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Free PD Resources for Teachers: Teacher Professional Development Sourcebook Directory - 78 views

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shared by Beth Panitz on 18 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Beth Panitz on 18 Jan 11
     
    Teacher Professional Development Directory can help you identify accredited programs, supplemental materials, software, workshops, and more.
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eClassroom - 62 views

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 04 Feb 11
     
    Significant disruptions are occurring throughout the State of Queensland due to natural disasters. This website provides schools, teachers and parents with the capability to support student learning activities during possible school closures or where students or teachers are unable to physically attend school.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 04 Feb 11
     
    Other educators might be intersted in these strategies being adopted by Queensland Australian shools to keep students engaged with learning, despite school closures due to recent natural disasters.
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Blog U.: Barefoot Teaching - University of Venus - Inside Higher Ed - 18 views

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  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 07 Feb 11
     
    "it's women who worry most about maintaining "authority," which simply reinforces "patriarchal" teaching methods and squelches critical thinking among students. I know that as a rookie teacher early in my graduate career, I was terrified of losing any control because it would reveal my inexperience. I think that is a fairly common phenomenon for any young teacher (take a look at how harshly grad TAs tend to grade, for example), not just women."
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Grading New York Teachers - When the Formulas Lie - NYTimes.com - 48 views

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  • Amy Roediger on 07 Mar 11
     
    NYT article about the dangers of using a mathematical model to evaluate teachers.
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Gary Stager: First We Kill the Teacher Unions! - 117 views

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 24 Feb 11 - Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 24 Feb 11
     
    If the educational neocons succeed and break the backs of teacher unions, what do they think would happen? What would magically occur the next day? How are schools expected to improve? I demand that these Democratic tough guys and gals tell me what they will do next.
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A Vision of K-12 Students Today (Classic EdTech video) - 61 views

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shared by Greta Oppe on 27 Mar 11 - Cached
  • Greta Oppe on 27 Mar 11
     
    This project was created to inspire teachers to use technology in engaging ways to help students develop higher level thinking skills. Equally important, it serves to motivate district level leaders to provide teachers with the tools and training to do so. Nesbitt, B. J. (2007). A vision of K-12 students today. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-ZVCjfWf8
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I'm a Teacher and After Tuesday, I Could Be Fired - 135 views

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shared by Lena Darnay on 15 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Lena Darnay on 15 Mar 11
     
    This is an interesting perspective blog post from Huffington Post sharing the view of education reform from a High School English teacher in California.
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U.S. Urged to Raise Teachers' Status - NYTimes.com - 77 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 16 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • “Teaching in the U.S. is unfortunately no longer a high-status occupation,”
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 16 Mar 11
       
      Was it ever?
  • “Despite the characterization of some that teaching is an easy job, with short hours and summers off, the fact is that successful, dedicated teachers in the U.S. work long hours for little pay and, in many cases, insufficient support from their leadership.”
  • In South Korea, teachers are known as ‘nation builders,’ and I think it’s time we treated our teachers with the same level of respect,” Mr. Obama said in a speech on education on Monday.
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  • “Make a concerted effort to raise the status of the teaching profession”
  • University teaching programs in the high-scoring countries admit only the best students, and “teaching education programs in the U.S. must become more selective and more rigorous,”
  • Bob Calder on 17 Mar 11
     
    ROK banned "beating" in schools about a month ago. So things are indeed different. We can compare pedagogy, but can we compare culture and outcomes that are embedded in culture? When children leave the classroom to take the TIMMS or PISA test, the rest of the class stands to applaud. When I explained this to my students, they were dumbfounded that Korean kids did anything that wasn't directly connected to personal advantage.
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The Best on the Web for Teachers - 205 views

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  • nycliteracy on 24 May 11
     
    The best sites on the web for teachers
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Lewisville's texting-in-class program gets thumbs-up from teachers, students | Dallas-F... - 57 views

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 02 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • After they finished answering the question about the Kashmir conflict via their smartphones and other devices, Harris’ students said the technology allows them to share more information and exchange ideas with each other.
  • being able to use technology you’ve grown up with just feels natural. “It fits in with what we’re doing at home,”
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 02 Jun 11
     
    While the Lewisville school district still restricts regular cellphone use in the classroom, the policy is being loosened to allow the program to be used by the school's teachers when they feel that technology would enhance learning.
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The Costs of Overemphasizing Achievement - 83 views

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shared by Benjamin Light on 13 May 11 - Cached
  • First, students tend to lose interest in whatever they’re learning. As motivation to get good grades goes up, motivation to explore ideas tends to go down. Second, students try to avoid challenging tasks whenever possible. More difficult assignments, after all, would be seen as an impediment to getting a top grade. Finally, the quality of students’ thinking is less impressive. One study after another shows that creativity and even long-term recall of facts are adversely affected by the use of traditional grades.
    • Deb White Groebner
      Deb White Groebner on 13 May 11
       
      SO true!
    • Terie Engelbrecht
      Terie Engelbrecht on 27 Jun 11
       
      Very true; especially the "avoiding challenging tasks" part.
  • Unhappily, assessment is sometimes driven by entirely different objectives--for example, to motivate students (with grades used as carrots and sticks to coerce them into working harder) or to sort students (the point being not to help everyone learn but to figure out who is better than whom)
  • Standardized tests often have the additional disadvantages of being (a) produced and scored far away from the classroom, (b) multiple choice in design (so students can’t generate answers or explain their thinking), (c) timed (so speed matters more than thoughtfulness) and (d) administered on a one-shot, high-anxiety basis.
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  • The test designers will probably toss out an item that most students manage to answer correctly.
  • the evidence suggests that five disturbing consequences are likely to accompany an obsession with standards and achievement:
  • 1. Students come to regard learning as a chore.
  • intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation tend to be inversely related: The more people are rewarded for doing something, the more they tend to lose interest in whatever they had to do to get the reward.
  • 2. Students try to avoid challenging tasks.
  • they’re just being rational. They have adapted to an environment where results, not intellectual exploration, are what count. When school systems use traditional grading systems--or, worse, when they add honor rolls and other incentives to enhance the significance of grades--they are unwittingly discouraging students from stretching themselves to see what they’re capable of doing.
  • 3. Students tend to think less deeply.
  • 4. Students may fall apart when they fail.
  • 5. Students value ability more than effort
    • Deb White Groebner
      Deb White Groebner on 13 May 11
       
      This is the reinforcement of a "fixed mindset" (vs. (growth mindset) as described by Carol Dweck.
  • They seem to be fine as long as they are succeeding, but as soon as they hit a bump they may regard themselves as failures and act as though they’re helpless to do anything about it.
  • When the point isn’t to figure things out but to prove how good you are, it’s often hard to cope with being less than good.
  • It may be the systemic demand for high achievement that led him to become debilitated when he failed, even if the failure is only relative.
  • But even when better forms of assessment are used, perceptive observers realize that a student’s score is less important than why she thinks she got that score.
  • just smart
  • luck:
  • tried hard
  • task difficulty
  • It bodes well for the future
  • the punch line: When students are led to focus on how well they are performing in school, they tend to explain their performance not by how hard they tried but by how smart they are.
  • In their study of academically advanced students, for example, the more that teachers emphasized getting good grades, avoiding mistakes and keeping up with everyone else, the more the students tended to attribute poor performance to factors they thought were outside their control, such as a lack of ability.
  • When students are made to think constantly about how well they are doing, they are apt to explain the outcome in terms of who they are rather than how hard they tried.
  • And if children are encouraged to think of themselves as "smart" when they succeed, doing poorly on a subsequent task will bring down their achievement even though it doesn’t have that effect on other kids.
  • The upshot of all this is that beliefs about intelligence and about the causes of one’s own success and failure matter a lot. They often make more of a difference than how confident students are or what they’re truly capable of doing or how they did on last week’s exam. If, like the cheerleaders for tougher standards, we look only at the bottom line, only at the test scores and grades, we’ll end up overlooking the ways that students make sense of those results.
  • the problem with tests is not limited to their content.
  • if too big a deal is made about how students did, thus leading them (and their teachers) to think less about learning and more about test outcomes.
  • As Martin Maehr and Carol Midgley at the University of Michigan have concluded, "An overemphasis on assessment can actually undermine the pursuit of excellence."
  • Only now and then does it make sense for the teacher to help them attend to how successful they’ve been and how they can improve. On those occasions, the assessment can and should be done without the use of traditional grades and standardized tests. But most of the time, students should be immersed in learning.
  • the findings of the Colorado experiment make perfect sense: The more teachers are thinking about test results and "raising the bar," the less well the students actually perform--to say nothing of how their enthusiasm for learning is apt to wane.
  • The underlying problem concerns a fundamental distinction that has been at the center of some work in educational psychology for a couple of decades now. It is the difference between focusing on how well you’re doing something and focusing on what you’re doing.
  • The two orientations aren’t mutually exclusive, of course, but in practice they feel different and lead to different behaviors.
  • But when we get carried away with results, we wind up, paradoxically, with results that are less than ideal.
  • Unfortunately, common sense is in short supply today because assessment has come to dominate the whole educational process. Worse, the purposes and design of the most common forms of assessment--both within classrooms and across schools--often lead to disastrous consequences.
  • grades, which by their very nature undermine learning. The proper occasion for outrage is not that too many students are getting A’s, but that too many students have been led to believe that getting A’s is the point of going to school.
  • research indicates that the use of traditional letter or number grades is reliably associated with three consequences.
  • Iowa and Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills,
    • Benjamin Light
      Benjamin Light on 19 Nov 12
       
      I wonder how the MAP test is set?
  • Rob Reynolds on 14 May 11
     
    The message of Daniel Pinks book "Drive" applies here. Paying someone more, i.e. good grades, does not make them better thinkers, problems solvers, or general more motivated in what they are doing. thanks for sharing.
  • Terie Engelbrecht on 27 Jun 11
     
    Excellent summary!
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TES Connect - Teaching Jobs, Teaching Resources & Community - 60 views

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 09 Jun 11 - Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 09 Jun 11
     
    "TES Connect is a social network that allows teachers to network, share resources and search for jobs. It is the world's largest social network for a single profession and allows teachers to connect with other professionals to find and share their best classroom resources and advice."
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Extraordinary teachers can't overcome poor classroom situations - latimes.com - 7 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 31 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Still, it's become a popular fantasy that all you need is a superstar teacher, and that he or she will be just as effective even as budget cuts force us to pack more kids into each classroom.
  • we can't demand that teachers be excellent in conditions that preclude excellence.
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National Council of Teachers of English - 35 views

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shared by Carol Mortensen on 06 Aug 11 - Cached
  • Carol Mortensen on 06 Aug 11
     
    The National Council of Teachers of English is devoted to improving the teaching and learning of English and the language arts at all levels of education. This mission statement was adopted in 1990: "The Council promotes the development of literacy, the use of language to construct personal and public worlds and to achieve full participation in society, through the learning and teaching of English and the related arts and sciences of language."
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Education | Diigo - 4 views

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Teachers Have It Good « Cooperative Catalyst - 67 views

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  • A Gardner on 01 Aug 11
     
    "Teachers Have it Good"
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Fair Use and Copyright for Teachers - 8 views

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  • Ronelle Wanner on 26 Sep 11
     
    Copyright Law, Fair Use for Teachers, Challenges for Educators, Questions and Restrictions, Helpful Chart, References. 
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Teachers Teaching Teachers, on Twitter: Q. and A. on 'Edchats' - NYTimes.com - 7 views

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    Interview with Twitter rock stars.
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