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Motivational Speaker Adelaide

Inspiration from a Professional - 2 views

I recently attended a seminar and I found it really inspiring. It was David form Motivational Speaker Adelaide who talked about a certain topic that has really changed my life. His presentation was...

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Stephanie Beer

Lesson Plans - Migration: Why People Move - 1 views

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geography demography history Lesson Plan middle school immigration migration

shared by Stephanie Beer on 20 Sep 10 - Cached
    • Stephanie Beer
      Stephanie Beer on 20 Sep 10
       
      This lesson encourages students to use websites such as the US Census Bureau and the UN Population Division in order to research a migration in history of their own selection.
    • Stephanie Beer
      Stephanie Beer on 20 Sep 10
       
      I would use this lesson in a middle school geography class but it could also be used in a US history class in a unit on immigration.
  • Stephanie Beer on 20 Sep 10
     
    This is a great lesson for a middle school geography class that would get students thinking about peoples' motivations for migrating from one place to another. The lesson plan includes objectives and standards as well as the lesson procedure. There are also ideas for extension activities.
Lindsay Andreas

Comedian urges Hispanic students to stay in school - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

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shared by Lindsay Andreas on 06 Nov 09 - Cached
  • One in five Hispanic teens drops out of high school, according to U.S. Education Department statistics. That's about twice the rate for black students and more than three times the rate among white students.
    • Lindsay Andreas
      Lindsay Andreas on 06 Nov 09
       
      I found this statistic about hispanic drop-out rates really alarming. Considering that the Hispanic population is quickly growing, education policy makers should be moving this to the forefront of their concerns.
  • . "A lot of Latino students look at the sticker price and think, if my family makes $18-20,000 a year, I can't afford it," said Deborah Santiago, vice president of policy and research for Excelencia in Education, a Washington-based advocacy organization.
    • Lindsay Andreas
      Lindsay Andreas on 06 Nov 09
       
      This was something that I personally ran into in my practicum. Better information needs to be distributed regarding college financing. There is a stigma in lower-income areas about taking out college loans and a lot of misinformation. When I taught a lesson on saving and investment for an Economics class, I spent the majority of the lesson answering questions regarding this and reminding students that college is an investment and that it will pay-off in the end. An example that worked really well was the game of Life, since many students have played it. In the board game if you go to college in the beginning, you will end up in the better retirement home in the end.
  • He told Wheaton students about a guidance counselor who encouraged him to go to college, and about his time at Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles, where he became disillusioned, started partying and stopped studying. "I went from being the first in my family to go to college to becoming another Latino statistic: a dropout," he said.
    • Lindsay Andreas
      Lindsay Andreas on 06 Nov 09
       
      Both parts struck me. Encouragement is so important, because if your teacher doesn't encourage you, who will after all? Second, a problem we have at McKinley is that students that go to college get distracted and overwhelmed by college and dropout the first year. This is important on two fronts, we need better college prep programs in high school and also the colleges and universities need better support systems for first generation college students.
Laura Wood

DC Vote - 1 views

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shared by Laura Wood on 12 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Laura Wood on 12 Nov 09
     
    DC voting rights are the PERFECT way to get DC students engaged with politics and government. As one student told me, "nothing gets students motivated like being pissed off." One of the teachers that I'm working with has folks from DC Vote come into her classroom and teach about the history of DC voting rights (the 23rd amendment and all) and then has students do a project on it. It gets them heated and it's critically important for them to know about - more than just a license plate! Also, you might consider using Sweet Honey in the Rock's "No Taxation Without Representation" which outlines the entire history of DC voting rights and potential avenues for action in song. ;-) As they were a crucial part of the civil rights movement this might be a nice tie in of history and current events. From the website: "Founded in 1998, DC Vote is an educational and advocacy organization dedicated to securing full voting representation in Congress and full democracy for the more than half a million residents of the District of Columbia. DC residents pay full federal taxes, fight and die in wars and serve on juries yet are denied voting representation in the House and the Senate. DC Vote is working to end this injustice."
Maria Mahon

Study Shows New York Charter School Students Score Better - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Maria Mahon on 24 Sep 09 - No Cached
  • The study’s methodology addresses that issue by comparing charter school students with students of traditional schools who applied for charter spots but did not get them.
    • Maria Mahon
      Maria Mahon on 24 Sep 09
       
      I find this to be an effective way to measure the success of charter schools. By comparing students to students who wished to attend charter schools but were not admitted, the study deals with the issue of student and parent motivation.
  • Ms. Hoxby did not reach any conclusions about what practices at the schools caused the jump, but she noted that many charter schools had extended school days and school years, many required students to attend classes on Saturdays and most paid teachers based on their performance and responsibility, rather than the traditional teachers’ union salary scales.
  • Ms. Hoxby did not reach any conclusions about what practices at the schools caused the jump, but she noted that many charter schools had extended school days and school years, many required students to attend classes on Saturdays and most paid teachers based on their performance and responsibility, rather than the traditional teachers’ union salary scales.
    • Maria Mahon
      Maria Mahon on 24 Sep 09
       
      While I find the practices of charter schools to be exciting (in that the requirements do seem to be making a difference), this still leaves the disturbing issue of the gap between charter schools and traditional schools. While Bloomberg and Klein can praise the charter schools, the reality is that most students are still in traditional schools and are not helped by these improvements. I would like to know if there is a way for these practices to be implemented on a more wide-spread scale.
  • Maria Mahon on 24 Sep 09
     
    Students who entered charter schools performed better on state exams compared to students who wished to attend charter schools but were not admitted based on a lottery.
Lindsay Andreas

Education World ® Professional Development Center: Creating a Better World" - 0 views

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teaching personal experiences

shared by Lindsay Andreas on 13 Sep 09 - Cached
  • So why teach? It sounds exhausting, stressful, and almost impossible to do well! In fact, we teach because the rewards are outstanding. When your students tell you at the end of the year that they can’t believe how much they’ve learned…that is a reward. When former students, now in college, return to your classroom to get a hug, to thank you for what you did to help them believe in themselves, and to tell your present students what it was like in “their day”…that is your reward. I just received a letter from the parent of a former student who is now in graduate school. She wrote that she saw a quote and thought of me. It said, “You make a child feel good about himself and that’s a motivation to excel.” That is a reward. So, in answer to our questions of the 60’s, as teachers, we did change the world. We changed it when we taught children to believe in themselves and to share that knowledge. We changed it by teaching our youngest students to listen, to share, and to respect their classmates and themselves. We changed it by giving our students the tools and skills they needed to change their world. We made this a better world -- one child at a time.
  • Lindsay Andreas on 13 Sep 09
     
    In this short column, a retired teacher reflects on the amazing rewards from teaching she was given over the years. Sometimes it is easy to forget why we want to teach. This would be a good article to read when starting to think about education philosophy for the portfolio. Personally, I suddenly feel the urge to contact some of my former teachers and thank them.
Laura Wood

Virtual Jamestown - 0 views

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shared by Laura Wood on 29 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Newest Timelines
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 29 Oct 09
       
      Has timelines arranged around the following: "a) Jamestown in the Global Context b) Journey to Jamestown - the Voyage of the Susan Constant and the first 90 days at the fort c) Jamestown, 1606-1608 d) Virginia, 1608-1612 e) New England, 1602-1620"
  • Chesapeake Indians
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 29 Oct 09
       
      Includes contemporary interviews with Native American descendants of Jamestown as well as maps of the Native American towns that predated Jamestown in this area. Also contains a Google Earth map based on the original drawings of John Smith. "Dr. Julie Solometo researched and organized the entry on the Paspahegh Indians. What the English called Jamestown, the Indians called Paspahegh territory.. Interviews and videotaping of contemporary Indians was done by Phyannon Berkowitz, Jeffery Dalton, and Crandall Shifflett."
  • Complete Works of John Smith
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 29 Oct 09
       
      From the Site: "Letters and first-hand accounts allow us to see seventeenth-century society as no other record can. . . . They are best approached with the questions: what are the authors trying to tell us and what are their agendas? These materials do give us a sense of the contingencies, uncertainties,and dilemmas that surrounded choices and when read critically should lead to a better understanding of what factors shaped individual decisions. newspapers A full-text searchable database (XML) gives us a powerful tool for tracing and comparing topics, ideas, concepts, motivations, and much more from vantage points of time, space, power, authority, race, class, gender, and ethnicity"
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  • Teaching Materials
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 29 Oct 09
       
      LESSON PLANS!!!! Some of these are even in our exact format!!! All are on Jamestown. Lots about runaway slaves and indentured servants, some on Native American relationships. Most make use of primary documents. Check em out! :-)
  • Virginia
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 29 Oct 09
       
      MAP!! Okay so sort of hard to read but here is a map based on John Smith's records. It's interesting to note how the water lines have changed. hmmmmm.
  • Laura Wood on 29 Oct 09
     
    From the website: "The Virtual Jamestown Archive is a digital research, teaching and learning project that explores the legacies of the Jamestown settlement and "the Virginia experiment." As a work in progress, Virtual Jamestown aims to shape the national dialogue on the occasion of the four hundred-year anniversary observance in 2007 of the founding of the Jamestown colony."
jbdrury

Capital Gains FAQs - DC Public Schools, Washington, DC - 1 views

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faq capital gains DCPS cash awards to students

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      jbdrury on 23 Nov 09
       
      Emery Educational Campus is one of these fifteen participating schools.
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 23 Nov 09
       
      The assessments done at our school are created by the teachers. The students are also judged considerably based on their classroom behavior. A sort of giveaway is the awards for wearing the proper uniform.
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 23 Nov 09
       
      I feel this website could have gone into greater detail explaining exactly how much money these students might be earning.
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  • The Capital Gains program is a partnership between DCPS and Dr. Roland Fryer, economics professor at Harvard University and the founder of Harvard’s Education Innovation Laboratory (EdLabs). In addition to Washington, DC, EdLabs and Dr. Fryer work with school districts in Chicago and New York City on similar incentive initiatives.
  • jbdrury on 23 Nov 09
     
    I know we've all heard about the rather controversial Capital Gains program - where DCPS is paying students cash awards for good academic performance and behavior - but I wasn't certain how much anyone really knew about the specifics of the program. I just recently learned that my own school - Emery Educational Campus - is participating in Capital Gains. I can say that my own students do not seem to take the program very seriously, or at the very least not enough to study more to make certain they perform well on the mandatory assessments (said one student: "I don't really care about the extra money").
  • Lindsay Andreas on 23 Nov 09
     
    They have "Tech Tickets" at McKinley, it's just a huge joke because the rewards are like breakfast with Mr. Pinder the principal, who they hate. Last Wednesday, they started joking around about starting a black market for tech tickets, at least they are inventive about it. But it doesn't motivate them.
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