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7 ways teachers can push past imposter syndrome

The Cornerstone for Teachers

Have you ever had the following thoughts? I have no idea what I’m doing as a teacher. My principal was crazy to hire me for this position — I’m clearly not experienced enough. I’m not knowledgeable enough about this subject area to be teaching it. I’m just not capable of doing everything that needs to be done as a teacher. I don’t know why other people say I’m such a good teacher — I really don’t deserve it and haven’t done a very good job.

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G is for Grounded in Standards: The ABC’s of PBL … Building Blocks, Elements, & Compounds of Deeper Learning

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Welcome to this seventh post in a series that promotes PBL and 21st Century Learning through the examination of Seven Building Blocks. In this post, I want to emphasize why grounding the standards in PBL is so important. Aligning and emphasizing standards is what makes PBL so effective in providing students real understanding to the curriculum. Before reading, please take a moment to subscribe by email or RSS, and also give me a follow-on Twitter at mjgormans.

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Stop Defining Learning By The Technology Used To Make It Happen

TeachThought - Learn better.

Stop Defining Learning By The Technology Used To Make It Happen by Terry Heick Come gather ’round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that soon You’ll be drenched to the bone. If your time to you Is worth savin’ Then you better start swimmin’ Or […]. The post Stop Defining Learning By The Technology Used To Make It Happen appeared first on TeachThought.

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Go Slow Workshop: Teaching with Google Sheets for Newbies

Teacher Tech

Go Slow Workshop on Google Sheets Spreadsheets are one of the most useful things we can use as a teacher. We have to manage a lot of data and information and frankly using spreadsheets helps us to do our job better. Spreadsheets are also a valuable life skill for our students. Looking at this list […]. The post Go Slow Workshop: Teaching with Google Sheets for Newbies appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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Been there, done that? Actually, no.

Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

Alec Couros shared this on Facebook : Every “new” revolution or trend in education is inevitably accompanied by the critics who wisely note “We tried this back in the x0’s. If you want change to happen and to stick, engage your historians to better understand why things failed the first time around. I then shared his post on my Facebook wall and added this: When I read this I think of Dweck and Growth vs Fixed Mindset.

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Embrace Tech and Analyze

Teacher Tech

Do Not Be a Mindless Robot I use the Grammarly Chrome extension to help me use more commas. Ha, that is what it feels like. Grammarly checks my spelling and grammar, it’s awesome. It always suggests I need more commas. Obviously, I blog and tweet a lot so Grammarly is a big help to this math major! […]. The post Embrace Tech and Analyze appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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5 Common Challenges Of Analytics Reporting

TeachThought - Learn better.

5 Common Challenges Of Analytics Reporting contributed by Catherine Wilson The benefits of analytics are obvious and do not need to be stated yet again. Companies of all sizes and across industries realize that this tool is both a huge asset and a competitive necessity. But what does deserve much focus is how hard it […]. The post 5 Common Challenges Of Analytics Reporting appeared first on TeachThought.

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On ELA, Math, and School, Because We Gotta Talk School

The Jose Vilson

Where did people get the idea that schooling was neutral anyways? On my newsletter, I succinctly suggest that schooling was never neutral. In recent times, I wrote about English Language Arts and all that comes with the term "literacy." I wrote about Math because I do this. What's the idea behind this writing? Simple. We can't talk about schooling without dissecting the ways we operate in it.

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Homework Checks or Frequent Math Quizzes?

MiddleWeb

This fall Michelle Russell implemented a new policy of assigning but not checking math homework, and then checking homework understanding with short quizzes. After 15 weeks of school, she's ready to share the results so far. Learn her "good, bad, and ugly" findings.

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At this high school, lockers and textbooks are obsolete

eSchool News

For decades, the common morning routine for most high school students included hitting the snooze button, running down the street to avoid missing the bus and putting belongings in your locker before homeroom. At Dover Area High School, a third of that equation appears to be on its way out. Student use of lockers has dwindled since Pennsylvania’s Dover Area School District implemented a one-to-one program at the beginning of the 2016-17 school year.

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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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OPINION: Research confirms and urgent need to improve how students are supported when choosing college majors

The Hechinger Report

Earlier this year, a first-generation college student told a disturbing story in The Hechinger Report. She was her sixth year at a four-year college, having changed her major twice and taken time off because she lacked a clear roadmap of what she wanted and how to get there. This, sadly, is not an unfamiliar tale. Choosing a college major is one of the most important decisions students make.

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Video of the Week: 5 essential media literacy questions for kids

eSchool News

Ed. note : Video of the Week picks are supplied by the editors of Common Sense Education , which helps educators find the best ed-tech tools, learn best practices for teaching with tech, and equip students with the skills they need to use technology safely and responsibly. Click here to watch the video at Common Sense Education. Video Description: All media comes with an author, and an agenda.

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Documenting Growth & Reflecting on Connections in #APCalculus Using @SutoriApp + @Flipgrid + @SocraticOrg

techieMusings

Since the start of the year, my AP Calculus students have been documenting growth, reflecting on new connections formed, and talking through learning strategies that have been working for them through Flipgrid reflections, corrections to homework, and in creating self-made study guides. In the second trimester, we will formalize these activities, with a final project that will require ongoing effort.

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Picture Book Biographies for the Middle Grades

MiddleWeb

What’s one of the most fun ways to introduce students to a new science concept, a historical era, or a math idea? A picture book biography! NBCT and media specialist Christina Dorr suggests tying them to standards, using them as read alouds, or for individual student motivation.

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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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How To Measure Tech's Success in Schools

The Innovative Educator

How should we measure the benefits of technology in schools? For the most part questions revolve around asking if technology will: increase student achievement make students smarter result in better test scores No. It won't. Innovative educators understand that those are the wrong questions to ask. A better question to ask when looking at the advantages of technology in school is this: “How is technology helping students make the world a better place?

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Building a Better Teacher Through VAMs? Not So Fast According to Mark Paige's Book

The 21st Century Principal

As a part of my research explorations, I stumbled across a relatively new book published in 2016 about the problems with using value-added measures in teacher evaluations. This book entitled Building a Better Teacher: Understanding Value-Added Models in the Law of Teacher Evaluation is a short and concise read that any administrator who currently encounters the use of value-added data in teacher evaluations should read.

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How to create a cost-effective PD program that impresses

eSchool News

Professional development can be expensive. A 2015 survey by the New Teacher Project put this figure at an average of $18,000 annually per teacher. For the largest districts in the country, that could amount to $8 billion annually, according to the survey. That’s a lot of money, even for a medium-sized district like mine–we have about 14,000 students and 1,000 staff members at Livonia Public Schools in Michigan–to spend on PD.

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Times Change, Time Frames Stay the Same

The Principal of Change

As it does seemingly every year, an article came up about teaching cursive in schools. I recently tweeted this post out: Reading this article from 2017 – Do we need to teach children joined-up handwriting? [link]. — George Couros (@gcouros) November 11, 2017. I encourage you to read the post as there are many arguments on having cursive taught in schools, and not.

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t

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App of the Week: Create apps without coding

eSchool News

Ed. note : App of the Week picks are now being curated by the editors of Common Sense Education , which helps educators find the best ed-tech tools, learn best practices for teaching with tech, and equip students with the skills they need to use technology safely and responsibly. Click here to read the full app review. Bloxmob. What’s It Like?

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EdTech and Teaching Tweet Recap w/e 11-11-17

EmergingEdTech

Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. This week in the wrap … first, this is really odd. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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STUDENT VOICE: How a trip with other Pittsburgh students taught me that Chinese and American aren’t two separate concepts

The Hechinger Report

Pittsburgh teens in front of the Chinese Art Museum. Photo: by Tonji University students. Editor’s note: This piece is part of an occasional series by PublicSource that asks teenagers in the Pittsburgh region to tell what matters to them and write about it. The first time I went to China I was 5 and with the little I remember from that trip — mostly the heat and bug bites — I wasn’t sure what to expect visiting China 13 years later.

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History of Western Philosophers

techlearning

Recent Modern Philosophy includes the Enlightenment, Kant, Idealism, and Pragmatism among other things.

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Enhancing HyFlex Education through the PowerTeaching Framework

This whitepaper explores integrating the PowerTeaching pedagogical approach within a HyFlex (Hybrid Flexible) educational model, focusing on employing cooperative learning strategies and efficient classroom management techniques.

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The Pulse of a Learning Culture

A Principal's Reflections

What makes a great and successful learning culture? If you were to ask the majority of stakeholders, they would typically say that a school or district that has high levels of achievement in the form of standardized test scores represents success. Many parents will choose to move to an area and raise their kids there for this reason alone. All one has to do is look at all the hoopla surrounding national and state rankings to see that this indeed is the case.

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Digital Music Making App Focuses on the Beat

techlearning

Loop beats like a pro with stellar music-maker.

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Using VAMs to Determine Teacher Effectiveness: Turning Schools into Test Result Production Factories

The 21st Century Principal

"But VAMs have fatal shortcomings. The chief complaint: they are statistically flawed. VAMs are unreliable, producing a wide range of ratings for the same teacher. VAMs do not provide any information about what instructional practices lead to particular results. This complicates efforts to improve teacher quality; many teachers and administrators are left wondering how and why their performance shifted so drastically, yet their teaching methods remained the same.