startup tools to make a killer presentation . If you enjoy reading lea... - 4 views

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    If you are a teacher or/ and a social media curator you will like to be a presenter and love this apps . If you enjoy reading leave your comments . 
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