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Jason Finley

Flipped Classrooms and Blended Instruction - 12 views

Adam...how about providing the lessons on DVDs for those that might not have computers in their homes. Or, thumbdrives for those with poor internet access.Or, QR codes for those students with more ...

started by Jason Finley on 30 Nov 11 3 follow-ups, last by Jason Finley on 06 Dec 11
Jason Finley

Harvard EdCast: Make Just One Change | Harvard Graduate School of Education - 4 views

www.gse.harvard.edu/...rd-edcast-make-just-one-change

audio good teaching

shared by Jason Finley on 24 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Jason Finley on 24 Jan 12
     
    Dan Rothstein and Luz Santana, authors of the book, Make Just One Change, explain why teaching students to ask their own questions just may revolutionize the classroom. Audio clip.
  • Jason Finley on 24 Jan 12
     
    "The simple shift in practice, from teachers asking questions of students to students learning to generate and improve their own questions, leads to significant cognitive, affective and behavioral changes in students."
  • Jason Finley on 24 Jan 12
     
    Do you teach to inform...or to facilitate learning? jf
Jason Finley

Transforming Teaching: Connecting Professional Responsibility with Student Learning - 2011 Report from CETT - 4 views

www.nea.org/...Transforming_Teaching(2).pdf

good teaching NEA pdf

shared by Jason Finley on 21 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Jason Finley on 21 Dec 11
     
    In December 2010, NEA President Dennis Van Roekel created a national, independent commission to study the teaching profession and make recommendations on maximizing teacher and teaching effectiveness. Drawing on the wisdom and experience of accomplished teachers, expert researchers, policymakers, and academicians, the Commission on Effective Teachers and Teaching (CETT) examined the policies and practices governing the teaching profession and crafted a teacher-centered vision of teaching and the teaching profession. On December 8, 2011, CETT presented the NEA with its final report, Transforming Teaching: Connecting Professional Responsibility with Student Learning, which outlines the Commission's vision and recommendations for the teaching profession.
Herb Schulte

Are You an Old School or a Bold School? | District Administration Magazine - 6 views

www.districtadministration.com/...-you-old-school-or-bold-school

leadership administration

shared by Herb Schulte on 06 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Right now, we need bold schools, not old schools. By that, I mean we need schools to take serious steps to not only reinvent themselves, but to step out and advocate for a new, more meaningful definition of what learning means for our students, one that goes beyond simply “higher student achievement” or “increased student performance.”
  • Bold schools are steeped in cultures where everyone, both educators and students, are seen as learners first.
  • To be fully able to seize the opportunities that access provides, the adults need to be engaged in the learning process as much if not more than the kids in our classrooms.
Jason Finley

Kunskapsskolan Education Programs - 4 views

www.kunskapsskolan.se/2570e4b127643a7eac8000650.html

school change innovation

shared by Jason Finley on 23 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Jason Finley on 23 Dec 11
     
    "The KED program is a concept for personalized education. This means that students, with the guidance of their coach, set and work towards their own personal goals, with the ambition of achieving high final results. Students allocate their study time based on their previous educational experience as well as their individual strengths and weaknesses."
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  • Jason Finley on 23 Dec 11
     
    "Kunskapsskolan´s goal is to establish, operate and develop schools where every student is recognized as a unique individual with the ability, ambition and support to learn and grow beyond what she or he thought was possible."
  • Jason Finley on 23 Dec 11
     
    "In Swedish, "Kunskapsskolan" means "the knowledge school." Our name is an expression of our passion for providing excellence in learning and knowledge for the next global generation."
  • Jason Finley on 23 Dec 11
     
    "A continuous research and development program identifies correlations and possible common denominators for achieving excellence. In all these key areas - student outcome, student and parent satisfaction, teacher satisfaction and motivation, and financial performance..."
Adam Rosenberg

Educational Technology Guy - 3 views

Free resources for teachers, educational ideas and tips, educational topics, personal learning networks, project based learning, Google, Evernote, Discovery Education and more: http://educationalte...

good teaching

started by Adam Rosenberg on 05 Feb 12 no follow-up yet
Jason Finley

A Social Network Can Be a Learning Network - 4 views

chronicle.com/...129609

authentic assessment brain based technology online learning PLC

shared by Jason Finley on 10 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Jason Finley on 10 Nov 11
     
    Research by Richard Light, the author and Harvard University scholar, and others indicates that when students are asked to write for one another, they write more effectively. This is perhaps counterintuitive. Wouldn't students do their best work for those grading their work? But students aren't eager to be seen as poor writers by their peers, so they step up their game when writing for other students. Also, they know that their peers don't understand the course content as well as their instructors do, so they tend to provide better explanations when writing for peers.
Jason Finley

Personalization vs Differentiation vs Individualization - 11 views

www.slideshare.net/...personalizedlearninchart

good teaching

shared by Jason Finley on 22 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Jason Finley on 22 Feb 12
     
    "There is a difference between personalization and differentiation and individualization. One is learner-centered; the others are teacher-centered."
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  • Jason Finley on 22 Feb 12
     
    Great chart to make you think about how we do what we do.
  • Anne Bergeron on 24 Feb 12
     
    Jason, Excellent chart - I have long appreciated the learning styles awareness inherent in differentiated instruction, but providing instruction in this way is highly teacher centered - and group focused. Feeding, encouraging, and developing students' individual interests spark the desire to learn and engage. I printed this chart immediately. Really appreciating your posts...personalization could be a "brand" for a school increasingly willing to transform in this direction. Anne
  • Jason Finley on 01 Mar 12
     
    Thanks Anne, The "brand" thing sounds very Corporate America to some, but I think that is is extremely important for schools...and not just because of the looming school choice issue. There is also a connection to community piece to this. To some it might come across as selling the school, where in actuality it is just the school identifying and clarifying what it sees as its mission and role in educating its students. I think that this starts with the perceptions and expectations of the community. What are those? Do they match the schools mission and action plan? ...They certainly should. Ideally when a school has an established brand it gives a sense of identity and pride in the school system by all stakeholders, provides a foundation and rationale for professional development, informs the community about what the school does well, gives students an idea of "Why?" to their education, and much more. Identifying and building a brand really is about moving away from the ambiguous and esoteric way we often speak of education and makes what happens in our schools clear, approachable, and embraceable to our communities.
  • Adam Rosenberg on 05 Mar 12
     
    Having participated in several differentiated instruction trainings, and seen strategies executed successfully by trained teachers, I've found that sound DI includes much of the content listed under 'personalization.'
  • Jason Finley on 05 Mar 12
     
    Completely agree Adam! The chart is a little perplexing at times in its definitions/examples. How the first is Competency-based and the others must be Carnegie Unit based comparison…I just don't get. What I do like about the chart is that it makes me reflect on how I do what I do. And also on, "Do I do what I say that I do?" Sometimes I feel like I might begin implementing a strategy one semester only to have my application of that strategy drift as time goes by. Every now and then I think that it is necessary to take a step back and question each piece of my own professional practice. This approach comes from my belief that we need to question and challenge everything...especially those things we most believe in.
  • Adam Rosenberg on 05 Mar 12
     
    Excellent point! Beliefs are like clothes. If we don't regularly take them off to wash them, we often mistake our own stench for what we perceive as someone else's.
Lauren Parren

Seedlings @ Bit By Bit Podcast: Show 126 - bit by bit - 5 views

bobsprankle.com/bitbybit_wordpress

transformation ipad literacy PD pathways Alison Rowland

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  • Lauren Parren on 14 Feb 12
     
    I haven't listened to the whole podcast yet, but it is interesting to hear what's happening in Maine to personalize learning and to create effective professional development.  Projects4ME should be of interest Rowland Fellow Alison.
  • Karen Budde on 15 Feb 12
     
    I sent him off an email. Maybe he'll share with us. As we all know 80% of success is putting oneself out there.
Jason Finley

29 Things I've Learned as an Administrator…So Far… « ErHead - 3 views

erinpaynter.wordpress.com/...ve-learned-as-an-administrator

leadership

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  • Jason Finley on 05 Mar 12
     
    29 Great pieces of wisdom for all educators to reflect on.
Jason Finley

From student voice to youth-adult partnerships: Lessons from working with young people as partners for educational change - 2 views

www.nzcer.org.nz/...youth-adult-partnerships_0.pdf

Student Voice PDF

shared by Jason Finley on 19 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Jason Finley on 19 Nov 11
     
    "Student voice" is talked about a lot in education, but what does it actually mean? Does it mean listening to students' opinions? Does it mean involving students in decisions about their learning? Does it mean students should have an equal say in decisions made about their entire educational experience, including decisions made at the level of school management and governance?
  • Jason Finley on 19 Nov 11
     
    "This working paper describes a series of recent 'student voice' projects … varied in … specific contexts and processes. …Elicit(s) young people's perspectives about learning, education and/or other aspects of their lives…"
  • Jason Finley on 19 Nov 11
     
    When presented with the statement there is too much emphasis on 'student voice' and similar ideas nowadays, teachers were almost divided in thirds: 26 percent agreed or strongly agreed, 34 percent were unsure, and 39 percent disagreed or strongly disagreed (See p. 89 of this report). Why did these teachers have such divergent opinions? More importantly, how exactly did each teacher interpret the term "student voice"?
Jason Finley

My Education Report : Pearson UK - 2 views

uk.pearson.com/...my-education-report.html

student_voice CTE good teaching innovation

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  • Jason Finley on 18 Jan 14
     
    Students taking part in the My Education debate groups often said it was difficult for them to connect the relevance of school and learning to their future work aims. There appear to be three causes of the disconnection: 1) Little association between lesson content and career preferences; 2) Teachers not knowing their pupils' hopes and dreams; 3) Inadequate opportunities to gain foundation 'life' skills. Students expressed the need for learning that relates to their goals. They are hungry for that connection, and speak easily and specifically about what they want to do with their lives. Many aspire to go to university, and understand that means doing well in core subjects. But they also enjoy lessons that link clearly to their career ambitions.
Jason Finley

School is a prison - and damaging our kids - 3 views

www.salon.com/...a_prison_and_damaging_our_kids

innovation school change Sudbury_Valley

shared by Jason Finley on 09 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Jason Finley on 09 Sep 13
     
    "... research and others' research in these settings has convinced me, beyond any doubt, that the natural drives and abilities of young people to learn are fully sufficient to motivate their entire education. When they want or need help from others, they ask for it. We don't have to force people to learn; all we need to do is provide them the freedom and opportunities to do so."
  • anonymous on 09 Sep 13
     
    Interesting, and for lots of reasons of course. In the EDLP course this summer, we noted the similar architectural styles of two of our schools, as seen in presentation photos. Then someone (Mike M.?) mentioned that some schools and prisons from a particular era had the same architects. I'd love to discover more about that. The metaphorical implications are too loaded.
Caitlin Steele

How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses - 3 views

www.wired.com/...all

good teaching technology personlized learning online learning standardarized testing

shared by Caitlin Steele on 16 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Caitlin Steele on 16 Oct 13
     
    This is an uplifting read, very relevant to the themes of our upcoming conference.
Jason Finley

Preferred Tags for Rowland Foundation Diigo Group - 5 views

rowlandtags.pen.io

shared by Jason Finley on 07 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Jason Finley on 07 Sep 11
     
    Often in groups such as this multiple variations of a tag topic are created by different users. To help ensure that our collective bookmarks are easily searchable, here is a list of preferred tags for the Rowland Foundation Group's library. When entering a tag that is more than one word, please use "quotes" around that tag. This will keep your tag singular, such as Achievement Gap rather than separating them into Achievement and Gap. Preferred Tags Achievement Gap Authentic Assessment Collaborative Teaching Community Partnerships Confrence document Experiential Education External Learning Opportunities Family and Parent Partnerships Formative Assessment Grant Opportunity PDF Place-based Education School Change Service Learning Sir Ken Robinson Student Voice Thematic Instruction video
Jason Finley

Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution! - 2 views

www.ted.com/...n_bring_on_the_revolution.html

Ken Robinson video

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  • Jason Finley on 07 Sep 11
     
    "In this poignant, funny follow-up to his fabled 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning -- creating conditions where kids' natural talents can flourish."
Jason Finley

Buck Institute for Education - PBL - 2 views

www.bie.org/

pbl

shared by Jason Finley on 15 Sep 11 - Cached
  • Adam Rosenberg on 15 Sep 11
     
    Great resource for Project Based Learning.
  • Susan Hennessey on 22 Sep 11
     
    The Driving Question Tubric 2.0 located under the tools tab on this site is a great hands-on way to demonstrate creating driving questions.
  • Jason Finley on 31 Oct 12
     
    Extensive resource for everything that you need for Project Based Learning. Video, Tools, Research Adam Rosenberg posted this a while ago, definitely worth another look.
Jason Finley

Beyond Test Scores: Leading Indicators for Education - 2 views

annenberginstitute.org/...LeadingIndicators.pdf

Data-driven decision making

shared by Jason Finley on 25 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Jason Finley on 25 Oct 11
     
    What if we applied the principles of Formative Assessments to the district level rather than just in classroom practices? "...like unemployment statistics. Scores on standardized tests ... usually arrive too late to help individual children or schools that are struggling." "Leading indicators - indicators that provide early signals of progress toward academic achievement - enable education leaders ... to make more strategic and less reactive decisions about services and supports to improve student learning."
Jason Finley

Innovation 101: Stanford's d.school Teaches Students to Be Creative - WSJ.com - 4 views

online.wsj.com/...4831304576596703319827740.html

innovation

shared by Jason Finley on 01 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Jason Finley on 01 Nov 11
     
    "Anybody can be creative ... You just have to learn how."
  • Jason Finley on 01 Nov 11
     
    "The best way to unleash creativity ... is to give students an "experience," or in d.school speak, a design challenge. Under his teaching model, however, students aren't just handed a problem to solve-they must define the problem themselves through research and direct observation."
  • Jason Finley on 01 Nov 11
     
    "...it is behavioral change that enables students to gain innovation confidence, something he believes is as important as gaining literacy skills. "For me this is a mindset," he says. "It's a way of thinking that you can use in every part of your life."
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