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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!"
Carole Redline

4 Tips for Flipped Learning | Edutopia - 2 views

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    Quick, important reminders. Flip teaching is just good teaching. Thee ideas are for all educators regardless whether they flip.
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.
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.
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

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. 
kgrill

Kuranga - Don't Personalize Learning - 0 views

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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
  • think
  • 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
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!
kgrill

'I've Been a Pariah for So Long' - POLITICO 50 - 1 views

  • Common Core
  • Hirsch developed with his Core Knowledge Foundation, and he is credited with laying the intellectual groundwork.
  • He showed the fundamental importance that knowledge plays to develop the foundations of literacy
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  • Education should be about teaching children to think.”
  • Children can be taught to read—to decode words—but teaching them to comprehend all but the simplest text requires a shared body of knowledge between writer and reader.
  • To level the playing field between rich and poor, schools should intentionally build background knowledge in all children in a wide range of subjects, or, says Hirsch, “It will be impossible to break the cycle of illiteracy that persists from parent to child.”
  • Educators concerned with early literacy began to wonder whether the vast word gap described by Hart and Risley and the vast knowledge gap described by Hirsch might really be the intertwined roots of the achievement gap.
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    Cultural Literacy
Carole Redline

Google Launches YouTube Kids on Android and iOS - 0 views

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    What an exceptional idea for early childhood. If you teach in this field do yourself a favor and take a look. 
Carole Redline

How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco's Life - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Thanks Paul. At times we get excited about social networking only to  be turned off by such articles. The ideas in this article are something we need to discuss with our students. If we do not teach that we should not use Twitter or any other internet posting jokes, sarcasm or anything we would stand on a stage in front of our peers and say, we are doing them a big disservice.
Carole Redline

Turn snow days into e-learning days with these 6 simple steps | eSchool News | eSchool ... - 0 views

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      Did you know that both Canvas and Blackboard have free access to creating several online classes. I am teaching in one of those free options. I teach a different class in the free Blackboard. I like these tools better than any other I have tried but I respect that others have different ideas.
  • 2. Ensure that both students and teachers have internet access at home. If not, try to work with parents and budgets to provide special tools or dispensations for disadvantaged kids. If nothing can be done, abandon the e-learning program.
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      Please also check to see which internet access comes from smart phones. You will be amazed at how many families have access to at least one smart phone that can do what a computer can do. Don't assume this is not so, ask. 
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    This is great information for teachers to keep sharing information. Donna patnode
Carole Redline

StayingCurrentwiththeNewToolsontheWeb - Home - 1 views

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    Here is an inspiring example of professional development that will succeed.
Paul Iwancio

Turn snow days into e-learning days with these 6 simple steps | eSchool News | eSchool ... - 1 views

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    I would certainly like to help this concept become reality. This winter has me worried with so many late openings.
Carole Redline

3 Min. Teaching w/Tech Tip: Using Movenote for Video Lesson Content - YouTube - 1 views

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    Mov note Tammy's presentation tool. Wanted to keep this safe for all of us. 
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