May 2013
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EDD: What is your favorite tech gadget, app,...
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EDD: If you are a teacher now, would you consider...
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EDD: What are your favorite activities to do on...
takenbythesky wonders:
As in, how do I avoid the free-for-all that my coworkers are okay with?
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Education Dare Day
girlcanteach asks:
When was the last time you cried in class?
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EDD: Personify your classroom.
hithertokt starts:
She walks a fine line between two worlds: cozy, yet collected. Sometimes she makes you feel lazy — too cozy — but more often than not, she’s the calm in the eye of a storm.
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#EDD
kicksandgiggles asks:
Weeeeee, I’m out of practice with this business. Here we go…
I have two questions:
1. For you more experienced teachers, how do you deal with the guilt behind a year when you know you weren’t the best you could’ve been for that group of students?
2. For EVERYONE! Who is your favorite poet, and what is your favorite poem by said poet?
Answer one, answer both… just...
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EDD: What are you most looking forward to with the...
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Favorite Teaching Books?
astoldbymissg:
My field instructor bought me The EVERYTHING New Teacher Book by Melissa Kelly as a “Congratulations, you’re finished! Welcome to Teaching!” present. I have been trying to read a few pages or a chapter every night. What are some of your favorite books for teaching? Any recommendations?
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Learner-Centered Teaching: Good Places to Begin →
When getting started with learner-centered teaching you’ll want to use reasonably straightforward activities first. Here are a few to try...
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“I don’t think I realized that much of what was discouraging me about education...”
– Teaching: One Young Woman Finds a Career in Education
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How To Combat Student Plagiarism →
3 Strategies for Combating Plagiarism
Provide students examples of real life plagiarism and discuss why citation is necessary (like Fareed Zakaria).
Research is about the process rather than the end product - give students time to practice reading, summarizing, and citing.
Require citing online content.
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Fairytales of data →
The truth is, it’s not so clear that we have an achievement problem.
In one instance, U.S. 10th-graders scored comparably low internationally, and these PISA 2009 results were the major factor in our obsession with Finland.
Yet, on the PIRLS 2011, a text of fourth-graders, the U.S. made dramatic gains across years and is up in the top 5 countries in the world in reading and our math scores are...
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Deeper Leading →
Deeper Learning represents the evolution of a conversation that has gone on for some time now. The primary thrust of that conversation is that the pre-eminent challenge facing our schools is not one of student achievement on standardized assessments but rather a fundamental misalignment between school and the realities of our modern economic and civic life. Deeper Learning represents an attempt...
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Engaging Students: How do you remain friendly but... →
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“The stakes for our children’s educational and professional futures are...”
– Identity Crisis: Are the Stakes of Our Educational and Professional Futures Too High?
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Study: Math Skills at Age 7 Predict How Much Money... →
Kids who were better at reading and math at age seven ended up in a higher socioeconomic class age 42, regardless of what other advantages they had.
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“The phrase, “we don’t do that here,” involves a deliberate choice of words. The...”
– Why School Leaders Should Build An Intentional School Culture
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Schools Shut Down A Month Early →
For the 400 or so students in Buena Vista, Mich., school is over, even though the academic year isn’t supposed to end until the middle of June.
Last week, the Buena Vista School District fired all of its teachers and closed its schools because it had run out of money.
Instead, they will likely attend “skills camp.” If the school board approves the advancement of students...
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Public University Presidents Are Prospering,... →
whatiscollegefor:
According to the annual pay report by The Chronicle of Higher Education, four public university presidents had compensation packages topping $1 million.
This is disgusting. You try not to have a knee jerk reaction, but while tuition and fees rise, why are university presidents earning anything more than $100K? Is there a context behind this not related to greed? How does one...
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WatchLatino students achieve success
The Hispanic population has the lowest college graduation rate of any other group, but that is not the case in Arizona.
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Tips for Building Social Presence in Your Online... →
By focusing only on content, new online instructors often forget about the social aspects that engage students and foster community building.
Here are five ways you can build social presence in your online class:
Have your online students introduce themselves.
Introduce yourself to your students.
Create a “commons area” for off-topic discussions.
Use synchronous tools for office hours.
Don’t...
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