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Eric Wheeler

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iPad apps resources Apple ipod Teaching English Education

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  • Eric Wheeler on 15 Nov 11
     
    Apps for Education
anonymous

Integrating Technology with Limited Resources | Edutopia - 0 views

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Technology Teaching

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    How to integrate technology into your classroom when you have few resources
Benjamin Caulder

Culturally Relevant Teaching by James C Jupp - 0 views

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Student Voice power Discourse

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  • Benjamin Caulder on 13 Sep 10
     
    I am reading this in my CI 151 class. An actual teacher who is concerned with student voice and making his class relevant to his students. Good description of his classroom and 'success' story.
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 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.
anonymous

» I'm Not Waiting Bud the Teacher - 0 views

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Teachers

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  • anonymous on 29 Sep 10
     
    Loved this blog entry (09-27-10) on teaching.
anonymous

What and How English Teachers Teach - Brainstorm - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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Canon EnglishEd

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  • While the most of the popular titles are classics (Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Gatsby, Huck), the frequency of any one title is low.  The highest scorer appeared in only 22.38 percent of the courses.
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      anonymous on 21 Oct 10
       
      Amazing that these texts are taught in very few courses.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 21 Oct 10
       
      Yeah, that is amazing.
  • anonymous on 21 Oct 10
     
    This article discusses texts taught in English classrooms.
Elvira Ledezma

Why are standards important? - Academic Skills | GreatSchools - 1 views

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  • . These standards become the basis for the way teachers are trained, what they teach and what is on state standardized tests that students take. For example, a first-grade math standard may state that by the end of first grade students are expected to count by 2s, 5s and 10s to 100.
  • . Although poor and minority students have made gains, there is still a big difference — commonly called "the achievement gap" — between what these students have achieved when compared to their more affluent and white peers.
  • Without standards, districts and schools don't have goals to shoot for.
    • Elvira Ledezma
      Elvira Ledezma on 06 Nov 10
       
      As adults we know this is not true, no standards is not equal to no goals!
    • Benjamin Caulder
      Benjamin Caulder on 06 Nov 10
       
      A developmentalist would laugh his/her butt off at that statement because it is impossible to have standards without goals, but not visa-versa.
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  • Critics argue that having rigid standards and tests discourages schools from being innovative and inspiring creativity in their students.
  • Elvira Ledezma on 06 Nov 10
     
    What are national standards
Anthony Logan

Firing teachers can be a costly and tortuous task - Los Angeles Times - 1 views

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tenure collection Teaching

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      Anthony Logan on 02 Nov 10
       
      The most chilling part of this is that he kept his job after taunting this child (who already has issues of his own to deal with) and allowing others to join in on the taunting,
  • Anthony Logan on 02 Nov 10
     
    This is a very long collection of articles about tenure in California, and how difficult it is to fire a tenured teacher, even in the face of misconduct.
Anthony Logan

Discipline hearings for tenured teachers lengthy, costly - 1 views

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tenure Teaching teachers

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      Anthony Logan on 02 Nov 10
       
      That's a ton of money!  What kind of school district can afford that...oh wait, one with a lot of laid off teachers, furlough days, and a lot of under served students.
  • Anthony Logan on 02 Nov 10
     
    A look at just how costly it is to remove a tenured teacher.
Shannon George

YouTube - CNN: Rhee: I don't care about being popular - 2 views

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cnn Teaching Education teachers

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  • Shannon George on 09 Nov 10
     
    Rhee discusses her proactive approach on weeding out bad teachers and improving the quality of education.
Linda Garcia

ASCD Infobrief:Examining Charter Schools:Examining Charter Schools - 1 views

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  • By definition, the common link among these 5,000-plus schools is their acceptance of increased accountability in exchange for increased autonomy, but the schools themselves may have little in common
  • More than three-quarters of charter schools nationwide are freestanding, started by educators, parents, activists, and others
  • Although Americans' approval of charter schools has increased 15 percent in the last five years and reached a two-thirds favorable rating, half of the respondents to a recent Phi Delta Kappan poll mistakenly believe that charters are not public schools and are allowed to teach religion.
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  • saying that charter schools are vital to promoting innovation in American schools (Obama, 2009)
  • With so much variation among charter schools, however, significant questions exist regarding how well they are educating students, how they manage their financial responsibilities, and whether creating more charter schools will be better for the nation's schoolchildren.
  • In 2009, Secretary Duncan made lifting charter caps a key component of qualifying for education funding under the $4.35 billion Race to the Top (RTTT) program. Originally, to qualify for RTTT money, Duncan said states must eliminate any caps on charter schools. In November 2009, Duncan changed the requirement so that states with caps could still receive money if they had other kinds of innovative public schools and as long as the caps were generous enough (The Wall Street Journal, 2009).
  • Parents' demand for charter schools is outpacing their availability in many locations, with an estimated 365,000 students on waitlists—enough to fill more than 1,100 average-sized charter schools
  • In Montana, where there are no charter schools and where more than half of the state's school districts have enrollments of fewer than 100 students, Superintendent of Schools Denise Juneau objected to the RTTT focus on charter schools in a July 28 letter to Secretary Duncan. "Montana's rural context and economic status has made it challenging for many communities and the state to support the public schools we currently have," Juneau wrote in the letter, "much less encourage the duplication of infrastructure a charter school would mean in most communities" (McNeil, 2009).
  • "The charter movement is putting itself at risk by allowing too many second-rate and third-rate schools to exist," he said, in reference to a recent study by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University that found that more than 80 percent of charter schools were performing the same as or worse than their local public schools (2009).
  • The comparison found that only 17 percent of charter schools were producing gains that were significantly better than their traditional public school counterparts, while 46 percent were similar to their local public schools and 37 percent performed significantly worse (Center for Research on Education Outcomes, 2009).
  • In contrast, another recent study by Stanford economics professor Caroline Hoxby found that students who entered lotteries and gained admission to New York City charter schools performed better on state assessments than students who entered the same lotteries and were not admitted to the charter schools.
  • The findings of both studies have been disputed. Critics of the Hoxby study point out that it relies on extrapolations of data, comparing statistical projections of student achievement as opposed to actual student achievement (Ravitch, 2009). Critics of the CREDO study raise doubts about its seemingly contradictory findings that charter schools provided gains for English language learners and poor students while having negative effects on Hispanic and black students (Anderson, 2009).
  • For middle and high school charters that did have baseline scores, that study found charter schools in five of the seven locations it examined were on average no better or worse than local traditional public schools (Zimmer et al., 2009).
  • Of the more than 5,250 charter schools that have ever opened, 657 have closed since 1992. Of those, 41 percent closed because of financial deficiencies caused by either low enrollment or inequitable funding; 27 percent for mismanagement; and only 14 percent for poor academic performance (Allen et al., 2009).
  • A 2005 analysis by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS) found that 90 percent of authorizers were local school districts, and two-thirds lacked a dedicated office or staff to oversee the authorizing process (Vanourek, 2005). NAPCS, which has described quality authorizing as an intensive, data-driven process that requires dedicating substantial resources to the task, has called for stricter accountability for local school boards and other entities that authorize charter schools
  • anonymous on 28 Oct 10
     
    An examination of charter schools
Michael Horder

Integrating Technology into the Language Arts Classroom, Teaching Today, Glencoe Online - 0 views

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    Some good ways to integrate technology into Language Arts
Michael Horder

Why Do We Need Technology Integration? | Edutopia - 0 views

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    This article discusses about why technology should be used in schools.
anonymous

Book Review: Teaching Vocabulary: 50 Creative Strategies, Grades 6-12 - National Writi... - 0 views

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Vocabulary SJVWP

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    Book review of a book produced by the San Joaquin Valley Writing Project.
anonymous

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teaching

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    Elyse Eidman Aadahl site for documents, pdfs, powerpoints, etc.
anonymous

NCTE Secondary Section: To Write or Not to Write: The Ethics of Posting Objectives - 1 views

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Teaching Standards Objectives

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  • anonymous on 07 Feb 10
     
    Interesting exploration of what standards should do and why writing them on the board is antithetical to student learning.
anonymous

tools4english / FrontPage - 2 views

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      anonymous on 21 Mar 10
       
      Great resources, Eric! I want to share this with my pre-service teachers. Thanks so much for sharing it!
    • Eric Wheeler
      Eric Wheeler on 22 Mar 10
       
      I created the page to share, so please do.
  • Eric Wheeler on 21 Mar 10
     
    This is a Wiki page I use when I present to English teachers at Fresno State during one semester of their student teaching class.
anonymous

NCTE Secondary Section: Using Wordle in an English Classroom - 2 views

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Wordle Teaching web2.0

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  • anonymous on 26 Mar 10
     
    Interesting ideas about how to use a new web 2.0 tool
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