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Steve Ransom

We Need Teachers, Not Facilitators! : Stager-to-Go - 0 views

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  • Teachers expert in inspiring long-term, personally meaningful and interdisciplinary projects or thematic instruction regularly exceed the standards, but that realization is lost on facilitators.
  • New teachers have little or no experience with classroom centers, independent work, student projects and the sorts of agency that allow children to enjoy the “flow” experiences that build upon their obsessions and lead to understanding. Even when teachers are not lecturing from bell-to-bell, the classroom agenda is top-down and leaves little chance for serendipity or student initiative.
  • Great teachers know their students in deeper ways than any data can provide. They ask kids about their weekends. They chat about what kids are reading and console them when their hamster dies
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  • They learn continuously for themselves and their students. Teachers share their love of reading and are patrons of the arts. They are active citizens and engage students in current events. Outstanding teachers are not afraid to appear silly or create a whimsical classroom environment. They play in the snow with kindergarteners like Maria Knee.
  • great teachers need to be passionate, competent and interesting humans beyond the scope and sequence of the curriculum.
  • oday, new teachers truly are facilitators. They are “trained” to manage classrooms and deliver the curriculum handed to them.
  • Steve Ransom on 01 Jan 13
     
    An important post about teaching to reflect on.
Steve Ransom

Testing in kindergarten: whatever happened to story time? | Ben Joravsky on Politics | ... - 0 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 29 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • When all is said and done, kindergarteners will have spent up to 60 days of class time—or a third of the school year—taking various standardized tests. And you wonder why so many wealthy people send their children to private schools.
  • to hold teachers accountable for how much their students learn—or at least how well they score on standardized tests, which is not always the same thing. But the idea is that high-scoring "good" teachers will keep their jobs and low-scoring "bad" teachers will be fired, presumably to be replaced by the thousands of "good" teachers eager to come to Illinois to give more tests.
  • "Most of the kids just look at me," says another kindergarten teacher who asked not to be identified. "They're five. They don't what a 'main character' means."
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  • means one-on-one testing.
  • Presumably, by the end of the year the child will know enough to say the bug feels anxious. At which point the teacher will get to keep his or her job, for at least another year.
  • that student's file her delightfully original take is marked: "Wrong!"
  • Here's the twist. All teachers record the answers. Think about this, folks: teachers get to grade their own accountability tests. Damn, if they had this for students back in the day, I might have passed chemistry.
Steve Ransom

About #edteach | #edteach - 0 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 23 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 23 Apr 13
     
    Join a weekly chat focused on issues of relevance to preservice teacher educators. Follow the hashtag #edteach to participate. Right now, it is scheduled for Tuesday evenings at 8 PM EST. Participating is a great way to connect with other new teachers adn preservice teachers and build your network.
Steve Ransom

Educational Leadership:Students Who Challenge Us:Eight Things Skilled Teachers Think, S... - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 26 Apr 13
     
    Eight Things Skilled Teachers Think, Say, and Do
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Mrs. Yollis' Classroom Blog: Video: The Benefits of Blogging! - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 30 Apr 13
     
    Nice videos made by Mrs. Yollis and her 3rd grade students. She is a fantastic teacher who integrates technology and shares what she does really well. If you are an elementary teacher, her classroom blog is a great one to subscribe to with your RSS reader.
Steve Ransom

Good vs. great teachers: how do you wish to be remembered? « Granted, but… - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 28 Nov 12
     
    Excellently said!
Steve Ransom

Links to Teacher-Created Groups - Google Drive - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 22 Apr 13
     
    Google spreadsheet that lists and links to teacher-created professional development groups in Edmodo. Find one to join!
Steve Ransom

Edmodo: Social Collaboration For Teachers - Education - Instructional - 1 views

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  • "It really is a rehearsal for the kids, for later on, because social networking is a reality," one educator mused. "It's better for them to be inappropriate in this environment, where the teacher can facilitate redirection, than out in the world where they can get in big trouble."
Steve Ransom

Cyber Security eBook Helps Parents and Teachers Educate Teens About Cyber Safety (Free ... - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 05 Nov 13
     
    Great resource for parents, teens and teachers!! Free eBook (PDF)
Steve Ransom

Ban on teacher-student online talk is blocked, will be revised - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 29 Aug 11
     
    Ban on teacher-student online talk is blocked, will be revised
Steve Ransom

Mathscasts - YouTube - 0 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 04 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 04 Dec 12
     
    Good math resource in this YouTube teacher channel. Shows what maybe YOU can do, too.
Steve Ransom

Principal: 'I was naïve about Common Core' - 0 views

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  • The Common Core places an extraordinary emphasis on vocabulary development
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      Steve Ransom on 06 Mar 13
       
      Instead of concept development...
  • Teachers are engaged in practices like these because they are pressured and afraid, not because they think the assessments are educationally sound. Their principals are pressured and nervous about their own scores and the school’s scores. Guaranteed, every child in the class feels that pressure and trepidation as well.
  • I am troubled that a company that has a multi-million dollar contract to create tests for the state should also be able to profit from producing test prep materials. I am even more deeply troubled that this wonderful little girl, whom I have known since she was born, is being subject to this distortion of what her primary education should be.
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  • Real learning occurs in the mind of the learner when she makes connections with prior learning, makes meaning, and retains that knowledge in order to create additional meaning from new information.  In short, with tests we see traces of learning, not learning itself.
  • Parents can expect that the other three will be neglected as teachers frantically try to prepare students for the difficult and high-stakes tests.
  • They see data, not children. 
  • The promise of the Common Core is dying and teaching and learning are being distorted.  The well that should sustain the Core has been poisoned.
  • Whether or not learning the word ‘commission’ is appropriate for second graders could be debated—I personally think it is a bit over the top.  What is of deeper concern, however, is that during a time when 7 year olds should be listening to and making music, they are instead taking a vocabulary quiz.
  • Data should be used as a strategy for improvement, not for accountability
  • A fool with a tool is still a fool.  A fool with a powerful tool is a dangerous fool.
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      Steve Ransom on 06 Mar 13
       
      Best quotation of the day!
Steve Ransom

Math Mistakes: « more or less CCSS aligned. - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 06 Mar 13
     
    A great blog for a HS math teacher to follow...
Steve Ransom

Math Movies - home - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 28 Feb 13
     
    So many great multipmedia projects here done by elementary teachers and students. Relevance. Audience. Learning.
Steve Ransom

Three Classroom Blogging Tips for Teachers | transformED - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 20 Mar 13
     
    Great ideas for getting a blogging project started with students in your classroom!
Steve Ransom

If Education Technology Was A Baseball Team - Edudemic - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 26 Feb 13
     
    A great, practical collection of tools and services that can be easily integrated into your teacher toolbelt and used with both students and parents.
Steve Ransom

My Best Posts On Classroom Management | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day… - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 17 May 13
     
    Nice collection of Larry Ferlazzo's blog posts on classroom management - something that all teachers struggle with.
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