May 2012
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Studies Highlight Classroom Plight Of Introvert... →
“Educators often look for ways to bring quiet children out of their shells, but emerging research suggests schools can improve academic outcomes for introverted students by reducing the pressure to be outgoing and giving all students a little more time to reflect.”
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9 Ways to Assess without using standardized tests →
Students don’t like taking them, teachers don’t like giving them. I prefer qualitative assessment myself.
Here are more ways.
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Tellio: dy/dan » Blog Archive » Ten Design... →
tellio:
See on Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy I am nota big Pearson fan, but DanMeyer is definitely his own man there. His 10 design principles for engaging math tasks could just as easily be more generally, “How to engage learners with careful design”.
Here are the ten. Adapt them for your own tech…
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Teaching Guides For Grade 1 →
On the last week of April we trained the regional trainers of first grade teachers in the Philippines. We started a Facebook page where we can post links so all the teachers can download all our documents and visual aids for free.
We encourage all the teachers to adjust the lesson plans to fit their regions, and one translator went as far as to add photos of weaves and architecture particular to...
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“I don’t need standards to teach. I need students.”
– What teachers don’t need (but are getting anyway)
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Fourth-graders earn "paychecks," learn to handle... →
revolutionizeed:
Elizabeth Haberberger’s fourth-grade students at Henderson Elementary School in St. Charles, Mo., earn weekly “paychecks” for jobs in the classroom, choose how to spend or bank their salaries. They soon will have the opportunity to put their savings to work at an end-of-year class auction, Haberberger said.
This teacher put a lot of time into making her classroom reflect the...
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Watchthinkingoutsidethelines:
Thank you, Sir Ken Robinson. Start a school, and I’ll be knocking down your door, begging to teach.
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Ms. Leah, HBIC: The Hundred Languages of Childhood →
msleahhbic:
The child
is made of one hundred.
The child has A hundred languages A hundred hands A hundred thoughts A hundred ways of thinking Of playing, of speaking. A hundred always a hundred Ways of listening of marveling of loving A hundred joys For singing and understanding A hundred worlds To…
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Vantage Learning Blog: Turn The Paige | The 4-Day... →
We have a three day school week, one of which is dedicated to art, writing and music. There is rarely any homework, yet the students manage to pass the end of year tests that qualifies them for the next grade level. Of course, it helps that there’s less than ten kids in each class. It helps a lot.
vantagelearningblog:
In recent years, with the economic downturn, school districts have...
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“The truth is that every child has his or her
own highly specific and original...”
– Russell Ackoff and Daniel Greenberg,
Turning Learning Right Side Up: Putting Education Back on Track
http://changethis.com/manifesto/47.02.TurningLearning/pdf/47.02.TurningLearning.pdf
It’s a four year old manifesto that remains relevant :-)
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Learning Theories →
An entire index of learning theories.
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Health Awareness: Blindness →
We teach about sight. We could teach about blindness, too.
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A Liberal Decalogue: Bertrand Russell's 10... →
stevekinney:
I like the fifth one especially.
Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the evidence is sure to come to light.
Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed. 4.When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by...
