What if Finland's great teachers taught in U.S. schools? - 0 views
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The role of an individual teacher in a school is like a player on a football team: all teachers are vital, but the culture of the school is even more important for the quality of the school
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If a teacher was the most important single factor in improving quality of education, then the power of a school would indeed be stronger than children’s family background or peer influences in explaining student achievement in school.
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Most scholars agree that effective leadership is among the most important characteristics of effective schools, equally important to effective teaching. Effective leadership includes leader qualities, such as being firm and purposeful, having shared vision and goals, promoting teamwork and collegiality and frequent personal monitoring and feedback. Several other characteristics of more effective schools include features that are also linked to the culture of the school and leadership: Maintaining focus on learning, producing a positive school climate, setting high expectations for all, developing staff skills, and involving parents. In other words, school leadership matters as much as teacher quality.
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http://www.nmefoundation.org/getmedia/d191a967-3f77-4530-ad4a-b199fbd94bc3/CompetencyWo... - 0 views
Gallup.com - The Gallup Blog: What Works in Schools Is Real Work - 1 views
Teaching Respect and Responsibility - Even to Digital Natives | MindShift - 0 views
Transcript of Drew Houston's Speech at 2013 MIT Graduation | BostInno - 0 views
How Technology Is Changing The Way Organizations Learn - Forbes - 0 views
Are College and Career Skills Really the Same? | PBS NewsHour - 0 views
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Nearly every study of employer needs over the past 20 years comes up with the same answers. Successful workers communicate effectively orally and in writing and have social and behavioral skills that make them responsible and good at teamwork. They are creative and techno-savvy, have a good command of fractions and basic statistics, and can apply relatively simple math to real-world problems like financial or health literacy.
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All students should master a verifiable set of skills, but not necessarily the same skills. High schools fail so many kids partly because educators can't get free of the notion that all students -- regardless of their career aspirations -- need the same basic preparation. As states pile on academic courses, they give less attention to the arts and downplay career and technical education to make way for a double portion of math.
Key Issues - Competency-Based Pathways - 0 views
What Bilingualism Is NOT | Multilingual Living - 0 views
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It is important to stop equating bilingualism with not knowing English and being un-American. Bilingualism means knowing and using at least two or more languages, one of which is English in the United States. Bilingualism allows you to communicate with different people and hence to discover different cultures, thereby giving you a different perspective on the world. It increases your job opportunities and it is an asset in trade and commerce. It also allows you to be an intermediary between people who do not share the same languages.
13 people to watch in 2013: Luis Valdes | The Des Moines Register | desmoinesregister.com - 0 views
Scottsdale schools making changes in grading practices - 0 views
7 Tips for Managing Your iPad Classroom -- THE Journal - 0 views
Recipe for high-school success: be curious, work late, ignore the textbooks - The Globe... - 0 views
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High-school textbooks are devices that regurgitate the universally accepted and least debated ideas from the field of science and technology, almost placing us in an isolated prism where we learn to accept knowledge.
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our second biggest obstacle lies in the method of evaluation we have accepted to assess all students. I feel that much of our attention is channelized towards evaluating the amount of knowledge a student possesses. This focus would be better shifted if we start to question what the individual is able to do with their knowledge and to what extent they can they apply their learning toward writing textbooks of their own.
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ack on the assembly line, our society didnʼt need innovators and thinkers shaping a shared vision for the field of their expertise. Now that weʼre getting trained for jobs which potentially donʼt exist today, itʼs crucial for educators to turn their attention to building the right aptitude just as much as they focus on instilling the informational aspects.
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How to Stick with It When You're Learning Something New On Your Own - 0 views
Report: Federal Rules Impede Competency-Based Learning | MindShift - 0 views
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