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Brendan McIsaac

Teacher Evaluation Systems Not Fully Supported In Many States: Center For American Prog... - 0 views

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shared by Brendan McIsaac on 29 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Most state reform statues have established hasty timetables for the implementation of new teacher-evaluation systems — timetables all states are struggling to meet. HPAds.adSonar(1523709,2259768,300,250); adsonar_placementId=1523709;adsonar_pid=2259768;adsonar_ps=-1;adsonar_zw=300;adsonar_zh=250;adsonar_jv="ads.tw.adsonar.com";Still, arguably the biggest challenge posed by these mandated evaluation reforms is that the majority of teachers do not teach in tested subjects or grades, and as a result standardized student achievement data is not available to be used in their ratings.
  • Furthermore, states must concentrate on providing what districts cannot, and education agencies should adjust their implementation timelines to align with the needs and resources of their particular state. Lastly, states must think long term about how to provide administrators with the training, technical expertise and field experience needed to address the current human-capital challenges affiliated with teacher evaluation reform. Loading Slideshow School Supplies<strong>91 percent</strong> of teachers buy basic school supplies for their students.Food<strong>2 in 3</strong> teachers <strong>(67%)</strong> purchase food or snacks to satisfy the basic nutritional needs of their students -- even ones who are already enrolled in their schools' free or reduced-price meal program. Clothing<strong>1 in 3</strong> teachers purchase clothing for children, including jackets, hats and gloves <strong>(30%)</strong> or shoes and shoe laces <strong>(15%)</strong>.Toothbrushes<strong>18 percent</strong> of teachers purchase personal care items, such as toothbrushes and sanitary products.Hygiene ProductsNearly <strong>1 in 3</strong> teachers <strong>(29%)</strong> purchase items such as toilet paper and soap that their school cannot provide enough of due to budget cuts. Field Trips<strong>More than half</strong> of all teachers have paid the costs of field trips for students who couldn't afford to participate otherwise.Alarm Clocks<strong>Several teachers</strong> reported purchasing alarm clocks for students. Due to work schedules or family circumstances, guardians were unable to wake their children for school, which led to absences and academic underperformance. Teacher Spending On Students1 of 8 Hide ThumbnailsAlamyNext Share TweetFullscreen1 of 8Play AllSchool Supplies91 percent of teachers buy basic school supplies for their students. Like Dislike8 Points10 likes, 2 dislikesAdvertisement× #hp-slideshow-wrapper-246322 .hp-slideshow-wrapper-loading-div{ font-family:Arial
  • Brendan McIsaac on 29 Nov 12
     
    This is the struggle I was outlining the other day
Tom McHale

What If Almost Everything We Thought About The Teaching Of Writing Was Wrong? - Literac... - 3 views

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writing

shared by Tom McHale on 21 Mar 17 - No Cached
  • Tom McHale on 21 Mar 17
     
    "Language merely reflects our way of trying to make sense of the world. - Frank Smith Frank Smith (1982) says 'writing touches every part of our lives'. One of the first reasons we write is because it is a tool for communication in culture. It gives us the ability the share information over time and space with multiple individuals (explaining, recounting & opinion). It can also be used as a permanent record or as a statement e.g. in history, geography  & science genres. The third cultural aspect for writing is artistry (narrative and poetry). Finally, there is also the personal aspect to writing. Writing allows us all to reflect, express our perceptions of self, to socially dream or to be critical (memoir). By writing, we find out what we know; what we think. Ultimately though, writing is a means for us to express ourselves in the world, make sense of the world or impose ourselves upon it. The question now is why do children write at school? For these purposes? - Not often. There is a massive discrepancy between the writing done in the real-world and that of the classroom. Donald Graves says 'all children want to write'. It is just a case of allowing them to write about the things they are interested in. As Frank Smith says, 'all children can write if they can speak it.' If they can talk about it, they can write it down. The transmission of narrow decontextualized writing skills; that English is just a formal system to be learnt. The insistence on task-orientated writing. The insistence on teacher-chosen writing tasks. The insistence on the use of external stimulus (literature units, film-clips, topic-writing) at the expense of children's knowledge, interests, loves, talents and idiosyncrasies. The formal rather than functional teaching of grammar. These examples embody the 'commonsense' assumptions which claim an authority which is supposedly natural and unshakable. Writing in classrooms at present isn't seen by children as important
Tom McHale

About Op-Docs - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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shared by Tom McHale on 27 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Tom McHale on 27 Mar 13
     
    Op-Docs is The New York Times editorial department's forum for short, opinionated documentaries, produced with wide creative latitude and a range of artistic styles, covering current affairs, contemporary life and historical subjects.   Op-Docs videos are produced by both renowned and emerging filmmakers who express their views in the first person, through their subjects or more subtly through an artistic approach to a topic. Each is accompanied by a director's statement. In December 2012, we started a new Op-Docs feature: Scenes. This is a platform for very short work - snippets of street life, brief observations and interviews, clips from experimental and artistic nonfiction videos - that follow less traditional documentary narrative conventions.
Brendan McIsaac

Education Week: Rifts Deepen Over Direction of Ed. Policy in U.S. - 0 views

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education policy reform

shared by Brendan McIsaac on 07 May 13 - No Cached
  • Armed with nearly $100 billion in education aid from the 2009 economic-stimulus package passed by Congress, Secretary Duncan used $4 billion to entice states into embracing common standards, charter schools, and teacher evaluations tied to student test scores through his Race to the Top contest.
  • He's advanced that general platform more recently by granting states waivers from compliance with many of the core tenets of the NCLB law if they adopt the Obama administration's preferred improvement ideas—even as education research paints a mixed picture about whether such measures as charter schools and merit pay have much effect on student learning.
  • Brendan McIsaac on 07 May 13
     
    Great overview of the current education landscape
Tom McHale

Making Students Partners in Data-Driven Approaches to Learning | MindShift | KQED News - 0 views

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assessment

shared by Tom McHale on 17 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • Tom McHale on 17 Oct 15
     
    "Using data with students encompasses classroom practices that build students' capacity to access, analyze, and use data effectively to reflect, set goals, and document growth. Using data with students encompasses the following activities: Students use their classwork as a source for data, analyzing strengths, weaknesses, and patterns to improve their work. Students regularly analyze evidence of their own progress. They track their progress on assessments and assignments, analyze their errors for patterns, and describe what they see in the data about their current level of performance. Students use data to set goals and reflect on their progress over time and incorporate data analysis into student-led conferences."
Tom McHale

Can Personalized Learning Flourish Within A Traditional System? | MindShift | KQED News - 0 views

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shared by Tom McHale on 25 Jan 17 - No Cached
  • Tom McHale on 25 Jan 17
     
    "The rigidity of the current standards-based system could present a problem as personalized learning tries to grow - although some hope advocates on both sides will find compromise that strengthen both ideas. "There's a conflict in the sense that the standards and accountability movement has focused on grade-level standards," said Sara Mead, a partner at Bellwether Education Partners, a Washington, D.C.-based policy group, "and the idea that equity to some extent is based on getting everybody to master the same content at the same time.""
Tom McHale

New Jersey Becomes Second State to Require PARCC Passage for Graduation - High School &... - 0 views

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assessment

shared by Tom McHale on 05 Aug 16 - No Cached
  • Tom McHale on 05 Aug 16
     
    "New Jersey has become the second state to require students to pass the PARCC exam in order to graduate from high school. The New Jersey Board of Education voted Wednesday to begin the requirement with the class of 2021. Currently, New Jersey students must pass a test to graduate, but they can choose which one: PARCC, ACT Aspire, the ACT, PSAT or SAT; Accuplacer, or the ASVAB-AFQT (military entrance exam). They can also opt to demonstrate mastery of subject matter through a portfolio presentation. The board's vote means that as of 2021, only two graduation options will be available to New Jersey students: First they must try to score "proficient" on the PARCC exams in 10th grade English/language arts and Algebra I. If they can't, they may submit a portfolio appeal. "
Tom McHale

Poetry Pairing | 'viewfinder' - The New York Times - 0 views

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poetry

shared by Tom McHale on 16 Apr 16 - No Cached
  • Tom McHale on 16 Apr 16
     
    Happy National Poetry Month! Not only do we offer this month's Poetry Pairing, featuring Kirby Knowlton's "viewfinder" matched with a 2014 article, "Tangled Web of Memories Lingers After a Breakup," by Nick Bilton, but we are also currently running a Found Poem Student Contest as well as an open poetry discussion forum. Join us. To view all of the Poetry Pairings we've published in collaboration with the Poetry Foundation since 2010, and to find activity sheets to help with teaching them, visit our collection.
Tom McHale

Teaching 'Frankenstein' With The New York Times - The New York Times - 0 views

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reading teaching

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  • Tom McHale on 17 Feb 17
     
    To mark the 200th birthday of "Frankenstein," we have updated our older Learning Network lessons with recent Times resources to pair with the text. We also provide teaching ideas related to theme and suggest activities for students. Continue reading the main story Lesson Plans English Language Arts AUG 31 Social Studies AUG 31 Science & Math AUG 31 E.L.L. & Arts AUG 31 Current Events AUG 31 See More » "
Tom McHale

About Op-Docs - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Tom McHale on 30 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Tom McHale on 30 Nov 11
     
    Op-Docs is The New York Times editorial department's forum for short, opinionated documentaries, produced with wide creative latitude and a range of artistic styles, covering current affairs, contemporary life and historical subjects.   Op-Docs videos are produced by both renowned and emerging filmmakers who express their views in the first person, through their subjects or more subtly through an artistic approach to a topic. Each is accompanied by a director's statement. Are there applications for the classroom? Anyone can submit there own Op-Doc.
Tom McHale

High School Teachers Combat "Txt-spk" by Encouraging Blogging - 0 views

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  • Tom McHale on 27 Jul 10
     
    StageofLife.com thinks the answer to this phenomenon lies not in pushing against new social media, but rather embracing it: by encouraging high school students to blog. StageofLife.com is a website for the generation growing up with social media embedded into their daily lives to meet, share stories, and learn about those in their generation and other stages of life. It is an educational resource as well, offering lesson plans and contest ideas to educators. One of the most recent creative writing lesson plans is quite innovative: its goal is to break students out of the restrictive environment of 140-character word limits while at the same time promote the use of social media in the classroom. StageofLife.com believes that blogging and other social media is an integral part of the lives of current high school students, and should be incorporated into English classes around the country.
Tom McHale

How 'Gatsby' Went From A Moldering Flop To A Great American Novel : NPR - 0 views

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  • Tom McHale on 08 Sep 14
     
    "Corrigan considers The Great Gatsby to be the greatest American novel - and it's the novel she loves more than any other. She's written a new book about it called So We Read On: How the Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures. Corrigan says she loves The Great Gatsby in part because of its message that it's admirable to try to beat your own fate. "You can't escape the past, but isn't it noble to try?" she says. "That's the message here ... to be the boat against the current, even though failure and death inevitably await you. The doomed beauty of trying - that's what this novel is about.""
Tom McHale

A Dystopian High School Musical Foresaw The College Admissions Scandal : NPR - 0 views

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  • Tom McHale on 13 Apr 19
     
    "A new musical explores life in high school in a way that's eerily familiar. It's called Ranked, and it's set in a dystopian world where your class rank - determined by grades and test scores - governs everything from where you sit to what your future holds." This musical, written by a high school teacher, explores some really interesting questions inspired by the students including: "How do we know the difference between who we actually are and what people want from us?" Usually, Granite Bay announces its spring musical by posting headshots of the performers in the hallway. But this year, it tried something a little different: Holmes asked students to anonymously submit personal text messages, exchanges and emails that depicted the pressure the students were under from parents and counselors. One text exchange reads: A: How was the test? B: I got an 86%! A: Oh no what happened? Another: A: I'm watching you B: Where am I currently then A: Failing class They used the messages in a collage that included headlines from recent news stories ("The Silicon Valley Suicides," "Is class rank valid?") and hung it in the hallway instead of the headshots. A banner at the top reads: "Pain is temporary. Grades last forever."
Tom McHale

Playing to Win: Using Sports to Develop Evidence-Based Arguments - The New York Times - 0 views

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writing argument sports

shared by Tom McHale on 08 Feb 19 - No Cached
  • Tom McHale on 08 Feb 19
     
    "While it might not be immediately obvious to all teachers, particularly those who aren't die-hard fans, sports is also an endless source of inspiration for making arguments and throwing down facts. In this lesson, we explore how to use the world of sports to help students effectively develop evidence-based arguments. We suggest three categories for practicing the skill in sports contexts - from making a case for the G.O.A.T. to taking on current sports-world controversies to proposing rules changes to make a sport or tournament better. We end the lesson with a few strategies for bringing debate and argument writing alive in the classroom."
Tom McHale

'The Road Not Taken' Poem By Robert Frost is Widely Misread - The Atlantic - The Atlantic - 0 views

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poetry poem

shared by Tom McHale on 04 Apr 18 - No Cached
  • Tom McHale on 04 Apr 18
     
    VIDEO: "Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken" is often interpreted as an anthem of individualism and nonconformity, seemingly encouraging readers to take the road less traveled. This interpretation has long been propagated through countless song lyrics, newspaper columns, and graduation speeches. But as Frost liked to warn his listeners, "You have to be careful of that one; it's a tricky poem-very tricky." In actuality, the two roads diverging in a yellow wood are "really about the same," according to Frost, and are equally traveled and quite interchangeable. In fact, the critic David Orr deemed Frost's work "the most misread poem in America," writing in The Paris Review: "This is the kind of claim we make when we want to comfort or blame ourselves by assuming that our current position is the product of our own choices… The poem isn't a salute to can-do individualism. It's a commentary on the self-deception we practice when constructing the story of our own lives.""
Tom McHale

5 Questions to Ask Yourself About Your Unmotivated Students | Cult of Pedagogy - 0 views

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motivation

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  • Tom McHale on 09 Oct 16
     
    This is the article that Andrea sent a link to: "When I ask teachers what their biggest struggles are, one issue comes up on a regular basis: student motivation. You are able to reach many of your students, but others are unreachable. No matter what you try, they have no interest in learning, no interest in doing quality work, and you are out of ideas. For a long time, I had no solutions; the problem was too complex. I have had my own unmotivated students, and I never had any magic bullets for them. Still, the issue kept coming up from my readers. So I decided to do some research, to try to find what the most current studies say about what motivates students. This is what I found:"
Tom McHale

How to Fuel Students' Learning Through Their Interests | MindShift | KQED News - 0 views

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  • Tom McHale on 11 Oct 16
     
    "Here's a look inside the tools and methods Preston, who currently teaches three Advanced Placement English and Composition courses, finds essential to his open source learning pursuit:"
Tom McHale

How do we spend the limited time we are given to teach our writers? | write.share.connect - 0 views

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writing

shared by Tom McHale on 24 Jul 17 - No Cached
  • Tom McHale on 24 Jul 17
     
    "When we ask teachers what is their biggest obstacle in teaching writing, they often say "Time!"  Indeed, the time to fit everything in and do a good job with writing workshop is our greatest challenge.  There is no way to remove this obstacle from our daily challenges, so we must, as Rudyard Kipling tells us in his poem "If",  fill the "unforgiving minutes with sixty second worth of distance run…"  Perhaps the best way to do this is to begin with a set of questions we can ask ourselves as teachers of writers: How are we currently spending the limited time we are given? How can we revise the way we spend our time in workshop to be more effective/productive? Is this the right lesson for these students right now (a question we can ask ourselves daily)? Is this learning experience worthy of the time it will take us to do it right? Is there another way - a better way - to approach this concept/learning? What is essential here? Important to know? Necessary to learn as a stepping stone to the next concept/skill? How can we give students more opportunities to write? To have choice? What do our students need from us right now?"
Tom McHale

Short podcasts that will make you smarter - Business Insider - 0 views

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podcasts

shared by Tom McHale on 02 May 17 - No Cached
  • Tom McHale on 02 May 17
     
    "Business Insider has rounded up some of the best short podcasts out there - podcasts that somehow manage to fascinate, entertain, and teach you something cool in 30 minutes or less. Whatever your current mood or interest, there's a program here for you."
Tom McHale

A Powerful Way to End the School Year | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • Tom McHale on 29 May 17
     
    "One of our strategies that teachers enjoy using at the end of the school year is a practical, easy-to-use tool we call Celebrating Learning With Year Mapping. This activity gives your current students a chance to feel good about what they've learned and provides incoming students an opportunity to see real evidence that they can be successful learners in the coming school year. And it gives teachers a chance to enjoy seeing students share what they've learned and to internalize their successful teaching."
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