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Ellen Eisenberg

CEO of Teaching Quality: Professional Development Often Inadequate - 1 views

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    A study will soon be released highlighting that the U.S. spends about $18 billion on professional development for educators annual, and much of that money is spent ineffectively. So says Barnett Barry, founder and CEO of Center for Teaching Quality in a blog post on TeachingQuality.org.
Ellen Eisenberg

Will controversial new tests for teachers make the profession even more overwhelmingly ... - 0 views

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testing preservice preparation teaching candidates diversity

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    Interesting article about the diversity in teaching candidates and how performance tests may be biased.
Virginia Glatzer

What is the Value of a Coach? Radical Learners - 0 views

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  • a witness to the good
  • coaches move a school forward one conversation at a time.
  • Often teachers have too much to do to organize learning how to implement new practices
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  • A coach can gather data a teacher would like to gather if they weren’t so busy actually teaching
  • that might otherwise go undetected
  • Few people can be more confident that they are making a difference than a coach.
  • the coach is helping every other student that teacher will teach.
Virginia Glatzer

Living Math Book List - 0 views

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    Books that can be used to teach and/or reinforce various mathematical skills
Ellen Eisenberg

Picking Up the Pieces of No Child Left Behind - The Atlantic - 0 views

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professional development collaboration teaching learning

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    Professional development and collaboration... imagine that!
Virginia Glatzer

Nine Ways the Common Core Will Change Classroom Practice - 0 views

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shared by Virginia Glatzer on 10 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • much greater emphasis on nonfiction.
  • The Standards also expect students to write more expository prose.
  • use evidence to demonstrate their comprehension of texts and to read closely in order to make evidence-based claims
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  • read carefully with their students and in many cases reread texts several times
  • cite evidence to justify statements
  • increasingly complex texts
  • teachers will have to choose materials that are appropriate for their grade level; states and organizations are now developing tools to help teachers evaluate complexity.
  • Expect to see teachers asking students to engage in small-group and whole-class discussions and evaluating them on how well they understand the speakers’ points.
  • the Common Core Standards are intended to focus on fewer topics and address them in greater depth
  • The Standards include criteria for literacy in history/social science, science, and technical subjects. This reflects a recognition that understanding texts in each of these subject areas requires a unique set of skills and that instruction in understanding
  • teachers should concentrate on the most important topics,
  • in depth
  • s an integral part of teaching history
  • say, a historical document
  • glean information from a document and make judgments about its credibility
  • The Common Core Standards, by contrast, are designed to build on students’ understanding by introducing new topics from grade to grade.
  • expected to learn content and skills and move to more advanced topics
  • hey suggest relationships between Standards
  • Students will need to know procedures fluently, develop a deep conceptual understanding, and be able to apply their knowledge to solve problems.
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