Action Research: A Self-Directed Approach to Professional Development - 4 views
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The best part about being a teacher is that you get to remain a student forever. Teachers are lifelong learners. To be an effective educator, you must constantly pursue learning through workshops, conferences, on-site or online training modules, and seminars. Professional development can help teachers stay up-to-date with new trends and learn new techniques, strategies, and methods for dealing with various classroom challenges. But all professional development is not the same.
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If you feel frustrated by not being able to find what you need, how about creating your own solutions? Every classroom challenge is as individual as the students in the class. Sometimes, instead of looking for solutions out there somewhere, it helps if a teacher learns to understand the challenge and experiments to find the answer that suits her class or students. Most teachers shy away from the word "research," thinking it is scholars' job to conduct research and come up with condensed data or analysis. But all of us are researchers, consciously or otherwise.
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Teachers can do action research by formally defining a problem, drafting a hypothesis, collecting and organizing data, and coming to a conclusion about the effect of the hypothesized change. And the conclusion you derive will be more meaningful and effective because it deals with your challenges and your solutions, keeping in mind your circumstances and resources.
Measuring a Teacher's Effectiveness Goes Beyond Test Scores | Edutopia - 1 views
http://metproject.org/downloads/MET_Feedback%20for%20Better%20Teaching_Principles%20Pap... - 2 views
Warning to parents over children 'being raised online' | Society | The Guardian - 0 views
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British children are spending more than 20 hours a week online, most of it at social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook and Bebo, and are in effect being "raised online", according to research from the Institute for Public Policy Research.
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British children are spending more than 20 hours a week online, most of it at social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook and Bebo, and are in effect being "raised online", according to research from the Institute for Public Policy Research.
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The research reinforces the belief of big online brands that social networking sites are the way to get advertisers in front of the lucrative youth market
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21st Century Learning: The Effects of Budget Tightening on PD - 0 views
Education Update:Private Eyes:How To Plan Effective Lessons - 0 views
What Teachers Have Learned - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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What we need are teachers who are much more competent in their subject areas!
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I’ve seen many teachers ‘bomb’ over the years because they knew their subject matter, but not how to interact with, or be a role model for, children.
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I am a 21-year veteran teacher who took a whole boatload of education courses in furtherance of my BA and MS degrees. They were utterly useless. The only thing that actually prepared me for teaching was student teaching. All of the other courses taught theory, but nothing practical.
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Three Questions to Begin Transformation to Teacher Leadership - Leading From the Classr... - 3 views
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One theme that resonated with me was discussing the knowledge and skill sets needed for teachers beginning to explore their leadership potential. While many schools and districts offer new teacher mentoring programs, there is a lack of formal programs or supports for emerging teacher leaders.
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Effective teachers develop a range of knowledge and skills from managing a classroom community and helping students learn. But beyond the competence of subject matter knowledge, teachers may also develop skillsets in pedagogy and other areas.
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teacher leaders need to work collaboratively with administration in order for teacher leadership to be the norm throughout a school.
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Study: Minority Teacher Shortages Linked to Poor Working Conditions - Teaching Now - Ed... - 0 views
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A new analysis of federal data suggests that minority teacher shortages are caused not by a lack of minority candidates entering the profession but by unsatisfactory working conditions in schools.
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minority teachers, who are more likely to work in hard-to-staff urban schools, tend to leave their jobs at a much higher rate than their white counterparts, creating a "revolving door" effect.
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ngersoll and May find that minority teachers' decisions to leave a school are most often related to dissatisfaction with their working conditions—particularly with "the level of collective faculty decision-making influence in the school and the degree of instructional autonomy held by teachers in their classroom." In other words, these teachers often feel a lack of professional control and independence.
The seven principles of highly effective professional learning - 4 views
Transitions at Work » Archive » Commentary: Tuckman's team model (forming, st... - 0 views
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American psychologist Bruce W. Tuckman developed an influential model of team development, first enunciated in a 1965 article “Developmental sequence in small groups,” published in Psychological Bulletin. Tuckman’s model traced the evolution of a team through four stages: forming, storming, norming and performing. Tuckman argued that these stages were necessary to build an effective team.
Pearson Foundation: Empowering the 21st Century Superintendent - 0 views
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In March, 2008, the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) launched a new initiative dedicated to helping superintendents, aspiring superintendents and district leadership teams build their knowledge, skills and confidence as effective technology leaders.
Publications: SRN LEADS - 0 views
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United States Is Substantially Behind Other Nations in Providing Teacher Professional Development That Improves Student Learning; Report Identifies Practices that Work
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Every year, nine in 10 of the nation’s three million teachers participate in professional development designed to improve their content knowledge, transform their teaching, and help them respond to student needs. These activities, which can include workshops, study groups, mentoring, classroom observations, and numerous other formal and informal learning experiences, have mixed results in how they effect student achievement.
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embedded in the work of collaborative professional learning teams that support ongoing improvements in teachers’ practice and student achievement.
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Report: Professional Learning in the Learning Profession - 0 views
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Feb. 4, 2009: Today NSDC releases Professional Learning in the Learning Profession: A Status Report on Teacher Development in the United States and Abroad. This also marks the launch of a multi-year research effort to measure the effectiveness of professional learning at the state leve
New York Regents May Expand Ways to Certify Teachers - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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The State Board of Regents will consider letting alternative teacher training programs certify teachers, expanding the role that for decades has been exclusively performed by education schools
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Another would change the requirements for teacher certification, like having more difficult content exams and classroom demonstrations.
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While New York has had some alternative certification programs in place for years, like Teach for America and New York City Teaching Fellows, students are still required to take classes at education schools during the summer, nights and weekends to earn a teaching certificate.
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