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Deron Durflinger

Do Principals Know Good Teaching When They See It? Miller-McCune.com - 1 views

  • conclude that most school leaders can’t identify or explain what constitutes good teaching, much less come up with helpful suggestions for improvement
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      Principals need more training than teachers on what quality teaching looks like if we are truly going to moves schools forward
  • If we’re going to improve the quality of learning for all kids, we have to develop the expertise of those teachers we have in our ranks.”
    • Deron Durflinger
       
      Improving learning opportunities for students starts with clearly identifying what good teaching looks like
  • hen they must guide, support and nurture teacher learning just like we expect teachers to do for students.”
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  • We think it’s really important for leaders to be clear about why they’re in schools and what they’re intending to accomplish.”
  • It takes expertise to make expertise,” Fink and Markholt say, yet coaching in schools is “still the very rare exception, not the norm.
Shannon McClintock Miller

Be The Change You Want To See In Schools by Shannon Miller #vanmeter #i11i (l... - 0 views

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    Wes Fryer's remarks on my session at the 1:1 conference.  :)
Deron Durflinger

Shanghai test scores have everyone asking: How did students do it? - CSMonitor.com - 1 views

  • The US teaches procedurally in math, they noted – repetition of the same procedures until a student can remember reflexively how to solve a particular type of math problem. In China, students are encouraged to understand the connections between each step of the problem so that they can think their way through them, even if the order is forgotten.
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      Understanding is the key, not repetition
  • Once one student in the classroom explains a problem correctly, the next student has to explain it, too. That is often repeated until most or all of the students can confidently work their way through a problem, Miller says. It’s a bit different from the US practice of calling on one or two raised hands, then moving on.
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      They make sure all kids understand before moving on.
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