Skip to main content

Home/ Dream Realizations Math links/ Group items tagged challenge

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
Rebecca Patterson

Counting Challenge - 0 views

www.intmath.com/...counting-game.php

counting challenge math timed

shared by Rebecca Patterson on 06 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Rebecca Patterson on 06 Sep 13
     
    Give it a try!
Rebecca Patterson

News: A New Model Community College - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

www.insidehighered.com/...y_run_online_community_college

learning education collaboration

shared by Rebecca Patterson on 06 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • In contrast, there has been relatively little controversy over a different kind of partnership between a company and a private college: a joint effort of Tiffin University, a small private institution in northeast Ohio, and Altius Education, a for-profit company based in San Francisco.
    • Rebecca Patterson
      Rebecca Patterson on 06 Jan 11
       
      This could be DR!!
  • every Ivy Bridge student is assigned a “personal success coach” — a non-instructional employee — who helps with everything from course selection to academic support to career counseling.
  • he is cautiously optimistic about the preliminary student success figures.
  • ...5 more annotations...
  • One fear many educators have had about privatizing the community college model is that doing so might serve only wealthy, white students.
    • Rebecca Patterson
      Rebecca Patterson on 06 Jan 11
       
      And if we make it cheaper and asynchronous??
  • “Still, we wanted to ramp up our associate degree program but didn’t want to put start-up money into it. We thought we had an interesting concept and looked to partner with an investment group to get start-up funds and also get the enrollment moving along faster. We’ve always been a fairly entrepreneurial institution and have been willing to look at new options and opportunities.”
  • I wanted a partner that we would be comfortable with and for them to understand our commitment to keeping our reputation.”
  • All academic responsibilities and management, including course design and instruction, are controlled by Tiffin, which has hired additional faculty for Ivy Bridge. The “Cadillac enrollment management” of the college, as Slone calls it, is controlled by Altius.
    • Rebecca Patterson
      Rebecca Patterson on 06 Jan 11
       
      I realize that this is a different setup than one we have entertained, but I think we can extrapolate here. :-)
  • he says his biggest challenge is determining how much remediation the institution should offer its least prepared students.
  • Rebecca Patterson on 06 Jan 11
     
    Cooperation between a company and a community college. Hmm...
Rebecca Patterson

Teachers turn learning upside down | 21st Century Education | eSchoolNews.com - 0 views

www.eschoolnews.com/...hers-turn-learning-upside-down

learning pedagogy education teachers teaching

shared by Rebecca Patterson on 06 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • This new teaching and learning style, often called “flipped” or “inverted” learning, makes the students the focus of the class, not the teacher, by having students watch a lecture at home and then apply the lesson with the teacher in the classroom.
    • Rebecca Patterson
      Rebecca Patterson on 06 Jan 11
       
      Concepts still haven't changed.
  • they should be able to leave my class knowing how to question, research, and test scientific claims regardless of what they choose to do afterwards
  • At the same time, I also feel that those students who do excel in STEM fields need to have classes that push them and challenge them with real-world problems, and not just memorized facts from a textbook.”
  • Rebecca Patterson on 06 Jan 11
     
    Turning the tables: lecture at home > practice at school.
1 - 3 of 3
Showing 20▼ items per page