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Martin Burrett

Journey to the Centre of the Earth - 23 views

ukedchat.com/...ney-to-the-centre-of-the-earth

geology geography science

shared by Martin Burrett on 02 Mar 18 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 02 Mar 18
     
    "Journey to the centre of the Earth and view the amazing facts about what can be found beneath our feet with this BBC microsite."
pauljola

The Anthropocene epoch: scientists declare dawn of human-influenced age | Science | The Guardian - 13 views

www.theguardian.com/...al-congress-human-impact-earth

Anthropocene Guardian history

shared by pauljola on 10 Jul 17 - No Cached
  • pauljola on 10 Jul 17
     
    Guardian article on Anthropocene
anonymous

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

www.newyorker.com/...personal-best

coaching teaching professional development

shared by anonymous on 14 Dec 16 - No Cached
Xiaojing Kou liked it
  • I compared my results against national data, and I began beating the averages.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 14 Dec 16
       
      this is one of the most important reasons for data and using the data to help guide instruction
  • 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
      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?
  • 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
      anonymous on 14 Dec 16
       
      PROFOUND!!!
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  • always evolving
    • anonymous
      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?
  • We have to keep developing our capabilities and avoid falling behind.
  • no matter how well prepared people are in their formative years, few can achieve and maintain their best performance on their own.
  • outside ears, and eyes, are important
  • 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
      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!
  • 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
      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.
  • they did not necessarily have any special expertise in a content area, like math or science.
    • anonymous
      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.
  • The coaches let the teachers choose the direction for coaching. They usually know better than anyone what their difficulties are.
    • anonymous
      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.
  • 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
      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.
  • 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.
  • 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
      anonymous on 14 Dec 16
       
      Progression
  • The coach provides the outside eyes and ears, and makes you aware of where you’re falling short.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 14 Dec 16
       
      The coach also makes you aware of where you are excelling!
  • 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.
  • “What worked?”
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 14 Dec 16
       
      Great way to open any coaching conversation!
  • “How could you help her?”
  • “What else did you notice?”
    • anonymous
      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?
  • something to try.
    • anonymous
      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?
  • three colleagues on a lunch break
  • Good coaches, he said, speak with credibility, make a personal connection, and focus little on themselves.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 14 Dec 16
       
      I probably need this printed out and stuck to the monitor of my computer or tattooed on my hand!
  • “listened more than they talked,” Knight said. “They were one hundred per cent present in the conversation.”
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 14 Dec 16
       
      patient, engaged listening
  • coaching has definitely changed how satisfying teaching is
  • trying to get residents to think—to think like surgeons—and his questions exposed how much we had to learn.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 14 Dec 16
       
      Encouraging people to think - it is important to teach and encourage thinking rather than teaching them WHAT to think!
  • a whole list of observations like this.
  • one twenty-minute discussion gave me more to consider and work on than I’d had in the past five years.
  • watch other colleagues operate in order to gather ideas about what I could do.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 14 Dec 16
       
      This is one of the greatest strategies to promote growth - ever!
  • routine, high-quality video recordings of operations could enable us to figure out why some patients fare better than others.
    • anonymous
      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!
  • I know that I’m learning again.
  • It’s teaching with a trendier name. Coaching aimed at improving the performance of people who are already professionals is less usual.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 14 Dec 16
       
      But it still works and is effective at nudging even those who are fabulous to be even better!
  • modern society increasingly depends on ordinary people taking responsibility for doing extraordinary things
  • coaching may prove essential to the success of modern society.
  • 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.
  • anonymous on 14 Dec 16
     
    Valuable points about coaching - makes me want my own coach!
Glenn Hervieux

Ecosystem Explorer | EARTH A New Wild | Science | Interactive | PBS LearningMedia - 46 views

mpbn.pbslearningmedia.org/...stem-explorer-earth-a-new-wild

ecosystems biology simulations science

shared by Glenn Hervieux on 13 Jun 15 - No Cached
  • Glenn Hervieux on 13 Jun 15
     
    "Inspired by content from the upcoming PBS series EARTH A New Wild, the Ecosystem Explorer is a collection of videos, games, and infographics designed to take students deep into the ecosystems of three thrilling animals: vultures, wolves, and sharks. Use the related videos highlighted below to introduce each ecosystem and discover that the relationship between animals and humans is often much more complicated than we realize. Then, encourage students to play through the interactive and discover more exciting science about the ecology and conservation of these three worlds."
anorred79

Exploring Planets in the Classroom: Hands-on science activities - 46 views

www.spacegrant.hawaii.edu/class_acts

science planets solar system education labs

shared by anorred79 on 06 Oct 14 - No Cached
    • anorred79
      anorred79 on 06 Oct 14
       
      Plantary properties has a great lesson for your weight and age on other planets.
  • More than 25 hands-on science activities are provided in classroom-ready pages for both teachers and students for exploring Earth, the planets, geology, and space sciences.
  • anorred79 on 06 Oct 14
     
    Great space activities for 6th grade science
Janet Bailey

Earth Science - Activities/Labs - 21 views

www.eram.k12.ny.us/...default.php

Earth Science

shared by Janet Bailey on 14 Sep 14 - Cached
  • Janet Bailey on 14 Sep 14
     
    The most outstanding collection of teaching materials I have ever seen.
Janet Bailey

Earth Science Regents Resources - 7 views

newyorkscienceteacher.com/...index.php

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    • Janet Bailey
      Janet Bailey on 14 Sep 14
       
      Links to many useful resources here.
Jac Londe

The Feynman Lectures on Physics - 27 views

www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu

physics Feynman lectures science

shared by Jac Londe on 08 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Jac Londe on 08 Sep 14
     
    One of the most intelligent man on earth.
Judy Robison

Thematic Mapping Engine - thematicmapping.org - 64 views

thematicmapping.org/engine

socialStudies science math

shared by Judy Robison on 27 May 14 - No Cached
  • Judy Robison on 27 May 14
     
    Thematic Mapping Engine provides users with a very simple way to create Google Earth kmz files. Thematic Mapping draws on data provided by the United Nations to create maps depicting all types of development data and environmental science data. Users select a statistical indicator category, select a year or range of years, and the manner in which they would like the data displayed in Google Earth.
Thieme Hennis

About - Institute of Making - 28 views

www.instituteofmaking.org.uk/about

institute making maker movement science materials diy education

shared by Thieme Hennis on 14 May 14 - No Cached
  • Thieme Hennis on 14 May 14
     
    The Institute of Making is a multidisciplinary research club for those interested in the made world: from makers of molecules to makers of buildings, synthetic skin to spacecraft, soup to diamonds, socks to cities. Annual membership of the institute is available to all UCL staff and students. Our programme of symposia, masterclasses and public events explores the links between academic research and hands-on experience, and celebrates the sheer joy of stuff. Its mission is to provide all makers with a creative home in which to innovate, contemplate and understand all aspects of materials and an inspiring place to explore their relationship to making. At the heart of the Institute of Making is the Materials Library - a growing repository of some of the most extraordinary materials on earth, gathered together for their ability to fire the imagination and advance conceptualisation. A place in which makers from all disciplines can see, touch, research and discuss, so that they can apply the knowledge and experience gained to their own practice. Alongside the collection is the MakeSpace - a workshop where members and guests can make, break, design and combine both advanced and traditional tools, techniques and materials."
Roland Gesthuizen

Conspiracy debunked: Atlanta snow doesn't melt. - 16 views

www.slate.com/...atlanta_snow_doesn_t_melt.html

conspiracy Slate snow science scienceteaching scientificmethod

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 03 Feb 14
     
    "Here at BA Central I see a lot of truly ridiculous conspiracy theories. Over the years there's been the Moon Hoax, various asteroids NASA was covering up that would hit the Earth (or wipe us out somehow via electricity), and of course the end of the Earth over and over and over again. Yet happily, we're still here. Yet sadly, so are these silly theories."
K Couch

Abundance of Elements | visualizing.org - 78 views

www.visualizing.org/...abundance-elements

abundance elements science

shared by K Couch on 20 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • K Couch on 20 Nov 13
     
    abundance of elements visualization- compare abundance of minerals in the universe compared to Earth, atmosphere, in a human, the ocean, etc. 
Martin Burrett

SciShow - YouTube - 108 views

www.youtube.com/scishow

science physics biology chemistry

shared by Martin Burrett on 05 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 05 Oct 13
     
    This is a fabulous and fascinating YouTube channel where all sorts of science ideas are explored and explained in a friendly and engaging way. The topics range from near Earth Asteroid to dung beetles. The videos often cover science stories that are currently in the news. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
Deborah Baillesderr

PhET: Free online physics, chemistry, biology, earth science and math simulations - 7 views

phet.colorado.edu

science simulations interactive chemistry biology phet flipped classroom

shared by Deborah Baillesderr on 20 Apr 11 - Cached
  • David Garcia on 20 Apr 11
     
    a huge set of online simulations for science classes
  • Marc Patton on 16 Nov 12
     
    Fun, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena from the PhET™ project at the University of Colorado.
Trevor Cunningham

KML Archive - 37 views

www.snap.uaf.edu/...KMLarchive

kml googleearth

shared by Trevor Cunningham on 11 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Trevor Cunningham on 11 Mar 13
     
    KML resources relevant to a number of earth sciences.
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