Five Ways to Increase Teacher Agency in Professional Development - 0 views
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Ellen Eisenberg on 29 Jul 16We talk about student agency, but what about teacher agency?
much greater emphasis on nonfiction.
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Teachers for the teachers - phillyburbs.com: Editorials - 0 views
Nine Ways the Common Core Will Change Classroom Practice - 0 views
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The Standards also expect students to write more expository prose.
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use evidence to demonstrate their comprehension of texts and to read closely in order to make evidence-based claims
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What is the Value of a Coach? Radical Learners - 0 views
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a witness to the good
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coaches move a school forward one conversation at a time.
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Often teachers have too much to do to organize learning how to implement new practices
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How Can I Hire Good Coaches? - The Art of Coaching Teachers - Education Week Teacher - 2 views
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The skill I most looked for in applicants was the ability to listen. While listening can be learned, it was one skill that I wanted a prospective coach to already have.
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reflective learners
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committed to improving their practice and learning more and refining their skills
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How Teachers Can Share Their Own Learning | Edutopia - 1 views
Schools Must Encourage Sharing of Best Practices Among Teachers - 0 views
Professional development offered for teachers : WeAreSanpete.com - 0 views
A New Game Plan - 1 views
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From Ellen: If you haven't had a chance yet, please read Learning Forward's article, "A New Game Plan - Professional learning redesign makes the case for teacher voices" published in The Learning System. I think many of the ideas captured here will resonate with you and your work. This article may be appropriate for your monthly coaches' networking meeting discussions.
Words that Fail Professional Learning - Learning Forward's PD Watch - Education Week Te... - 1 views
Big leap for literacy in schools | District Administration Magazine - 0 views
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Literacy changes taking hold in schools recognize the subject's expansion from traditional textbooks to online readings, images and audio. New learning standards ask students to read more closely and write more analytically, meaning teachers must adapt curriculum to get students reading earlier.
Can 'Micro-Credentialing' Salvage Teacher PD? - Education Week - 0 views
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Advocates say the movement offers an opportunity for schools to shift away from arbitrary credit-hour requirements toward a system based on evidence of progress in specific instructional skills.
Education Week: Common Standards Ignite Debate Over Prereading - 0 views
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On the topic of prereading and scaffolding, the most recent version takes care to "leave room for a wide range of instructional approaches" that engage students in reading, while at the same time "setting some basic parameters based on the standards," such as ensuring that scaffolding "does not pre-empt or replace the need to read the text,"
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To argue that meaning resides solely in the text is antithetical to several decades of research which shows that meaning is in the interaction of reader and text,"
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"In too many classrooms, the actual text never enters the discussion," he said. "It's all about kids' feelings about it, or their experiences related to it. The teacher spends 45 minutes wallowing in that space, but never gets into the information in the text."
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