Grades Suffer When Class Time Doesn't Match Students' Biological Clocks - Inside School... - 1 views
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"An important piece of the story is that it's not just about making the life of a teenager easier by saying maybe we can make classes later," said Benjamin Smarr, a postdoctoral psychologist at the University of California at Berkeley who studies circadian rhythm disruptions and learning.
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As it turned out, taking a class schedule mismatched to your biological clock took a toll on students' grades, as the chart below shows.
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Early-rising "larks" had a grade advantage in morning classes, they found. Night owls performed better in afternoon and early evening classes, but the researchers also found these students tended to struggle more than those with earlier circadian rhythms in general. The researchers believe this was because their schedules were the farthest off "normal" class schedules, and the actual class times often varied significantly from day to day, making it difficult for these students to develop any consistency.
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How Good Is Good Enough? - Educational Leadership - 0 views
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Mastery is effective transfer of learning in authentic and worthy performance. Students have mastered a subject when they are fluent, even creative, in using their knowledge, skills, and understanding in key performance challenges and contexts at the heart of that subject, as measured against valid and high standards
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Wooden described his overall method like this: "I tried to teach according to the whole–part method. I would show them the whole thing to begin with. Then I'm going to break it down into the parts and work on the individual parts and then eventually bring them together"
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The constant process of bringing the parts back together in complex performance is what's routinely missing from many so-called mastery learning programs.
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Overcoming the F.E.A.R. of No Grades - 1 views
How Engineering Class in 9th Grade Can Excite Diverse Learners | MindShift | KQED News - 0 views
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Engineering has been getting a lot of attention because of its real-world applications and clear job prospects, but learning to think like an engineer could be useful no matter what students decide to pursue for work
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all ninth-graders
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I felt like I didn’t know how to make enough stuff,”
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Why We Should Stop Grading Students on a Curve - NYTimes.com - 0 views
Education Experts Explain the Role Teachers Would Play for Students in Classrooms in a ... - 0 views
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With so many different learning styles and students at different places in their learning within a grade and within subjects, students and schools will benefit greatly from co-teaching models.
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Individual teachers will not be responsible for individual students as much as the team of teachers will be responsible for the learning outcomes of each student they touch within the school day.
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The notion of “teacher” will change significantly in the future. The growing number of formal and informal learning options is causing an unbundling of the teacher role.
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Open Badges - 0 views
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Open Badges http://t.co/0A6oQAP2hX #mvpschool 2nd 3rd & 4th grade Ss participating N 5 Week Startups w/ @diy #colab13 http://t.co/uCZdogygFL
Stop telling us it's not about the points | thebloggerina - 1 views
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If I focused on just learning all of the material instead of playing for points, I would fail.
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If I learn now, I’m denied a bright future of learning later.
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Even though I have good grades, my academic confidence is very low.
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NAIS - One School's Conversation About Open Gradebook - 1 views
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The critical difference is that at Harpeth Hall, and most likely any all-girls school, we know a student’s numeric average at any given moment will never provide the whole picture of her educational journey
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At this time, we can find no research showing that open gradebooks have improved students’ grades or helped teachers know their students better.
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The current system, while technically old-fashioned, preserves the teacher-student relationship and still allows students to have ownership.
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A More Complete Picture of Student Learning | Edutopia - 0 views
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I’m really excited to see that educators are clear about the use of formative and summative assessment.
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At the same time, by naming assessments, we may be falling into a trap of being too rigid.
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Our current assessments are geared toward reporting on mastery—often what the grade measures—rather than learning. But we could create assessments that value the learning along the way. Such a system would record not just quizzes, tests, written work, and presentations, but also exit tickets, and even conversations between student and teacher.
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Ten Distinguishing Features of Competency-Based Education « Competency Works - 0 views
A Perfect World Is One with No Grades - 1 views
Want to Assess Noncognitive Competencies? Examine Student Work | GOA - 1 views
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we should deeply examine student work, and this must include robust student self-assessment.
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Unfortunately, many transcripts or report cards simply give course titles and grades. We should have transcripts and final reporting mechanisms that show the whole child, beyond their grades and their work in typical cognitive domains.
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Using noncognitive competencies as assessment tools in courses and student projects is often something that teachers don’t have much expertise in. Many teachers have been hired for their content expertise and they are much more invested in, and/or have been trained in, the assessment and reporting of cognitive competencies.
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Assessment in Making | Edutopia - 1 views
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Traditional direct instruction focuses on content knowledge, while maker-centered learning orients around the learner's context.
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Perhaps some memorization of key facts is necessary, but we must set our sights beyond box checking and move toward connection with peers, toward empathy, problem solving, and working through frustrations in pursuit of a deeper, richer understanding of both content and self.
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Making innately provides evidence of learning.
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