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Deron Durflinger

Five Reasons I don't Assign Homework - South Euclid, OH, United States, ASCD EDge Blog ... - 0 views

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shared by Deron Durflinger on 02 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Homework has nothing to do with teaching responsibility (HW advocates love this claim)
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      Deron Durflinger on 02 Mar 12
       
      Probably my favorite argument he has listed... Would love to hear everyone's thoughts on this:)
Deron Durflinger

Educational Leadership:The Effective Educator:The Flexible Teacher - 1 views

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shared by Deron Durflinger on 07 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Effective teaching is variable
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      Deron Durflinger on 07 Dec 10
       
      Teachers must adapt and be flexible.
  • They do not teach the same way and use the same instructional repertoire year after year
  • Effective teaching is contextual
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  • Effective teachers alter, adjust, and change their instruction depending on who is in the classroom and the extent to which those students are achieving
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      Deron Durflinger on 07 Dec 10
       
      Effective Teachers know their students.
  • Effective teaching is premised on students' intellectual curiosity.
  • Effective teaching must be somewhat autonomous.
  • Such teachers are close to their students in intellectual as well as psychological ways, and they must be empowered to use their judgment to make classroom decisions.
  • Ultimately, effective teaching is fearless.
  • effective teachers must adjust curriculum, methods, and pacing to meet the needs of the students.
  • priority on student needs
Shannon McClintock Miller

Educational Leadership:Reading to Learn:Can't Get Kids to Read? Make It Social - 0 views

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shared by Shannon McClintock Miller on 21 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Shannon McClintock Miller on 21 Mar 10
     
    Great article about how social networking can encourage students to read!  
Deron Durflinger

Educational Leadership:Expecting Excellence:Seven Reasons for Standards-Based Grading - 1 views

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shared by Deron Durflinger on 09 Aug 11 - Cached
  • An A means the student has completed proficient work on all course objectives and advanced work on some objectives.
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      Deron Durflinger on 09 Aug 11
       
      This is why grades are meaningless.
Deron Durflinger

Educational Leadership:Coaching: The New Leadership Skill:Every Teacher a Coach - 0 views

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shared by Deron Durflinger on 21 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Great coaches ask young athletes to go to "great heights" to challenge themselves. They take care to prepare the athlete for each stage of development, but they cannot eradicate risk because it's inseparable from growth. They can, however, intervene to ensure that the risk isn't so great that it outweighs the reward of accomplishment
  • The best coaches encourage young people to work hard, keep going when it would be easier to stop, risk making potentially painful errors, try again when they stumble, and learn to love the sport. Not a bad analogy for a dynamic classroom.
  • passionate about their sport and understand it deeply
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  • see their sport as more than a game
  • vehicle for developing human capacity and learning the skills of life
  • Great Coaches Know Their Sport
  • Great Coaches Develop Players' Skills
  • their capacity to teach others to play the game
  • transmit their own knowledge and skill to those not yet proficient
  • believe that each athlete can learn to play the game
  • individual and team skills, they continually attend to the growth patterns of each team member as well as the group
  • have their eye on every kid, not just a favored few
  • analyze what the athletes do and adjust both training and the game plan as a result of what they see
  • precise feedback along with individualized training that enables athletes to use this feedback productively
  • provide high-quality practice
  • Turns out he was teaching me to be a good citizen, a human being who cares
  • Great Coaches Are Great Motivators
  • set clear and demanding performance goals for their players
  • high expectations elicit maximum effort from team members and result in maximum growth.
  • understand and appreciate human variance
  • tailor practice drills to the individual, but they also know that individuals are motivated in different ways
  • study their players to figure out what will encourage each one to persevere
  • realize that sideline drills are less motivating than the game itself, so they ensure that players grasp the link between drills and the game and that everyone gets to play the game to test their developing skills
  • fun into hard work
  • culture of success is more motivating than a culture of winning
  • invest more heavily in celebrating the more attainable goal of individual growth
  • Great Coaches Are Team Builders
  • orient everyone to a common vision
  • care for one another and play to one another's strengths
  • respectfully toward each athlete, they inspire respect among team members
  • address interpersonal problems on a team as vigorously as problems with skills execution or a game pla
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