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Illuminations: Dynamic Paper - 75 views

shared by Susan Glassett Farrelly on 16 Nov 12 - No Cached

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The Coach in the Operating Room - The New Yorker - 37 views

www.newyorker.com/...personal-best coaching teaching professional development

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I compared my results against national data, and I began beating the averages.
- anonymous on 14 Dec 16
  
  this is one of the most important reasons for data and using the data to help guide instruction
  
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the obvious struck me as interesting: even Rafael Nadal has a coach. Nearly every élite tennis player in the world does. Professional athletes use coaches to make sure they are as good as they can be.
- anonymous on 14 Dec 16
  
  Why wouldn't we want a coach? Our supervisor or administrator often serves as an evaluator but might not have the time due to time constraints to serve as an effective and dedicated coach. Yet, a coach doesn't have to be an expert. Couldn't the coach just be a colleague with a different skill set?
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Why wouldn't we want a coach? Our supervisor or administrator often serves as an evaluator but might not have the time due to time constraints to serve as an effective and dedicated coach. Yet, a coach doesn't have to be an expert. Couldn't the coach just be a colleague with a different skill set?</div>
  
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They don’t even have to be good at the sport. The famous Olympic gymnastics coach Bela Karolyi couldn’t do a split if his life depended on it. Mainly, they observe, they judge, and they guide.
- anonymous on 14 Dec 16
  
  PROFOUND!!!
  
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always evolving
- anonymous on 14 Dec 16
  
  Please tell me what profession isn't always evolving? It something isn't evolving, it is dying! So, why doesn't everyone on the face of the earth - regardless of his/her profession or station in life - need coaching periodically to help them continue to grow and evolve?
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Please tell me what profession isn't always evolving? It something isn't evolving, it is dying! So, why doesn't everyone on the face of the earth - regardless of his/her profession or station in life - need coaching periodically to help them continue to grow and evolve?</div>
  
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We have to keep developing our capabilities and avoid falling behind.
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no matter how well prepared people are in their formative years, few can achieve and maintain their best performance on their own.
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outside ears, and eyes, are important
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For decades, research has confirmed that the big factor in determining how much students learn is not class size or the extent of standardized testing but the quality of their teachers.
- anonymous on 14 Dec 16
  
  So, instead of having students take test after test after test, why don't we just have coaches who observe and sit and discuss and offer suggestions and divide the number of tests we give students in half and do away with half? Are we concerned about student knowledge? student performance? student ability? student growth or capacity for growth? What we really need to identify is what we value!
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">So, instead of having students take test after test after test, why don't we just have coaches who observe and sit and discuss and offer suggestions and divide the number of tests we give students in half and do away with half? Are we concerned about student knowledge? student performance? student ability? student growth or capacity for growth? What we really need to identify is what we value!</div>
  
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California researchers in the early nineteen-eighties conducted a five-year study of teacher-skill development in eighty schools, and noticed something interesting. Workshops led teachers to use new skills in the classroom only ten per cent of the time. Even when a practice session with demonstrations and personal feedback was added, fewer than twenty per cent made the change. But when coaching was introduced—when a colleague watched them try the new skills in their own classroom and provided suggestions—adoption rates passed ninety per cent. A spate of small randomized trials confirmed the effect. Coached teachers were more effective, and their students did better on tests.
- anonymous on 14 Dec 16
  
  Of course they are more effective! They have a trusted individual to guide them, mentor them, help sustain them. The coach can cheer and affirm what the teacher is already doing well and offer suggestions that are desired and sought in order to improve their 'game' and become more effective.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Of course they are more effective! They have a trusted individual to guide them, mentor them, help sustain them. The coach can cheer and affirm what the teacher is already doing well and offer suggestions that are desired and sought in order to improve their 'game' and become more effective.</div>
  
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they did not necessarily have any special expertise in a content area, like math or science.
- anonymous on 14 Dec 16
  
  Knowledge of the content is one thing and expertise is yet another. Sometimes what makes us better teachers is simply strategies and techniques - not expertise in the content. Sometimes what makes us better teachers could simply be using a different tool or offering options for students to choose.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Knowledge of the content is one thing and expertise is yet another. Sometimes what makes us better teachers is simply strategies and techniques - not expertise in the content. Sometimes what makes us better teachers could simply be using a different tool or offering options for students to choose.</div>
  
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The coaches let the teachers choose the direction for coaching. They usually know better than anyone what their difficulties are.
- anonymous on 14 Dec 16
  
  The conversation with the coach and the coach listening and learning what the teacher would like to expand, improve, and grow is probably the most vital part! If the teacher doesn't have a clue, the coach could start anywhere and that might not be what the teacher adopts and owns. So, the teacher must have ownership and direction.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The conversation with the coach and the coach listening and learning what the teacher would like to expand, improve, and grow is probably the most vital part! If the teacher doesn't have a clue, the coach could start anywhere and that might not be what the teacher adopts and owns. So, the teacher must have ownership and direction.</div>
  
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teaches coaches to observe a few specifics: whether the teacher has an effective plan for instruction; how many students are engaged in the material; whether they interact respectfully; whether they engage in high-level conversations; whether they understand how they are progressing, or failing to progress.
- anonymous on 14 Dec 16
  
  This could provide specific categories to offer teachers a choice in what direction they want to go toward improving - especially important for those who want broad improvement or are clueless at where to start.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This could provide specific categories to offer teachers a choice in what direction they want to go toward improving - especially important for those who want broad improvement or are clueless at where to start.</div>
  
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must engage in “deliberate practice”—sustained, mindful efforts to develop the full range of abilities that success requires. You have to work at what you’re not good at.
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most people do not know where to start or how to proceed. Expertise, as the formula goes, requires going from unconscious incompetence to conscious incompetence to conscious competence and finally to unconscious competence.
- anonymous on 14 Dec 16
  
  Progression
  
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The coach provides the outside eyes and ears, and makes you aware of where you’re falling short.
- anonymous on 14 Dec 16
  
  The coach also makes you aware of where you are excelling!
  
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So coaches use a variety of approaches—showing what other, respected colleagues do, for instance, or reviewing videos of the subject’s performance. The most common, however, is just conversation.
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“What worked?”
- anonymous on 14 Dec 16
  
  Great way to open any coaching conversation!
  
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“How could you help her?”
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“What else did you notice?”
- anonymous on 14 Dec 16
  
  These questions are quite similar to what we ask little children when they are learning something new. How did that go? What else could you do? What could you do differently? What more is needed? What would help?
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">These questions are quite similar to what we ask little children when they are learning something new. How did that go? What else could you do? What could you do differently? What more is needed? What would help?</div>
  
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something to try.
- anonymous on 14 Dec 16
  
  Suggestions of something to try! Any colleague can offer this - so why don't we ask colleagues for ideas of something to try more often?
  
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three colleagues on a lunch break
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Good coaches, he said, speak with credibility, make a personal connection, and focus little on themselves.
- anonymous on 14 Dec 16
  
  I probably need this printed out and stuck to the monitor of my computer or tattooed on my hand!
  
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“listened more than they talked,” Knight said. “They were one hundred per cent present in the conversation.”
- anonymous on 14 Dec 16
  
  patient, engaged listening
  
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coaching has definitely changed how satisfying teaching is
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trying to get residents to think—to think like surgeons—and his questions exposed how much we had to learn.
- anonymous on 14 Dec 16
  
  Encouraging people to think - it is important to teach and encourage thinking rather than teaching them WHAT to think!
  
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a whole list of observations like this.
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one twenty-minute discussion gave me more to consider and work on than I’d had in the past five years.
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watch other colleagues operate in order to gather ideas about what I could do.
- anonymous on 14 Dec 16
  
  This is one of the greatest strategies to promote growth - ever!
  
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routine, high-quality video recordings of operations could enable us to figure out why some patients fare better than others.
- anonymous on 14 Dec 16
  
  I always hate seeing a video of me teaching but I did learn so much about myself, my teaching, and my students that I could not learn in any other way!
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I always hate seeing a video of me teaching but I did learn so much about myself, my teaching, and my students that I could not learn in any other way!</div>
  
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I know that I’m learning again.
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It’s teaching with a trendier name. Coaching aimed at improving the performance of people who are already professionals is less usual.
- anonymous on 14 Dec 16
  
  But it still works and is effective at nudging even those who are fabulous to be even better!
  
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modern society increasingly depends on ordinary people taking responsibility for doing extraordinary things
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coaching may prove essential to the success of modern society.
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We care about results in sports, and if we care half as much about results in schools and in hospitals we may reach the same conclusion.
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anonymous on 14 Dec 16

Valuable points about coaching - makes me want my own coach!

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Cool Math Games - Coolmath's Lemonade Stand Game (new and improved!) - 87 views

www.coolmath-games.com/lemonade Economics simulation interactive

shared by Kevin Kaeser on 28 Jul 11 - Cached

Fractions Smartboard Lessons, PowerPoints, and Lesson Plans - 9 views

www.squidoo.com/teaching-fractions smartboard math fractions percent games interactive powerpoints

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Fractions- Ideas for Teaching, Resources for Lesson Plans, and Activities for Unit Plan... - 3 views

www.proteacher.org/...208_Fractions.html math fractions reference lessonplans games

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raction Hunt Posted by:lismac #130700 Please Signin We walked around the school in small groups armed with cameras and looked for fractions occuring in our school. Each child had to find one scene to capture with the camera. Another group stayed in the classroom and created their fractions with classroom materials. Example- 10 pencils. 9 were yellow and one was red. Then the small groups would come to our computer and insert their picture. Each child then inserted text boxes to type in the fractions. Example- 9/10 of the pencils are yellow. 1/10 of the pencils are red. 9/10 + 1/10= 10/10 They could choose the fonts and colors and such... they used word art to add their names. They loved it! We also do one using multiplication.
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Fraction Hunt Posted by:lismac #130700 Please Signin We walked around the school in small groups armed with cameras and looked for fractions occuring in our school. Each child had to find one scene to capture with the camera. Another group stayed in the classroom and created their fractions with classroom materials. Example- 10 pencils. 9 were yellow and one was red. Then the small groups would come to our computer and insert their picture. Each child then inserted text boxes to type in the fractions. Example- 9/10 of the pencils are yellow. 1/10 of the pencils are red. 9/10 + 1/10= 10/10 They could choose the fonts and colors and such... they used word art to add their names. They loved it! We also do one using multiplication.
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One activity that went over pretty well with my class was putting fractions in order. After completing a lesson on comparing fractions, each student was given a fraction on a 3x5 card and asked to tape it to their chest. Then they were instructed to line up in order from greatest to least. After they had completed the task, after much deliberation, I informed them of the correct order. They did pretty well considering there were fifteen students.
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Another thing I did was draw fractions number lines (about seven inches long) on a piece of paper, one under another with enough space between lines so my students could label the points. The first line was not divided. The points were labeled 0 and 1. The second line was divided into halves. The students labeled the points on the line 0/2, 1/2, and 2/2. The third line was divided into thirds. The students labeled the points 0/3, 1/3, 2/3, 3/3. You probably get the idea. The remaining lines were divided into fourths, fifths, sixths, eighths, tenths, and twelfths, and the points were labeled. (It is very...
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I created an interactive fraction number line from 0 to 2 on my wall. I have about 40 fraction cards with different fractions and I have students take turns putting the cards on the number line. They get the chance to see that some of the fractions are equivelent to others.
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Well, you are not alone. Fractions lessons sometimes need repeating over and over until they understand the CONCEPTS. Try giving them a mnemonic device to help them remember what to do. My kids decided to use GCF as Greatest Calories n Fat so that's why you REDUCE!! This just helped them to know when to use the GCF but it still needs lots of practice. Also, do a lot of hands-on activities that show equivalency in fractions. Make fraction strips using construction paper, and the kids can show all the equivalent fractions by matching up the strips. Or try the pizza fraction pieces that you can buy. I believe that it just takes lots of fun practice as well as drills on the procedures. Take your time and don't rush through it or you'll be sorry to see that they won't remember any of it by Christmas!!
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Make up index cards before hand. Group them in 3's (.25 on one card, 1/4 on another, 25% on the third) make up however many sets of three you need to give a card to each of the students in your class. Once the cards have been shuffled, pass one to each student. Have them find their 'family' WITHOUT MAKING A SOUND. When .20, 1/5 and 20% find each other they have to put their cards on a large number line in the front of the class. It's a great way to get them all involved, and gets them up and around the classroom.
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I also have my student play Fraction Tic Tac Toe, on a 4 x 4 grid filled with halves, fourths, and eighths. They have to make a whole with 3 fractions in a row. They love it!!! I'm not sure where the gamesheet come from, but I am sure you can make your own.
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