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Copy / Paste by Peter Pappas: The Reflective Principal: A Taxonomy of Reflection (Part IV) - 8 views

peterpappas.blogs.com/...cipal-taxonomy-reflection.html learningstyles
shared by Jason Heiser on 12 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Jason Heiser on 12 Jan 10
     
    The Reflective Principal: A Taxonomy of Reflection (Part IV) Reflection can be a challenging endeavor. It's not something that's fostered in school - typically someone else tells you how you're doing! Principals (and instructional leaders) are often so caught up in the meeting the demands of the day, that they rarely have the luxury to muse on how things went. Self-assessment is clouded by the need to meet competing demands from multiple stakeholders. In an effort to help schools become more reflective learning environments, I've developed this "Taxonomy of Reflection" - modeled on Bloom's approach. It's posted in four installments: 1. A Taxonomy of Reflection 2. The Reflective Student 3. The Reflective Teacher 4. The Reflective Principal It's very much a work in progress, and I invite your comments and suggestions. I'm especially interested in whether you think the parallel construction to Bloom holds up through each of the three examples - student, teacher, and principal. I think we have something to learn from each perspective. 4. The Reflective Principal Each level of reflection is structured to parallel Bloom's taxonomy. (See installment 1 for more on the model) Assume that a principal (or instructional leader) looked back on an initiative (or program, decision, project, etc) they have just implemented. What sample questions might they ask themselves as they move from lower to higher order reflection? (Note: I'm not suggesting that all questions are asked after every initiative - feel free to pick a few that work for you.) Bloom's Remembering : What did I do? Principal Reflection: What role did I play in implementing this program? What role did others play? What steps did I take? Is the program now operational and being implemented? Was it completed on time? Are assessment measures in place? Bloom's Understanding: What was
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westwood - Open Sim Tutorials and Instructions - 3 views

westwood.wikispaces.com/Sim+Tutorials+and+Instructions education learning opencontent edu_trends techintegrator
shared by Vicki Davis on 30 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 30 Mar 10
     
    My ninth graders have completed a module documenting how to do various tasks in OpenSim, the virtual world we use that is hosted by Reactiongrid. This wiki has the links, instructions, and other pages with tutorials on how to do various items. I was assessing this today and thought I'd pass it along as there is some great information to show you how to do things. (If you are a beginning second lifer you may also learn some things.)
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ELL/Sheltered Instruction Websites - 5 views

www.tulsaschools.org/...ell.htm instruction ell websites resources sheltered all_teachers bestpractices curriculum language middleschool elementary math science
shared by Joseph Alvarado on 27 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Joseph Alvarado on 27 Apr 10
     
    ELL/Sheltered Instruction website
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Teaching Science to Special Needs Students: Learning Science by Interactive Instruction... - 8 views

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shared by David Wetzel on 17 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • David Wetzel on 17 Aug 11
     
    Teaching and assessment strategies are provided for encouraging students with learning disabilities to develop a better understanding of science concepts. Teaching science inclusive classrooms is challenging due to the need for teaching too many different learning styles, including students who have learning disabilities. Learning disabled students have many concerns including physical, emotional, and cognitive. These disabilities cause the need to teach concepts differently primarily through the use of direct, explicit instruction and tailored evaluation.
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It's OK. You Can Let Go. « Chalkdust101 - 0 views

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shared by Dave Truss on 31 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 31 Mar 09
     
    Focused instruction, according to Fisher, is pointed modeling of expert thinking and behavior. It's in this mode of instruction where we help students build the requisite background knowledge and vocabulary they need for success in higher level tasks. This argument, which is raging throughout the educational world right now, about content v. skills, then becomes moot.
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The History Lab - 24 views

sites.google.com/...thehistorylab history social_studies social studies education web2.0 lessons geography resources
shared by Roland O'Daniel on 21 Apr 11 - Cached
  • Roland O'Daniel on 21 Apr 11
     
    Created by Angela Cunningham for the enrichment of Social Studies instruction using technology. Great set of resources and conceptual approaches to embedding technology into instruction. 
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Sustaining Success Despite Budget Cuts | Edutopia - 0 views

www.edutopia.org/ed-instruction-budget-overview school budget differentiated instruction resources edutopia curriculum elementary administrator all_teachers
shared by edutopia .org on 25 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • edutopia .org on 25 Oct 11
     
    Mesquite Elementary School, in Tucson, Arizona became a top-performing school with a homegrown, easy-to-implement differentiated instruction program.
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A Reading List for Differentiated Instruction | Edutopia - 1 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 07 Jul 17 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 07 Jul 17
     
    We want to reach EVERY child and differentiate instruction. This fantastic list from Edutopia gives us lots of impactful articles to help us learn more about reaching every child. Great summer reading list.
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Special Connections - 0 views

www.specialconnections.ku.edu/...main.php 4teachers reading strategies all_teachers
shared by Kathy Benson on 29 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Kathy Benson on 29 Jun 12
     
    connecting strategy instruction to content area learning and coping with students with learning disabilities
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ECRP. Vol 4 No 1. Moving up the Grades: Relationship between Preschool Model and Later ... - 2 views

ecrp.uiuc.edu/marcon.html education research news
shared by Vicki Davis on 14 Sep 13 - Cached
  • This trend is especially prevalent in programs that serve low-income children. Compensatory early childhood programs such as Head Start and state-sponsored pre-kindergarten for low-income families and preschoolers with special needs are designed to help children acquire skills needed for later school success.
  • Beginning in the 1980s, leading early childhood experts expressed concern about the wisdom of overly didactic, formal instructional practices for young children (e.g., Elkind, 1986; Zigler, 1987). They feared that short-term academic gains would be offset by long-term stifling of children's motivation and self-initiated learning. Later research suggests that these early concerns were warranted
  • They cautioned that early academic gains in reading skills associated with didactic instruction of preschoolers "come with some costs" that could have long-term negative effects on achievement.
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  • imilarly, when the highly didactic Direct Instructional System for the Teaching of Arithmetic and Reading (DISTAR) was discontinued after third grade, children's previously high achievement in reading and mathematics declined
  • Vicki Davis on 14 Sep 13
     
    Interesting study of children, preschool and later school success. "Children's later school success appears to have been enhanced by more active, child-initiated early learning experiences. Their progress may have been slowed by overly academic preschool experiences that introduced formalized learning experiences too early for most children's developmental status."
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5min - Find the best how to, instructional and DIY videos - Life Videopedia - 11 views

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shared by yc c on 16 Jun 10 - Cached
  • yc c on 16 Jun 10
     
    5min Media is the leading syndication platform for broadband instructional, knowledge and lifestyle videos. Our library includes tens of thousands of videos across 20 categories and 140 subcategories, which are professionally produced and brand-safe.
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Short Texts that Support Great Literacy Instruction - 15 views

www.literacy-builders.com/...teaching-with-short-texts literacy reading touchstone_texts
shared by Kim Yaris on 03 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Kim Yaris on 03 Sep 10
     
    We're all always looking for lists and resources that support great literacy instruction--this is a list of short text recommendations that you can use and it comes with a downloadable annotated bibliography.
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U.S. Plans Major Changes in How Students Are Tested - NYTimes.com - 8 views

www.nytimes.com/...03testing.html assessment technologie technology 21stcenturylearning 21stcenturyskills
shared by Jacques Cool on 03 Sep 10 - Cached
  • not only end-of-year tests similar to those in use now but also formative tests that teachers will administer several times a year to help guide instruction
  • students are given a problem — they could be told, for example, to pretend they are a mayor who needs to reduce a city’s pollution — and must sift through a portfolio of tools and write analytically about how they would use them to solve the problem.
  • Jacques Cool on 03 Sep 10
     
    "(...) not only end-of-year tests similar to those in use now but also formative tests that teachers will administer several times a year to help guide instruction (...)"
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How to fix our schools: A manifesto by Joel Klein, Michelle Rhee and other education le... - 16 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...AR2010100705078.html
shared by Brendan Murphy on 08 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • has left our school districts impotent and, worse, has robbed millions of children of a real future
    • Michael Walker
      Michael Walker on 08 Oct 10
       
      Why are district's impotent? If administrators do their job and a) mentor young teachers and b) remove them if they are ineffective the system can work!
    • t jaffe-notier
      t jaffe-notier on 11 Oct 10
       
      Yes. In the districts where administrators work the system does work. Unfortunately these mega-district administrators think that their job consists only of firing bad teachers. The hardest work is giving the good teachers the resources they need to continue excellent work!
  • District leaders also need the authority to use financial incentives to attract and retain the best teachers.
    • Michael Walker
      Michael Walker on 08 Oct 10
       
      And yet, studies show that merit pay doesn't work!
    • t jaffe-notier
      t jaffe-notier on 11 Oct 10
       
      That's right. Socio-emotional learning, one of the most important kinds for the development of good citizens, defies standardized testing.
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 20 Oct 10
       
      How about we raise starting pay for teachers to $60,000 per year. Make teaching a profession more top notch students want to major in.
  • but let's stop pretending that everyone who goes into the classroom has the ability and temperament to lift our children to excellence.
    • t jaffe-notier
      t jaffe-notier on 11 Oct 10
       
      Wow. Straw man. Who's pretending? Let's stop flogging our administrators and stop slapping our policemen too...
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  • We must equip educators with the best technology available to make instruction more effective and efficient. By better using technology to collect data on student learning and shape individualized instruction, we can help transform our classrooms and lessen the burden on teachers' time.
    • Michael Walker
      Michael Walker on 08 Oct 10
       
      Yes, the most effective way to use technology in the classroom is to gather data...NOT! What about providing the technology so the students can create meaning and learn?
    • t jaffe-notier
      t jaffe-notier on 11 Oct 10
       
      I've found that administrators aren't too interested in individualized instruction, even though they say so. What they want is higher scores on "common assessments" whether or not this benefits individual learners. Humanities teachers have always been frustrated by this, and now science teachers are frustrated too. They're not allowed to help students achieve excellence in areas that are exactly the right amount of challenge for each student. Instead, they're still forced to "cover everything" for each student, in spite of the fact that this does not benefit students who haven't mastered the material to a point of competence. Weird.
  • For the wealthiest among us, the crisis in public education may still seem like someone else's problem, because those families can afford to choose something better for their kids. But it's a problem for all of us -- until we fix our schools, we will never fix the nation's broader economic problems. Until we fix our schools, the gap between the haves and the have-nots will only grow wider and the United States will fall further behind the rest of the industrialized world in education, rendering the American dream a distant, elusive memory.
    • t jaffe-notier
      t jaffe-notier on 11 Oct 10
       
      How can we recruit excellent teachers to schools that need them the most when our best proposed solutions don't reward teachers for taking on a challenge?
  • taking advantage of online lessons and other programs
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 20 Oct 10
       
      This is code for let's pay online educators $12 an hour to teach and remove the cost of those expensive buildings.
  • replace or substantially restructure persistently low-performing schools that continuously fail our students.
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 20 Oct 10
       
      Can we start at the very top and fire the superintendents?
  • charter schools a truly viable option
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 20 Oct 10
       
      No they aren't a viable option, they are labratories.
  • Michael Walker on 08 Oct 10
     
    This article is ripe for Diigo commentary!
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  • Dean Mantz on 08 Oct 10
     
    New York Times "How we can fix our schools"
  • t jaffe-notier on 11 Oct 10
     
    This article is ripe for Diigo commentary!
  • Brendan Murphy on 20 Oct 10
     
    This article is ripe for Diigo commentary!
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iear - VPP-Step By Step Instructions - 2 views

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shared by Dean Mantz on 08 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Dean Mantz on 08 Nov 10
     
    Step-by-step process for using Apples Volume Purchasing Program for apps and more.
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Dreamweaver menu extensions, CSS, DHTML - Pluginlab.com - 0 views

www.pluginlab.com/techfaq.asp edu_newapp education webmaster
shared by Vicki Davis on 01 Aug 08 - Cached
  • To allow the layering of Flash content with DHTML content you have to do the following with the Flash Object tag: Add the following parameter to the <object> tag: <param name="wmode" value="transparent">; Add the following parameter to the <embed> tag: wmode="transparent"
  • Vicki Davis on 01 Aug 08
     
    **FOR GEEKY WEBMASTERS ONLY*** For you webmasters out there, I've found a really cool tool to make killer drop down menus that is worth the cost. Also, this is the information on how to make menus or other items appear IN FRONT OF flash objects on a web page. (I've had trouble w/ this forever!) Follow these instructions from this site: "To allow the layering of Flash content with DHTML content you have to do the following with the Flash Object tag: * Add the following parameter to the tag: ; * Add the following parameter to the tag: wmode="transparent" "
  • Vicki Davis on 01 Aug 08
     
    Tool for making cool drop down menus on your website AND instructions for putting the menus in front of a flash object.
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College Board Will Offer a New Test Next Fall - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Jeff Johnson on 23 Oct 08 - Cached
  • Jeff Johnson on 23 Oct 08
     
    Amid growing challenges to its role as the pre-eminent force in college admissions, the College Board on Wednesday unveiled a new test that it said would help prepare eighth graders for rigorous high school courses and college. The test, which will be available to schools next fall, is intended only for assessment and instructional purposes and has nothing to do with college admissions, College Board officials said.
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Rationale for an inquiry approach to mathematics instruction (by Raffaella Borasi) - 0 views

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shared by Doug Noon on 30 Mar 08 - Cached
  • Doug Noon on 30 Mar 08
     
    Teaching mathematics through inquiry represents a radical departure from traditional mathematics instruction.
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