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Innovations in Teacher Prep Programs | Edutopia - 2 views

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TeacherPrep

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  • Research shows the importance of mentoring new teachers, so why not push that mentoring down into the student teaching experience? And also, why do student teaching programs take effective, experienced teachers out of the classroom while novice teachers are learning? They should always be available to work with kids.
  • And they graduate knowing how to collaborate with other professionals -- a skill that is increasingly valued in educators.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 24 Jan 11
       
      CSUF is considering co-teaching because of the ways that schools are responding to standardized assessment. This model allows master teachers to stay in the classroom with the student teacher--which, CSUF hopes, would reassure districts and schools who are becoming less likely to want student teachers. An interesting by-product is how student teachers would learn to collaborate.
  • anonymous on 24 Jan 11
     
    A brief article about teacher preparation programs. CSUF is considering the co-teaching model. What do you think?
anonymous

Weblogg-ed » "Disposable Reform" - 0 views

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      anonymous on 27 Aug 10
       
      This is fascinating. I agree that "real" learning is self-motivated and directed--and yet we've trained students to think that the only thing that is valuable is what the teacher says. I do a lot of group work in my classes, and one of my colleagues asked me recently if I got bored since I wasn't on stage, so to speak, all the time. I do sometimes, but I don't think my class is about me, it's about helping my students learn. And I believe they learn more if they are actively engaged . . . which is more likely to happen in a smaller group than in a whole class discussion.
  • “What % of teacher ed programs prepare teachers NOT to be the focal point of the classroom?” and the responses were telling. Most said 5-10%, and my sense is that’s pretty accurate.
  • But I also found it striking that she connected our difficulty in sustaining change with what she termed our “disposable culture” here in the US. We try one reform and dispose of it, then we try another and dispose of that one, and then we try yet another. And I can’t help ask, whose fault is that?
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    • anonymous
      anonymous on 27 Aug 10
       
      Again, I totally agree. After teaching here in Fresno for 11 years, I've seen so many initiatives to create collaboration between high school and the university. I worked with a great project when I first arrived here, a literacy center at Fresno High. CSUF students, many of whom wanted to be teachers, would tutor high schools, sometimes in the classroom, sometimes in the Literacy Center's room. Everyone involved in the project loved it . . . but after three years, the funding ran out. Now there's discussion yet again about another round of university intervention in high schools . . . I wish we could just develop a great program that would receive long-term funding, instead of just a "flavor-of-the-day" approach to education.
  • anonymous on 27 Aug 10
     
    Interesting blog about how we repeatedly introduce "new" programs and ideas in schools, only to abandon them for the next wave of "new" ideas.
Ashley Muniz

Creative Teaching: Collaborative Discussion as Disciplined Improvisation - 1 views

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Scripted Teaching

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  • Ashley Muniz on 05 Nov 10
     
    This articles examines the need for Creative teaching as opposed to Scripted teaching. The article argues that the learning generated from creative teaching is harder to quantify on standardized testing where as the lower order skills taught through scripted lessons are easier to measure.
anonymous

bubbl.us - free web application for brainstorming online - 0 views

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web2.0 mindmap brainstorming collaboration tools

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  • anonymous on 20 Mar 10
     
    Cool website for brainstorming and mapping.
Eric Wheeler

Social Bookmarking in Plain English - Common Craft - Our Product is Explanation - 1 views

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social collaboration socialbookmarking web2.0 tutorial howto CommonCraft

shared by Eric Wheeler on 27 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Eric Wheeler on 27 Apr 10
     
    While it uses Delicious as its model, it is a great explanation of Social Bookmarking.
  • anonymous on 27 Apr 10
     
    Thanks for posting this, Eric. It will really help people who need to get a basic understanding of the possibilities of Diigo.
anonymous

Amy Chua Is a Wimp - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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Collaboration CI161

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  • Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Carnegie Mellon have found that groups have a high collective intelligence when members of a group are good at reading each others’ emotions — when they take turns speaking, when the inputs from each member are managed fluidly, when they detect each others’ inclinations and strengths.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 19 Jan 11
       
      In order for groups to function well, we have to be aware of each other's strengths . . . and weaknesses. We have to be patient and willing to contribute our best.
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