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Jill Abair

The Secret of Effective Motivation - 2 views

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    THERE are two kinds of motive for engaging in any activity: internal and instrumental. If a scientist conducts research because she wants to discover important facts about the world, that's an internal motive, since discovering facts is inherently related to the activity of research.
teachpoint0

Nurturing Intrinsic Motivation and Growth Mindset in Writing | Edutopia - 0 views

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    Here is a resource on building that intrinsic motivation and growth mindset in wiring, but applicable to our role as tech leaders.
stephanie karabaic

21 Simple Ideas To Improve Student Motivation - 0 views

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    student motivation
njcaswell

The Influence of Teaching Beyond Standardized Test Scores: Engagement, Mindsets, and Ag... - 1 views

  • there is growing agreement that scores on standardized tests of academic skills are incomplete measures of the important things that students learn from their teachers.
  • untested learning outcomes are measureable and that specific components of teaching influence them in nuanced and interesting ways.
  • Agency is the capacity and propensity to take purposeful initiative—the opposite of helplessness. Young people with high levels of agency do not respond passively to their circumstances; they tend to seek meaning and act with purpose to achieve the conditions they desire in their own and others’ lives.
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  • Ten Practical Implications for Teaching to Develop Agency
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      Short list of concrete steps teachers can take to build student agency
  • Young people from every background deserve teaching that enhances their agency.
  • Awareness that success in life requires agency is not new. However, we have tended as a society to treat its development as mostly a family and community responsibility, not a focus for policymakers, curriculum developers, or teacher preparation programs.
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      Call to adopt agency development into the core of education policy and practice
  • Empirical findings in the report are mostly consistent with what conventional wisdom would predict
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      It's mostly common sense
  • The Tripod 7Cs Components
  • five categories of noncognitive factors related to academic performance:
  • Students’ perspectives concerning the teaching they experience can be valid and reliable indicators of instructional quality
  • teaching predicts a variety of agency related-factors that help prepare a student for success in school and life. These include the emotions, behaviors, and motivations that the student enacts in the classroom, in addition to the development of conscientiousness, future orientation, and growth mindset.
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      These outcomes are significantly influenced by teaching
  • For happiness, learning, and high aspirations, we need high performance on multiple teaching components.
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      Too much emphasis on one component will be ineffective. We need high performance across components.
  • agency helps human beings fit into the environment, solve problems, develop and communicate our identities, and plan for the future. Therefore, it is fundamentally important that parents and teachers help to inspire, enable, and focus agency by the opportunities, instruction, and guidance they provide.
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    "The report concerns the influence of teaching on emotions, motivations, mindsets, and behaviors that we associate with agency."
Cathy Knight

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0143034316686399 - 1 views

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    This article links to motivation and student engagement, which we read in Fullen's article is key for real change.
Eric Telfer

High school tries going paperless in pilot program : Sj - 0 views

  • "We spend approximately $330 per pupil per year on textbooks," he said. "Over four years, that's over $1,500. With the Android tablet, we'll issue it to a student when he's in the ninth grade. He will have that four years. So, that's under $150 compared to $1,500."
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      This point should help to "make the pitch" as district leaders love the prospect of saving money. Going paperless saves not only on textbooks, though. Reams of paper won't need to be consumed, saving on toner cartridges, service repairs to copiers, less frequent need to replace copiers. One investment for the ninth grade student lasts four years. insurance policy costs? 
  • "The kids will have Internet access wherever they are in the building,"
    • Eric Telfer
       
      Okay, but will there be an equity issue for some students when they are at home? You can't flip a classroom if some kids have sketchy dial-up access from home, or no internet access.
  • the Androids are set up to contain graphing and science calculators, both of which can cost $75 to $100 if purchased as separate items in stores
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      Buying in bulk saves the district cash.
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  • "If they lose it, they bought it, just like a textbook,"
    • Eric Telfer
       
      Get a contract out to parents over the summer. Fine kids too if they misplace their device (school bus, gym, at another school, athletic complex). 
  • "We're getting our students ready for college and the world of work
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      Crux of this whole pitch/proposal.
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    Part of the pitch to go paperless, to some degree within the district, or just BFA. Good budgetary motivation for the Elephant. 
Becky Seymour

STOP cyberbullying: What is cyberbullying, exactly? - 0 views

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    Detailed discussion of what cyberbullying is, along with possible motivating factors of cyberbullys. Offer prevention strategies as well.
Kate Frisbie

"Choice theory" and student success. Glasser, W. | We Teach We Learn - 0 views

  • “Leaders never coerce.  We follow them because we believe they have our best interests at heart.  In school, if [a student] senses that particular teachers are now caring, listening, encouraging, and laughing, he will begin to consider putting them into his quality world”
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    An short annotation of a dated (1997) article on how Choice Theory affects students. The summary describes how class climate and relationships motivate learners, not "bossing."
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    Do you think the date makes a difference in this article?
Wendy Chaffee

4 Major Types of Educational Leadership - The Edvocate - 1 views

  • Servant Leadership takes the focus from the end goal to the people who are being led. There is no sense of self interest on the part of the leader, who steps back and supports only the interests of the followers.
  • ive and take is the hallmark of transactional leadership – it is indeed modeled just like a business transaction.
  • emotional leadership is concerned with the feelings and motivations of followers.
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  • Transformational leadership takes from each of the other kinds of leadership its best qualities and then uses those, along with a deep sense of shared purpose, to motivate subordinates.
  • For education in particular, transformational leadership offers the best of everything – from tapping into the emotions of workers to offering the compensatory core that is the case for all forms of business, to guiding from a place of support.
  • However since transformational leadership is informed by all of these various types of leadership, it’s always a good idea for leaders to learn more about these other styles so as to offer a deeper understanding of these forms so as to offer those in whose service they are the best support and guidance possible.
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    This article is not specific to TECH ED, but an overview of some major leadership qualities important in the education field.
ellamccarthy14

The 8 Types of Leadership Styles Explained - With Examples - 0 views

  • Leadership Styles
  • inspire employees and motivate them towards achieving their collective goal. 
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      This reminds me of Switch- (Elephant & Rider)
  • Constant motivation is required to see teams through tough times, and even then, a transformational leader could unintentionally cause too much competitiveness among their team. 
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  • Think of Churchill’s “we shall fight on the beaches” speech. Churchill is a great example of a transformational leader that inspired an entire nation of people to work towards a common goal. 
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      RIDER
  • An autocratic or authoritarian leadership style imposes policies and procedures, sets expectations and defines outcomes. 
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      Expects those below to adhere to change after change without giving anything up themselves, or not being able to see the viewpoint of someone else.
  • Also known as democratic leadership, participative leadership allows everyone on the team to get involved and work together to make important decisions.
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      This feels like the mixture of elephant and rider.
  • we all know the saying about too many cooks.
  • He’s noted as a delegative leader because of his method of empowering his employees to make their own decisions and solve their own problems. 
    • ellamccarthy14
       
      Delegative leader in my opinion would not work within a school system.
  • Servant leaders do everything they can to serve their team and ensure that everyone is happy and fulfilled.
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      Burnout
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    I liked the simplicity of this webpage. I was able to really see the breakdown and understand why each styles had the given name. I also was able to consider where I would place myself and why.
Nathan Gingras

4 Characteristics Of Learning Leaders - 1 views

  • 1. Ability to deal with ambiguity Low need for control Openness to Experience (one of the Big 5 personality traits) Moderate perfectionism High Stability (low anxiety) Project management skills Ability to use social media Optimism
  • 2. The capacity to foster engagement An understanding of how to motivate others Ability to foster a shared purpose and vision An understanding of human needs Interpersonal effectiveness Ability to self-regulate Empathy
  • 3. The capacity to learn Ability to research and learn Being thoroughly on top of one’s subject area Wide and accessible networks Able to share with others Knowledge management skills The ability to foster collaborative learning
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  • 4. The ability to use open systems thinking The capacity to scan the external environment Able to foster participative democracy/collaboration decision-making and process Able to actively diffuse power Capacity to work in a team Ongoing internal and external analysis of effectiveness (continuous improvement)
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    Possessing and developing these traits will benefit us as leaders in education.
slshield

What Makes a Great School Leader? | Edutopia - 0 views

  • The three qualities I find most indicative of a great school leader are visionary leadership, community builder, and emotional intelligence.
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    A blog that at first I felt was too fluffy and soft, but upon re-reading am reconsidering. The three characteristics she praises would the direct rider, motivate the elephant, and most likely shape the path. I think the Heath brothers would feel she was on the right path to sound leadership and the ability to implement change.
Leah Starr

How to Integrate Technology | Edutopia - 1 views

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      Recognizing the change, motivating the elephant
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      Great examples of how to integrate technology with only one computer in the class. Mostly whole class activities.
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      Examples of how to integrate technology with acces to 3-5 computers.
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  • Have students create digital stories using Voicethread.
  • Enable students to work through course content at their own pace through the use of screencasts, e-books, and other digital media.
    • Leah Starr
       
      What to do with a whole class set of computers.
  • Have students record themselves reading aloud for fluency checks.
  • This can be achieved through self-assessment and/or the use of a fellow teacher or an instructional coach in your school or district.
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      Build a professional development plan. This could be a focus for PLC groups.
  • This inevitable part of tech integration is often the number-one fear of classroom teachers everywhere.
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      Great examples of how to use technology for feedback & assessment.
    • Leah Starr
       
      Students take owernship in their learning if technology is naturally part of their learning experience.
  • f you want to know if your students grasp enough of a particular concept before you move on, you can use tools such as Poll Everywhere, Socrative, or Mentimeter to get a quick snapshot of the class.
  • In addition, Evernote is a powerful note-taking tool that can be accessed through any Internet-enabled device through a web browser or the mobile app. It allows users to record audio notes, and it can be a great way to provide personalized feedback to students.
  • Our students are constantly immersed in technology, yet that does not mean that they know how to use it for learning. We also cannot assume that they know how to use it responsibly either.
  • we must take the time to explicitly teach about cyberbullying, copyright, plagiarism, digital footprint, and proper conduct online.
  • It is worth your time to spend some time early in the year setting expectations for online conduct, use of information found online, and staying safe when using digital tools. For more on teaching digital citizenship, you can visit BrainPOP, Common Sense Media, or Edutopia's Digital Citizenship Resource Roundup.
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    How to Integrate Technology
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    This article gives specific examples of how to integrate technology depending on the tools that are accessible to you.
Leah Starr

6 Great Platforms Where Students Share Book Reviews and Reading Recommendations ~ Educa... - 0 views

  • Once you are registered you can then connect to people who read what you post and also interact with what they publish.
  • Once you are registered you can then connect to people who read what you post and also interact with what they publish.
  • also provides books with different reading levels and has a great and intuitive reading logs.
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  • Once you are registered you can then connect to people who read what you post and also interact with what they publish.
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      Audience = engagement!
  • It lets you create a virtual bookshelf, discover new books, connect with friends and learn more about your favourite books for free.
  • It lets you create a virtual bookshelf, discover new books, connect with friends and learn more about your favourite books for free.
  • ne of the best ways to get your students motivated about reading is to provide them with online platforms where they can meet other student readers and share their recommendations, reads, and book reviews.
  • you decide upon titles and genres you like and Good Reads gives you insightful recommendations and right into your inbox.
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      This platform for recommendations keeps reading logs and provides books by reading level!
  • This is a platform where kids connect to their teachers, friends  and parents to share and recommend their favourite books and good reads. It
  • also provides books with different reading levels and has a great and intuitive reading logs. 5- Figment Figment is a community where you can share your writing, connect with other readers, and discover new stories and authors. 6- Scholastic Scholastic has a section in which teachers and students can share what they are reading and discover new books based on their friends recommendations. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); You might also like: 4 Important New Gmail Updates You Should not Miss Excellent Classroom Poster Featuring 10 iPad Usage Rules New Handy Chart on The Difference Between Projects and ...
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    Book Recommendation Platforms.
pwarmack

Information Literacy and Librarian-Faculty Collaboration in Academic Library for Sustai... - 0 views

  • The ultimate goal is to make information literacy an integral part of the academic curriculum, thus helping students to succeed not only during their years in college but also for their lifelong career choices.
  • discussion about librarian-faculty collaboration for developing information literacy skills among the students are considered briefly.
  • ACRL further describes information literacy as abilities to: a. Determine the extent of information needed b. Access the needed information effectively and efficiently c. Evaluate information and its sources critically d. Incorporate selected information into one’s knowledge base e. Use information effectively to accomplish a specific purpose f. Understand the economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the use of information, and access and use information ethically and legally.
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  • That solution has two fundamental underpinnings: the first is that information literacy is an issue for every college and university; and the second is that librarians should occupy a position in attempts to define and achieve campus-wide information literacy.
  • While it is legitimate to use some of the information available on the web, students need to learn how to evaluate that information.
  • A study conducted by two researchers at the Manchester Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom found that 75% of the students surveyed used Google as their first port of call when locating information, with the university library catalogue used by only 10%.
  • In general, faculty members involved in the process were willing to collaborate with librarians who served as consultants, as instructors, and as team players in designing, teaching and implementing course assignmen
  • One particular model which has proven to be effective is course integrated instruction. With this model, librarians and teaching faculty co-design a course, and make sure that information literacy is incorporated in the course.
  • They not only sought to build short-term programmatic partnerships but more importantly, formal long-term working relationships with campus units, groups, departments and administrators.
  • “Integrating Literacy into the Liberal Arts College Curriculum.
  • launched a campaign to recruit faculty as partners in the process
  • took advantage of the liaison system already in place
  • Symposiums were organized for faculty and librarians to focus on assessment and science disciplines.
  • offered a workshop
  • More and more course-related or integrated instruction sessions have come to play a bigger role in making students more information literate.
  • Changing fee structures, student experience and access to digitized information on the internet, librarians have had to rethink their approach to teaching IL skills
  • McGuinness (2007) argues that librarians tend to act in a reactive manner to the needs of academics, rather than proactively to promote IL skills.
  • eads to ad hoc, short-term solutions designed only to address one or two issues.
  • dds that librarians should align their own goals of incorporating IL skills into the curriculum with the goals of academics and institutions to influence the power structures within institutions and help shape educational content.
  • highlights both the ambiguity around how IL should be taught, and the important role faculty awareness of IL and integration of library staff plays in integrating IL
  • unpack the “culture clash” between librarians and academics
  • cGuinness (2006) found that academics expected students to “learn by doing” through collaborative projects with peers and dissertation reports with occasional support from staff, without a clear sense of how students would develop critical and analytical IL skills
  • aculty also tended to believe that a student’s ability to gain IL skills were driven by the student’s own motivation, interests and innate abilities, rather than the quality and format of the available instructional opportunities
  • Multiple literacies, including digital, visual, textual, and technological, have now joined information literacy as crucial skills for this century”
  • These collaborative efforts have enabled librarians to encourage and support faculty in establishing learning priorities which will ensure that students be equipped with the competencies to become effective lifelong learners.
  • Only by establishing a successful partnership between librarians and faculty, can the goal of mastery of information literacy by students be accomplished.
  • The goal of librarian-faculty collaboration in integrating information literacy into the curriculum is to enable students to learn the skills and competencies needed for success during their life time
  • To make sure that everyone is able to become an educated, skilled, and information-literate person, librarians and faculty at institutions of higher education throughout the world will need to work together as partners to provide the education
sfauver

6 tips on implementing new technologies in your organization - 0 views

  • Ask questions and don’t be afraid of the answers. What are competitors, customers, and business partners doing?
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      Other barns are using this software
  • Who is being hurt? Identify employees (and groups) this is a problem for and tailor your solution to their unique needs
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      This may be harder for less "tech-y" participants to implement
  • How big is the problem? How much money, efficiency, productivity, etc. is in play here? Does it make sense for your organization to implement new technology, or is there a better alternative? What’s the timeframe? Are you under a deadline to get something done, or do you have enough time to adequately test and prepare the right solution?
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  • Here’s a quick checklist to follow:
  • From there, publicize a target timeframe for the tech rollout, and be transparent about it. If there are setbacks, explain what happened and why. Keep employees engaged and up-to-date on what’s happening. Ultimately, this engagement will help you get to the finish line with your goals for this new technology solution. Because if people aren’t positively motivated, even the best new tools won’t be helpful.
  • Finally, it’s important to understand how long an implementation cycle can take. Because of the nature of today’s consumer-led technologies, this is often a process that can take more than a year or longer.
  • For example, you can have the right technology implemented poorly.
  • Or the wrong technology implemented correctly.
  • From your perspective, you’re bringing improvement—saving employees time, allowing them to be more flexible, improving productivity, improving sales and profits, etc. But from employees’ and departments’ point of view, you’re rocking the boat, telling them to change how they’ve always been doing things, give up precious tools, learn and carry around new devices and the like.
sfauver

A Review of Leadership Theories, Principles and Styles and Their Relevance to Education... - 3 views

  • This study was motivated by the premise that no nation grows further than the quality of its educational leaders.
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  • purpose of this theoretical debate is to examine the wider context of leadership and its effectiveness towards improving school management.
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  • To many, leaders are not born, but made. It is increasingly accepted, however, that in order to be a good leader, one must have the experience, knowledge, commitment, patience, and most importantly the skill to negotiate and work with others to achieve goals.
  • Good leaders are thus made, not born
  • Great man theories assume that the capacity for leadership is inherent, that great leaders are born, not made
  • the trait theory assumes that people inherit certain qualities or traits make them better suited to leadership.
  • Contingency theories of leadership focus on particular variables related to the environment that might determine which style of leadership is best suited for a particular work situation.
  • Situational theory proposes that leaders choose the best course of action based upon situational conditions or circumstances.
  • Behavioural theories of leadership are based on the belief that great leaders are made, not born.
  • articipative leadership theories suggest that the ideal leadership style is one that takes the input of others into account.
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  • Transactional theories, also known as management theories, focus on the role of supervision, organization and group performance and the exchanges that take place between leaders and followers. These theories base leadership on a system of rewards and punishments (Charry, 2012).
  • Relationship theories, also known as transformational theories, focus on the connections formed between leaders and followers. In these theories, leadership is the process by which a person engages with others and is able to “create a connection” that results in increased motivationand morality in both followers and leaders. 
  • This theory states that learned knowledge and acquired skills/abilities are significant factors in the practice of effective leadership. Skills theory by no means refuses to acknowledge the connection between inherited traits and the capacity to lead effectively, but argues that learned skills, a developed style, and acquired knowledge, are the real keys to leadership performance.
  • Autocratic leadership is an extreme form of transactional leadership, where leaders have complete power over staff. Staff and team members have little opportunity to make suggestions, even if these are in the best interest of the team or organization
  • Bureaucratic leaders follow rules rigorously, and ensure that their staff also follow procedures precisely.
  • Charismatic leadership theory describes what to expect from both leaders and followers. Charismatic leadership i
  • a leadership style that is identifiable bu
  • may be perceived with less tangibility than other leadership styles
  • Democratic leaders make the final decisions, but include team members in the decision-making process. They encourage creativity, and team members are often highly engaged in projects and decisions.
  • Laissez-faire leadership may be the best or the worst of leadership styles (Goodnight, 2011). Laissez-faire, this French phrase for “let it be,” when applied to leadership describes leaders who allow people to work on their own. Laissez-faire leaders abdicate responsibilities and avoid making decisions, they may give teams complete freedom to do their work and set their own deadlines.
  • This leadership style starts with the idea that team members agree to obey their leader when they accept a job.
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    This really lays it all out. Leadership traits versus styles and how they all relate.
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