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sheldon reynolds

Understanding by Design | Center for Teaching | Vanderbilt University - 0 views

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  • What should students know, understand and be able to do
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      sheldon reynolds on 25 Jun 13
       
      facts & skills
  • What facts, concepts and principles should they know?  What processes, strategies and methods should they learn to use?
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      sheldon reynolds on 25 Jun 13
       
      topics
  • understandings” that you want students to remember after they’ve forgotten the details of the course.
    • sheldon reynolds
      sheldon reynolds on 25 Jun 13
       
      Concepts, key understanding the last pieces of blooms and the six facuets
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  • how do you prioritize and narrow down the content you want to teach so it fits within the limited framework of the course?
    • sheldon reynolds
      sheldon reynolds on 25 Jun 13
       
      this is guiding question for unit/learning design
  • What will you accept as evidence that students are making progress toward the learning goals of the course?  How will you know if they are “getting it”?
  • Finally, after you have decided what results you want and how you will know you’ve achieved them, then you start planning how you’re going to teach.
Katy Vance

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  • Katy Vance on 23 Apr 12
     
    Our future gift to Sheldon!
carissa june

How to Make Better Teachers Part 2 | Ideas and Thoughts - 1 views

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  • Katy Vance on 26 Apr 12
     
    I would love to see regular recording and reflection built into teacher's professional development plans and/or a Critical Friends structure. Josh is a big champion for recording as a part of being a reflective practicioner.
sheldon reynolds

Education Week: Advocates Worry Implementation Could Derail Common Core - 2 views

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professional_development Common Core teaching instruction implementation

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  • standards face what experts say is their biggest challenge yet: faithful translation from expectations on paper to instruction in classrooms.
  • Whether opponents' nightmares come true, or advocates' hopes are borne out, will depend largely on how the standards are put into practice.
  • "It's a huge, heavy lift if we are serious about teachers teaching it, kids learning it, curricula reflecting it, tests aligned with it, and kids passing those tests."
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  • U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, have repeatedly said that states are free to choose whether to embrace or reject common standards and tests.
  • Math teachers face having to teach skills to which they're unaccustomed, since some concepts have been moved to lower grades in the new standards
  • ocus longer and more deeply on fewer concepts and to emphasize conceptual understanding and practical applications of math
  • demand better analysis and argumentation skills, and they involve teachers from all subjects in teaching the literacy skills of their disciplines
  • More than most states' own standards, they insist on students building content knowledge and reading skill from independently tackling informational texts. They
  • Professional development remains a central area of concern as the standards are implemented, and many in the field say the success of the initiative rests on it.
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      sheldon reynolds on 24 Apr 12
       
      Perhaps the most important piece to get this off the ground. Feeling reassured about focusing on this
  • Most current teachers have read the standards for their grade level, think highly of them, and are willing to teach them, but few understand the profound changes in teaching that they will require
  • A majority of the teachers indicate that they think the new common-core standards are pretty much the same as what they have been doing," Mr. Schmidt said in an email. "The difficulty I foresee is that, in spite of this openness toward their implementation, the data suggests that most teachers do not recognize how difficult that process will be.
  • Educators' judgments about whether the tests truly reflect the standards will be crucial to sustaining the standards over the long term, said Mr. Jennings of the Center on Education Policy.
  • "Because of their experience with NCLB, teachers want to know, what are the tests going to require? Will the tests back up what they are supposed to do with the new standards? If they don't, then the entire effort is lost."
    • sheldon reynolds
      sheldon reynolds on 24 Apr 12
       
      I agree, especially dangerous for us, since we teach different already because of Montessori
sheldon reynolds

Education Week: Concern Abounds Over Teachers' Preparedness for Standards - 1 views

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professional_development Common Core standards shifts

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      sheldon reynolds on 24 Apr 12
       
      This is the challenge, how do we get our PD to look like what will be expected of the students???
  • To gauge changes in student growth across the year, as part of the new evaluation system, the district has settled on growth in academic vocabulary as an indicator. In every grade and content area, teams of teachers have come up with those words and related concepts all students must master by the end of the year.
  • "Many states are moving away from the 'train the trainer' model and trying to have more direct communications with teachers, because the message either gets diluted or changed otherwise," said Carrie Heath Phillips, the program director for the Council of Chief State School Officers' common-standards efforts.
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      sheldon reynolds on 24 Apr 12
       
      Exactly where we're at now, we need to make sure we don't fall into this trap
    • Katy Vance
      Katy Vance on 24 Apr 12
       
      I like the idea of trying to model the Common Core shift through our professional development... I just honestly don't know what that will look like.
  • Cognitively Guided Instruction that district officials say aligns well with the common standards' math expectations.
  • A quiet, sub-rosa fear is brewing among supporters of the Common Core State Standards Initiative: that the standards will die the slow death of poor implementation in K-12 classrooms.
  • And we don't want to just bring superficial understanding of these standards, but to deepen the understanding, so we have an opportunity to deliver instruction in a way we haven't before."
    • sheldon reynolds
      sheldon reynolds on 24 Apr 12
       
      nice wording on the shift for math
    • Katy Vance
      Katy Vance on 26 Apr 12
       
      Is there a possibilty we coulod model it through teachers working with student data? (Please remember I am not a math teacher!)
  • No matter which framework was used, teachers received relatively low scores on their ability to engage students in "analysis and problem-solving," to use "investigation/problem-based approaches," to create "relevance to history, current events," or to foster "student participation in making meaning and reasoning," according to a report from the foundation.
    • Katy Vance
      Katy Vance on 26 Apr 12
       
      I feel like this is where we need to talk about instruction just liek we need to talk about content... offering some professional development on inquiry absed learning and project based learning would be helpful.
  • Mr. Wu, the UC-Berkeley professor, contends that current math teachers and curricula focus almost exclusively on procedures and algorithms, an approach he refers to as "textbook mathematics."
  • Anecdotal evidence from a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation study suggests that teachers already struggle to help students engage in the higher-order, cognitively demanding tasks emphasized by the standards, such as the ability to synthesize, analyze, and apply information.
  • But the common core emphasizes understanding of the logical, structural concepts underpinning mathematics—the idea being that understanding how and why algorithms work is as important as crunching numbers.
  • 'Let's just take some time to think about the mathematics and set the teaching strategies aside for a moment,' " Mr. Thomas said. "It's imperative we don't send people out the door with just strategies, tips, and tricks to teach fractions. We have to make sure they understand fractions deeply."
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      Katy Vance on 24 Apr 12
       
      CONTENT CONTENT CONTENT
  • "Teachers will teach as they were taught, and if they are going to incorporate these ideas in their teaching, they need to experience them as students," said Thomas R. Guskey, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Kentucky's college of education, in Lexington. "The PD will have to model very clearly the kinds of activities we want teachers to carry forward and use in their classrooms."
    • Katy Vance
      Katy Vance on 26 Apr 12
       
      "The PD will have to model very clearly the kinds of activities we want teachers to carry forward and use in their classrooms." - This is interesting. How can we create activities for the summer that make teachers feel like we are making them do work while still modeling this kind of instruction....
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      sheldon reynolds on 27 Apr 12
       
      I agree they need something tangible to take away, we'l get to this point when we understand how things will look different
Katy Vance

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  • Katy Vance on 23 Apr 12
     
    This looks like a great resource for learning about how Common Core will affect our delivery of instruction.
carissa june

1 (or 39) Top Idea(s) for Educators from Mindset by Carol Dweck | Connected Principals - 0 views

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      carissa june on 23 Apr 12
       
      I love this book.  It really gets you to think about reflecting on are we accomplished because of our efforts or our abilities?
  • Not only weren’t they discouraged by failure, they didn’t even think they were failing. They thought they were learning
  • carissa june on 23 Apr 12
     
    This book changed my life.... Good for shifting students thinking about effort vs ability.  
sheldon reynolds

Common Core Instructional Shifts | EngageNY - 0 views

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  • sheldon reynolds on 23 Apr 12
     
    Go to the Common Core Shifts PDF
carissa june

'Talking pineapple' question on standardized test baffles students - The Answer Sheet -... - 0 views

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professional_development research test

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    "The whole push for test-based school reform makes about as much sense as a talking pineapple."  Take everything with a "grain of salt"-what can we surmise as the "good" stuff and the overkill?
  • Katy Vance on 26 Apr 12
     
    My favorite reflection on this text was Ken Jenning's breakdown on the essay... hilarious!
Katy Vance

Supporting Students in a Time of Core Standards: English Language Arts, Grades 6-8 - 0 views

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order language_arts common_core middle_school professional_development professional_text instruction shifts

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    We should purchase this!  I have to spend the end of my money, and purchasing some of the items that we can't access through Titlewave is a great way to do it...
Katy Vance

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flatclassroom collaboration socialnetworking professional_development global web2.0 Education

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    If you want to learn more about the Flat Classroom project, this is a great place to start.
Katy Vance

Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds: Move to Global Collaboration One Step at a Time:... - 0 views

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    This book is something we need, and we cannot order it through my Follett money.  Talk about transforming instruction!
Katy Vance

Edmodo | Common Core Conversation - 0 views

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  • Katy Vance on 07 May 12
     
    Edmodo has a whole community dedicated to teachers talking about Common Core! What a great way to work with teachers beyond our walls in preparing for Common Core.
carissa june

Common Core in Mathematics: Shift 1 - Focus | EngageNY - 0 views

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    shift 1-Focus in mathematics
sheldon reynolds

Kagan Online Magazine - Special Article - 1 views

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  • The Application Model: The Relevance Continuum
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      sheldon reynolds on 26 Jun 12
       
      I just heard about this in DPS leadership conference.  I really think that this is something we need to address with our students.
  • Knowledge in one discipline 2. Apply knowledge in discipline 3. Apply knowledge across disciplines 4. Apply knowledge to real-world predictable situations 5. Apply knowledge to real-world unpredictable situations
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      sheldon reynolds on 26 Jun 12
       
      I would really like us to push to get to at the very least level 3 with some level of comfort next year
  • "relevance" comes from the idea that learning is more relevant to the extent you can apply your knowledge to solve real-world problems and create real-world products.
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      sheldon reynolds on 26 Jun 12
       
      this dynamic presenter today said that relevance makes rigor possible.  This why I'm pushing to have ELA and SS taught as a humanities classes.
sheldon reynolds

Flipping the Classroom Requires More Than Video | GeekDad | Wired.com - 1 views

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Flip shifts professional_development

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  • As learners, we humans only retain 10 percent of what we read and 20 percent of what we hear, but we comprehend 90 percent of what we say and do
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      sheldon reynolds on 01 Jul 12
       
      If this research is correct, this really validates the need to make sure the application i.e. student work is of quality
  • The idea has even proved inspirational to other technology-challenged domains (e.g., health care) to spark better use of online information to prepare for face-to-face encounters.
  • What Khan Academy is not, though,
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  • is a panacea for educatio
  • “we’ve wanted students to take responsibility for their learning, and we want to use our time with them to work on the meatier stuff and deepen the learning.
  • Video itself will not help kids achieve more in your class. The flipped classroom is about making connections with learners and differentiating your instruction. If videos are a part of that multi-faceted plan, great
  • “Anyone who blindly adopts ‘The Flipped Classroom’ (or inquiry, or lecturing, or unschooling, or whatever) model and never modifies it to meet the needs of his or her students will blindly lead his or her students into educational ruin.”
  • Khan Academy is great for what it is — a supplemental resource; homework help — but we’ve turned it into something it’s not. Indeed, something it was never intended to be.
  • “Phase Three” of education reform: blended learning. Meaning, the digital form moves beyond simply augmenting face-to-face teaching into a peer role where online and offline interaction directly supports learning goals.
  • Technology is now entrenched in higher education. Its presence urges instructors to teach differently and think more deeply about what information can be delivered before class, during class, and after class. Students drive that change.
sheldon reynolds

The Flipped Classroom Model: A Full Picture « User Generated Education | Diigo - 0 views

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    • sheldon reynolds
      sheldon reynolds on 27 Jun 12
       
      I'd like to see this used as an intervention resource 
Katy Vance

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  • Katy Vance on 01 Jul 12
     
    Hey New Teachers! LearnNC has some great resources for new teacher support.  
sheldon reynolds

The Flipped Class: Myths vs. Reality - THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smarter. About Education. - 0 views

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  • A synonym for online videos. When most people hear about the flipped class all they think about are the videos.  It is the the interaction and the meaningful learning activities that occur during the face-to-face time that is most important
    • sheldon reynolds
      sheldon reynolds on 27 Jun 12
       
      More that just a video, other forms of presentation is key
  • A blending of direct instruction with constructivist learning.
    • sheldon reynolds
      sheldon reynolds on 27 Jun 12
       
      This it... interesting lesson presentation with appropriate follow up lessons (relevant)
  • A class where content is permanently archived  for review or remediation.A class where all students are engaged in their learning.A place where all students can get a personalized education
    • sheldon reynolds
      sheldon reynolds on 27 Jun 12
       
      All justification for usage as an intervention tool
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  • But from our perspective, as successful flipped teachers, we believe it is so much more. 
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