1st Grade Math Activities - 7 views
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Free Stuff for Teachers! / Footloose and Fancy Free - 0 views
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What’s Web 2.0? Who cares!? You don’t need to know what that means to use all of the incredible FREE Web 2.0 tools available. Come learn about FREE tools for educators that can enhance your teaching as well as your professional productivity. Most importantly, plan to have fun! (Appropriate for all grade levels.)
Online Summer Math Programs - proven to reverse summer learning loss - 2 views
Research shows that most students lose more than 2 months of math skills over the summer. TenMarks summer math programs for grades 3-high school are a great way to reverse the summer learning loss...
As Classrooms Go Digital, Textbooks May Become History - NYTimes.com - 4 views
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“In five years, I think the majority of students will be using digital textbooks,” said William M. Habermehl, superintendent of the 500,000-student Orange County schools. “They can be better than traditional textbooks.”
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What sort of strain would something like this put on many school district's limited bandwidth and IT resources? Just this fall, our online 5th grade math program has encountered numerous problems. When more than just 4 or 5 teachers are using the online text with students, it bogs down the entire network, and brings learning to a crawl. Eliminating traditional paper-based and paid textbooks will not save any money, but rather shift the funds into IT invetment in order to deliver increasingly larger videos, media, and other open-content resources.
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Tip 81 - Google Docs Self Check Quizzes - 14 views
The Test Generation - 11 views
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"The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor.
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In 2005, for example, Alabama reported that 83 percent of its fourth-graders were proficient in reading, even though the NAEP found that only 22 percent of these children were proficient readers. The harsh punishments associated with NCLB had encouraged Alabama and most other states to dumb down their tests and then teach directly to them.
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The letter is a thinly veiled attack on teachers' unions and the job security for which they fight. Mike Stahl, former executive director of the Pikes Peak Education Association, says union membership in Harrison has decreased by half under Miles' leadership, and that teacher turnover, at about 25 percent from year to year, "is the highest in the state among like-sized or larger districts." According to Stahl, Miles "is very anti-union and very prone to retaliation for speaking in opposition to district or superintendent plans. ... There was no collaboration with staff or union in the development of this plan. As a result, district teacher morale is extremely low."
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