The growing enthusiasm over value-added assessment, however, belies what is actually a damaging policy for public education. Value-added assessment promises, rather, to dismantle teachers' unions, deintellectualize teachers' jobs, to refashion schools according to corporate-profit-making initiatives and to burn out experienced teachers at ever faster rates. What its proponents fail to realize is that value added contributes to the destruction of public education by 1) participating in a broader corporate reform scheme of privatization and 2) objectifying knowledge, or turning knowledge into "things," that is, units that can be measured, compared and transmitted at the expense of genuine learning.
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http://webtoolsinaction.pbworks.com/ - 9 views
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"Web Tools in Action" A wicki where you can post how and why you use a web tool in your classroom. More about implementation than about the tool itself.
t r u t h o u t | "Value-Added" Assessment: Tool for Improvement or Educational "Nuclear Option"? - 4 views
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Amen!
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There are two basically different ideas of educational value at play in this debate. For proponents of value-added assessment, standardized tests contain certain, verifiable and numerically quantifiable knowledge. The tests are mistakenly thought to be objective.
Gates and Hewlett Foundations Focus on Online Learning - NYTimes.com - 3 views
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To date, education research shows that good teachers matter a lot, class size may be less important than once thought and nothing improves student performance as much as one-on-one human tutoring.
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The potential benefits of technology are greater as students become older, more independent learners. Making that point, Mr. Gates said in an interview that for children from kindergarten to about fifth grade “the idea that you stick them in front of a computer is ludicrous.”
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Bill Gates says some surprising things about need for tech in schools!
Open Culture - 12 views
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All sorts of free stuff here! Free podcats, foreign language lessons, etc.
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All sorts of free stuff here! Free podcats, foreign language lessons, etc. I haven't sifted through everything, but I found it through a tweet by @todbaker - there might be some good lesson ideas or resources in here.
Creative Writing prompts - 16 views
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As stated in the title! 347 of them!
To Kill A Mockingbird - 10 views
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Excellent idea for next year's 50 yr anniversary
Teacher Magazine: Giving Classrooms a Purpose - 11 views
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“Never do for someone what they can do for themselves. Never.”
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This is something every teacher, myself included, should keep in mind when students struggle. Help them, but only enough so they can finish the race on their own. Zone of proximal development.
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On our overhead, I enter the choices in side-by-side columns and give examples of the difference between the two.
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I love this idea! Making our teaching processes and decisions transparent to students gives them more ownership in the classroom.
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I really enjoyed this post by Larry Ferlazzo (thanks to Meredith Stewart's retweet). Got me thinking about the sort of classroom culture I'd like to help create with my students.
Lesson Ideas: Sentence Starters for Writing About Relationships - NYTimes.com - 16 views
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Six Traits - It's about YOUR time - 21 views
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Lesson ideas for each trait - geared to middle and high school
The Potter Games - 12 views
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This is an interactive website based on the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books/games. The characters of Harry Potter have been thrown into The Hunger Games (as tributes or mentors) by Lord Voldemort. The player chooses one of the characters and must read each passage, then makes a decision for that character, which could result in becoming the Victor...or "Reenervate" to try again. If you have students who like Harry Potter or The Hunger Games, they will have fun on this website. New characters are unlocked daily & we plan on writing more stories - one with the characters rebelling against Lord Voldemort and breaking out of the arena. It is great practice for reading skills - some characters have longer passages, some shorter. Some have up to 144 different scenarios (that's 144 pages of text). The least amount of reading for a player is 19 pages. So think about your low readers - that may be more than they read in a week by just playing one character. The writers who have/are contributing to this non-profit project include teachers, high school students, college students, professional writers, graphic artists, musicians, librarians, and so many more. We're all fans of both series, of course. :) (For grades 7 and up) I have a free download of lesson ideas for using The Potter Games in your classroom here: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/The-Potter-Games-Using-Interactive-Fiction-to-Improve-Reading
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