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Gunnison Watershed

Education Week: Finding the Student's 'Price Point' - 0 views

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online kids not content education

shared by Gunnison Watershed on 26 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Students have their own version of the price point—the material they are ready to learn. If teachers repeat familiar material, bored students will stare out the window or practice their spitball skills. Conversely, teachers who introduce excessively advanced material will leave their students confused and dissatisfied.
  • “the American high school student, as student, is all too often docile, compliant, and without initiative.”
  • Adaptive testing—of the kind currently used for law school exams—can quickly identify a student’s reading, math, and science skills, and the curriculum can then be adapted to the student’s performance level.
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  • Most important, virtual education and brick-and-mortar schooling need to be juxtaposed, so that they both complement and compete with each other.
  • we are about teaching kids, not teaching content
    • Gunnison Watershed
      Gunnison Watershed on 26 Apr 10
       
      This is what education is about, meeting kids at their understanding and taking them to a place beyond that.  We must get over the idea that it is the adult who the classroom is for!
  • Gunnison Watershed on 26 Apr 10
     
    online, teaching kids not content
Gunnison Watershed

Motivation 3.0 | Scholastic.com - 0 views

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pink 21st century skills

shared by Gunnison Watershed on 08 Feb 10 - Cached
  • t that—do work for simple, rule-based tasks. And routine tasks is the sort of work that defined most of the 20th century
  • fewer of us have jobs that involve solving very simple problems by following a set of steps and getting a right answer.
  • the science shows us the better way to motivation is to build more on autonomy, our desire to be self-directed; on mastery, which is our desire to get better and better at something that matters; and on purpose, which is our desire to be part of something larger than ourselves.
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  • the vast majority of kids are going to classrooms where high-stakes standardized testing sets the agenda.
  • There's a disconnect between how we prepare kids for work and how work actually operates:
  • The students are assessed the way adults are-on work performance, individual presentation, effort, attitude, and behavior on the job.
  • It's teaching of a different kind.
  • the more that you break down the barriers between school and the rest of the world, the better.
  • The more we allow a kid's learning style to shape how the learning occurs, the more you're allowing that kid to be an autonomous learner.
  • tear down the walls between disciplines, and between the school and the wider world.
  • The world itself is inherently multidisciplinary.
  • One school day set aside for student-chosen, student-led learning projects—much as FedEx does in its corporate office. In advance, help students collect the tools, information, and supplies they might need. Then, ask them to deliver—by reporting back to the class on their discoveries and experiences. I think so many neurons would be firing that kids might just end up producing things that would blow the socks off all the adults in the room.
    • Gunnison Watershed
      Gunnison Watershed on 08 Feb 10
       
      Pink says many things that just make sense for learners. If you have not read any of his writings, please take time to do so.
Gunnison Watershed

What Makes a Great Teacher? - The Atlantic (January/February 2010) - 0 views

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teacher effectiveness successful teaching

shared by Gunnison Watershed on 03 Feb 10 - Cached
  • education secretary, Arne Duncan, have started talking quite a lot about great teaching. They have shifted the conversation from sc
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  • accountability
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  • to teacher accountability
  • Gunnison Watershed on 03 Feb 10
     
    Teacher effectiveness
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Stark message for U.S. schools - 0 views

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RISC standards-based student-driven

shared by Gunnison Watershed on 03 Nov 09 - Cached
  • When DeLorenzo became the district's top official, he said, the school system moved away from a system that awarded students credit primarily for spending a designated amount of time in class."Kids graduate when they're 18, whether they're ready or not," he said.
  • Instead, students needed to demonstrate they had mastered class materials before they could move onto the next level. That shift in habit transformed the Anchorage-based Chugach School District, DeLorenzo said.
  • "For the first time, students knew what they had to learn and teachers knew what they had to teach," a rare occurrence in American schools, he said.
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  • The district did away with the traditional system of letter grades and involved students in planning curriculum, DeLorenzo said. Students became excited about their school work, and standardized test scores gradually rose.
  • Today, according to DeLorenzo, 92 percent of Chugach graduates go onto college.
  • Gunnison Watershed on 03 Nov 09
     
    Short article on the RISC model in Maine.
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