A Principal's Reflections
MAY 13, 2018
" Comfort is the enemy of progress." - Hugh Jackman, The Greatest Showman Have you ever been complacent when it comes to undertaking or performing a task? Of course, you have, as this is just a part of human nature. In our personal lives, complacency can result if we are happy or content with where we are. Maybe we don’t change our work out routines because we have gotten used to doing the same thing day in and day out.
TeachThought - Learn better.
MAY 13, 2018
30 Examples Of Disruption In The Classroom by Terry Heick This post has been republished from a previous version and is actually intended to supplement the “Cycle of Learning Innovation,” which means this is less about analysis and context and more about the examples. First, some quick clarification so that we have a common language. […].
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MiddleWeb
MAY 13, 2018
English learners are relying on teachers to help them quickly advance in language proficiency, says specialist Valentina Gonzalez, and writing is a life skill that can deepen learning in every curriculum. She shares 7 ways to build the writing competencies of ELLs now.
TeachThought - Learn better.
MAY 13, 2018
Let The Technology Serve The Curiosity, Not The Other Way Around contributed by Steve Wheeler, Associate Professor in Learning Technology Curiosity killed the cat, but it made each of us who we are today. Without curiosity, none of us would learn very much at all. Learning is based more on curiosity than any other human characteristic. […]. The post Let The Technology Serve The Curiosity, Not The Other Way Around appeared first on TeachThought.
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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
MAY 13, 2018
Critical thinking is a disruptive cognitive process that explores alternative ways of thinking about something with the purpose of uncovering silent and untold meanings. Critical thinkers do.read more.
TeachThought - Learn better.
MAY 13, 2018
Drew Perkins talks with Carole Basile, Dean of the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University, about how they’re shifting their teacher prep program to produce teachers better suited for the needs of modern schools and students. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at ASU @asueducation Rick Hess – […].
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The Cornerstone for Teachers
MAY 13, 2018
This week on the Truth for Teachers podcast: How to make time rather than hope to find it; invest time rather than spend it; and create a budget for your time the way you’d budget your money. Want to listen instead of read? . Click the player below to download and listen on the go! ?. I was an elementary teacher for 11 years before becoming an instructional coach.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 13, 2018
?. The supply of students continues to decline, but college and university sticker prices haven’t. This market-defying logic is the subject of a Planet Money podcast with Hechinger Report higher education editor Jon Marcus. Many institutions boasted, in the admission season just ended, that they had received record numbers of applications. What most very carefully didn’t say was that record numbers of applicants are lining up to be accepted.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
MAY 13, 2018
Back to you with another curated list of some good educational iPad apps that are free today and only for a limited period of time. We have an app that provides you with daily inspirational quotes, a.read more.
The Cornerstone for Teachers
MAY 13, 2018
This week on the Truth for Teachers podcast: How to make time rather than hope to find it; invest time rather than spend it; and create a budget for your time the way you’d budget your money. Want to listen instead of read? . Click the player below to download and listen on the go! ?. I was an elementary teacher for 11 years before becoming an instructional coach.
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.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 13, 2018
. When technology is offered to schools free of charge, it always comes with the promise of improving teaching and learning. It also often comes with a catch. Thirty years ago, Channel One offered schools nationwide $30,000 worth of audiovisual equipment at no cost in exchange for requiring students to view a daily current events program during class.
EmergingEdTech
MAY 13, 2018
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 … check out an instant. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].
Cycles of Learning
MAY 13, 2018
Mother's Day 2018 is almost coming to a close, and in the name of my amazing wife and Mother to our four children, I am struck with the urge to use the last little bit of energy I have today to giveaway 10 copies of Spark Learning to fellow educators in her name. An incredibly talented Special Educator Teacher, my wife was instrumental in supporting and counseling me as I prepared for TED and subsequently unpackaged the TED Talk's tenants in Spark Learning.
Reading By Example
MAY 13, 2018
We are kicking off our book club with a video from Regie Routman, author of the text we will be reading and responding to together: Literacy Essentials: Engagement, Excellent, and Equity for All Learners (Stenhouse, 2018). . Next are titles for upcoming posts here related to Regie’s excellent resource. How can we create a community of readers?
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.
User Generated Education
MAY 13, 2018
I am completing a social entrepreneurship unit with my gifted students, grades 2nd through 5th. It was one of my favorite units. ever, and from their reactions, I believe it was one of theirs, too. I call it a perfect STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) unit. The first part of this post explains some of the rationale for this project, and the second part describes the unit, itself.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 13, 2018
Ninth-graders at the Science Leadership Academy work on a group project in science class. Photo: Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report. PHILADELPHIA — In a city that’s struggled to meet the educational needs of many of its children, especially its most vulnerable ones, a select group of district high schools is shunning the traditional classroom model in which teachers dispense knowledge from the front of the room and measure progress with tests.
The Principal of Change
MAY 13, 2018
One of my favorite blogs is “ Barking Up the Wrong Tree.” It is funny but always pushes my thinking and provides strategies for personal growth. In the most recent post, “ 4 Secrets From Stoicism “, it shared some advice that kind of threw me for a loop: Many of the greats embraced the concept of “ Amor Fati. ” To not only accept everything that life brings you, good or bad, but to love it.
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