Sun.Nov 17, 2019

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Great Leaders Embrace Multiple Styles

A Principal's Reflections

We have all heard the saying don’t put all your eggs in one basket. It represents a sound piece of advice for any leader, especially in the field of education. The reason being is that a person in a position of power or influence should not concentrate all efforts in one area since initiating and sustaining change requires a dynamic mashup of strategies.

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A Maker Education PD Workshop

User Generated Education

I had the privilege of presenting a day long maker education workshop at Edutech Asia on November 7, 2019. I was excited about having teachers and other professionals from Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Cambodia, India, Malaysia, and New Zealand attend. What follows are some details and highlights. As they arrived in the morning, I asked them to access the workshop slides and create a name card lit up with an LED.

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Our Own Practice

The Jose Vilson

This weekend, Colin Kaepernick practiced in front of NFL scouts. One version of the practice story is that the ball seemed to float out of his hands as if carried by pigeon and dropped off to his pro athlete friends for short and long yardage. The more complicated story is that Kaepernick dismissed the heavily anticipated practice quickly arranged by the NFL and assembled his own dozens of miles away at a high school practice field.

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Tone In Teaching: 20 Words That Can Change How Students Think

TeachThought - Learn better.

Tone affects how students see themselves and their role in the learning process. The words you use when interacting with students can have a lasting impact. The post Tone In Teaching: 20 Words That Can Change How Students Think appeared first on TeachThought.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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Response to Intervention: Strategies and Tiers for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Response to Intervention (RTI) is a pedagogical process through which teachers get to prematurely identify and address students learning as well as behavioral needs. It’s an ongoing process whose.

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3 Ways We Can Offer Students More Choice

MiddleWeb

Having the ability to choose our own focus makes people, on average, five times more committed to the outcome. The classroom implications are clear, says teaching consultant Barbara Blackburn. "If students are more invested in their work, they are more likely to learn.".

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The Benefit of “Sticking With It”

The Principal of Change

In April 2010, I wrote my first blog post. I am almost at the ten-year mark, and I have published over 1700 posts in that time. The sole purpose of starting this blog was to understand how students could use this medium for learning in their education. In short, I didn’t want to skip to the teaching without doing the learning. But in the process of actively reflecting through a blog, I started to love the process.

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How one teacher set boundaries and stopped bringing work home

The Cornerstone for Teachers

I’m talking today with a member of the 40 Hour Teacher Workweek Club named Jessica Holdaway about how she balances home and work. I encourage you to listen for specific things she’s done to create boundaries and consider how you could find approaches that work for you. We’re not prescribing a one-size-fits-all approach here. Every teacher’s workload is different, and maybe bringing work home is the best or only possible way to get things done for you — that’s fine!

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ThinkFluency

Technology Tidbits

ThinkFluency is an oral reading fluency assessment app developed by a teacher for teachers. ThinkFluency replaces the tedious paper, pencil and timer assessment with an app that enables teachers to quickly assess students’ Oral Reading Fluency Rate. ThinkFluency is easy to use, provides instant results with data that is easy to download and share, and is perfect for RTI and showing student growth.

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TEACHER VOICE: The black men who proved that a student like me could be a teacher like them

The Hechinger Report

I became a teacher because of the influence and mentorship of Mr. Murray and Mr. Simms, two elementary-school teachers in Detroit. They were excellent and ensured that I engaged in learning every day. They persevered when at first I did not understand a concept, and they had stern but caring dispositions. Mr. Murray and Mr. Simms took an interest in who I was as a student.

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.

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KidCitizen

Technology Tidbits

KidCitizen is an excellent site for teaching students about political history through interactive primary resources. KidCitizen is designed for grades K-5 and where student's view photos/videos to learn about primary resources. Best of all, educators can create their own resources and share them w/ students while tracking their progress. I highly recommend checking out KidCitizen by clicking here !!!