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Bo Adams

How Good Is Good Enough? - Educational Leadership - 0 views

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mastery assessment learning MTC #mustread

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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
  • 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"
  • 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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  • Regardless of what particular solution we come up with for linking local grades to wider-world standards, this must be our motto: No surprises; complete transparency as to where the student stands in terms of performance.
  • This is the crux of the matter: how to set school-level standards (and give grades, scores, or judgments in relation to them) in terms of valid external standards. If local tests are less rigorous than state and national tests, and if teachers' scoring and grading of student work reflect only local norms and not wider-world standards, then the school is not standards-based.
Bo Adams

Equipping Young Leaders to Take on the 32 Most Important Issues of Our Time - Vander Ar... - 0 views

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PBL Challenge_Based_Learning curriculum school model School Change #MustRead

shared by Bo Adams on 22 Aug 17 - No Cached
  • If we take citizenship preparation seriously, we should be encouraging young people to engage with the world’s most important issues by helping them frame projects around these goals. Here are six reasons:
  • Extended and integrated challenges are the best way to promote deeper learning and develop readiness for the automation economy. The goals include interesting and timely causes that many young people will find motivating. Making a contribution toward a goal they care about may be the best way to develop student agency. Goal focused projects get kids into the community and connected with local resources (see #PlaceBasedEd) It’s also a chance to shift the paradigm from “prepare for a career 10 years from now” to “make a difference right here, right now.” Taking on real challenges will promote creative and effective uses of technology from collaboration to production.
  • Integrate projects into existing courses. The Global Goals site has useful project resources for 16 of these goals. Plan an integrated unit between two courses. Most of the goals combine science, sociology, research, problem-solving and writing. Capstone projects in the last two years of high school are a good place to start. Each academy at Reynoldsburg High School in Ohio and Chavez Schools in Washington, D.C., engage in a capstone project. Students at Singapore American School are required to conduct a capstone project.
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  • To engage millions of students in local projects connected to global goals, it would be helpful to have: More content associated with each goal (GlobalGoals.org is a start); Templates for local projects; A microcredential system that could help pack projects full of valuable learning (i.e, science, math, communication and collaboration); Access to data sources, data tools and project tools (mentors would be really helpful); and A project gallery for completed contributions.
Nicole Martin

Before You Study, Ask for Help - WSJ - 0 views

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shared by Nicole Martin on 04 Jan 18 - No Cached
  • planning ahead, quizzing themselves on the material and actively seeking out help when they don’t understand it.
  • pick out the main points in their notes
  • I was teaching her while simultaneously teaching myself” the material—a study technique that enabled her to ace the test.
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  • High-achieving students take charge of their own learning and ask for help when they’re stuck,
  • sought out extra study aids
  • asked instructors for help during office hours
  • self-regulated learning: the capacity to track how well you’re doing in your classes and hold yourself accountable for reaching goals.
  • Top students spend more time in retrieval practice, he says—quizzing themselves or each other, which forces them to recall facts and concepts just as they must do on tests. This leads to deeper learning, often in a shorter amount of time, a pattern researchers call the testing effect.
    • Nicole Martin
      Nicole Martin on 04 Jan 18
       
      Students who struggle with retrieval need even more specific guidance than this.
  • Students who formed study groups and quizzed each other weekly on material presented in class
  • Studying in general tends to be more productive when it’s done in short segments of 45 minutes or so rather than over several hours,
  • doing practice problems repeatedly until he no longer needed his notes to solve them—a highly effective strategy.
  • Many teachers in middle and high school try to teach good study habits, but the lessons often don’t stick unless students are highly motivated to try them
T.J. Edwards

Career And Technical Education: Boom Or Bust? : NPR Ed : NPR - 0 views

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School Change #mvifishares maker schoolreform

shared by T.J. Edwards on 18 May 16 - No Cached
  • I wouldn't risk my child's [education], even though I know that learning by doing is more powerful than learning with your head alone in school.
    • T.J. Edwards
      T.J. Edwards on 18 May 16
       
      Huh??!! We have to take some risk to lead transformational change. To say that you are willing to stick with the status quo despite strong evidence that another approach is more powerful is mind boggling to me.
  • Every year, more than 400,000 young people in the top half of their high school class go to college, and eight years later they have not earned either a two- or four-year degree or certificate. So at some point, failure matters. Education reform in pursuit of academic excellence is floundering.
  • T.J. Edwards on 18 May 16
     
    "Education reform in pursuit of academic excellence is floundering"
Meghan Cureton

100 Questions That Help Students Think About Thinking - - 0 views

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questioning #mvifishares idiploma assessment

shared by Meghan Cureton on 23 May 16 - No Cached
  • Meghan Cureton on 23 May 16
     
    Excellent bank of questions to spur and scaffold self-directed learning and metacognitive behaviors in your classroom, workplace and your life
Jim Tiffin Jr

Pedagogy of Play | Project Zero - 0 views

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Project Zero Harvard play research maker-centered learning learning environment #LiquidNetworkSpill #mvifishares

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  • Jim Tiffin Jr on 18 Aug 16
     
    A new (2016) research project coming out of Harvard. With play a component of the motivation cycle for innovators, this growing body of work may be worth following.
  • Jim Tiffin Jr on 18 Aug 16
     
    A new (2016) research project coming out of Harvard. With play a component of the motivation cycle for innovators, this growing body of work may be worth following.
T.J. Edwards

How Engineering Class in 9th Grade Can Excite Diverse Learners | MindShift | KQED News - 0 views

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shared by T.J. Edwards on 09 Sep 16 - No Cached
  • 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
    • T.J. Edwards
      T.J. Edwards on 09 Sep 16
       
      Not making engineers....learning to think like
  • all ninth-graders
    • T.J. Edwards
      T.J. Edwards on 09 Sep 16
       
      What if Ted was required for all?
  • I felt like I didn’t know how to make enough stuff,”
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  • Pilla worked as a mechanical engineer at Lockheed Martin before switching to teaching. “I didn’t have enough experience working on and planning out a really big project,”
  • That’s what he tries to give his students in high school.
  • When students newer to making come in excited to take on a project, the old hands help them get up to speed on the skills. And a lot of those projects are about improving the school itself.
  • Tiarra Bell, a senior at SLA Center City. Design drew her into engineering. She experimented with architecture and industrial design, but has really become passionate about furniture design. She now makes and sells her own furniture.
  • Kamal and Pilla meet with an advisory group of engineering industry professionals periodically to make sure their program is truly equipping students with the skills they’ll need to go into these fields later
  • The experts say students need to be able to write, to find problems, to communicate, to Google, to understand constraints. They need to be creative, take thoughtful risks and have a “fearlessness to leap.
  • robotics, senior engineering, astronomy and space sciences, MakerSpace, electronics and programming)
    • T.J. Edwards
      T.J. Edwards on 09 Sep 16
       
      Seems like a lot. Too many choices?
  • To me it’s not about becoming an engineer in college or after. It’s about the critical thinking and the challenges and the creativity that comes with it,”
T.J. Edwards

PBL, STEAM, & CTE: Validation through Triangulation | Blog | Project Based Learning | BIE - 0 views

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#mvifishares pbl steam cte project based learning

shared by T.J. Edwards on 09 Sep 16 - No Cached
  • identifying ways that STEAM, CTE, and PBL have a unique three-way symbiotic relationship
  • So, with CTE, one or more of the STE(A)M subjects naturally is embedded within it, especially when applied to key knowledge, understanding, & success skills. Sound familiar? That’s the focus at the center of Gold Standard PBL! So what about the Essential Project Design Elements of PBL as applying STE(A)M within CTE?
  • what if an Engineering and Architecture Pathway student was asked to use CAD to design a home using passive solar construction techniques, much like the Anasazi did before electricity and indoor plumbing?
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  • Integrating CTE and STE(A)M in this manner raises the bar to the rigorous level of PBL.
  • Then I realized that all of the CTE industry sectors have these same standards, so they apply to STE(A)M and PBL in the same manner as the example above from Architecture and Engineering.
  • T.J. Edwards on 09 Sep 16
     
    Makes me happy that Career Tech is mentioned as a vehicle for more rigorous PBL and STEAM and not as a program for "underachievers"
Bo Adams

Leading In The Future: Cognitive Load Management | DCulberhouse - 0 views

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leadership cognitive science

shared by Bo Adams on 11 Nov 16 - No Cached
  • Too often, we have overloaded our individual and organizational circuits beyond capacity, leaving little to no room or energy for new learning to exist and take root.
  • In any change or shift process, especially when new learning is involved,  balancing the ‘cognitive load’ provides people the space and energy to invest in evolving their mental models and expanding their current cognitive limits.
Meghan Cureton

4 Ways to Lead and Create a "Culture of Innovation" From Any Position - The Principal o... - 0 views

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School Change leadership innovation

shared by Meghan Cureton on 17 Nov 16 - No Cached
  • best learning can happen when we are uncomfortable,
  •  Observe, look, challenge, and wonder about the things on the walls and the learning in the school like it was your first day, every day.
  • Impact one other teacher in your school, and you impact probably a minimum of twenty students (that year only).
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  • Building innovative organizations will take all of us working together. This is not about a “top down” or “bottom up” approach as much as it is about “all hands on deck.” And it is possible.
Bo Adams

Education's "Alternative Facts" - Modern Learners - 0 views

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learning modern_learning will richardson

shared by Bo Adams on 25 Jan 17 - No Cached
  • but if your kids aren’t engaged, it’s about agency, not technology
  • The real fact is that grades don’t tell us much other than what students are able to remember for the test or how well they learned to play the game of school.
Meghan Cureton

Education Week - 0 views

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PBL iDiploma projectbasedlearning

shared by Meghan Cureton on 28 May 16 - No Cached
  • Meghan Cureton on 28 May 16
     
    Includes schools /tools to learn from as well as links to project portfolios
Meghan Cureton

Lesson Study: When Teachers Team Up to Improve Teaching | MindShift | KQED News - 0 views

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InstructionalRounds lesson study

shared by Meghan Cureton on 30 May 16 - No Cached
  • Meghan Cureton on 30 May 16
     
    Lesson study / Instructional Rounds - HMW make it easier for teachers to visit each other's classes and approach teaching and learning in this way?
Meghan Cureton

Aligning Assessment to Brain Science - 1 views

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#mvifishares #mustread assessment math testing learning

shared by Meghan Cureton on 03 May 16 - No Cached
  • The most powerful learners are those who are reflective, who engage in metacognition – thinking about what they know – and who take control of their own learning
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