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Kelly Faulkner

New Zealand Book Council - 0 views

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shared by Kelly Faulkner on 27 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Kelly Faulkner on 27 Feb 10
     
    resources for teachers - nz books & writers
Jackie Gerstein

CoSN's School District Chief Technology Officers' (CTO) Council - 7 views

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shared by Jackie Gerstein on 16 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Jackie Gerstein on 16 Dec 09
     
    Framework of Essential Skills of the K-12 CTO (V. 2.0)
  • Jackie Gerstein on 16 Dec 09
     
    Framework of Essential Skills of the K-12 CTO (V. 2.0)
David Warlick

Commentary - 10 views

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shared by David Warlick on 03 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • it is a powerful teaching and learning methodology.
    • David Warlick
      David Warlick on 03 Jan 11
       
      A link to an interview with a teacher who has used service learning would be good here.
  • thoughtfully organized service experiences
  • structured time to reflect
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  • clear connections to academic curriculum
  • a great deal of time and learning takes place before the service even happens
  • National Youth Leadership Council
    • David Warlick
      David Warlick on 03 Jan 11
       
      It can be found here -- http://www.nylc.org/
  • Essential Elements of Service Learning
    • David Warlick
      David Warlick on 03 Jan 11
  • Practitioners that utilize service-learning understand that the process of identifying community needs, giving students an active role in designing, implementing, and evaluating the project and encouraging students to reflect on their learning allows young people to develop new understandings and applications beyond what they would gain from typical classroom instruction.
  • Cleaning up a river is service.Sitting in a science classroom, looking at water samples under a microscope is learning.Students taking samples from local water sources, analyzing the samples, documenting the results and presenting scientific findings to a local pollution control agency is service-learning.
    • David Warlick
      David Warlick on 03 Jan 11
       
      This is important and it should be formatted appropriately...
    • David Warlick
      David Warlick on 03 Jan 11
       
      It might be interesting to stop here, and as reader to write down, from this brief explanation, what they think are the essential elements of "service-learning."
Bret Willhoit

The Children Must Play - 20 views

www.tnr.com/...education-reform-Finland-US

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shared by Bret Willhoit on 19 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Not only do Finnish educational authorities provide students with far more recess than their U.S. counterparts—75 minutes a day in Finnish elementary schools versus an average of 27 minutes in the U.S.—but they also mandate lots of arts and crafts, more learning by doing, rigorous standards for teacher certification, higher teacher pay, and attractive working conditions.
  • it had to modernize its economy and could only do so by first improving its schools. To that end, the government agreed to reduce class size, boost teacher pay, and require that, by 1979, all teachers complete a rigorous master’s program.
  • Finnish teachers earn very competitive salaries: High school teachers with 15 years of experience make 102 percent of what their fellow university graduates do. In the United States, by contrast, they earn just 65 percent.
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  • Finnish authorities haven’t outsourced school management to for-profit or non-profit organizations, implemented merit pay, or ranked teachers and schools according to test results, they’ve made excellent use of business strategies. They’ve won the war for talent by making teaching so appealing. In choosing principals, superintendents, and policymakers from inside the education world rather than looking outside it, Finnish authorities have likewise taken a page from the corporate playbook: Great organizations, as the business historian Alfred Chandler documented, cultivate talent from within. Of the many officials I interviewed at the Finnish Ministry of Education, the National Board of Education, the Education Evaluation Council, and the Helsinki Department of Education, all had been teachers for at least four years.
  • Finland’s school system unique is that the country has deliberately rejected the prevailing standardization movement
  • Since 1985, students have not been tracked (or grouped by ability) until the tenth grade
  • The Finnish approach to pedagogy is also distinct
Claude Almansi

CEC | Ask Arne: A Conversation with the Council for Exceptional Children's (CEC) Members and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan - 0 views

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shared by Claude Almansi on 29 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Claude Almansi on 29 Sep 11
     
    "As I have travelled across the country visiting schools and classrooms and talking with teachers and parents, I have heard many questions about our plans at the U.S. Department of Education to support children with disabilities, their families, and the teachers who educate them and fight for them daily. To hear more about the issues affecting students with disabilities and their teachers, I asked CEC to contact members through an e-mail blast. Your response was overwhelming. Though CEC received more questions than we could possibly answer here, I have worked with your leadership to identify some of the central questions for educators of children with disabilities, and I have worked with my staff at the Department so that we can address them in this document. I would like to thank CEC members and all teachers of children with disabilities for their outstanding compassion and commitment and for the range of complex skills and talents you bring to teaching your students every day."
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