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Sean McHugh

Educational Leadership:Sustaining Change:Getting into the Habit of Reflection - 1 views

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  • Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards
  • In teaching, as in life, maximizing meaning from experiences requires reflection.
  • Every school's goal should be to habituate reflection throughout the organization—individually and collectively, with teachers, students, and the school community
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  • the school needs to create an atmosphere for reflection
  • a time and a place for looking backward and inward, not forward and outward
  • We are going to take a break from what we have been doing, stand back, and ask ourselves, What have we learned from doing our work today?
  • the tradition in education is to simply discard what has happened and move on to new topics. This episodic approach is reflected in both classroom instruction and assessment and in change efforts as schools frantically strive to stay abreast of an array of educational improvements and mandates. Knowledgeable, vigilant, and reflective organizations, however, view school change from a broader perspective—as a process of revealing and emancipating
  • In reflective schools, there is no such thing as failure—only the production of personal insights from one's experiences.
  • which dispositions were you most aware of in your own learning
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      Meaningful engagement with the UWCSEA Profile here. 
  • Collecting work provides documentation for comparing students' levels of knowledge and performance at the beginning, middle, and end of a project.
  • Providing sentence stems might stimulate more thoughtful reflections during portfolio conferences (where reflection can be modeled) or as an option for those who need a "jump start" for reflections: I selected this piece of writing because. . . . What really surprised me about this writing was. . . . When I look at my other journal entries, I see that this piece is different because. . . . What makes this piece of writing strong is my use of . . . . Here is one example from my writing to show you what I mean. . . .
Jeffrey Plaman

A Point of View: The tyranny of the selfie - BBC News - 0 views

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selfie social media gud opinion

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    The selfie stick is the lightning rod of narcissism, says Howard Jacobson. Should people be concerned?
Jeffrey Plaman

A Point of View: Has the world become too visual? - BBC News - 0 views

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  • Jeffrey Plaman on 13 Apr 15
     
    Has the world in the 21st Century reached a point of visual overload, asks Will Self.
Sean McHugh

The surprising thing Google learned about its employees - and what it means for today's... - 0 views

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google STEM STEAM soft skills

shared by Sean McHugh on 21 Feb 18 - No Cached
  • among the eight most important qualities of Google’s top employees, STEM expertise comes in dead last. The seven top characteristics of success at Google are all soft skills: being a good coach; communicating and listening well; possessing insights into others (including others different values and points of view); having empathy toward and being supportive of one’s colleagues; being a good critical thinker and problem solver; and being able to make connections across complex ideas
  • And topping the list: emotional safety. No bullying. To succeed, each and every team member must feel confident speaking up and making mistakes. They must know they are being heard
  • STEM skills are vital to the world we live in today, but technology alone, as Steve Jobs famously insisted, is not enough. We desperately need the expertise of those who are educated to the human, cultural, and social as well as the computational
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  • No student should be prevented from majoring in an area they love based on a false idea of what they need to succeed
Sean McHugh

The surprising thing Google learned about its employees - and what it means for today's... - 1 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...t-it-means-for-todays-students

google STEM STEAM soft skills

shared by Sean McHugh on 21 Feb 18 - No Cached
  • among the eight most important qualities of Google’s top employees, STEM expertise comes in dead last. The seven top characteristics of success at Google are all soft skills: being a good coach; communicating and listening well; possessing insights into others (including others different values and points of view); having empathy toward and being supportive of one’s colleagues; being a good critical thinker and problem solver; and being able to make connections across complex ideas
  • And topping the list: emotional safety. No bullying. To succeed, each and every team member must feel confident speaking up and making mistakes. They must know they are being heard
  • STEM skills are vital to the world we live in today, but technology alone, as Steve Jobs famously insisted, is not enough. We desperately need the expertise of those who are educated to the human, cultural, and social as well as the computational
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • No student should be prevented from majoring in an area they love based on a false idea of what they need to succeed
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