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Sherilyn Crawford

Ravitch: Billionaires (and millionaires) for education reform - The Answer Sheet - The ... - 0 views

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  • Sherilyn Crawford on 15 Nov 11
     
    Letter written by Diane Ravitch on what billionaires are doing to public education by funding vouchers and charter programs.
jeffery heil

Five Big Changes to the Future of Teacher Education | MindShift - 1 views

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  • INFORMED BY NEED.
  • INVESTMENTS IN CLINICAL TRAINING.
  • CHANGING THE CONTEXT OF CONTENT.
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  • SEAMLESS CONNECTIONS BETWEEN PRE-SERVICE EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT.
  • LEARNING AND LEADING IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT.
Christina Andrade

Teaching English Language Learners Across the Content Areas - 0 views

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  • Christina Andrade on 04 Oct 11
     
    This looks like a good site for you K-12 teachers. We are sure to encounter ELLs in ANY classroom and working the content standards into feasibility is/will no doubt be a challenge
Sherilyn Crawford

KB...Konnected - 0 views

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  • Sherilyn Crawford on 06 Oct 11
     
    A site with links to all sorts of student websites as educational resources for students who finish early...
jeffery heil

Why Are Finland's Schools Successful? | People & Places | Smithsonian Magazine - 0 views

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  • Finland has vastly improved in reading, math and science literacy over the past decade in large part because its teachers are trusted to do whatever it takes to turn young lives around.
  • “This is what we do every day, prepare kids for life.”
  • “Whatever it takes” is an attitude that drives not just Kirkkojarvi’s 30 teachers, but most of Finland’s 62,000 educators in 3,500 schools from Lapland to Turku—professionals selected from the top 10 percent of the nation’s graduates to earn a required master’s degree in education
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  • Nearly 30 percent of Finland’s children receive some kind of special help during their first nine years of school.
  • more than half of its 150 elementary-level students are immigrants—from Somalia, Iraq, Russia, Bangladesh, Estonia and Ethiopia, among other nations
  • “We prepare children to learn how to learn, not how to take a test,”
  • There are no rankings, no comparisons or competition between students, schools or regions.
  • Every school has the same national goals and draws from the same pool of university-trained educators.
  • The differences between weakest and strongest students are the smallest in the world, according to the most recent survey by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). “Equality is the most important word in Finnish education. All political parties on the right and left agree on this,” said Olli Luukkainen, president of Finland’s powerful teachers union.
  • “If you only measure the statistics, you miss the human aspect.”
  • Compulsory schooling does not begin until age 7. “We have no hurry,” said Louhivuori. “Children learn better when they are ready. Why stress them out?”
  • Ninety-seven percent of 6-year-olds attend public preschoo
  • Schools provide food, medical care, counseling and taxi service if needed. Stu­dent health care is free.
  • The only time Rintola’s children are pulled out is for Finnish as a Second Language classes, taught by a teacher with 30 years’ experience and graduate school training.
  • English begins in third grade, Swedish in fourth.
  • Not until sixth grade will kids have the option to sit for a district-wide exam, and then only if the classroom teacher agrees to participate
  • Most do, out of curiosity. Results are not publicized. Finnish educators have a hard time understanding the United States’ fascination with standardized tests. “Americans like all these bars and graphs and colored charts,”
  • “Looks like we did better than average two years ago,” he said after he found the reports. “It’s nonsense. We know much more about the children than these tests can tell us.”
  • A class of first graders scampered among nearby pine and birch trees, each holding a stack of the teacher’s homemade laminated “outdoor math” cards. “Find a stick as big as your foot,” one read. “Gather 50 rocks and acorns and lay them out in groups of ten,” read another. Working in teams, the 7- and 8-year-olds raced to see how quickly they could carry out their tasks.
  • “We help situate them in the right high school,” said then deputy principal Anne Roselius. “We are interested in what will become of them in life.”
  • “It was simply the idea that every child would have a very good public school. If we want to be competitive, we need to educate everybody. It all came out of a need to survive.”
  • Teachers from all over the nation contributed to a national curriculum that provided guidelines, not prescriptions.
  • The second critical decision came in 1979, when reformers required that every teacher earn a fifth-year master’s degree in theory and practice at one of eight state universities—at state expense. From then on, teachers were effectively granted equal status with doctors and lawyers.
  • Applicants began flooding teaching programs, not because the salaries were so high but because autonomy and respect made the job attractive
  • All children—clever or less so—were to be taught in the same classrooms, with lots of special teacher help available to make sure no child really would be left behind
  • The inspectorate closed its doors in the early ’90s, turning accountability and inspection over to teachers and principals. “We have our own motivation to succeed because we love the work,” said Louhivuori. “Our incentives come from inside.”
  • A recent report by the Academy of Finland warned that some schools in the country’s large cities were becoming more skewed by race and class as affluent, white Finns choose schools with fewer poor, immigrant populations.
jeffery heil

We can't let educators off the hook | Dangerously Irrelevant - 0 views

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  • I think most teachers don’t even realize that there’s a decision to be made. It’s not a matter of choosing the red pill or the blue pill… if you don’t know that there are even two pills available as options
  • Every day that I present for educators, I have a greater appreciate for how distorted the view is as seen through the eyes of a typical EduBlogger.
  • Rather, it's that their priorities don't always line up with those of other progressive educators in and out of the blogosphere.
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  • You can’t ‘firmly believe in life-long learning’ and simultaneously not be clued in to the largest transformation in learning that ever has occurred in human history. Those two don’t co-exist. Being a ‘life-long learner’ is not ignoring what’s going on around you; you don’t get to claim the title of ‘effective educator’ if you do this.
  • Changing inertia into momentum, not waiting for someone to hand us the answer, taking responsibility ourselves rather than blaming others for our own inactivity - that’s what life-long learners do. That’s what effective educators do. That’s what we owe our children.
  • t’s not about us. It’s not about our personal or professional priorities and preferences, our discomfort levels, or any of that other stuff that has to do with us. It’s about our students: our children and our youth who deserve at the end of their schooling experience to be prepared for the world in which they’re going to live and work and think and play and be. That’s the obligation of each and every one of us. No educator gets to disown this.
Sherilyn Crawford

Welcome Back Wordle… Plus 7 Other Free Word Cloud Generators! | 21 st Century... - 0 views

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shared by Sherilyn Crawford on 09 Oct 11 - Cached
  • Annie Reyes on 09 Oct 11
     
    I think someone asked how to put more than one word together for Wordle.. here are tips!
  • Sherilyn Crawford on 10 Oct 11
     
    Resource for word cloud sites, including Wordle. Gives information about each site and links.
Sherilyn Crawford

Pow! How Comics in the Classroom Can Combat Bullying | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • Sherilyn Crawford on 08 Oct 11
     
    This article talks about the website Bitstrips for Schools and how you can use technology in the classroom by creating comic strips, and how teachers have been using them to combat bullying.
Sherilyn Crawford

100 Inspiring Ways to Use Social Media In the Classroom | Online Universities - 0 views

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shared by Sherilyn Crawford on 11 Oct 11 - Cached
  • Sherilyn Crawford on 11 Oct 11
     
    Really cool article with great ideas and direct links to examples that illustrate them
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