Skip to main content

Home/ LS Chili Peppers/ Group items tagged questions

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
Jim Tiffin Jr

Good Morning! -- A.M. Announcements Build School Community | Education World - 0 views

www.educationworld.com/...admin351.shtml

announcements morning Education World community culture school spirit

shared by Jim Tiffin Jr on 14 Apr 16 - No Cached
  • morning announcements are a proven way to set the tone for the day and build morale and a sense of school "community."
  • there is something very comforting about having a routine format for the morning announcements of each school day.
    • Jim Tiffin Jr
      Jim Tiffin Jr on 14 Apr 16
       
      Even if part of the routine, is the "routine surprise" #havefun
  • After Kostick's wake-up call, members of the school's student council take over the daily routine
    • Jim Tiffin Jr
      Jim Tiffin Jr on 14 Apr 16
       
      Love that students are involved in the announcements.
  • ...16 more annotations...
  • "We use student council representatives to relay these messages because we think the student body might listen more closely and buy into messages more readily when they come from their peers,"
    • Jim Tiffin Jr
      Jim Tiffin Jr on 14 Apr 16
       
      Wonder how this sort of student leadership could be gathered in an elementary setting?
  • a good-morning "America" sing-along
    • Jim Tiffin Jr
      Jim Tiffin Jr on 14 Apr 16
       
      Love the song idea! A tune that all student would know, and could bond with at school-wide events. Who could write one?
  • a special "Guest of the Day."
    • Jim Tiffin Jr
      Jim Tiffin Jr on 14 Apr 16
       
      A tremendous idea! Students hearing from different people in the school community about important and timely messages.
  • "He adds many special twists to the school's daily P.A. announcements. In addition to fade-ins and fade-outs, he uses music that the students appreciate, special sound effects that he makes with his mouth or with studio equipment, and background cheers for the sports report"
    • Jim Tiffin Jr
      Jim Tiffin Jr on 14 Apr 16
       
      FX!! :-)
  • include a positive character-education message. "After I share the message, I always ask the children to 'Pass it on!'"
    • Jim Tiffin Jr
      Jim Tiffin Jr on 14 Apr 16
       
      Great way to make Ethical Decision Maker more than just a monthly focus.
  • the students' bulletin
    • Jim Tiffin Jr
      Jim Tiffin Jr on 14 Apr 16
       
      Another neat idea... bulletins specifically for the students. HMW use this as part of the reading and writing work that students do already?
  • A small book with blank pages is always available next to the P.A. microphone. "Any staff member who would like an announcement made simply pens it in that book,"
    • Jim Tiffin Jr
      Jim Tiffin Jr on 14 Apr 16
       
      This is "High Touch" in my opinion.
  • "The quote relates to our character education trait of the month,"
    • Jim Tiffin Jr
      Jim Tiffin Jr on 14 Apr 16
       
      HMW tie our announcements to our mindsets?
  • 'Failure is the path of least persistence,'"
    • Jim Tiffin Jr
      Jim Tiffin Jr on 14 Apr 16
       
      Stealing this :-)
  • Students who are members of our Student School Life Committee sign up to present a weekly announcement on Monday mornings,
    • Jim Tiffin Jr
      Jim Tiffin Jr on 14 Apr 16
       
      Maybe this answers the question of how to get elementary students more involved in leadership.
  • he always, always makes a special point of thanking the school's cafeteria workers, the custodial staff, the parents volunteers, and secretaries,
    • Jim Tiffin Jr
      Jim Tiffin Jr on 14 Apr 16
       
      Another good idea. Thank the people that we too often take for granted.
  • "This term, I've extended the theme by asking students to let me know if they've noticed their peers 'passing on something good.' I share those 'good news' stories the next morning. It is amazing how many stories have been generated Small steps lead to big journeys!"
    • Jim Tiffin Jr
      Jim Tiffin Jr on 14 Apr 16
       
      Imagine students write these kinds of messages as part of their free writing, or as part of an end of the day through some kinds of all school reflection time! Stories from teachers and students would be accepted!
  • Larry Davis has been kind enough to share a year's worth of questions for use across the elementary grades. You'll find those questions in Education World's Morning Math feature
    • Jim Tiffin Jr
      Jim Tiffin Jr on 14 Apr 16
       
      Jackpot!! A link to lots of possible math questions for the announcements!!
  • A Riddle of the Week
    • Jim Tiffin Jr
      Jim Tiffin Jr on 14 Apr 16
       
      Not really riddles, but funny (and punny) things to make kids laugh, or groan. Either response is good when you are building a #havefun community!
  • "We usually do the National Anthem the first nine weeks of school," Roebuck told Education World. "Then we change songs for each of the other 9-week sessions. It's a good way for students to learn the words to a variety of patriotic songs."
  • Briarcrest also is proud of the school's Brag Board. "Each week, every teacher sends me one piece of student work to display on our big centrally located bulletin board,"
    • Jim Tiffin Jr
      Jim Tiffin Jr on 14 Apr 16
       
      YES!!!
  • Jim Tiffin Jr on 14 Apr 16
     
    Ideas from various principals around morning announcement routines that help build school culture.
  • Jim Tiffin Jr on 14 Apr 16
     
    Ideas from various principals around morning announcement routines that help build school culture.
Shelley Clifford

Set Goals for This Year With These 3 Questions | Entrepreneur.com - 0 views

m.entrepreneur.com/230579

shared by Shelley Clifford on 12 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Shelley Clifford on 12 Jan 14
     
    I plan to share this at first faculty meeting and start w he two reflective questions mentioned.
Jim Tiffin Jr

Experiential Learning | Granted, and... - 0 views

grantwiggins.wordpress.com/...experiential-learning

blog GrantWiggins experience experiential learning makered projects learning design

shared by Jim Tiffin Jr on 22 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • Jim Tiffin Jr on 22 Nov 14
     
    A post by Grant Wiggins, stressing the importance of of how to use hands-on projects and rich experiences to properly frame learning: "If you were going to learn carpentry to build a chair, then "The learning is not the chair; it is the learning about learning about chairs, chair-making and oneself."" The questions Grant would ask at the end of his Socratic Seminars are powerful ones to consider asking in other learning events.
Bo Adams

American Schools Are Training Kids for a World That Doesn't Exist | WIRED - 0 views

www.wired.com/...on-learning-by-doing

School Change #MustRead discovery PBL school3.0

shared by Bo Adams on 18 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • We “learn,” and after this we “do.” We go to school and then we go to work. This approach does not map very well to personal and professional success in America today. Learning and doing have become inseparable in the face of conditions that invite us to discover.
  • In such conditions the futures of law, medicine, philosophy, engineering, and agriculture – with just about every other field – are to be rediscovered.
    • Bo Adams
      Bo Adams on 18 Oct 14
       
      In this paragraph there are so many "project starters" that one could design an entire "curriculum" to weave them into an advanced problem solving component to school!
  • Americans need to learn how to discover.
  • ...9 more annotations...
  • Against this arresting background, an exciting new kind of learning is taking place in America. Alternatively framed as maker classes, after-school innovation programs, and innovation prizes, these programs are frequently not framed as learning at all.
  • Failing to create a new way of learning adapted to contemporary circumstances might be a national disaster.
  • Discovery has always provoked interest, but how one discovers may today interest us even more.
  • in the course I teach, How to Create Things and Have Them Matter, students are asked to look, listen, and discover, using their own creative genius, while observing contemporary phenomena that matter today.
  • Learning by an original and personal process of discovery is a trend on many US university campuses
  • Success brings not just a good grade, or the financial reward of a prize. It brings the satisfaction that one can realize dreams, and thrive, in a world framed by major dramatic questions. And this fans the kind of passion that propels an innovator along a long creative career.
  • Culture labs conduct or invite experiments in art and design to explore contemporary questions that seem hard or even impossible to address in more conventional science and engineering labs.
  • The culture lab is the latest indication that learning is changing in America. It cannot happen too fast.
  • we need to get smarter in ways that match the challenges we now face.
  • Bo Adams on 18 Oct 14
     
    "Our kids learn within a system of education devised for a world that increasingly does not exist." HT @MeghanCureton & Greg Todd Jones (two colleagues in significantly different worlds who sent me the link at exactly the same time.)
Bo Adams

Homework vs. No Homework Is the Wrong Question | Edutopia - 0 views

www.edutopia.org/...k-wrong-question-maurice-elias

homework #MustRead

shared by Bo Adams on 04 Apr 15 - No Cached
  • Ideally, we want children to understand that they are always learners. In school, we refer to them as "students" but outside of school, as children, they are still learners. So it makes no sense to even advertise a "no homework" policy in a school. It sends the wrong message. The policy should be, "No time-wasting, rote, repetitive tasks will be assigned that lack clear instructional or learning purposes."
  • Bo Adams on 04 Apr 15
     
    HT @eijunkie
Bo Adams

Playful learning: Where a rich curriculum meets a playful pedagogy | Preschool Matters.... - 1 views

preschoolmatters.org/...culum-meets-a-playful-pedagogy

preschool play play-based playful learning #MustRead

shared by Bo Adams on 16 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • Playful learning is a whole-child approach to education that includes both free play and guided play.
  • It refers to play in a structured environment around a general curricular goal that is designed to stimulate children’s natural curiosity, exploration, and play with learning-oriented materials.[xxii]  In guided play, learning remains child-directed. This is a key point.  Children learn targeted information through exploration of a well-designed and structured environment (e.g. Montessori[xxiii]) and through the support of adults who ask open-ended questions to gently guide the child’s exploration.
  • Guided play allows children to become engaged; didactic instruction helps them memorize but not transfer what they have learned.
  • ...2 more annotations...
  • Guided play helps constrain what children should be focusing on; free play leaves the field too open and does not help children focus on the target outcomes.
  • It is possible to have a curriculum rich in learning goals that is delivered in a playful pedagogy.
  • Bo Adams on 16 Mar 14
     
    "The Capulets and Montagues of early childhood have long battled over their vision for a perfect preschool education.  Should young children be immersed in a core curriculum replete with numbers and letters or in a playful context that stimulates creative discovery?  The 'preschool war' leaves educators torn and embattled politicians in deadlock.  Playful learning offers one way to reframe the debate by nesting a rich core curriculum within a playful pedagogy." HT @kellyBKelly2001
Jim Tiffin Jr

When Grading Harms Student Learning | Edutopia - 1 views

www.edutopia.org/...student-learning-andrew-miller

#LiquidNetworkSpills assessment Edutopia grading formative assessment schoolreform

shared by Jim Tiffin Jr on 07 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • Is grading the focus, or is learning the focus?
    • Jim Tiffin Jr
      Jim Tiffin Jr on 07 Feb 16
       
      A simple, straightforward reminder of what assessment is for.
  • Zeros do not reflect student learning. They reflect compliance.
    • Jim Tiffin Jr
      Jim Tiffin Jr on 07 Feb 16
       
      Exactly.
  • a deduction in points. Not only didn't this correct the behavior, but it also meant that behavioral issues were clouding the overall grade report. Instead of reflecting that students had learned, the grade served as an inaccurate reflection of the learning goal.
  • ...7 more annotations...
  • Students should learn the responsibility of turning in work on time, but not at the cost of a grade that doesn't actually represent learning.
    • Jim Tiffin Jr
      Jim Tiffin Jr on 07 Feb 16
       
      I completely agree with this point. But admittedly, I still am not sure how it would work in practice... I totally realize that the grades we give as teachers are completely under the school's control - we can go back and change grades even after the course has ended if we need to. But at the core of my question is, "What is the leverage (if that is the right word) that we can use to help students learn that responsibility?" Sports and pulling privileges come to mind, but what else is there. I wonder what other teachers have used for this situation? 
  • Many of our assignments are "practice," assigned for students to build fluency and practice a content or skill. Students are often "coming to know" rather than truly knowing.
  • Practice assignments and homework can be assessed, but they shouldn't be graded.
    • Jim Tiffin Jr
      Jim Tiffin Jr on 07 Feb 16
       
      An excellent distinction!
  • we should formatively assess our students and give everyone access to the "photo album" of learning rather than a single "snapshot."
  • We've all been in a situation where grading piles up, and so we put the class on a task to make time for grading.
    • Jim Tiffin Jr
      Jim Tiffin Jr on 07 Feb 16
       
      Guilty :-(
  • Teaching and learning should take precedence over grading and entering grades into grade books. If educators are spending an inordinate amount of time grading rather than teaching and assessing students, then something needs to change.
  • Our work as educators is providing hope to our students. If I use zeros, points off for late work, and the like as tools for compliance, I don't create hope. Instead, I create fear of failure and anxiety in learning. If we truly want our classrooms to be places for hope, then our grading practices must align with that mission.
    • Jim Tiffin Jr
      Jim Tiffin Jr on 07 Feb 16
       
      +1!
  • Jim Tiffin Jr on 07 Feb 16
     
    A right-to-the-point article on how teacher grading practices can interfere with the learning philosophy of a classroom.
  • Jim Tiffin Jr on 07 Feb 16
     
    A right-to-the-point article on how teacher grading practices can interfere with the learning philosophy of a classroom.
Jim Tiffin Jr

Innovation vs Circulasticity | EdCan Network - 0 views

www.edcan.ca/...innovation-vs-circulasticity

change circulasticity Change-Dynamics FromTJEdwards innovation reform educational innovation implementation #LiquidNetworkSpill

shared by Jim Tiffin Jr on 16 Oct 17 - No Cached
  • Circulasticity. A combination of the words circular and elasticity, it is an organizational condition that generates contexts or situations in which high levels of activity are noted, but any discernible long-term change is not.
  • Because of the elasticity of circulasticity, “innovation” stretches the core environment, but is eventually brought back to the central traditional core and becomes more of an “improvement” than a change catalyst.
  • In my opinion, true innovation in education will only happen when a new structure is created: one that nurtures critical thinkers, supports risk-takers and encourages ongoing transformation, and that places a high value on creative and insightful learning / teaching in classrooms.
  • ...8 more annotations...
  • As Martin Hays wrote in his analysis of organizational wisdom, “Organizational wisdom transcends organizational learning in its commitment to doing the right things over doing things right.”
  • At the current time, educational organizations are mired in structures that have significant “blind spots” for innovation or creativity. These blind spots are the structures themselves, since they were designed along an industrial model that favours uniformity and compliance and has no explicit place or mechanism for including creativity and innovation. Hence they simply don’t allow for innovation to be replicated or made systemic.
    • Jim Tiffin Jr
      Jim Tiffin Jr on 16 Oct 17
       
      Again, the industrial model spoils our work...
  • As John Kotter eloquently describes in his book Buy-In: Saving your good idea from getting shot down, there are four main change impediments that people use: 1) Fear Mongering, 2) Death by Delay, 3) Confusion, 4) Ridicule.[2] In education, these four elements can be translated into: 1) Need Research, 2) Need Results, 3) Need Support, 4) Need Financing. The irony is that even if all four parts of this requirement are met, it still doesn’t serve to create innovative practices.
  • Where everything seems to bog down is in the implementation component.
  • What we need is a work environment that openly values creativity, risk-taking and courage; its lack remains the single greatest impediment to innovation in education.
  • And so, innovation, as traditionally defined, remains more of an elusive objective in education than an emerging reality. We debate the issue; we define the issue; and we design the issue. But moving the innovation agenda forward is an entirely different issue.
  • “The quality of a question is not judged by its complexity but by the complexity of the thinking that it provokes.”
  • True transformation will ultimately have to begin with a courageous act from an individual or individuals to enact the deep structural changes that are so needed.
  • Jim Tiffin Jr on 16 Oct 17
     
    "Circulasticity. A combination of the words circular and elasticity, it is an organizational condition that generates contexts or situations in which high levels of activity are noted, but any discernible long-term change is not."
1 - 10 of 10
Showing 20▼ items per page