"I'm done talking ... it's time to take this training into the classroom - that's where the teaching is going on. Besides, you need to build your local capacity."
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Teacher-Led Professional Development: Eleven Reasons Why You Should be Using Classroom Walk Throughs - Copy / Paste by Peter Pappas - 108 views
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f the large group is "the lecture," the CWT is the "lab."
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Another great post by Peter Pappas
Teach Gen Now | - 101 views
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TodaysMeet is a free online tool that allows you to backchannel. What is a backchannel I hear you ask? Backchanneling is having real time online conversations alongside live presentations. A backchannel lets participants ask questions, discuss what is being presented, share links and reflect on their learning. Backchanneling could be describe as "virtual whispering or note passing" during lessons, presentation or activities. -
Scrumblr is a free online tool that allows you to create a virtual whiteboard. This whiteboard can be accessed from multiple computers and used as a collaborative space for education.
5 myths about teachers that are distracting policymakers - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post - 111 views
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Political leaders at every level are demanding we evaluate and pay teachers based on student test scores and value-added statistical formulas. If that turns out to be a bad strategy, the long-term ramifications for the nation could be staggering.
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"Now's the time to transcend the usual debates over how to make our schools better and our teachers more effective - and break free of the myths that keep us fighting 20th century battles. Instead we need to look hard at the realities, framed by research evidence as well as the challenges teachers face everyday"
MindShift | How we will learn - 84 views
Recognising the obviously incapable « newteachersblog - 52 views
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The new chief inspector for schools has indicated he intends to improve quality and standards by singling out weaker teachers - it was "pretty straightforward" to identify teachers who were "obviously incapable" he said. Is it?
I Teach English to Great Kids...A Blog: How do you organize your Google Drive? - 94 views
Revisiting Extra Credit Policies | Faculty Focus - 3 views
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ere’s how it works. The instructor attaches a blank piece of paper to the back of every exam. Students may write on that sheet any exam questions they couldn’t answer or weren’t sure they answered correctly. Students then take this piece of paper with them and look up the correct answers. They can use any resource at their disposal short of asking the instructor. At the start of the next class session, they turn in their set of corrected answers which the instructor re-attaches to their original exam. Both sets of answers are graded. If students missed the question on the exam but answered it correctly on the attached sheet, half the credit lost for the wrong answer is recovered.
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The blank paper idea is very interesting. I don't give that many exams of this type, but if I did, I'd seriously consider this strategy.
Is Common Core the Enemy of Autonomy? - Teaching for Triumph: Reflections of a 21st-Century ELL Teacher - Education Week Teacher - 35 views
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An elementary teacher in a 99% school elaborates on how the CCSS can improve the current system that we have.
Bad News : CJR - 30 views
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Students in Howard Rheingold’s journalism class at Stanford recently teamed up with NewsTrust, a nonprofit Web site that enables people to review and rate news articles for their level of quality, in a search for lousy journalism.
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the News Hunt is a way of getting young journalists to critically examine the work of professionals. For Rheingold, an influential writer and thinker about the online world and the man credited with coining the phrase “virtual community,” it’s all about teaching them “crap detection.”
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last year Rheingold wrote an important essay about the topic for the San Francisco Chronicle’s Web site
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As relevant to general education as to journalism training
Weblogg-ed » "What Did You Create Today?" - 1 views
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What did you make today that was meaningful? What did you learn about the world? Who are you working with? What surprised you? What did your teachers make with you? What did you teach others? What unanswered questions are you struggling with? How did you change the world in some small (or big) way? What’s something your teachers learned today? What did you share with the world? What do you want to know more about? What did you love about today? What made you laugh?
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In a couple of weeks, both Tess and Tucker will be starting their first day at brand new schools. They'll know no one, have all new teachers, new surroundings, and, hopefully, new opportunities. I'm not sure they're totally at peace with these changes, but as I keep telling them, it's the kind of stuff that builds character. (I keep regaling them with school switching stories of my own, the most challenging being when my mom moved us out to New Jersey from Chicago when I was beginning 6th grade and three days before school started I was wading barefoot in a creek, stepped on a broken bottle, and ended up with 10 stitches in the bottom of my foot and a pair of crutches for the first week of classes. Talk about character building.) Wendy and I have been trying to prepare them for this shift as best we can, and while I know it's a bit scary for them, I'm really hopeful the change will be good for them on a lot of different levels.
Success is a Four Letter Word - 37 views
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it turns out that the one thing present in every successful person is one consistent trait. It’s not a person’s education or lack of it, or their IQ, their upbringing, their financial abundance or lack, their test scores, their birth order or their gender. It’s one odd, rarely mentioned quality: Grit.
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But grit is more than just an attitude. It’s about the actions we take when faced with doubt and obstacles. In 2006, Drs. Angela Duckworth and Martin Seligman discovered that the correlation between self-discipline and achievement was twice as large as the correlation between IQ and achievement.
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A clear goal Determination despite others’ doubts Self-confidence about figuring things out Humility about knowing it doesn’t come easy Persistence despite fear Patience to handle the small obstacles that obscure the path A code of ethics to live by Flexibility in the face of roadblocks A capacity for human connection and collaboration A recognition that accepting help does not equate to weakness A focus and appreciation of each step in the journey An appreciation of other people’s grit A loyalty that never sacrifices connections along the way An inner strength that helped propel them to their goal
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Interesting article - I need to track down the original research!
I Teach English to Great Kids...A Blog: Plagiarism and the Google Tools to Reduce It - 128 views
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Jennifer Roberts, a veteran English teacher in San Diego, and a Google Certified teacher, shares how she approaches plagiarism with her students and uses the tools in Google Apps & Google Search to help curb intentional and unintentional plagiarism.
Share This With All the Schools, Please | Momastery - 49 views
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Begins as a slightly humorous take on how a parent doesn't get "new" math and needs to be tutored and then somewhere along the middle takes a turn that will punch you in the gut. Absolutely should be shared with educators and non-educators alike.
How To Give Your Students a Voice; Advice From Someone Who Tries | Blogging Through the Fourth Dimension - 85 views
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"I often find myself discussing "Giving students a voice" in the classroom with people who wonder what I exactly mean. Sure, giving someone a voice sounds great, but how do I know that I am doing that? What can I do to do that? What does it look like? I am not an expert but here is what it looks like to me."
Principal: What I've learned about annual standardized testing - The Washington Post - 36 views
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the Department of Education should not be “a national school board.
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Quote from Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island)
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to think that first-graders fluently reading would “cure poverty” is not only indefensible, it trivializes the great economic inequities that are the root cause of our nation’s greatest challenge.
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I have witnessed schools move from progressive practices such as inclusion, to the grouping of special education students with ELLs and other struggling learners into “double period” classes where they are drilled to pass the test.
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The Connected Educator Movement Is Failing, And We're All To Blame | - 49 views
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the reality is that we live in a bubble that feeds our own needs. It’s sometimes very hard to see outside that bubble, and it can often be viewed as successful when you can only see the fruits of your own work.
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When you have received teaching strategies, Skyped in the classroom with an author, or had someone on the other side of the world- help you in a new way, it is indescribable.
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Actually talking to people, instead of just emailing, tweeting, or blogging seems to work much better in getting any point across.
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