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Susan Glassett Farrelly

Education Week Teacher: Teachers as Brain-Changers: Neuroscience and Learning - 0 views

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  • Susan Glassett Farrelly on 22 Dec 11
     
    "Teachers as Brain-Changers: Neuroscience and Learning"
jeffery heil

Education Rethink: Ten Reasons to Get Rid of Homework (and Five Alternatives) - 7 views

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shared by jeffery heil on 21 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • 3. Inequitable Situation: I have some students who go home to parents that can provide additional support. I have others who go home and babysit younger siblings while their single parent works a second shift. I have some who don’t have adequate lighting, who constantly move and who lose electricity on a regular basis. Call those excuses if you want. I’ll call it systemic injustice instead.
  • 5. Homework Creates Adversarial Roles: It is possible for homework (or rather home learning) to be a positive force. However, when a parent is stuck as a practitioner of someone else’s pre-planned learning situation, it becomes an issue of management.
  • 6. Homework De-Motivates:
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  • 8. Most Homework Is Bad: Most homework recreates school within the confines of a home. So, instead of having children do interviews, analyze a neighborhood or engage in culinary math, the traditional approach involves packets.
jeffery heil

A Focus on Learning Rather Than Testing | FutureReady | The North Carolina New Schools ... - 0 views

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shared by jeffery heil on 05 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • One theme that has already emerged is the prevalence of trust that schools and their faculties will do what is in the best interest of students.
  • “We train the people and then leave it to them. The focus is on teacher professionalism. We talk about central steering, not central control.”
  • Key decisions, such as class size and textbook selection, are locally controlled.
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  • a national policy exists that requires schools to avoid ability grouping of students in what was described as preventing a “dead-end education for students.”
  • Teachers generally teach approximately 19 hours per week. The balance of their time is focused on working with their colleagues, reaching out to families and other duties
  • 96% of teachers are unionized
  • High levels of teacher education and preparation allow them to be more independent in the classroom.
  • Broad commitment to the vision of a knowledge-based society.
  • Educational equality
  • Education is free of charge to all, including books, meals, transportation and health care
  • “Our secret is investing in early intervention so that students don’t need it later.”
  • Sweden and Norway spend less on the front end and more later in remediation.
  • The principal works as a pedagogical director.
  • A culture of trust in which no school inspectors or national exams exist.
jeffery heil

The rise of K-12 blended learning | Innosight Institute - 0 views

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shared by jeffery heil on 08 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • In the year 2000, roughly 45,000 K–12 students took an online course. In 2009, more than 3 million K–12 students did.
  • In Disrupting Class,* the authors project that by 2019, 50 percent of all high school courses will be delivered online
Sherilyn Crawford

The Blur Between Leading and Teaching - 0 views

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shared by Sherilyn Crawford on 10 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Anything that we do with technology has to be focused on learning first.
  • We need to always focus on “why” we are doing something before we focus on what and how.  We also need to clearly be able to articulate that to those we work with.
  • Any plans that we create must help to build capacity within schools so that all stakeholders benefit.
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  • I saw a distinct parallel between the characteristics of great teaching and great leadership.
  • Give trust, gain trust. As soon as you show that you trust people to do great things, they are more likely to do them.
  • Provide some clear goals and objectives to the work you are doing.  With those in mind, ensure there is flexibility in the way people achieve those goals.
  • Let people build and share their strengths and interests.
  • We can learn much more from a group than we ever could from only one.  Do your best to bring people together and empower them to be leaders.
  • If you look at the list above, there should be no distinction between what falls under leadership or teaching; they clearly work in both areas.
  • Sherilyn Crawford on 10 Oct 11
     
    Very nicely worded blog post about teaching and leadership and how they are interconnected.
jeffery heil

Will · Learners not Knowers - 0 views

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shared by jeffery heil on 22 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • But I am saying my kids don’t (won’t) need teachers any more to get them to pass the test.
  • If nothing else, the new iPhone’s integration of Siri is a clear indicator of how far technology has come in terms of understanding semantic cues and interactions.
  • If it’s all about test scores and “student acheivement” measured by test scores, immersing kids into Knewton-type environments is by far the easiest, cheapest, path of least resistance for the system’s current definition of “learning.”
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  • This is why we should all be feeling an acute urgency right now to take back the definition of what “learning” really is in a world filled with content and teachers and personalization.
  • Knewton doesn’t develop learners. It develops knowers.
  • We’re in serious trouble if that’s all we value.
Sherilyn Crawford

Professional Learning for Educators | isitalladream - 0 views

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shared by Sherilyn Crawford on 31 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Sherilyn Crawford on 31 Oct 11
     
    Great blog post about how teachers need to be learners in order to be more effective
Sherilyn Crawford

Educational reform: Standardized tests not the way to inspire learning | OregonLive.com - 0 views

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shared by Sherilyn Crawford on 30 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Sherilyn Crawford on 30 Nov 11
     
    Very interesting opinion piece on standardized testing and ed reform by an Oregon teacher
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