The Obama administration announced a new $185 million competition Friday that would reward colleges for producing teachers whose students perform well on standardized tests.
The competition would require states to provide data linking collegiate teaching programs inside their borders to the test scores of their graduates' students. Under the proposal, to be eligible for the money, states would have to ratchet up teacher-licensing exams and close persistently low-performing teacher-training programs.
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How will schools tackle the subject of the riots? | Education | guardian.co.uk - 0 views
Education Week Teacher: Five Questions That Will Improve Your Teaching - 5 views
A Push to Improve Teachers' Colleges - WSJ.com - 1 views
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In a news conference Friday, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan noted that that nearly two-thirds of new teachers report feeling unprepared to run classes. "What if 62% of our new doctors felt unprepared to practice medicine?" said Mr. Duncan, adding that "the status quo is unacceptable."
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Evidence is mounting that teacher quality is the biggest in-school determinant of student achievement. Yet the nation's colleges of education are a patchwork of programs that vary in quality. Each state sets its own admissions, graduation and licensing requirements.
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Teach Your Teachers Well - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Have economists always been interested in studying education? Just started reading Disrupting Class and this occurred to me. Second thought... what are the implications of the study mentioned for urban schools? What are the statistics around high quality experienced teachers sticking it out in challenging schools?
Google For Educators - Web Search - 0 views
INEE Toolkit - Welcome - 0 views
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Welcome to the INEE Toolkit! In this Toolkit you will find a wide variety of tools to guide humanitarian aid workers, government officials and educationalists working in the field of education in emergencies. For more information, please visit the toolkit overview.
Teachers Observing Teachers: Instructional Rounds | Edutopia - 3 views
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Enter Instructional Rounds: a process adapted from the medical rounds model that doctors use in hospitals. Instructional Rounds help educators look closely at what is happening in classrooms in a systematic, purposeful and focused way.
Six Ideas about Professional Growth for Teachers - Teacher in a Strange Land - Educatio... - 4 views
How Blogs, Social Media, and Video Games Improve Education - Brookings Institution - 2 views
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The appearance of collaboration tools such as blogs, wikis, social media, and video games has altered the way individuals and organizations relate to one another.[i] There is no longer any need to wait on professionals to share material and report on new developments. Today, people communicate directly in an unmediated and unfiltered manner.
Education Week Teacher: Classroom Management That Creates Harmony Instead of Hostility - 2 views
Two hours' homework a night linked to better school results | Education | The Guardian - 2 views
Education Week: Spotlight on Assessment - 1 views
3 Teacher Evaluation Mistakes to Avoid - Washington, DC, United States, ASCD EDge Blog ... - 3 views
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School districts across the US are creating new teacher evaluation systems that are supposed to better identify ineffective teaching and, in some cases, tie a teacher's rating to student performance. My quarrel is not with the evaluation systems themselves however. My quarrel is with how they are being implemented. Here are three of the most common mistakes I've seen:
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