StudentEdge is a free online college and career planning resource center. It offers tools to help all high school students take ownership of the college planning process by letting them find scholarship money, prepare for exams, search for colleges, and explore career interests.
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StudentEdge - Peterson's - 0 views
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Free career planning program for teachers to assist students with life after high school. Just contact and create.
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Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400) - 1 views
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Here you will find a Chaucer Biography, Chaucer's Works, Quotes, Essays and Articles, as well as links to study resources and a list of books helpful for further study. All of these can be accessed from the red navigation bar at the top.
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Ohio Resource Center > for Science Educators > New Teacher Survival Guide - 1 views
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The New-Teacher Survival Guide offers resources that will help you set up and maintain a science classroom, podcasts that focus on topics pertinent to both new and experienced science teachers, and a science bookshelf that will enhance your professional library.
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Teaching ScienceThis section provides you with resources, a podcast, a science teacher bookshelf related to scientific inquiry, problem-based learning, virtual dissections, misconceptions, and other important topics pertaining to effective science instruction.
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Lord of the Flies by William Golding CliffsNotes - Study Guide and Help - 0 views
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This might be a great website for students who have fallen behind (they were sick for several days, went on vacation, etc.).
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Sniffing for bad air | Science News for Kids - 1 views
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When levels of CO2 build up, people may develop headaches or become sleepy, notes Roger Hedrick
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9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th Grades | Edutopia - 0 views
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In Ontario, schools have raised their test scores and graduation rates by providing resources such as full-time student success teachers, who help English-language learners and other students in need.
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Comics - 2 views
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Create fully animated comics online with Kerpoof. Choose from a library of scenes and characters, add animation, movement, as well as music and speech bubbles to bring a story idea to life. Extremely intuitive menu bar and helpful video tutorials make this tool quite useful. A key feature is a Teacher Account that allows teachers to register students and create classes where students can collaborate on creations
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oondoo is another tool to create comics quickly. You can opt for a free
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Pixton offers both a free account for personal use and an education platform with a unique pricing structure. There are a number of features provided with the Pixton education platform. Teachers can create a class, add students and assign a project all within the Pixton platform. Also, students can be signed up without and email account. Once created, comics can be printed, downloaded, embedded or shared online. The Pixton platform is also certfied for use on Smart and Promethean interactive white boards
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They prompt students to decipher meaning, purpose, and tone. They also provide creative possibilities for differentiated learning and expression. Moreover, successful cartoonists need a wide range of skills: researching, drawing, writing, computing, storyboarding, and designing. Cartoonists need to make their stories engaging and persuasive.
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There are some content standard ideas in this paragraph that can easily be targeted in a lesson!
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this is a resource to find ways to teach to today's modern and techno savvy generation.
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Career Day at School with Tom Leibhardt - Implementing 21st Century Skills - 1 views
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Creativity, not being afraid to take a risk, working with people and changing the world are concepts we hope our students understand when they leave our classrooms. Tom helped express just how important those concepts are in the "real-world". One reason that Tom enjoys his job is because everyday is different
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Visual Learners - Learning Styles and Visual Learners - 0 views
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Visual learners learn best by seeing what they are being taught.
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diagrams, mind maps, word webs, visuals, and other forms of graphic organizers will help visual learners get the most from your instruction. Teach students to use highlighters when going through their notes and to create flashcards when studying for tests and learning information.
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look at visual learning,definition,styles,and strategies. Also links to other articles on the subject.
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WebQuests: Explanation - 0 views
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six critical components
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goal of the introduction
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is to make the activity desirable and fun for students
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engage
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excite students
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Task:
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teacher finds resources
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teacher devises an activity
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incorporates the information
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publish their findings on a Web site
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collaborate in an online research initiative with another site or institution
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create a multimedia presentation on a particular aspect of their research
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Process:
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Introduction:
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description of the steps learners should go through
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with links embedded in each step.
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Resources:
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list of the resources
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resources embedded within the Process section,
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non-Web resources can also be used
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Evaluation
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rubric 1 for evaluating students' work
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clear goals, matching assessments to specific tasks
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During the introductory stage of the WebQuest, it can be very helpful to point out three types of student examples: exemplary, acceptable, and unacceptable.
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Conclusion
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Constructivist Learning - 1 views
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Constructivism is an epistemological belief about what "knowing" is and how one "come to know."
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rejects the notions
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Constructivism, with focus on social nature of cognition, suggests an approach that
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learners the
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learners the
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learners the
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opportunity for concrete, contextually meaningful experience through which they can search for patterns, raise their own questions, and construct their own models.
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engage in activity, discourse, and reflection
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take on more ownership of the ideas, and to pursue autonomy, mutual reciprocity of social relations, and empowerment to be the goals.
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"knowledge proceeds neither solely from the experience of objects nor from an innate programming
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but from successive constructions."
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and the effect of social interaction, language, and culture on learning.
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This movement occurs in the so-called "zone of proximal development" as a result of social interaction.
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disappointed with the overwhelming control of environment over human behavior that is represented in behaviorism.
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recognized two
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internalization
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basic processes operating continuously at every level of human activity
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internalization and externalization
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complex mental function is first an interaction between people
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becomes a process within individuals
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This transformation involves the mastery of external means of thinking and learning to use symbols to control and regulate one's thinking.
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the claim is that mental processes can be understood only if we understand the tools and signs that mediate them
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the gesture of pointing could not have been established as a sign without the reaction of the other person.
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Bruner's key concepts
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mode of representing past events through appropriate motor responses
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which enables
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perceiver to "summarize events by organization of percepts and of images
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symbol system which represents things by design features that can be arbitrary and remote, e.g. language
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Bruner's influence on instruction
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Translating material into children's modes of thought:
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enable learners to develop cognitive growth: questioning, prompting
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discovery as" all forms of obtaining knowledge for oneself by the use of one's own mind
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Interpersonal interaction
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Discovery learning:
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Spiral Curriculum:
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promote concept discovery, the teacher presents the set of instances that will best help learners to develop an appropriate model of the concept.
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cognitive constructivists
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sociocultural constructivists
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focusing on the individual cognitive construction of mental structures;
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emphasizing the social interaction and cultural practice on the construction of knowledge
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Promote discovery in the exercise of problem solving
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Variables in instruction: nature of knowledge, nature of the knower, and nature of the knowledge-getting process
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Feedback must be provided in a mode that is both meaningful and within the information-processing capacity of the learner.
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Intrinsic pleasure of discovery promote a sense of self-reward
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Knowledge cannot exist independently from the knower;
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Learning is viewed as self-regulatory process
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Cognitive constructivists focus on the active mental construction struggling with the conflict between existing personal models of the world, and incoming information in the environment.
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Sociocultural constructivists emphasis
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in which learners construct their models of reality as a meaning-making undertaking with culturally developed tools and symbols
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and negotiate such meaning thorough cooperative social activity, discourse and debate (
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Learners are active in making sense of things instead of responding to stimuli.
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learners " make tentative interpretations of experience
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requires invention and self-organization
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Errors need to be perceived as a result of learners' conceptions and therefore not minimized or avoided.
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the learners are responsible for defending, proving, justifying, and communicating their ideas to the classroom community.
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humans seek to organize and generalize across experiences
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According to TIP's
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Theory Into Practice
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Spiral organization:
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Going beyond the information given:
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Readiness:
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learning is an active process in which learners construct new ideas or concepts based upon their current/past knowledge.
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learning is an active process in which learners construct new ideas or concepts based upon their current/past knowledge.
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learning is an active process in which learners construct new ideas or concepts based upon their current/past knowledge.
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that learning is an active process in which learners construct new ideas or concepts based upon their current/past knowledge.
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Instruction must be structured so that it can be easily grasped by the student
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learning is an active process in which learners construct new ideas or concepts based upon their current/past knowledge.
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learning is an active process in which learners construct new ideas or concepts based upon their current/past knowledge.
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Bruner's major theoretical framework is that learning is an active process in which learners construct new ideas or concepts based upon their current/past knowledge.
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A Warning to Young People: Don't Become a Teacher | Randy Turner - 0 views
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Teachers are being told over and over again that their job is not to teach, but to guide students to learning on their own. While I am fully in favor of students taking control of their learning, I also remember a long list of teachers whose knowledge and experience helped me to become a better student and a better person. They encouraged me to learn on my own, and I did, but they also taught me many things. In these days when virtual learning is being force-fed to public schools by those who will financially benefit, the classroom teacher is being increasingly devalued. The concept being pushed upon us is not of a teacher teaching, but one of who babysits while the thoroughly engaged students magically learn on their own
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But there is no way that eighth graders' opinions should be a part of deciding whether I continue to be employed.
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It is hard to get past the message being sent that our teachers are not good enough so we have to go outside to find new ones
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Merit pay and eliminating teacher tenure, while turning teachers into at-will employees are the biggest disservice our leaders can do to students.
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The teaching of history, civics, geography, and the arts have shrunk to almost nothing in some schools, or are made to serve the tested areas.
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Even worse, in some schools weeks of valuable classroom time are wasted giving practice standardized tests (and tests to practice for the practice standardized tests) so obsessive administrators can track how the students are doing
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. Pearson
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received the contract to create the tests, has a full series of practice tests, while other companies like McGraw-Hill with its Acuity division, are already changing gears from offering practice materials for state tests to providing comprehensive materials for Common Core.
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Common Cor
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Why would anyone willingly sign up for this madness?
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I cannot remember a time when the classrooms have been filled with bad teachers. The poor teachers almost never lasted long enough to receive tenure.
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there are exceptions
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here is nothing to stop administrators from removing those teacher
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tenure
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provide teachers with the right to a hearing. It does not guarantee their jobs.
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Times have changed. I have watched over the past few years as wonderfully gifted young teachers have left the classroom, feeling they do not have support and that things are not going to get any better
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That framework is being torn down, oftentimes by politicians who would never dream of sending their own children to the kind of schools they are mandating for others.
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After all, what other profession would allow me to make $37,000 a year after 14 years of experience and have people tell me how greedy I am?
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Chrome Smashing: Creating the Inconceivable | Edutopia - 0 views
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Similarly, smashing multiple apps can lead to extraordinary learning artifacts, so why not apply it to Chromebooks? In four steps, we have the potential to create and share something entirely new.
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As teachers, we should look to incorporate smashes because we want our students to demonstrate their understanding, to reflect on a process and to envision creating a learning artifact that was previously inconceivable. We want students to take ownership of their learning process, develop technology fluency (2), and identify the best possible means to "show what they know." When there are no limitations to what can be created with the available tools, then there are no limitations to how students can demonstrate their growth as learners.
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Essentially, our goal as educators is to help our students develop into creators and innovators. When we know that smashing is a possibility and introduce this potential to our students, we not only empower them to take ownership of their learning process, but also teach them to go beyond the initial obstacles in order to problem solve for better learning and expression.
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Apple - Education - Special Education - OS X - 0 views
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Safari Reader reduces the visual clutter
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strips away ads, buttons, and navigation bars, allowing students to focus on just the content they want.
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converts text to spoken audio a
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students who benefit from hearing text rather than reading it can listen to assignments on their own time
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ake snapshots and make short videos,
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students who struggle with personal interaction — like answering a direct question
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to express themselves through multimedia.
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many aspects of learning
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that are traditionally print oriented can be captured in a concrete, visual way.
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writing both the visual and the audio elements of a script
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more engaging
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Text to Speech, students can have the word or a paragraph read aloud as they’re reading it onscreen.
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students have quick access to definitions and synonyms to help with grammar, spelling, and pronunciation
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print disabilities or cognitive challenges or are learning English improve their vocabulary and word-building skills.
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It lets students who are home or hospital bound engage with the rest of the class.
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FaceTime is also ideal for students who communicate using sign language.
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