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Steve J. Moore

The Problem with One-Size-Fits-All Approaches to Teacher Quality - Rick Hess Straight Up - Education Week - 5 views

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  • I don't get the angst. Why?
    • Steve J. Moore
      Steve J. Moore on 12 Mar 12
       
      Probably because you've never taught in a public K-12 school Rick. #JustSayin
  • if a teacher is lousy or doing lousy work, they should have lousy morale. Hopefully it'll encourage them to leave sooner.
  • There you go again bringing the bad ol Hess back. You'd see it differently if you were a teacher - or a student. I've never met someone who argues, "we can't really distinguish good educators from bad ones." Instead, we condemn primitive, mindless systems, that can't really distinguish good educators from bad ones.
Mark Gillingham

SmartBlog on Education - Q-and-A: Back to school with Arne Duncan - SmartBrief, Inc. SmartBlogs SmartBlogs - 3 views

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shared by Mark Gillingham on 27 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • To make this transition, states, districts, and schools should do as much as possible to provide teachers with support for professional learning tied to the new standards. It’s also critical for teachers to connect with and learn from each other.
  • But many educators aren’t “connected” yet because they haven’t taken advantage of opportunities for professional learning online or they aren’t realizing the full benefits. Many districts and states also haven’t done enough to recognize this essential learning as legitimate professional development.
  • The nonprofit Academy for Urban School Leadership in Chicago provides a great “alternative” route to the classroom, in which participants complete a yearlong residency working with effective mentor teachers.
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  • But, among 4-year-olds in the U.S., fewer than three in 10 attend a high-quality preschool program. This opportunity gap confronts far too many American children — particularly those living in low-income communities. We need to work hard to reach many more students.
Dennis OConnor

ALA | Interview with Keith Curry Lance - 1 views

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shared by Dennis OConnor on 11 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • A series of studies that have had a great deal of influence on the research and decision-making discussions concerning school library media programs have grown from the work of a team in Colorado—Keith Curry Lance, Marcia J. Rodney, and Christine Hamilton-Pennell (2000).
  • Recent school library impact studies have also identified, and generated some evidence about, potential "interventions" that could be studied. The questions might at first appear rather familiar: How much, and how, are achievement and learning improved when . . . librarians collaborate more fully with other educators? libraries are more flexibly scheduled? administrators choose to support stronger library programs (in a specific way)? library spending (for something specific) increases?
  • high priority should be given to reaching teachers, administrators, and public officials as well as school librarians and school library advocates.
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  • Perhaps the most strategic option, albeit a long-term one, is to infiltrate schools and colleges of education. Most school administrators and teachers never had to take a course, or even part of a course, that introduced them to what constitutes a high-quality school library program.
  • Three factors are working against successful advocacy for school libraries: (1) the age demographic of librarians, (2) the lack of institutionalization of librarianship in K–12 schools, and (3) the lack of support from educators due to their lack of education or training about libraries and good experiences with libraries and librarians.
  • These vacant positions are highly vulnerable to being downgraded or eliminated in these times of tight budgets, not merely because there is less money to go around, but because superintendents, principals, teachers, and other education decision-makers do not understand the role a school librarian can and should play.
  • If we want the school library to be regarded as a central player in fostering academic success, we must do whatever we can to ensure that school library research is not marginalized by other interests.    
  • Dennis OConnor on 11 Jan 11
     
    A great overview of Lance's research into the effectiveness of libraries.  He answers the question: Do school libraries or librarians make a difference?  His answer (A HUGE YES!) is back by 14 years of remarkable research.  The point is proved.  But this information remains unknown to many principals and superintendents.  Anyone interested in 21st century teaching and learning will find this interview fascinating.
anonymous

100 Best Blogs for Teachers of the Future | Clear View Education Blog - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 04 Aug 09
     
    Blogs worth closer look.
Kathy Benson

Maryland Learning Object Repository - 9 views

www.mdk12explore.us

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  • Kathy Benson on 13 Jul 12
     
    Free online resources for teachers of high quality vetted learning materials. It is searchable without an account. Register to be updated a out categories of resources of interest to you. It is currently BETA, but it still has loads of useful resouces.
yc c

Curriki - WebHome - 14 views

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  • yc c on 03 Aug 10
     
    Curriki's mission is to provide free, high-quality curricula and education resources to teachers, students and parents around the world. Learn More
Ted Sakshaug

Educational Videos | Teacher Videos for Students | SnagLearning - 9 views

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  • Ted Sakshaug on 14 Oct 10
     
    High quality documentary films. Various grade levels and classes
Danielle Klaus

NoodleTools : MLA / APA Bibliography Composer, Notecards, Free Research Tools - 2 views

www.noodletools.com/index.php

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  • Danielle Klaus on 09 Jul 08
     
    NoodleTools provides innovative software that teaches students and supports teachers and librarians throughout the entire research process. *Search intelligently *Assess the quality of results *Record, organize and synthesize information using online notecards *Format your bibliography in MLA or APA style
Ginger Lewman

Welcome : PBS TeacherLine - 4 views

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  • Ginger Lewman on 25 Mar 10
     
    "Enhance Your Teaching and Advance Your Career PBS TeacherLine's high quality, standards-based graduate-level courses offer teachers the professional development opportunities they need in an accessible online format that makes learning fun, flexible and collaborative. You can earn graduate credit, PDPs, or CEUs while gaining strategies and resources to bring directly to your classroom."
Claude Almansi

WEEKLY ADDRESS: Strengthening the American Education System (transcript) | The White House - 0 views

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shared by Claude Almansi on 29 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Claude Almansi on 29 Sep 11
     
    "The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release September 24, 2011 WEEKLY ADDRESS: Strengthening the American Education System WASHINGTON-In this week's address, President Obama told the American people that it is time to raise the standards of our education system so that every classroom is a place of high expectations and high performance. On Friday, the President announced that states will have greater flexibility to find innovative ways of improving the quality of learning and teaching, so that we can strengthen performance in our classrooms and ensure that teachers are helping students learn rather than teaching to the test. By modernizing our schools and improving the education system, the United States can continue building an economy that lasts into the future and prepare the next generation to succeed in the global economy."
Jeff Johnson

RubiStar is a free tool to help teachers create quality rubrics - 0 views

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shared by Jeff Johnson on 26 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Jeff Johnson on 26 Mar 09
     
    Want to make exemplary rubrics in a short amount of time? Try RubiStar out! Registered users can save and edit rubrics online. You can access them from home, school, or on the road. Registration and use of this tool is free, so click the Register link in the login area to the right to get started now.
Ted Sakshaug

Florida Virtual School - Course Overview - 0 views

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  • Ted Sakshaug on 17 Jun 09
     
    Learning and game-play collide in Conspiracy Code, the first in a revolutionary new series of courses. An innovative, complete online class, Conspiracy Code engages students in interactive learning while maintaining all the engagement of a high-quality entertainment product. All Conspiracy Code courses are teacher-supervised, academically-viable, complete classes that fuse the best of online gaming with proven pedagogical techniques and standards to produce a truly unique learning environment for high school students.
Marc Safran

Welcome to Knowitall.org - 0 views

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  • Marc Safran on 10 Aug 09
     
    Created by ETV for K-12 students, teachers, and parents, Knowitall.org is a free online collection of resources designed for classroom use. This educational web portal contains interactive sites, simulations, image collections, virtual field trips and streaming video that support and provide quality inquiry-based experiences for students on the Internet.
Martin Burrett

When Technology and Classrooms Collide…by @JMcKay1972 - UKEdChat - 1 views

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  • Martin Burrett on 22 Feb 18
     
    "Development of technology within the classroom can aide the identification of contextual factors that may or may not contribute to effective use of technology in enhancing quality learning experiences. Factors such as organisational culture, teacher self-efficacy and their confidence and experience in utilising technology, resources and learner engagement all have to be considered to allow for an integrated approach."
Martin Burrett

Book: Teach like nobody's watching by @EnserMark via @CrownHousePub - 0 views

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  • Martin Burrett on 17 Sep 19
     
    "This book explores three key pillars that underpin effective, efficient teaching: the lesson, the curriculum and the school's support structure. Mark argues that quality education is rooted in simplicity. In this book, he convincingly strips away the layers of contradictory pedagogical advice that teachers have received over the years and lends weight to the three key pillars that underpin effective, efficient teaching: the lesson, the curriculum and the school's support structure."
Martin Burrett

School librarians helping children become independent learners with parental support by @elizabethutch - UKEdChat - 2 views

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  • Martin Burrett on 09 Oct 17
     
    "As a parent, I have always been able to help my children find good sources of information in order to do their homework. How do I know where to find the best information? Do I have some inside knowledge that most parents don't? Yes! How? I am a librarian… I have long believed that if parents knew about the resources available from their school library to support their children's homework they would be relieved and happy. They would be able to guide them to use these good tools without worrying about quality or reliability. Many of our resources go unused for two reasons, firstly, many teachers and students do not know about these resources, how easy they are to use and reference and secondly, parents don't know they exist."
Brendan Murphy

How to fix our schools - 4 views

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shared by Brendan Murphy on 20 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Listen, I love basketball. But the smartest kid in the school…should be getting as much attention as the basketball star. That’s a change that we’ve got to initiate in our community.”
  • school systems will have to develop better ways of identifying good and bad teachers.
  • In addition to teacher quality, they should pay attention to school leadership, curriculum improvement, and school organization.
Cynthia Alvarado

Education - 0 views

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  • Obama and Biden support transitional bilingual education and will help Limited English Proficient students get ahead by holding schools accountable for making sure these students complete school.
  • Expand High-Quality Afterschool Opportunities:
  • Obama and Biden will promote new and innovative ways to increase teacher pay that are developed with teachers, not imposed on them.
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  • Obama and Biden will streamline the financial aid process by eliminating the current federal financial aid application and enabling families to apply simply by checking a box on their tax form, authorizing their tax information to be used, and eliminating the need for a separate application.
  • Vicki Davis on 10 Feb 09
     
    The current plan from the White House on education. Read it and share your annotations.
  • Vicki Davis on 10 Feb 09
     
    Read the education plan from the new White House for the US. Some good things here and some things that may be hard to implement. What do you think? Join diigo and mark up the page - there are already quite a few annotations.
  • Cynthia Alvarado on 16 Feb 09
     
    Obama's Education Plan annotated
Nancy White

ALA TechSource | The Digitally Re-Shifted School Library: A Conversation with Christopher Harris - 0 views

www.techsource.ala.org/...n-with-christopher-harris.html

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  • I also believe that a very important step lies in getting library boards, school boards, and other trustees/governing bodies on board with Web 2.0 ideas as well as the changes we are discussing here.
    • Nancy White
      Nancy White on 08 Jul 08
       
      Not just the tools - but how they can trasform learning in the classroom.
  • I think school libraries will also need to work to firmly re-establish themselves as the foundation of instructional practice. The library space will become more flexible, perhaps moving toward the idea of a university-like information commons with mainly digital non-fiction and reference collections, but still possessing high-quality fiction and picture-book sections. School libraries can work to embrace new technologies and become the iPod content hubs as well as the place for books. The school librarian will also become more flexible – moving in and out of the library and classrooms as a curriculum and instructional pedagogy-consultant teacher. As education works to meet the needs of the so-called "21st-century learners," school librarians will have a key role in supporting an increased demand for information literacy and knowledge management throughout the content areas.
    • Nancy White
      Nancy White on 08 Jul 08
       
      I agree - T-L as instructional consultant will become a more important role in using the AASL Learner Standards and helping to guide teachers toward more relevant, inquiry-based instruction that integrates 21st century tools and skills.
Dean Mantz

TPCK - Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge - TPCK - 0 views

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  • Anne Bubnic on 25 Aug 08
     
    Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPCK) attempts to capture some of the essential qualities of knowledge required by teachers for technology integration in their teaching, while addressing the complex, multifaceted and situated nature of teacher knowledge. At the heart of the TPCK framework, is the complex interplay of three primary forms of knowledge: Content (CK), Pedagogy (PK), and Technology (TK).
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