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shared by Gunnison Watershed on 30 Sep 09 - Cached

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.
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“the American high school student, as student, is all too often docile, compliant, and without initiative.”
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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.
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we are about teaching kids, not teaching content
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- 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!
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">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!</div>
  
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shared by Gunnison Watershed on 12 May 10 - Cached

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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g quite a lot a
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accountability
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to teacher accountability
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