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Beth Miller

Who Benefits From the Expansion of A.P. Classes? - The New York Times - 0 views

  • These success-against-all-odds stories are captivating. It’s hard to overstate how much “Stand and Deliver” — the 1988 movie about an A.P. calculus teacher who overcame the odds when all his low-income Latino students passed the exam — has influenced many advocates’ perceptions about what an A.P. class can do. And things like this do happen; “Stand and Deliver” is based on real events. But they’re anomalous. Yom credits his success to a number of things: a math department that lays out clear expectations from ninth grade on about what students need to know to get to A.P. calculus, a mentor who has taught A.P. calculus at Lincoln High for 16 years and his own ability to devote countless hours to his students. But once Yom is married and has children, he told me, it simply won’t be sustainable to continue spending so much time with his classes.
  • Even if students don’t pass the test, there is reason to believe that simply taking A.P. courses is valuable. After all, many students receive passing grades in their courses while still failing the A.P. exam. But because so much focus is on the test — the College Board tracks only participation and outcomes from the tests, not the classes — and because numbers are so much easier to measure than the far more intangible benefits of teaching and learning, the real value of A.P.s can be hard to assess. It seems logical to assume that taking a more rigorous course can have benefits in and of itself: by opening horizons, by sending a message to students that they are capable. And many teachers and students feel that way. Calid Shorter, 17, who was in Fuchs’s A.P. government class this past year, says she was one of his best teachers. “They really care,” he says. “Pushing me into classes has been a benefit — it’s given me more of a go-getter mind-set.”
  • Is it effective to be investing the time and resources in a program whose benefits seem so difficult to pin down?
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  • Klopfenstein argues that the A.P. program should remain accessible, but that it must be accompanied by regular classes in which students learn skills like note-taking, outlining and intellectual discipline. Others think the mandates on the number of A.P. classes must go, that districts should instead look at which subjects might benefit the most students, rather than arbitrarily drawing a line. Some even advocate for keeping the classes but getting rid of the high-stakes tests at the end.
Michele Mathieson

Step 7: Images, copyright, and Creative Commons | Edublogs Teacher Challenges - 0 views

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    A good site for information on copyright & Creative Commons. As we are using content from the internet, we need to both be aware and make our students aware of these concepts. AND it is a good example of the use of Edublog.
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    A good site for information on copyright & Creative Commons. As we are using content from the internet, we need to both be aware and make our students aware of these concepts. AND it is a good example of the use of Edublog.
Michele Mathieson

Question / Project Cards - Unprofessional Development - 0 views

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    "The contemporary questions that interest us as adults - like those about power, extinction and health - can be asked in ways that resonate with young people, too. And, their answers can be manifest in real world answers: games, books, stories, art, and more. " Here is a collection of questions and project cards you can use with your students.
Beth Miller

A Collaborative Learning Community.: RCampus Open Tools for Open Minds - 0 views

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    Andrea Beardsley showed me this resource today and said it's an awesome, free tool she uses specifically for searching, borrowing and tweaking and/or creating and saving rubrics for her classes.
Beth Miller

Educational Leadership:Working Constructively with Families:When Students Lead Parent-T... - 2 views

  • During the conference, the students asked their parents to write any questions they had on an index card and to hold their questions until the end. This gave the students uninterrupted time to make their presentations.
  • I feel the student-led conferences empowered students and helped them claim ownership of their education. In our case, it was a responsibility that our student enjoyed.
  • parents attended the conference without their child and discussed their child's performance with the advisor, who served as an advocate for the student.
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  • (1) a guiding structure for the conference; (2) a way to prepare students to run their own conferences; (3) a method of communicating the new format to parents and colleagues; and (4) the procedural operations that we would need to develop.
  • select only a few items for discussion during the conference
  • The students learned that they would do all the talking and that the advisor was there basically for moral support. (The team instructed the advisors to intervene only when students became bogged down or if parents overshadowed them.)
  • Once their portfolios were complete, students rehearsed the script three times with classmates as stand-in parents.
Karen Gray

EducatorsGuide.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

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    A useful description of copyright law and an educator's rights and responsibilities.
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    WE all need to consider how we practice and demonstrate respect for intellectual property.
Karen Gray

Assessing Projects : Using Assessment to Improve Teaching and Learning - 1 views

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    When assessment drives instruction, students learn more and become more confident, self-directed learners. Assessing Projects helps teachers create assessments that address 21st century skills and provides strategies to make assessment an integral part of their teaching and help students understand content more deeply, think at higher levels, and become self-directed learners.
Karen Gray

Why Curation Will Transform Education and Learning: 10 Key Reasons - 0 views

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    Interestingly broad look at resources, research, and classroom materials. Especially interested in the comments on the commercialization of google.
Nica Nogard

Must Have Teacher Interview Guide - 1 views

I am a newly qualified teacher and I am very excited to work on my first job. I already applied to one of the most prestigious universities in our place yet I am a little bit hesitant if I can answ...

teacher interview questions

started by Nica Nogard on 23 Mar 12 no follow-up yet
Karen Gray

Are Digital Media Labs the Libraries of the Future? | Media on GOOD - 0 views

  • While all the technology and resources are great, what makes the space truly work is that the teens aren’t left to their own devices once they walk through the doors. Exploring individual interests is encouraged, but YOUmedia is staffed by mentors from the Digital Youth Network and by experienced librarians who run structured workshops and projects to help students build their critical thinking skills and creativity.
Beth Miller

Why Students Should Take the Lead in Parent-Teacher Conferences | MindShift - 1 views

  • he asks them to choose three examples that help them tell their parents a deeper story: one that shows they have recognized both a personal strength and an area in which they are struggling. Most students, he says, have never thought about their learning in this way. Nor have most of their parents.
  • kids learn to advocate for themselves
  • “What do I do well?” and “How can I build on this?”
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    Chris found this article.  Great suggestions for when our 9th and 10th grade advisees lead their parent-advisor conferences in December.
Beth Miller

GEBG | Global Education Benchmark Group - 0 views

shared by Beth Miller on 12 Nov 15 - No Cached
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    Just learned that Collegiate, Cape Henry Collegiate and other VAIS schools are member schools of this organization.  Isabelle, Beth and Isabelle will learn more about this group on 11/16/15 at VAIS annual conference.  Ask us about it!
Beth Miller

Flipped Learning Global Initiative - Supporting Flipped Learning Worldwide - 0 views

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    JJ and Ben participated in a webinar by this group and found it "brief but helpful."
Beth Miller

http://www.inclusiveva.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/2017-2018-Interfaith-Calendar.pdf - 0 views

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    The Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities calendar of holidays and festivals - a resource to encourage awareness of the great diversity of religious and ethnic groups that live in the US.
Beth Miller

EDpuzzle - 0 views

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    Save time Take already existing videos from Youtube, Khan Academy, Crash Course, etc. or upload your own. Engage students easily Enable self-paced learning with interactive lessons, add your voice and questions along the video. Reinforce accountability Know if your students are watching your videos, how many times and see the answers they give.
Beth Miller

Education World: Student-Led Conferences Hold Kids Accountable - 1 views

  • * Students assume greater control of their academic progress. * Students accept personal responsibility for their academic performance. * Parents, teachers, and students engage in open and honest dialogue. * Parents attend conferences at increased rates. * Students learn the process of self-evaluation. * Students develop organizational and oral communication skills.
Beth Miller

Using Student-Led Parent-Teacher Conferences to Build Relationships | Edutopia - 2 views

  • A powerful student-led parent-teacher conference focuses on student learning goals we can set by examining the student's work. This is an active event in which the learner and those responsible for supporting her education identify her strengths and areas of growth and make plans to address these areas.
Karen Gray

Landmark Decision on Electronic Reserves for Courses - 0 views

  • The judge held forcefully that the use of a work for educational purposes weighs "strongly" in favor of a defendant's claim of fair use
  • the scope for "fair use" of factual, informative copyrighted works is larger than that of fictional, "creative" works.
  • In works of ten chapters or more, the use of one chapter is fair. In works of fewer than ten chapters, it is not fair to use more than 10 percent of the work, counting front and back matter (notes, bibliography, index, etc.) as well as the main body of the work. When instructors stayed within these bounds, the judge found that the third factor weighed in favor of fair use; when they went beyond these bounds, she found the opposite.
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    Interesting review of a decision interpreting Fair Use and e-reserves such as we create on our class webpages.
Karen Gray

Blogs vs. Term Papers - 0 views

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    From the article: Of all the challenges faced by college and high school students, few inspire as much angst, profanity, procrastination and caffeine consumption as the academic paper. The format - meant to force students to make a point, explain it, defend it, repeat it (whether in 20 pages or 5 paragraphs) - feels to many like an exercise in rigidity and boredom, like practicing piano scales in a minor key.
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