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Alicia Koster

http://www.oecd.org/pisa/keyfindings/PISA-2012-results-US.pdf - 0 views

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    he Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an ongoing triennial survey that assesses the extent to which 15-year-olds students near the end of compulsory education have acquired key knowledge and skills that are essential for full participation in modern societies. The assessment does not just ascertain whether students can reproduce knowledge; it also examines how well students can extrapolate from what they have learned and apply that knowledge in unfamiliar settings, both in and outside of school. This approach reflects the fact that modern economies reward individuals not for what they know, but for what they can do with what they know. PISA offers insights for education policy and practice, and helps monitor trends in students' acquisition of knowledge and skills across countries and in different demographic subgroups within each country. The findings allow policy makers around the world to gauge the knowledge and skills of students in their
Michael Mannino

INDEX | Independent School Data Exchange | Data, analysis, research, and information fo... - 0 views

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    INDEX Mission Skills Assessment
mccahillk

User Generated Education | Education as it should be - passion-based. - 0 views

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    Ethical decision-making should be included as a 21st century skill (overused term but don't know of an alternative).  Some would profess that ethical decision-making has always been a needed skill.  
Kelly OLeary

Team Teaching Video | Edutopia - 0 views

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    Team Teaching models 21st century skills of adult communication and collaboration.
Barbara Powers

iSolveIt - 0 views

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    iSolveIt is a mobile digital learning environment that supports the development of logical thinking and reasoning skills, which are essential competencies of algebra and mathematics in general. The environment includes a collection of tablet-based puzzles that have been designed using the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL).
John Chandler

Early learning, assisted by technology | eSchool News | eSchool News - 0 views

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    one of a series of new early learning schools that model the approach of VINCI Education: a hands-on blend of low-tech and high-tech instruction, guided by a skilled classroom teacher.
Gina Cinotti

Am I an Educational Leader? - 0 views

  • An educational leader today is one who, regardless of title, exhibits the following ten traits: -          Willingness to learn new things -          Committed to providing an excellent learning environment for those you are responsible for in your classroom, school or district -          Looks to motivate those you have immediate contact with and those outside your traditional circle of influence -          Continually self-evaluates your own place in the educational structure and adapts for the betterment of education -          Keeps a focus on what’s most important; students and their learning
  • Continually engages in professional development to improve your own knowledge and skills -          Develops and expands a professional learning network through connections and collaboration in social media -          Works to develop other educational leaders in the classroom, school office and central office -          Helps developing and new educators find their way so that they too can one day lead -          Gives back to the profession
ShaeBrie Dow

Talking with Students through Screencasting: Experimentations with Video Feedback to Im... - 0 views

  • The National Council of English Teachers (NCTE) position statement on teaching composition argues that students “need guidance and support throughout the writing process, not merely comments on the written product,” and that “effective comments do not focus on pointing out errors, but go on to the more productive task of encouraging revision” (CCCC 2004).
  • feedback serves as a pedagogical tool to improve learning by motivating students to rethink and rework their ideas rather than simply proofread and edit for errors.
  • “feedback should focus on improving the skills needed for the construction of end products more than on the end products themselves”
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  • By talking to students and reading their work aloud, instructors can engage students on an interpersonal level that is absent in written comments.
  • comparison between feedback forms within one class is to use both forms to respond to the same type of assignment
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    "Talking with Students through Screencasting:"
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