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smcpsrmoore

How I Help All My Students to Be Good at Math - The Atlantic - 1 views

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      Students need to know that everyone can do math. There are not "math people" or "non-math people."
  • I tell all students alike that math requires perseverance and a willingness to take risks and make mistakes
  • Math requires effort, patience and time
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  • You have to believe that eventually, you will be able to understand. You have to sort through what you understand and what you don’t. You have to then formulate a good question and be courageous enough to ask the teacher to answer the question in front of a classroom, admitting that you don’t understand something in front of your peers
  •  those who think of themselves “math people” can suffer from overconfidence
  • Our educational goal should be to help all students learn as much and as deeply as they possibly can, and to instill in them a love of learning.
  • people perform poorly on difficult cognitive tasks when there are extrinsic rewards for the successful accomplishment of those tasks. 
  • Standardized testing disregards the effort students have exerted and they deemphasize the processes of math
  • Focusing on the process of math helps both low achieving and high achieving students learn true mathematical logic and not get discouraged because they can’t reach a right answer, or bored because reaching the right answer is too easy. Many students know how to get the right answers on standardized tests but don’t know how to think about math.
  •  Our job as role models is to give our students the freedom to make their own choices, including lucrative choices in fields that require math.  In my education courses, we were always told that modeling is more powerful than teaching.  Adults are modeling this self-defeatist attitude.
  • Education needs to be about personal growth and teaching students to enjoy and revel in their knowledge, not on grooming students and sorting them for a job market that may be entirely different in 10 years. If students learn confidence, flexibility and that they’re good at learning, they’ll be ready for anything.
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    Education needs to be about personal growth and teaching students to enjoy and revel in their knowledge, not on grooming students and sorting them for a job market that may be entirely different in 10 years. If students learn confidence, flexibility and that they're good at learning, they'll be ready for anything.
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    Oh my goodness. This is exactly the encouragement we need. Each shared comment could be for our class. I particularly like your idea...."Education needs to be about personal growth and teaching students to enjoy and revel in their knowledge, not on grooming students and sorting them for a job market that may be entirely different in 10 years. If students learn confidence, flexibility and that they're good at learning, they'll be ready for anything." My father use to say, "Now we are cooking with gas!"
Judi Detweiler

Growth Mindset and the Common Core Math Standards | Edutopia - 1 views

  • equal prior math achievement to determine how a fixed mindset (the belief that intellectual abilities are fixed) compared to a growth mindset (the belief that intelligence can be developed) impacted math achievement.
  • The results of the study showed that the treatment group -- the students who embraced the belief that intellectual abilities can be cultivated and developed through application and instruction -- had marked improvement in grades and study habits compared to the control group. By the end of the fall term, the math grades had jumped apart and continued to diverge over the next two years
  • Dweck’s mindset theory goes hand in hand with the Common Core's Standards for Mathematical Practice (SMPs) in conveying a growth mindset in the classroom. The key difference between fixed mindset and growth mindset teachers is in how they view struggling students. The fixed mindset teacher perceives these students as not sufficiently bright, talented or smart in the subject, whereas the growth mindset teacher sees struggling students as a challenge -- as learners who need guidance and feedback on how to improve. Growth mindset teachers see the challenge as an opportunity for students to learn when their efforts and mistakes are highly valued.
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    Growth mindset teachers supports the success of ALL students. Facilitating a risk free, growth mindset community develops students' problem solving abilities.
kgrill

Employers' Challenge to Educators: Make School Relevant to Students' Lives | MindShift - 0 views

  • The survey found that student who felt supported — that their professors cared about them as individuals, that professors made them want to learn, that they had a mentor — were three times more likely to thrive as those who did not feel supported. Only 14 percent of college graduates answered that all three of those qualities were present in their college experience.
  • Even fewer college graduates found their higher education experience to be relevant to life and work after college.
  • Feeling connected and mentored makes a difference, just as understanding how learning is relevant and applicable makes students feel prepared for life after college.
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  • “Students are the power tools of change in education,” Miller said. “They are the most ignored and they have the most at stake.”
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    Other Qualifications of Enrolled Freshmen High School Class Rank Top tenth: 17% Top quarter: 43% Top half: 76% Students are the power tools of change in education....
Carole Redline

10 Schools Encouraging Smartphones in the Classroom | Edudemic - 1 views

  • You may also like... This Is How Students Are Using Smartphones
    • Carole Redline
       
      It is so important to look for other options on any web reference. I find these really important. 
M Barmoy

Guide to Student-to-Student Teaching With Online Video | Edudemic - 0 views

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    Classmates in my PLN course have commented on how students learn better when they help each other.  This article seems to fit that idea in a fun way.
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    Thank you for this great article. What a wonderful time to share this with your PLN class. I am always intrigued that when I am thinking about a topic I find resources all around me. Thanks for sharing these excellent ideas.
Carole Redline

30 Things To Tell Students You'll Never See Again - 11 views

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    Hmm, How appropriate for when our class or your class ends. 
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    I find that I cry just about every day as I prepare to send my son to college in 8 weeks. This helped me meet my quota for today.
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    I teach the same students for many years in a row and grow to know them well. I wish I had read this a few weeks ago to share with my graduating seniors.
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    Why wait? I hear myself giving the advice, "pick your battles," almost everyday. I rephrase number 27 to , "how's that working for you now?" And number 21, is the advice I give myself.
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    I love this.
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    Great advice. And I agree with kgrill, why wait for some of it! #12. Leave things better than you found them? I hear my self saying that several times a month.
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    These thirty things are inspirational. Thank you.
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    I wish I had these earlier today when I had to say goodbye to a student heading back to public high school! I actually agree that we shouldn't wait - I am thinking of putting some of them up on a bulletin board for inspiration! Thanks for sharing, Carole!
M Barmoy

Teaching students how to learn - 1 views

  • Among the ways professors can help students structure their time and learning better is setting clear learning objectives for courses, making regular assignments and emphasizing outlines, mnemonic aids and other such learning devices.
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    Good article about how professors (even busy ones) can help teach students how to learn.
kgrill

Kuranga - Don't Personalize Learning - 0 views

  • path argument”
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      Guide on the side vs sage on the stage
  • knowledge is cumulative
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  • he pace argument”
  • Students need to be guided down the path of their learning. Teachers should remain central
  • ognitive science: our minds are not built to
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  • Effective instruction requires understanding the varying cognitive abilities of students and finding ways to impart knowledge in light of that variation. If you want to call that “personalization,” fine, but we might just also call it “good teaching.”
  • The fact that students make use of many electronic devices and are called digital natives, does not make them good users of the media that they have at their disposal.
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    Path and pace
Melissa Molitor

New Research: Students Benefit from Learning That Intelligence Is Not Fixed | MindShift - 0 views

  • Even a one-time, 30-minute online intervention can spur academic gains for many students, particularly those with poor grades.
  • Brainology
  • Mindset Work
Carole Redline

What Are You Going To Do To Inspire Students? - 3 views

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    Teaching is an art and a science. We mustn't forget about building relationships--appropriate boundaries, of course-- with students.
Carole Redline

Five Characteristics of Learner-Centered Teaching | Faculty Focus - 2 views

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    I find this article very affirming. It's hard to know when to respond to students especially when they have been taught to be teacher dependent. But I firmly believe students need more experience in collaboration and problem solving without teacher intervention. In the beginning this is very hard on both the instructor and the participants. Tell me how? Work together to figure it out? Make choices and decide which of these resources is right for you. This is NOT the way our instructors have been taught but it is time they experience it. 
Carole Redline

Essential characteristics of 21st century classrooms - DreamBox Learning - 1 views

  • Teachers are facilitators, not lecturers
  • learn by doing, acting as a resource as their pupils discover and master new concepts.
  • enhance their lessons. For schools districts that have chosen to take a
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  • actively engaged in what they are learning. There’s no need for them to sit quietly in their desks while teachers bestow knowledge upon them. Instead, students participate in more active learning as they work in groups or on the computer, and complete projects and other interesting activities that will help them discover new skills. When students are encouraged to take an active interest in their education, they are more likely to retain the knowledge they’ve gained.
  • actively engaged in what they are learning. There’s no need for them to sit quietly in their desks while teachers bestow knowledge upon them. Instead, students participate in more active learning as they work in groups or on the computer, and complete projects and other interesting activities that will help them discover new skills. When students are encouraged to take an active interest in their education, they are more likely to retain the knowledge they’ve gained.
    • Carole Redline
       
      Just a beginning overview of a company trying to sell their product. While the premise is accurate the ideas are just a jumping off point. Which one idea do you find most important
Carole Redline

44 Better Ways To Use Smartphones In The Classroom - 1 views

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      Gosh, this is truly overwhelming with so many ideas. Just reading through this makes my head swim. The challenge of the day is to find just one idea that might hold promise. I bet like potato chips you can't eat just one. 
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      Here is the most important part....I could not disagree me. 
  • I believe the potential of smartphones, supported by a strong classroom management system, can be summed up with what I call “The Five C’s.” Collaborate, communicate, create and coordinate/curate. Of the forty-four ideas below regarding smartphones, twelve can be accomplished with a simple cellphone. Take a look below at this enormous potential.
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  • I could not disagree more with the above quotation. Although there is no doubt the very same scenarios mentioned in the above article are occurring in various classrooms around the globe, I now encourage all students to bring their cellphones or smartphones to class. Just a few years prior, my colleagues and I were struggling mightily with how to integrate the crafty handheld tools.
  • The potential damage stemming from heightened cell phone use during class casts a pall on the entire educational system, on the school atmosphere, on the educational achievements of the class, on the pupil’s own learning experience and on the teacher’s burnout having to cope with discipline problems in class.’”
  • Write on-the-go during a field trip or active lesson on campus with Tripline.
  • Send students reminders in-class/after-class through ClassParrot and Remind 101.
  • Have a silent discussion via Todaysmeet.com.
  • Establish a Twitter class account to share class assignments and reminders. If students do not want a Twitter account, make it easy. Embed the Twitter feed on your teacher page.
  • Create a mini-presentation, skit, or formal response to a prompt and e-mail the video to teacher’s Posterous blog spot.
  • Use the stopwatch and timer apps to manage class time.
kgrill

who gets the most out of educational technology? - 0 views

  • With the spread of educational technology, they predicted, “the not-so-small disparities in skills for children of affluence and children of poverty are about to get even larger.”
  • Granted access to technology, affluent kids and poor kids use tech differently. They select different programs and features, engage in different types of mental activity, and come away with different kinds of knowledge and experience.
  • “Matthew Effect”:
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  • Some studies of the introduction of technology have found an overall negative effect on academic achievement—and in these cases, poor students’ performance suffers more than that of their richer peers.
  • Why would improved access to the Internet harm the academic performance of poor students in particular? Vigdor and his colleagues speculate that “this may occur because student computer use is more effectively monitored and channeled toward productive ends in more affluent homes.”
  • mproving the way that technology is employed in learning is an even bigger and more important issue. Addressing it would require a focus on people: training teachers, librarians, parents and children themselves to use computers effectively.
  • And it would require a focus on knowledge: background knowledge that is both broad and deep.
Carole Redline

Free Technology for Teachers: 10 Free Typing Practice Activities for Students - 2 views

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    Wanted this for my grandsons
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    Our students love, love ABCYa. There are lots of games in addition to typing practice. They claim they've even found a game on there that is similar to Minecraft. Dance Mat Typing makes them laugh because the narrator has a British accent ('Allo there, all you rock and rolla's!"
Carole Redline

This Is How Students Are Using Smartphones | Edudemic - 1 views

  • I’m not quite on board with that statistic but it’s thought-provoking at least. That’s why I wanted to share the visual. Click on the big image below to enlarge and explore it a bit more. Hey that rhymes!
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      Isn't this a cool program in itself. Go ahead , click on the graphic and think. I dare you. 
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    Thniking with an open mind. The only thing not positive about this site is the automatic video that starts. Can you stop it?
Carole Redline

8 Steps for Students to Remove Their Digital Footprints ~ Educational Technology and Mo... - 1 views

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    Seems like it might be wise to keep this article. Who knows when someone, anyone might need it 
Melissa Molitor

Grammar Blast: Rule - 0 views

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    Good game to have students use to practice recognition of proper grammar
kgrill

26 Tips to Help Students Become Better Learners ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Lea... - 0 views

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    Improve Learning A-Z
kcsam19

Brain breaks kids love - GoNoodle - 0 views

shared by kcsam19 on 19 Jun 14 - No Cached
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    This site is filled with fun activities that get the students (especially the younger ones) up and moving for a few minutes.  It engages both their brains and their bodies.  It's great for indoor recess too.
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