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Rebecca Delivuk

SMART Exchange - USA - Standards correlated lessons - 0 views

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  • Rebecca Delivuk on 14 Oct 11
     
    I love the way you can search for standards and then lesson plans/activities that meet the standard. Some of the activities on this page are too low-level for high-school students, but many of them would help my students get up out of their seats and participate in class by drawing on the board together. I would certainly use this site when teaching grammar, so students can group-edit and see the result. 
Loren Kurpiewski

Why Are Finland's Schools Successful? | People & Places | Smithsonian Magazine - 0 views

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  • professionals selected from the top 10 percent of the nation’s graduates to earn a required master’s degree in education
    • Kristen Koburger
      Kristen Koburger on 19 Sep 11
       
      Although we are obviously all pursuing our masters in education, it is not required in America that teachers receive a masters in order to teacher. In fact, in some schools and in some parts of the country just getting a teaching certificate is enough to qualify adults to become teachers. I wonder if the standard to become an employable teacher in Amercia was raised, if there would be better quality teachers. I think that if becomig a teacher required more then a certificate or a bachelors degree, only those who are truely passionate about teaching would try to become teachers.
    • Rachael Webster
      Rachael Webster on 20 Sep 11
       
      Having such requirements might also increase the prestige associated with teaching. It seems like Finland subscribes to the idea that only the best may teach, while the US still believes that those who can't do teach. Why would you want someone who can't do something teaching it? It's such a nonsensical colloquialism, but one that permeates attitudes toward teachers.
    • Ron Lombard
      Ron Lombard on 22 Sep 11
       
      there is push to do this in the US - problem is QPA's and test score don't prove you can teach
    • Rebecca Delivuk
      Rebecca Delivuk on 24 Sep 11
       
      If we increase the level of education required to teach, then we will probably have to increase teacher's compensation so they can pay off school loans. But honestly, I think increasing education is not the biggest need--changing teacher's unions so that low-quality teachers can be fired, and high-performing teachers can be rewarded, might be a more effective method.
    • Loren Kurpiewski
      Loren Kurpiewski on 27 Sep 11
       
      I agree with Dr. Lombard in that QPAs and test scores don't prove anything about your teaching ability, but I think that spending the extra time, effort and money to earn your Masters is an indicator of your determination and eagerness to not only be a teacher, but be a *great* teacher.
  • “Children from wealthy families with lots of education can be taught by stupid teachers,” Louhivuori said, smiling. “We try to catch the weak students. It’s deep in our thinking.”
    • Rachael Webster
      Rachael Webster on 20 Sep 11
       
      While I don't relish the idea of anyone having a stupid teacher, I certainly do applaud the acknowledgement that the weakest students need the strongest teachers. We need teachers who view working with the least priviledged students as the primo jobs and jobs working with kids who already have everything as something that you'd take if you had to. If you want to be rewarded for your job, isn't seeing a kid go from the bottom up a lot more rewarding than seeing a kid who has everything inch up a little higher in his already awesome educational career? I sound like I don't think wealthier students deserve good teachers, and that's not what I mean. I'm just saying that the toughest jobs are the ones we should be the proudest and most excited to do.
    • Ron Lombard
      Ron Lombard on 22 Sep 11
       
      Now this approach makes sense in particular in the lower grades
    • Rebecca Delivuk
      Rebecca Delivuk on 24 Sep 11
       
      BALLIN!
    • Brittney Story
      Brittney Story on 25 Sep 11
       
      I love this quote! These weaker students are the ones falling through the cracks in America or being wrongly pushed ahead.
  • If you only measure the statistics, you miss the human aspect.”
    • Rachael Webster
      Rachael Webster on 20 Sep 11
       
      YES
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  • His Race to the Top
    • Ron Lombard
      Ron Lombard on 22 Sep 11
       
      A review of literature will show this caused as much trouble as any good
  • small enough
    • Rebecca Delivuk
      Rebecca Delivuk on 24 Sep 11
       
      like private schools in the USA
Rachael Webster

SMART Exchange - USA - Search lessons by keyword - 0 views

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  • Rachael Webster on 16 Oct 11
     
    This site has numerous whiteboard activities which one can download varying for grade level and content area. I particularly liked that before downloading, you can view previews of the content. It seemed to have a lot of games, which may be a little too juvenile for older students, but some can be incorporated. I particularly liked the Jeopardy! game template, as I feel that is applicable across grade levels and is fun for the class to participate in. The fact that you can customize these for whatever you are teaching is great, so I think this site should be really reviewed across disciplines, as you can use things listed as Language Arts in other disciplines and vice versa.
Rebecca Delivuk

Teachers Love SMART Boards: Grade: High School - 0 views

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  • Some online resources help make the decision to have an interactive whiteboard in the classroom an easy one. When you use an IWB to see and interact with a resource like National Geographic's MapMaker 1-Page Maps, it's difficult to justify "not" having an Interactive Whiteboard. This interactive map resource allows you to explore in detail different areas of the world. All you do is select a region of the world and then select a country. It even includes more detailed views of the USA, Canada, and Mexico.
    • Rebecca Delivuk
      Rebecca Delivuk on 14 Oct 11
       
      I'm totally using this :)
  • Rebecca Delivuk on 14 Oct 11
     
    So maybe this wasn't exactly on our list of sources, but I found it by clicking away from one source to another. This site has nifty suggestions for different websites that pair well with smartboards. I indeed to use National Geographic's MapMaker to track the states & countries we cover in our class, so at the end of every nine weeks, we can see what sections of the world have been explored via literature.
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