high schools every day, close to 1.5 million a year.
According to one estimate, if the numbers of young people leaving school early could be cut by 50 percent, the net gain to the U.S. economy from savings in social programs and gains in additional tax revenues could be around $90 billion a year - that's almost $1 trillion in just over ten years.
One of the themes of TEDTalks Education is that current policies are based on a tragic misdiagnosis of the problem. They treat education as an industrial process rather than as a human one. They are driven by a culture of testing and standardization that has narrowed the curriculum and sees students as data points and teachers as functionaries rather than as living breathing people.
To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system.
The key to personalizing education is to invest properly in the professional development of educators. As Bill Gates argues, teachers need mentors too.
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Teaching is an art form. Great teachers know they have to cultivate curiosity, passion and creativity in their students.
achievement soars when teachers fire the imaginations of their students with a true spirit of inquiry.
All students have their own stories, motivations and circumstances and teachers have to connect with them personally.
"Everyone has a story," she says. "Everyone has a struggle and everyone needs help along the way."
We have millions of young people walking away from education, he says. But "right now, we could save them all," if we're prepared to innovate fundamentally and not just do more of the same.
"Every child," she says, "deserves a champion who will never give up on them... and insists they become the best they can possibly be."
give them the creative freedom to innovate and do their jobs within a proper framework of public accountability.
There are those who say that we can't afford to personalize education to every student. The fact is that we can't afford not to.
In my high school the teachers would use the smart boards very interactively. Such as in physics and math, the teacher would have lessons prepared and saved on the smart board and then have questions through out the lesson for students to come up and do. This way the teacher could see if we were understanding the lesson throughout it. It was kind of like immediate feedback for a teacher and student because the student would also get to see the correct answer immediately after they did the problem.
"Undergraduate students preparing to be teachers will be users and leaders of technology in classrooms and schools. The Educational Technology Minor gives them one more way to demonstrate their teaching skills. The Instructional Technology graduate degree program creates opportunities in classrooms and in the business community."
Quality science education is based on standards that are rich in content and practice, with aligned curricula, pedagogy, assessment, and teacher preparation and development. It has been nearly 15 years since the National Research Council and the American Association for Advancement in Science produced the seminal documents on which most state standards are based. Since that time, major advances in science and our understanding of how students learn science have taken place and need to be reflected in state standards. The time is right to forge Next Generation Science Standards.
phrase to refer to efforts to tailor lessons to students of different ability levels
chool leaders are struggling to strike a balance between safeguarding sensitive student data and being able to collect and use such data to individualize learning
personalized learning strategies work, and in determining how to evaluate the true impact of those strategies on student learning
he default perspective is the student's—not the curriculum, or the teacher,
accommodate not only students' academic strengths and weaknesses, but also their interests, and what motivates them to succeed.
rather than personalizing a mix of activities that give students a richer and more meaningful educational experience
differentiation" of lessons for students of different skill levels, or efforts to help students move at their own pace
promote "student agency"—basically, giving students more power through either digital tools or other means, accounting for how they learn best, what motivates them, and their academic goals
It] empowers teachers in personalizing learning" and "empowers students through their own exercise of choice."
roject-based learning, and more flexibility for students to set their learning paths, among other goals
technology played a key role in personalized learning
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