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The paradox of Australian mathematics education - 0 views

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  • To teach mathematics well, one must know more than the mathematical topic at hand, the specific techniques to be taught; one must also know about the mathematics, why the topic is the way that it is. That involves consideration of the fundamental nature of mathematics and mathematical thought, including a proper appreciation of mathematics' long and difficult history.
  • Aaron Davis on 28 Jun 14
     
    "The major stumbling block for mathematics education in Australia is that teachers, qualified or not, don't learn enough mathematics and they don't learn it well enough"
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The Newspaper Clipping Image Generator - Create your own fun newspaper - 0 views

www.fodey.com/...snippet.asp web2.0 tools writing english Digital Literacy literacy
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  • Aaron Davis on 26 Jun 14
     
    A simple website that allows you to create a newspaper article in the form of an image.
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You have a Class Blog - Now what? | Celia's reflections - 0 views

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  • Aaron Davis on 15 Jun 14
     
    A great discussion about classroom blogs and how to get the most out of them.
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The Experience of Education: The Impacts of High Stakes Testing on School Students and ... - 0 views

www.whitlam.org/...cation_-_Qualitative_Study.pdf NAPLAN Testing Research Education
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  • Aaron Davis on 12 Jun 14
     
    A study into the impacts of NAPLAN and other such testing on students.
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E-PORTFOLIOS made EASY - With GAFE - Google Slides - 0 views

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  • Aaron Davis on 12 Jun 14
     
    Anthony Speranza's presentation from 2013 Google Summit
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Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom: Why Formative Assessments Matter - 0 views

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  • Formative assessments are simply little gauges or indicators of how students are progressing towards a learning goal
  • 2) Real-Time Feedback
  • 1) Ticket out the door
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  • 3) Building It In
  • Over time the students felt comfortable enough to tell me when they really didn't like the learning style I was using or that they enjoyed a particular way I presented the content. I had a better grasp on the learning my students were doing and they had a better grasp on the content. It was a definite win-win. 
  • Aaron Davis on 11 Jun 14
     
    An interesting reflection on formative assessment and some simple ideas of how to incorporate it into the classroom.
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How do you know if effective teaching is occurring in your school? | Educational Leader... - 0 views

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  • Apart from just observation, which is very important, what rigorous processes can we implement to reflect upon and use to answer this question?
  • The analysis of the information collected is not intended to give individual feedback to teachers but to provide whole school information about strengths and weaknesses in the implementation of formative assessment strategies.
  • A high level of trust among staff is important to ensure the authenticity and success of the Walkthrough process. It is seen as a supportive way to ensure that we hold each other accountable for achieving our scoreboard.
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  • Raising the performance of our entire teaching team is the focus as well as each teacher taking individual responsibility for improving their implementation of quality teaching practices.
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Sticking to the 'Main Thing'-A positive leadership reflection | Educational Leadership ... - 0 views

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  • One of the first leadership decisions I made was to work with staff to audit our schools meta-curriculum. That is all of those programs, events, celebrations, operational arrangements and practices which are not core to the teaching and learning that happens inside classrooms.
  • My mantra was to “give teachers permission to spend their time improving the learning of the students in their class with minimal disruption”.
  • Students are spending less time out of classrooms and more time focused on their own learning.
  • Aaron Davis on 11 Jun 14
     
    A great post from Jason Borton discussing how he worked with his leadership team to refocus his school on learning.
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Class Size Does Make a Difference - David Zyngier - 0 views

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  • Aaron Davis on 11 Jun 14
     
    Findings suggest that smaller class sizes in the first four years of school can have an important and lasting impact on student achievement.
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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: Great Research Tools for Teachers and Students - 0 views

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  • Aaron Davis on 02 Jun 14
     
    An interesting list of tools for doing research online.
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Webmaker | mozteach - 0 views

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  • Aaron Davis on 12 May 14
     
    A great collection of resources for remixing the web using Mozilla's Thimble.
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Google Apps For Education - What is it (good for)? | ReconfigurEd. - 0 views

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  • Aaron Davis on 28 Feb 14
     
    An awesome introduction into Google Apps for Education from Anthony Speranza, which includes a really good presentation. Covers everything.
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The perils of “Growth Mindset” education: Why we’re trying to fix our... - 0 views

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  • By now, the growth mindset has approached the status of a cultural meme.
  • Regardless of their track record, kids tend to do better in the future if they believe that how well they did in the past was primarily a result of effort.But “how well they did” at what?
  • even some people who are educators would rather convince students they need to adopt a more positive attitude than address the quality of the curriculum (what the students are being taught) or the pedagogy (how they’re being taught it).
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  • An awful lot of schooling still consists of making kids cram forgettable facts into short-term memory. And the kids themselves are seldom consulted about what they’re doing, even though genuine excitement about (and proficiency at) learning rises when they’re brought into the process, invited to search for answers to their own questions and to engage in extended projects.
  • the most salient feature of a positive judgment is not that it’s positive but that it’s a judgment; i
  • the first problem with this seductively simple script change is that praising children for their effort carries problems of its own, as several studies have confirmed: It can communicate that they’re really not very capable and therefore unlikely to succeed at future tasks. (“If you’re complimenting me just for trying hard, I must really be a loser.”)
  • what’s really problematic is praise itself. It’s a verbal reward, an extrinsic inducement, and, like other rewards, is often construed by the recipient as manipulation.
  • books, articles, TED talks, and teacher-training sessions devoted to the wonders of adopting a growth mindset rarely bother to ask whether the curriculum is meaningful, whether the pedagogy is thoughtful, or whether the assessment of students’ learning is authentic (as opposed to defining success merely as higher scores on dreadful standardized tests).
  • the series of Dweck’s studies on which she still relies to support the idea of praising effort, which she conducted with Claudia Mueller in the 1990s, included no condition in which students received nonevaluative feedback. Other researchers have found that just such a response — information about how they’ve done without a judgment attached — is preferable to any sort of praise.
  • We need to attend to deeper differences: between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation, and between “doing to” and “working with” strategies.
  • Dweck’s work nestles comfortably in a long self-help tradition, the American can-do, just-adopt-a-positive-attitude spirit.(“I think I can, I think I can…”) The message of that tradition has always been to adjust yourself to conditions as you find them because those conditions are immutable; all you can do is decide on the spirit in which to approach them. Ironically, the more we occupy ourselves with getting kids to attribute outcomes to their own effort, the more we communicate that the conditions they face are, well, fixed.
  • It isn’t entirely coincidental that someone who is basically telling us that attitudes matter more than structures, or that persistence is a good in itself, has also bought into a conservative social critique. But why have so many educators who don’t share that sensibility endorsed a focus on mindset (or grit) whose premises and implications they’d likely find troubling on reflection?
  • the real alternative to that isn’t a different attitude about oneself; it’s a willingness to go beyond individual attitudes, to realize that no mindset is a magic elixir that can dissolve the toxicity of structural arrangements. Until those arrangements have been changed, mindset will get you only so far. And too much focus on mindset discourages us from making such changes.
  • Aaron Davis on 11 Feb 16
     
    "An awful lot of schooling still consists of making kids cram forgettable facts into short-term memory. And the kids themselves are seldom consulted about what they're doing, even though genuine excitement about (and proficiency at) learning rises when they're brought into the process, invited to search for answers to their own questions and to engage in extended projects. Outstanding classrooms and schools - with a rich documentary record of their successes - show that the quality of education itself can be improved. But books, articles, TED talks, and teacher-training sessions devoted to the wonders of adopting a growth mindset rarely bother to ask whether the curriculum is meaningful, whether the pedagogy is thoughtful, or whether the assessment of students' learning is authentic (as opposed to defining success merely as higher scores on dreadful standardized tests). "
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Ways To Use Lego In The Classroom | Teaching Ideas - 0 views

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  • Aaron Davis on 08 Feb 16
     
    Explore our enormous collection of teaching ideas and classroom activities to use Lego with your children. Includes a huge range of cross-curricular ideas and downloadable resources for all ages and abilities!
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Doing It Differently: Tips for Teaching Vocabulary | Edutopia - 0 views

www.edutopia.org/...on-teaching-tips-rebecca-alber vocabulary teaching Marzano
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  • Aaron Davis on 02 Feb 16
     
    "We think with words, therefore to improve thinking, teach vocabulary. -- A. Draper and G. Moeller "
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