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Ron King

Modeling Instruction in Physics - 0 views

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  • Ron King on 07 Apr 13
     
    This channel showcases teachers using Modeling Instruction (and other reformed physics teaching methods) in their classrooms. Instead of relying on lectures and textbooks, Modeling Instruction emphasizes active student construction of conceptual and mathematical Models in an interactive learning community. Students are engaged with simple scenarios to learn to Model the physical world.
Ron King

Rethinking Homework - 3 views

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    For the past three years at HFS we have removed what traditionally has been known as homework and replaced it with a term by term 'Homework Challenge' and, even though we still face some of the same issues that we faced before and it is not a perfect model, it is an improvement on what we knew as homework.
Ron King

Connecting test scores to teacher evaluations: Why not? | Dangerously Irrelevant - 0 views

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  • Ron King on 29 Apr 13
     
    Mike Wiser at The Quad-City Times reported today on the controversy here in Iowa around connecting student test scores to teacher evaluations (aka 'value-added modeling' or 'VAM'). Last week I shared the research and prevailing opinion of scholars supporting why this should not be done.
Troy Patterson

Hybrid Classes Outlearn Traditional Classes -- THE Journal - 0 views

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shared by Troy Patterson on 20 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • Students in hybrid classrooms outperformed their peers in traditional classes in all grades and subjects, according to the newest study from two organizations that work with schools in establishing hybrid instruction.
  • The results come out of those classes where students either took the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) tests or Keystone Exams to measure academic achievement.
  • In one example, hybrid learning eighth grade math students at Hatboro-Horsham School District (PA) passed the PSSA tests and Keystone Exams at a rate10 percent higher than their non-hybrid peers in five schools.
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  • In another example, third grade math students in the hybrid learning program at Pennsylvania's Indiana Area School District outperformed students in traditional classes by 10 percentage points on the PSSA exams.
  • scored proficient or advanced on PSSA tests at a rate 23 percent higher than the previous year with gains in all subjects: reading (up 20 percent), math (up 24 percent) and science (up 27 percent).
  • "We use a rigorous accountability system that helps us measure and report on hybrid classroom outcomes," said Dellicker President and CEO Kevin Dellicker.
  • The cost of implementing hybrid learning through the Institute's model could be considered modest. During the 2013-2014 school year, according to the report, the schools spent an average of $220 per student (not including computing devices) to transform their learning models.
Troy Patterson

Principal: Why our new educator evaluation system is unethical - 0 views

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shared by Troy Patterson on 30 May 13 - No Cached
  • A few years ago, a student at my high school was having a terrible time passing one of the exams needed to earn a Regents Diploma.
  • Mary has a learning disability that truly impacts her retention and analytical thinking.
  • Because she was a special education student, at the time there was an easier exam available, the RCT, which she could take and then use to earn a local high school diploma instead of the Regents Diploma.
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  • Regents Diploma serves as a motivator for our students while providing an objective (though imperfect) measure of accomplishment.
  • If they do not pass a test the first time, it is not awful if they take it again—we use it as a diagnostic, help them fill the learning gaps, and only the passing score goes on the transcript
  • in Mary’s case, to ask her to take that test yet once again would have been tantamount to child abuse.
  • Mary’s story, therefore, points to a key reason why evaluating teachers and principals by test scores is wrong.
  • It illustrates how the problems with value-added measures of performance go well beyond the technicalities of validity and reliability.
  • The basic rule is this: No measure of performance used for high-stakes purposes should put the best interests of students in conflict with the best interests of the adults who serve them.
  • I will just point out that under that system I may be penalized if future students like Mary do not achieve a 65 on the Regents exam.
  • Mary and I can still make the choice to say “enough”, but it may cost me a “point”, if a majority of students who had the same middle school scores on math and English tests that she did years before, pass the test.
  • But I can also be less concerned about the VAM-based evaluation system because it’s very likely to be biased in favor of those like me who lead schools that have only one or two students like Mary every year.
  • When we have an ELL (English language learner) student with interrupted education arrive at our school, we often consider a plan that includes an extra year of high school.
  • last few years “four year graduation rates” are of high importance
  • four-year graduation rate as a high-stakes measure has resulted in the proliferation of “credit recovery” programs of dubious quality, along with teacher complaints of being pressured to pass students with poor attendance and grades, especially in schools under threat of closure.
  • On the one hand, they had a clear incentive to “test prep” for the recent Common Core exams, but they also knew that test prep was not the instruction that their students needed and deserved.
  • in New York and in many other Race to the Top states, continue to favor “form over substance” and allow the unintended consequences of a rushed models to be put in place.
  • Creating bell curves of relative educator performance may look like progress and science, but these are measures without meaning, and they do not help schools improve.
  • We can raise every bar and continue to add high-stakes measures. Or we can acknowledge and respond to the reality that school improvement takes time, capacity building, professional development, and financial support at the district, state and national levels.
Troy Patterson

Free Technology for Teachers: 10 Ideas for Using Comics In Your Classroom - 1 views

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  • 1. A fun alternative to traditional book reports.
  • 2. Create biographies.
  • 3. Create autobiographies.
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  • 4. Create goal or vision boards.
  • 5. Illustrate procedures.
  • 6. Summarize events.
  • 7. Craft a visual timeline of events.
  • 8. Write and illustrate fun fiction stories.
  • 9. Illustrate concepts and or vocabulary terms.
  • 10. Model polite conversations. 
Troy Patterson

Get Rid of Grade Levels: A Personalized Learning Recipe for Public School Districts | EdSurge News - 0 views

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shared by Troy Patterson on 28 Apr 16 - No Cached
  • The problem with the current public education model is that it was created for the industrial revolution.
  • Harrisburg, South Dakota is taking concrete steps to go from teacher-driven to student driven learning.
Troy Patterson

Adventures in Blended Learning: Why Universities aren't Dead....and Won't Be - 0 views

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msm308 libraries education

shared by Troy Patterson on 08 Jun 15 - No Cached
  • We will need to accept that we have to teach in ways that we ourselves were never taught.  We will have to work on shifting from a model of content delivery to a serious emphasis on mentoring students on how to learn. 
  • We have to do the hard work of teaching them how to work with that content, how to develop a set of learning behaviors that are transferable to everything they do.
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